Justice is served!
In the two quarter final fixtures just played, we've seen a turn around and football from the heavens. Amazing end to end stuff that really mad ethis season's Champions League Quarter Finals one of the most eventful in recent times. All the hopes, dreams, goals, heartbreaks and surprises. Really awesome stuff.
Liverpool vs Chelsea
Chelsea have avenged all Man Utd fans by dishing out a 3-1 thrashing of irritants Liverpool. All that hype about Gerrard and Torres and their magical partnership failed to save their sorry asses. Chelsea was on task to avenge past defeats and once again prove their mettle as well as mark their intentions to add the elusive Champions League trophy to their cabinet. An early goal by Torres seemed to jolt Chelsea's Ivanovic, (no, not the Russian tennis starlet but the defender!) into action and he was on hand to head in an equaliser and another goal to seal Liverpool's fate. The returning Drogba was also on the scoresheet for Chelsea. Liverpool now need to win by 3 goals in order to progress. But at Stamford Bridhe, its a dream they can only hope to chase. So much for that hype and credit to Terry's mind games.
Barcelona vs Bayern Munich
A heavenly performance by Barecelona in the first half gave us a glimpse of what football must be like in the heavens. League leaders Barcelone were just brutal in the way they tore apart Bayern Munich and the goals just seemed to flow endlessly like their movement of the ball. It was just amazingly fast and Barcelone seemed to always be a step ahead of Bayern. Lionel Messi opened up the scoring in the 9th minute and again later on in the 38th min. Eto'o was there with Henry to each claim a goal which made them all smile and be happy. However, Henry's goal came amid a Van Bommel challenge on Messi which would have seen him sent off had Henry not scored. That characterised Bayern's night where they had to resort to overly physical challenges to stop the free flowing football Barcelona were playing and they had absolutely no chance of clawing their way back. Anyone fancy them winning their home leg by 5 goals? No chance in hell if Barcelone keep up their form. Definitely favourites to enter the finals.
With such drama and action in leg 1 of the Quarter Finals, we can only rub our hands in anticipation in the second leg which would see teams like Arsenal and Man Utd step up their game if are to have any chance of progressing to the next stage. This is especially so for Man Utd who were just awful and face an extremely tough trip to the Dragon's lair which is Porto's homeground where no English team has ever won at.
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