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Independent:
Lampard lights the way as Chelsea step out of Mourinho's shadowBayern Munich 3 - Chelsea 213 April 2005
It was in the back of a humble Munich taxi that Jose Mourinho left the Olympiastadion before kick-off last night and what took place in his absence was one of the most accomplished Chelsea performances of his reign. Their leader might have been exiled from the touchline, and defeat came in the game's dying seconds, but what will endure of last night was the resolve that earned Chelsea a place in the Champions' League semi-finals.
Chelsea's passage through the last two rounds of this competition has been a strange tale, interrupted by the savage political feud that burns between their coach and Uefa and the occasional transfer scandal. But last night, for the space of this match at least, it was possible to wonder at the simple achievement of a team that has learned quickly how to take on, and defeat, the grandees of European football.
Eventually they were only beaten by two goals that arrived either side of the 90-minute mark, but that alone does not do justice to the scope of their achievement. They were defeated by a German team that, to their credit, refused to give up on the tie, yet as the old masters from Bayern's past mulled over their elimination, Franz Beckenbauer said that Chelsea "were not better but much cleverer". Coming from a wily old German World Cup winner there can scarcely be a greater compliment.
Chelsea had begun the evening with a statement intended to pre-empt newspaper stories that said the chief executive Peter Kenyon had been spotted in a restaurant with Rio Ferdinand. Then Mourinho added his last few flourishes to the build-up before leaving the real business to his team. He arrived on the front seat of the team bus with an air of affected nonchalance: his feet up and his eyes shut.
If his entrance had been unusual then his exit was spectacular. As most of the stadium's photographers trained their lenses on the VIP seats, Mourinho suddenly appeared on the giant screen in the stadium. This time, however, he was back outside and stepping into a beige Munich municipal taxi for the short ride back to the team hotel. A Chelsea spokesman later said that Mourinho's "privacy" had been invaded at the stadium by cameramen.
On the pitch, Bayern made good on their promise to take the role of aggressors and Robert Huth made an inauspicious start to life as a right-back when he was well beaten by Ze Roberto down the wing. He cut the ball back to Michael Ballack in the area and only a flailing leg from Petr Cech kept the shot out.
Down the opposite wing came Bastian Schweinsteiger who began by causing equal trouble for William Gallas. There are not many bonafide nutmegs in the Champions' League but the young German inflicted the old-fashioned humiliation on the French full-back on 18 minutes and then beat Frank Lampard before unleashing a cross that curled menacingly across goal.
But before the half-hour, Chelsea took a daring lead. The goals Lampard has scored this season, and the games he has dominated, mean that his triumphs are no fluke. But when he struck his 15th of the season the Brazilian Lucio would have been entitled to ask whether the football gods had a grudge against him. Just like Joe Cole's first last week, the ball went in via a deflection off the defender.
There were two scares for Chelsea before half-time, not least when Ze Roberto offered further evidence that Huth is not a natural full-back by beating him down the flank and cutting back another inviting ball. But it was Ballack who wasted the best chance of all when John Terry misjudged a header and presented the midfielder with a simple chance from close range. He could not keep his shot under the bar.
Chelsea resilience and determination to maintain their shape was rewarded when, just before the hour, Damien Duff was presented with a glorious chance to kill the tie. Lampard's innocent free-kick was allowed to trickle through to the Irishman and, holding off Willy Sagnol's challenge he shot from close range. Somehow Kahn turned the ball away.
The Bayern goal arrived on 65 minutes and, by then, they were in control. Sagnol crossed from the right and Ballack, who had established himself as the match's most influential man, crashed a header against the post. Cech was beaten and the ball ricocheted back along his line where it was turned in by Pizarro who looked to have been in an offside position when Ballack made contact.
And so Bayern poured forward. Within four minutes of their goal, Huth had deflected a Bixente Lizarazu cross that struck Cech's bar. From the corner, Ballack once again proved dominant in the air and, although Cech managed to get a glove on the ball it still required Eidur Gidjohnsen to kick the ball off the line.
