Andrés Iniesta, celebrating the golazo marked in Stamford Bridge

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ÉPICO: The 'Iniestazo', the most remembered of Chelsea-Barça

Published:11/12/2017 - 17:35h

Updated:12/12/2017 - 15:09h

The parties between Chelsea and FC Barcelona have left a lot of moments memorables. The golazo of Ronaldinho, the one against one of Torres and Valdés... But, without place to doubts, the most thrilling of all was the 'Iniestazo' of 2009 in Stamford Bridge

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If for somebody will be special to return to Stamford Bridge, definitely that is Andrés Iniesta. In May of 2009, the captain of the FC Barcelona marked one of the most remembered goals in the history of the barcelonismo, a derechazo from out of the area, in the last minutes of Chelsea-Barça, that allowed to the team trained then by Pep Guardiola classify for the final of the UEFA Champions League 2008-09.

All the world remembers that played, and the group of imprecisions that carried to the goal of Iniesta. Dani Alves Took out a defective centre and very happened from the right band, but Mickael Essien did not arrive to hit with the balloon to the hour to clear. 

The spherical fell in the feet of Samuel Eto'or, that yielded the ball to the balcony of the area so that Iniesta, at first and in front of a big number of players between the line of area and the guardameta, Petr Cech, connected a shot imparable with the outside.

The ecstasy that sobrevino to that played is one of the biggest that has experienced the barcelonismo. Glasses broken in the bars, embraces, tears of emotion and a 'baby-boom' that gave nine months afterwards in the around Barcelona after the gesta achieved by the FC Barcelona.

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Now, eight years and half afterwards, the FC Barcelona will return to the field in which so much it suffered during some hours. It will not be the first time that do it since, taking into account that in 2012 the Barcelona group already went back to see the faces with Chelsea, in a party that finished 1-0 and an eliminatory that the Barça did not attain to trace back in the Camp Nou, with a tie to two insufficient. Opportunity for 'avenge' in Europe.

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