Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Second leg quarter final

Chelsea 4-4 Liverpool
aggregate Chelsea 7-5 Liverpool

First half


Another enthralling encounter between these teams left Chelsea FC celebrating a fifth UEFA Champions League semi-final appearance in the last six seasons. In fist league match Chelsea won and final score was 3-1 Chelsea. now Liverpool need three away goals to qualify the semi final. In the start of the match Liverpool put pressure on Chelsea and try to doing some damage. Liverpool score their first goal in 19th minute with the help of Fábio Aurélio. After that goal the whole team of the Chelsea going for defensive football. And Liverpool took the advantage from this strategy of their opponent. In 28th minute due to the Ivanović foul inside the plenty area Liverpool have opportunity to score their second goal on plenty. Spanish midfielder sends Petr Čech the wrong way and now the tie is all square at 3-3. Chelsea's advantage has been reduced to away goals only. Liverpool have good first half and they were able to recover the previous Chelsea damage approximately which they did in Liverpool home game. After first half score was Liverpool 2-0 Chelsea.

Second half


Chelsea have great come back in second half. They were try hard to put pressure back on Liverpool side. In 51st minute Chelsea restore their aggregate lead as Didier Drogba's slight touch at the near post is enough to divert Nicolas Anelka's cross in off the hands of Pepe Reina. After that goal Chelsea players show some confidence and play with batter understanding with each other. In 57th minute another sensational set-piece but this time it is the home side that provide it from 30 metres. Alex takes a long run up before drilling his free-kick round the wall and Pepe Reina is unable to keep it out. 5-3 on aggregate now and Liverpool have to find two goals to progess. In 76th minute lampare score and now Chelsea have lead 6-3 on aggregate. Now Liverpool put pressure on Chelsea and they were able to score two goals in 81st & 83rd minute. They reduce the Chelsea lead now the score was 6-5 on aggregate. If Liverpool score again then they are through the semi final but they were not able to score again but Chelsea score in 89th minute and confirm their semi final position. Both teams play a beautiful football game and provide the 90 minutes entertainment to their fans.

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