From nothing Chelsea appeared to seal the tie with 11 minutes remaining. Joe Cole made the crucial breakthrough, crossing from the left for Didier Drogba to flick his header past Kahn. Somehow, Bayern managed to rouse themselves from the depths of a display that saw most of their supporters exit before their winning goals went in.
The first came from the substitute Paolo Guerrero who turned in Schweinsteiger's cross from the right at the near post. Then in injury time, Mehmet Scholl, another substitute, scored with the last kick of the game. It was the first time that Mourinho's Chelsea have conceded three goals but even he might be minded to forgive them for that.
Bayern Munich (4-1-3-2): Kahn; Sagnol, Lucio, Kovac, Lizarazu (Salihamidzic, 78); Demichelis (Scholl, 52); Schweinsteiger, Ballack, Ze Roberto; Makaay (Guerrero, 73), Pizarro. Substitutes not used: Rensing (gk), Frings, Jeremies, Deisler.
Chelsea (4-1-4-1): Cech; Huth, Carvalho, Terry, Gallas; Makelele; Cole (Morais, 90), Lampard, Gudjohnsen (Geremi, 88) Duff (Tiago, 71); Drogba. Substitutes not used: Cudicini (gk), Johnson, Smertin, Forssell.
Referee: M Mejuto Gonzalez (Spain).
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Times:Job is done but late slip-ups dim aura of invincibilityFrom Matt Dickinson, Chief Football Correspondent in MunichBayern Munich 3 Chelsea 2 (Chelsea win 6-5 on agg) LOSING is a rare sensation for Chelsea players and, as for conceding three goals, that had not happened all season. This was not a typical night for José Mourinho’s players but it concluded with the very familiar feeling of satisfaction at a job well done and another target successfully accomplished.
Chelsea will want to tighten up at the back before the European Cup semi-finals — Paolo Ferreira, out for the season, is sorely missed on the flank — but they fully deserved to progress at Bayern Munich’s expense. The Germans had tested them in both legs but without reducing them to panic.
Goals from Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba gave Chelsea plenty of room for error and, although they needed the cushion as they dropped deep into their own area, the strikes from Paulo Guerrero and Mehmet Scholl came far too late to worry Mourinho.
There was barely time to kick off after Scholl’s goal deep into injury time, with Bayern still a goal short of forcing another 30 minutes.
In his hotel room, Mourinho must have sensed that the tie was wrapped up once Frank Lampard had struck in the 30th minute to set Bayern the mighty task of scoring three goals without reply. That was something that none of Chelsea’s previous 50 opponents had managed and, in only four defeats under Mourinho, they had never lost by two clear goals.
“The first goal could be fatal,” Felix Magath, the Bayern manager, had said and his players’ careworn expressions as they trooped off at half-time reflected the significance of Lampard’s deflected strike.
Bayern had created the pressure, and the chances, but it was Chelsea who had scored with their only shot on target.
Responsible for diverting Joe Cole’s shot beyond Oliver Kahn in the first leg, Lucio will claim that luck had conspired against him yet again. As Lampard shot from just outside the area, the ball ricocheted off the Brazil defender’s instep and into the very part of the goal that Kahn had just vacated.
It was unfortunate, but Bayern’s defending had not impressed in either game and they should have known better than to allow Lampard to shoot unchallenged from 20 yards. It was the England midfield player’s sixth goal in seven games and his third of the tie. Bayern had been warned.
If the goal was a huge blow, Bayern had already suffered a spate of little setbacks with their failure to capitalise on some good possession in and around the Chelsea penalty area. As Magath had said, they needed to score first but they were foiled by one fine save from Petr Cech, using his legs to block Claudio Pizarro’s shot, and a dreadful lack of composure in front of goal.
Bayern’s game plan was sensible enough, with Bastian Schweinsteiger and Zé Roberto trying to exploit Chelsea’s weakness at full back in the absence of Wayne Bridge and, particularly, Ferreira. Schweinsteiger nutmegged William Gallas early on while Zé Roberto terrorised Robert Huth. The German had been preferred to Glen Johnson but looked exactly what he is — a big centre half out of position — every time he had to tackle the flying Brazilian.
