LONDON -- Chelsea travels to Barcelona on Sunday for Tuesday's Champions League second leg at Nou Camp with its excuses already made should it bow out of European football's most prestigious club competition.
Barca won 2-1 at Stamford Bridge when Asier Del Horno was sent off for a foul on Lionel Messi, with Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho claiming the Argentine was guilty of play-acting, his team's numerical disadvantage the reason it lost.
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