Guily: Barça Want Us To Eliminate Madrid Former Barcelona winger Ludovic Giuly has revealed that many of his former team-mates have urged his new tea

Madrid travel to Rome for the first-leg of their Champions League first knockout round tie on the 19th February and Giuly has revealed that he has already been receiving messages of support from his friends at Barcelona.

"I have received pressures from my friends in Barcelona for us to eliminate Real Madrid in the Champions League. We will do all we can to get through and we can obtain it if we are all in a good state of mind," he told Sport.es.

Having watched a number of Barça games on television since moving to Italy, Giuly expressed his surprise that the so called 'big-four' of Messi, Ronaldinho, Eto'o and Henry have not played more games together so far this season.

"Barça is a great club, with great players, but I do not know why we are not seeing them all play."

Giuly seems to be enjoying his time in the Italian capital, but is less enamoured with the lack of supporters at away games.

"I am content to play in Italy. I just find it bad that supporters cannot follow their teams away from home."

He is, however, thoroughly enjoying playing alongside Francesco Totti and spoke favourably of the Roma's fans hero.

"He is surely one of the most complete players in the world. There are only six or seven like him. In my opinion, he is one of the best five in Europe. It is perfectly possible to compare him to Ronaldinho, Messi and Henry," he concluded.