Having seen our 2-1 defeat in Istanbul last week, our resident Champions League expert Giorgio Chinaglia believes there is all to play for at Stamford Bridge tomorrow.

Giorgio accompanied the team on the pre-season tour to Los Angeles, and is a co-host on the True Blue radio show, broadcast on Sirius Satellite Radio.

As a player, he was voted Lazio's greatest player of all time, and scored more than 200 goals in the NASL for New York Cosmos, alongside Pele and Franz Beckenbauer.


It was disappointing to lose in Istanbul last week, especially after Chelsea's impressive performance in the first half, but there is no question they can still go through.

They should have taken advantage of the first half, didn't do that and got punished for it, but one goal away from home is so important. I don't know why this happened, but you can become complacent. In the first half Fenerbahçe didn't have a shot on goal, and Chelsea had a few chances.

There has been plenty of talk about him since the game, and before it, but during the 90 minutes we didn't see Mateja Kezman in the game at all.

Still, Fenerbahçe can't be underestimated, but are not the same team away from home. They won all the games at home, and Chelsea could have been the first team to do win there.

Even though they scored away at Sevilla, I wouldn't worry about them scoring too much.

Avram Grant has to pick the right team and Chelsea have to take advantage of being at home, but at the same time be patient, and the fans must have patience too. 0-0 at half-time means they can push forward in the second half and a goal will come out.

If they can make it through, I still believe it will be an all English final, Manchester United and Chelsea.

If I were Chelsea I would want to play Liverpool in the semi-final, they know how they play and what they do, with Arsenal you never know, and in a London derby, anything could happen.

I have no question that it will be Barcelona and Manchester United in the other semi, but Barca are not the Barcelona of two years ago. They have big problems.

For United, Roma are not in a good position, they didn't have Totti so most of their play went out of the window without the main man. With no Totti, nothing is going to happen.

I am looking forward to seeing how it all pans out, and fingers crossed it is Chelsea going in to the semi-final draw. Enjoy the game, and hopefully I'll be back soon to discuss the semis.