In one moment of panic, Huth headed straight at Michael Ballack, but the Germany international was equally jittery and wildly mis-hit his shot over the crossbar.
Bayern needed a stroke of fortune if they were to lift the Olympic Stadium from its gloom and it came with an equaliser in the 65th minute.
Pizarro was just offside as he tapped in after Cech had pushed Ballack’s powerful header on to a post. The Czech Republic goalkeeper appeared to hold up a hand a little guiltily, but he had done well just to parry the first effort. He was helpless again when, from Bixente Lizarazu’s cross, the ball deflected off Huth and bounced on to the top of the crossbar. Bayern’s tails were up, and Eidur Gudjohnsen headed off the line from Ballack’s header, but Chelsea then struck against the run of play. Joe Cole crossed and Drogba, who had outmuscled Robert Kovac all evening, beat Kahn with a perfectly directed header. Bayern needed three more goals and, although they must have realised that their efforts were likely to be in vain, they managed to grab two. Both were scrappy strikes, Guerrero and Scholl pouncing after the ball was driven into a crowded penalty box.
The only purpose they served was to remind Chelsea that they are not invincible. But they are formidable.
HOW THEY LINED UP
BAYERN MUNICH (4-4-2) O Kahn — W Sagnol, Lucio, R Kovac, B Lizarazu — B Schweinsteiger, M Demichelis (sub: M Scholl, 52min), M Ballack, Zé Roberto — C Pizarro, R Makaay (sub: P Guerrero, 73). Substitutes not used: M Rensing, T Frings, J Jeremies, H Salihamdzic, S Deisler. Booked: Kovac.
CHELSEA (4-3-3): P Cech — R Huth, J Terry, R Carvalho, W Gallas — E Gudjohnsen (sub: Gérémi, 88), C Makelele, F Lampard — J Cole (sub: Nuno Morais, 90), D Drogba, D Duff (sub: Tiago, 71). Substitutes not used: C Cudicini, G Johnson, A Smertin, M Forssell. Booked: Gudjohnsen. Referee: M Mejuto González (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Telegraph:
Chelsea weather the stormBy Henry Winter (Filed: 13/04/2005)
Bayern Munich (0) 3 Chelsea (1) 2Chelsea win 6-5 on agg
They can ban Jose Mourinho from the dugout but no one can evict his strong Chelsea team from the Champions League. John Terry, Frank Lampard and the outstanding pair of Ricardo Carvalho and Joe Cole ensured that Chelsea progressed to the semi-finals while their beloved manager watched from his hotel-room.
Heads we win: Didier Drogba sealed Chelsea a semi-final place Even before Lampard's 30th-minute goal tempered Bayern's aspirations, German frustration was in evidence. Their fans began swearing en masse at Chelsea - in English. Time-wasting tactics by Petr Cech intensified Baverian ennui. They sang and they screamed but they knew that hope was fading. Even when Claudio Pizarro equalised after 65 minutes, Bayern still had to break the thick blue line twice more, ane the task became impossible when Didier Drogba headed past Oliver Kahn. Late ripostes from Paulo Guerrero and Mehmet Scholl were ultimately meaningless.
All those observations by Kahn that English teams struggle overseas (rather ignoring a certain 5-1 result here) resembled mere hot air as Bayern attacks largely foundered on the twin rocks that were Carvalho and Terry. All those claims from Michael Ballack that he and his team, strengthened by the return of Pizarro and Roy Makaay, would score four were mocked by the outstanding Claude Makelele, who patrolled the area in front of Chelsea's back four with intelligence and unremitting zeal.
Baverian criticism that Mourinho's side relied overly on the long ball to Drogba rang hollow on the half-hour as Chelsea built stealthily towards goal. William Gallas made good ground down the left. Nothing hurried, nothing rash. Gallas took care of the ball, eventually slipping it inside to Cole. The small but perfectly in-form England international is the antithesis of the long-ball philosophy; here he dribbled along the edge of Kahn's penalty box, ignoring a chance to go down when fouled before laying the ball off to Lampard. Why Martin Demichelis was not tracking such a deadly finisher from range is a matter for Felix Magath's post-mortem examination.
