That the soccer team Chelsea are better than the soccer team Barcelona in the 2011/2012 season

Good morning to the viewers and adjudicators of this debate. The season of 2011/12 for Chelsea and Barcelona, were very connected as they faced each other in the "most prestigious club competition in European football" also known as the UEFA Champions League. FC Barcelona and Chelsea FC, played in three major competitions each, a domestic cup, a league, and the UEFA Champions League. FC Barcelona were able to win their domestic cup, reached 2nd in La Liga with an astounding 91 points, and reaching the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. Chelsea on the other hand won their domestic cup, reached 6th in the Barclay's Premier League with an average 60 points, and winning the UEFA Champions League. This seems to claim that Chelsea FC, had a better season than FC Barcelona, quite the contrary. Firstly the domestic cup of the Copa Del Rey, and the FA cup were a very different experience for the two teams. The teams Barcelona and Chelsea played against were very different in skill level. Barcelona's journey to victory was marred by facing very challenging teams such as Real Madrid, Valencia, and Athletic Bilbao. They proved to be a very difficult challenge, however Barcelona triumphed over them. My opponent has spoken of all the "great teams" in England such as Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal. None of those three teams faced Chelsea in the FA Cup. Manchester City was knocked out of the Cup by United, United were knocked out by Arsenal, and Arsenal were knocked out by Everton. Chelsea's FA Cup journey featured the teams, Portsmouth, QPR, Birmingham, Leicester City, Tottenham and Liverpool, none of which were in the "great teams" class mentioned by my opponent. As Barcelona's journey to the Cup was much more difficult, they so far, look the better team. Secondly, the Premier League and La Liga. The two leagues feature great competition over 38 matches with the team with the most points after 38 games, being crowned champion. As stated previously Barcelona came 2nd under Real Madrid, who broke the La Liga all time record for 100 points in a season. Chelsea on the other hand got a very mediocre standing, coming 6th on the ladder with a mediocre 60 points, well under the "great teams." Under normal circumstances, they would not have even secured a place in the "most prestigious club competition in European football", the Champions League. Clearly Barcelona's League season was much more successful than Chelsea's. However in the case of the Champions League, Barcelona were extremely unfortunate on many occasions, whilst Chelsea were granted lucky break after lucky break in a never ending stream. Barcelona started very well in the tournament easing through the group stage, first round and round of 16. Then it came time for the semi finals. They were drawn against Chelsea and the first leg at Stamford Bridge was a game with complete Barcelona dominance. Unfortunately, a wayward goal scored by Drogba gifted Chelsea the win 1-0. The return Leg at the Camp Nou in Barcelona ended in one of the most unjust circumstances ever. A 2-2 draw ending with a rare phenomenon that season, a Fernando Torres goal. In the two legs combined the stats combined to this: Barcelona, 81% possession, 47 shots, 12 of which were on target. Chelsea, 19% possession, 11 shots 4 of which were on target. Chelsea's negative football of 11 man defending triumphed against Barcelona's positive football. Therefore this means Barcelona were the better team due to their use of positive football making them a better team. Through all the evidence of how each team played their football and their results of their efforts to succeed, I hope the jury of debate.org can grasp all the evidence presented for the unreliability of my opponents information, as well as that despite Chelsea's Champions league win, Barcelona had a wider success rate as at the start of the season, Barcelona won a Spanish Supercopa. Their wider range of success and positive results clearly outshine the singular, disjointed, and altogether luck enhanced victories, were not superior to Barcelona's more consistent and wider success.