Thing is though Villa-Boas was trying to build a new team, Di Matteo's just stuck to the older players, so while Villa-Boas was looking to build a team for long term success, Di Matteo's solution is only short term, and you have to wonder, if he does stay on how will the the older players react to him trying to build a new team eventually? Not very well i'd imagine and he will have the same problems AVB had and we'll have the media circus all over again.
If there's one positive from last night for Barca it's that Pep is pretty much guarenteed to stay now, i really cannot see him bowing out on such a low note, he'll want to come back next year and win it all to leave on a high note if anything.
There's no doubt that the better team in the tie overall went out but that's just how it is sometimes, if you ask me they need to get rid of Valdes and bring in a real world class keeper, the guy's too much of a liability.
Also i thought the Sport newspaper in Spain summed up the whole thing pretty well:
"Football punishes Barca with the most injust exit" - "It is difficult to explain how the club could throw away a match in which they were so infinitely better than their opponents. The Chelsea team at Camp Nou was like that of the first leg at Stamford Bridge, stingy, cowardly, miserable."