Andres Iniesta's dramatic injury-time leveller sent 10-man Barcelona into the Champions League final after a 1-1 draw with Chelsea. More
90'+7 ANOTHER MASSIVE HANDBALL SHOUT AS BALLACK SEES A VOLLEY HIT A BARCA ARM! He remonstrates with the ref... but he's having none of it! Yellow for Ballack...
90'+6 What a turn of events! Barca make a change to waste some time... Iniesta is replaced by Gudjohnsen....
90'+3 GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! BARCA STEAL IT AT THE DEATH! INCREDIBLE! Alves centres... it falls to Messi who squares for Iniesta... and he equals Essien's earlier effort with an absolute screamer to break Chelsea hearts! What a strike!
90' Eto'o is booked as four minutes of added time is signalled.
87' Tense times for Chelsea as Messi goes down under a Malouda challenge! Play on says the ref!
84' Bojan comes on for Busquets... can the youngster make amends for his late miss a week ago?
82' Massive hand ball shout as the ball hits Pique's hand in the box as Anelka tries to flick the ball past him! Again, the ref waves play on!
77' Alex will miss the final! He gets booked for a sly trip on Messi and the Barca ace threatened to open up the Chelsea defence!
74' Essien goes in hard on Iniesta and the Ghanaian is booked for the challenge...
72' Drogba is sacrificed for Belletti now, as Chelsea look to secure their lead. Drog looks crestfallen that he's the man to have made way.
71' Lampard fires at goal once again! It's deflected, but Valdes reacts quick enough to pounce on the ball!
66' ABIDAL IS SENT OFF! The Barca defender trips Anelka as the Frenchman runs onto a Drogba flick-on from another long ball forward!
57' Drogba turns Toure on the edge of the Barca box! What a tussle between the two of them! Toure slides in and wins the ball cleanly, despite the striker's appeals for a penalty!
53' DROGBA! Must be! Anelka plays him in... he cuts back inside, leaving Pique on his backside but he can't beat Valdes, who pulls off a great save! Malouda fires into the side netting on the follow up!
46' Back underway at Stamford Bridge! No changes to tell you about and surely plenty more thrills to come!
45'+3 Barca win another corner from their first effort... but there won't be time to take it! Chelsea take a 1-0 lead in with them at the break!
32' Lampard will require some treatment for a blow to the mouth... there's blood coming out and he is forced to go off for some treatment...
30' Alves goes up with Malouda by the touchline... the Chelsea man takes the brunt of the challenge and Alves is booked! That means the Brazilian will miss the final, should Barca get there...
26' Lampard plays in Drogba! This time he brings the ball down brilliantly! Abidal's all over him! Drogba goes down in the box! But the ref waves play on!
25' Oooh! Terry rises to meet the resulting corner with a firm header that drifts just wide of the post, with Alex stretching in vain to knock it in!
25' Drogba leathers the ball around the two-man wall and Valdes is forced into saving with his legs!
24' Malouda keeps the ball in brilliantly... he hares off down the line... Alves is struggling! And the Brazilian ends up hauling the Chelsea flyer down, inches outside the box - or at least that's what the ref thinks.
9' GOAL! ESSIEN! WHAT A STRIKE! UNBELIEVABLE! The midfielder absolutely lashes a volley into the top corner from 25 yards out from a ball that took a deflection and looped up into the air! It all stems from a long Cech clearance forward, which Drogba won in the air, but the finish was nothing short of sensational!
1' Here we go! Underway in west London!
90'+3 GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! BARCA STEAL IT AT THE DEATH! INCREDIBLE! Alves centres... it falls to Messi who squares for Iniesta... and he equals Essien's earlier effort with an absolute screamer to break Chelsea hearts! What a strike!
87' Tense times for Chelsea as Messi goes down under a Malouda challenge! Play on says the ref!
82' Massive hand ball shout as the ball hits Pique's hand in the box as Anelka tries to flick the ball past him! Again, the ref waves play on!
71' Lampard fires at goal once again! It's deflected, but Valdes reacts quick enough to pounce on the ball!
66' ABIDAL IS SENT OFF! The Barca defender trips Anelka as the Frenchman runs onto a Drogba flick-on from another long ball forward!
57' Drogba turns Toure on the edge of the Barca box! What a tussle between the two of them! Toure slides in and wins the ball cleanly, despite the striker's appeals for a penalty!
53' DROGBA! Must be! Anelka plays him in... he cuts back inside, leaving Pique on his backside but he can't beat Valdes, who pulls off a great save! Malouda fires into the side netting on the follow up!
26' Lampard plays in Drogba! This time he brings the ball down brilliantly! Abidal's all over him! Drogba goes down in the box! But the ref waves play on!
25' Oooh! Terry rises to meet the resulting corner with a firm header that drifts just wide of the post, with Alex stretching in vain to knock it in!
25' Drogba leathers the ball around the two-man wall and Valdes is forced into saving with his legs!
24' Malouda keeps the ball in brilliantly... he hares off down the line... Alves is struggling! And the Brazilian ends up hauling the Chelsea flyer down, inches outside the box - or at least that's what the ref thinks.
9' GOAL! ESSIEN! WHAT A STRIKE! UNBELIEVABLE! The midfielder absolutely lashes a volley into the top corner from 25 yards out from a ball that took a deflection and looped up into the air! It all stems from a long Cech clearance forward, which Drogba won in the air, but the finish was nothing short of sensational!
ChelseaManager: Guus Hiddink
Captain: John Terry
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BarcelonaManager: Josep Guardiola
Captain: . Xavi
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85′ The next season is going to be a cracking season for football. With the new promotions this should
be an interesting time.

