jenni_blog | Apr. 26th, 2012

I don't think anyone would argue that Barcelona and Real Madrid were the favourites to go through to the final this year. But the exact opposite happened. It's not that Chelsea and Bayern Munich are not good teams. Far from it. But with it being impossible for both of these teams to win their respective leagues, while Barcelona and Real Madrid were still battling it out to see who would win theirs, the key factor for the CL semis seems to be that while Chelsea and Bayern were able to rest their players for their Champions League matches, Barcelona and Real Madrid had to face each other last Saturday in a high octane match that probably decided who would be La Liga champions. And I think that 'El Clasico' game probably took all the wind out of both teams' sails.

Both semi-finals were highly dramatic. Here are some photos.

"He ain't heavy, he's my brother."