2012 was the year of Didier Drogba! The Ivorian star led Chelsea to their first Champions League coronation. Super DD as it was nicknamed, scored the winning penalty against Bayern Munich in the final. But before writing history, Chelsea had eliminated against all odds, the FC Barcelona of a certain Lionel Messi. Didier Drogba also told a brilliant story about how the Pulga’s scoring record had surprised him.
“Robbie Di Matteo did what he always did and put together a list of the opposing team’s top scorers,” said Drogba. Usually the list would read something like Rooney: 22 goals; Van Persie: 15 years and so on. When Barça’s list came out, in third place we saw Xavi: 14 goals, tied with the second aequo who were Alexis Sánchez and Cesc Fàbregas. But we all laughed when the top scorer appeared on screen, Lionel Messi with it. .. 63 goals including 14 in the Champions League alone. But 63 that season? It was such a ridiculous number and we looked at each other in disbelief and laughed, what else could we do? I even took a picture of the number because it was so outrageous ”.
Chelsea didn’t need to worry. Messi, who hasn’t scored in eight games against Chelsea, has been powerless and hasn’t stopped Barca from losing 3-2 on aggregate.
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