I'm still laughing....

rohadt barca, rohadt övebro hajrá chelsea!!! 3db 11-es, ha nem több

if they just brought video cameras in the game, none of this would happen and the better team would have. (chelsea)

Everyone is going on about appealing against the red card which Darren Fletcher received but no one has mentioned why Iniesta did not receive a yellow card for taking his shirt off after scoring his goal? This would mean he would miss the final as he was already on a yellow! If I was at Manchester United I would be asking UEFA to look into this as it would be good for Man UTD to lose Fletcher if Barcelona were to lose Iniesta.......

how come Iniesta did not get yellow card for takin his shirt off??

"PADDY POWER REFUND ON CHELSEA AFTER CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FARCE
We’re guessing most Chelsea fans are about as happy about last night’s goings on as Didier “IT’S A F**KING DISGRACE” Drogba. So we’re refunding all bets on Chelsea to win last night’s match and reach the final of the Champions League!
Four penalty claims denied - at least one of which could not have been more blatant, plus the absolute heartbreak of conceding in the 3rd minute of injury time after a fantastic defensive effort over 180 minutes.
It’s not fair, but it’s the rules. But as always the punter’s pal is prepared to bend those rules a little. A bit like the referee last night in fact."

I want to say Chelsea was robbed. Robbed by John Terry's mum that is!

I am a Barca fan, but I thought Chelsea should had win. Key players were missing in Barca's line-up, other players had to play outside their regular positions to compensate. Chelsea should had attack more considering both Barca's centerbacks were out. Chelsea looked better when they were attacking. But instead, they switch Drogba out and put on a defender. As for controversial call, it happens from time to time. After the first leg, it was a Chelsea player (I dont remember who) that said they dont complain.

here are the facts interprete as you wish
platini not in favour of English football
platini unhappy with glamour and expense of English football
Tom Henning Ovrebo made a mess at the last Euro competitions
Tom Henning Ovrebo told not officiate any game after messing up Italy - Romania game
Tom Henning Ovrebo officiated another game involving Barcelona 7 yellow cards and one red card were shown by him

You get your facts straight barca_nr_1. I have just stated that we should have been more of an attacking force. I still believe that we had you beaten at the Bridge, but didn't take advantge of it. Your team weren't at their best and were missing key players, but we didn't press you hard enough. Essien's goal was brilliant, it may have taken a deflection as it fell to him, but what a volley. Iniesta was imperious, i'd love him to come here and Xavi ain't bad either. Just rmember that technically we didn't lose to you, it was a draw, but the away goal counts. Anyway remember the penalties we should have had. In my view Hiddink messed up when you had the man sent off. We should have attacked you more

you chelsea and english fagsssss, get the facts straight. If chelsea was such a better team, and palyed better than barca, why didn't they scored more goals? Barca was missing Henry, they were missing 3 of their best defenders, Puyol, Milito, and Marques, and still chelse could not score more than one goal, and that goal was lucky from eissen. Plus the fact that Barca was a man down and they still managed to score. Also, did you forget the match at Camp Nou, when ballack got away with the red card, and a penalty was not given to Henry, and Barca had 23 shots to 3 shots for chelsea, and when Barca fans were complaining, you chelsea fans were laughing. Guess what? It's pay back. Face it, Barca deserved to win, they played better in both legs, they had more possesion and more shots and played real football, and not antifootball like chelsea did.

I am a really disappointed Chelsea fan, not just because of the penalties we had turned down, two of which were stone wall, but also because of the way we played.
We were too negative. When Barcelona had a man sent off they were reeling and were on the back foot, we had them beat. Our manager then decided to replace a striker with a defender giving the impetus back to Barcelona. Even Jamie Rednapp knew that it was a dangerous game to just try to hold on to a one goal lead, we should have thrown everything at them, but we never and we paid the price. Credit to Barca as they kept there beliefs and kept pressing for the killer goal. We on the other hand lost more than a game of football, we lost our reputation as a good footballing side. I dont know what hurts more. Just read the Sun newspaper they are embarassingly biased towards us. Dont know what game they were watching!!! I was there with friends who all agreed that we should have pressed them more. They weren't at their best and we should have punished them. Good luck in the final Barca, at least we can say we were beaten by the winners.

Drogba is just too rude for the sport. He plays like an animal, behaves like an animal and has an attitude of a primitive man. Bad up bringing, isn't it?(Man-U Fan)

The swine flu epidemic is getting worse just heard about 38,000 chelsea supporters who are PIG sick .
from liverpool fan belfast

Now we're equal from the first leg and we are finally going to retain the cup. Chelsea lost because there all a bunch of diving babies. Like anelka and abidal got sent off. If barca appeal the red card we will kick manu s @#$% even more
