What an evening in London. Chelsea drew 4 all with Liverpool and scrapped thru to the semi final of the Champion League. But Chelsea fans had to endure a heart stomping first half when Liverpool scored twice. First it was a blunder or rather a clumsy mistake and misjudgement by Peter Czech who lets in a simple goal thru a freekick taken by Aurelio. Then Ivanovic (the first-leg hero in Liverpool) gave away a penalty - he was penalised for a fouled on Alonso. Alonso converted from the spot.
2nd half, Chelsea came back. Drogba equalised from a rather unexpected low squared crossed by Anelka. Reina who had an easy first half made a schoolboy error (Czech-like) for mishandling the shot that went acrossed the line. Then Chelsea won a freekick and taken up by Drogba but was wide. When Chelsea won another freekick courtesy of a foul by Carragher, it was taken by Alex who slammed the ball past Reina. The score then was 2 - 2. Ballack should have settled the evening for Chelsea but his shot off a square pass by Drogba was picked up easily by Reina. Then Lampard scored from a pass by Anelka. 3 - 2 and Chelsea was leading 6 -3 on aggregate. Liverpool mounted the pressure and Lucas put in another goal, deflected thru Essiene. Pressure was mounting on Chelsea and the defenders were all over the place when Kuyt headed past Czech to put Liverpool 4 - 3 ahead. And they needed another goal, enough to put them through on an away goal advantage. But the night was not supposed to be Liverpool's when Lampard scored in what seemed to be a destined night for Chelsea. Liverpool made a last onslaught and could have got another one from Kuyt but Essien was on the line to head the ball into safety. Final results, Chelsea won 7 - 5 on aggregate!. What a game. What a results. Imagine if both Terry and Gerrard had been on the field last night. I think that game was football at its very best. Thank you Chelsea. Thank you Liverpool. "It has has been a hard days nite!!'
The other quarter final of little significant. Barca drew 1 all with Bayern Munich.
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The goal scored by Aurelio reminded me of the one I scored when the school under-16 team played against Sekolah Izuddin Shah. But mine was on the left side of the field, slightly nearer and the goalie was busy preparing and instructing his defenders when I slotted in the ball passed the galie. Was he surprised!! Yezz!
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