Lampard relished the space and duly let fly, the ball catching Lucio's heel on its way past a wrong-footed Kahn. Echoes of the Bridge abounded. The luckless Lucio deflected in a Cole strike last week. One more and Chelsea will get to keep the Brazilian.
Yet Chelsea defenders had to work overtime. Terry, leading by example, threw himself into an effort from Ballack, setting the tone for Chelsea's athletic resilience. Then Cech raced out to stop Pizarro's shot with his feet. Sebastian Schweinsteiger did nutmeg Gallas and trick Terry but the right-winger's shot flew wide.
The alarm bells rang briefly in Chelsea's defence when Robert Huth appeared to hold Pizarro but the referee waved play on. These were good times for those paid so handsomely to protect Chelsea's goal, although Glen Johnson must have been left wandering about his future at the club after starting on the bench. Johnson excels going forward but Mourinho clearly preferred Huth's defensive expertise, albeit a stopper operating at full-back.
Banned from the dug-out, Mourinho entered the stadium briefly but was so mobbed by autograph-hunters when seeking his seat he jumped in a taxi and sped back to the team's hotel. His fitness coach, Rui Faria, took his place on the bench. They had plenty to enjoy. As well as Lampard's 12th goal in 42 European appearances, Chelsea almost added a second through Drogba. Otherwise, there was the visitors' defensive performance to admire. Carvalho, such a clever reader of unfolding dangers, stretched out a foot to hook a Ze Roberto shot out of the damp Baverian air.
As the second half opened, Ballack shot over, a long-ranger from Lucio was held by Cech before Cole then executed two immaculately timed challenges to dispossess Ze Roberto in the box. Bixente Lizarazu had seen enough and promptly clattered Cole. No matter. The thick blue line was holding firm.
Until the 65th minute. Then Willy Sagnol crossed and Ballack headed goalwards, causing chaos in the Chelsea box. Cech managed to reach the ball, turning it against a post, but Pizarro applied the coup de grace: 1-1. Bayern raided forward feverishly. Lizarazu's cross clipped Huth's head and rebounded off the bar. Eidur Gudjohnsen then cleared Ballack's header off the line. Then, marvelously, Chelsea regained the lead. Cole had the ball down the corner flag and it seemed inevitable that he would run down the clock. No chance. He crossed superbly and Drogba, beating Rober Kovac, headed powerfully past Kahn. "Cheerio, cheerio" chanted the Chelsea fans. Liverpool or Juventus await.
Meanwhile, Chelsea last night issued a statement denying that they were seeking to sign Manchester United central defender Rio Ferdinand.
Match details
Bayern Munich (4-1-2-1-2): Kahn; Sagnol, Lucio, Kovac, Lizarazu (Salihamidzic 77); Demichelis (Scholl 52); Schweinsteiger, Ze Roberto; Ballack; Makaay (Guerrero 73), Pizarro. Subs: Rensing (g), Frings, Jeremies, Deisler. Booked: Kovac, Sagnol. Chelsea (4-1-2-2-1): Cech; Huth, Carvalho, Terry, Gallas; Makelele; Gudjohnsen (Geremi 88), Lampard; J Cole (Nuno Morais 90), Duff (Tiago, 72); Drogba. Subs: Cudicini (g), Johnson, Smertin, Forssell. Booked: Gudjohnsen. Referee: M Mejuto Gonzalez (Spain).
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Guardian:
Drogba seals Chelsea advance
Kevin McCarra at OlympiastadionWednesday April 13, 2005The Guardian
The ease of Chelsea's progress is adding to its excitement. They are to start a semi-final against Juventus or Liverpool in a fortnight and will do so against a backdrop of belief that the trophy can return to English soil after a six-year absence. Despite the odd conclusion to their evening in Munich, Chelsea have vanquished a potent club. Any misgivings about the team during this 6-5 aggregate win were exceedingly late arriving. Didier Drogba had re-established Chelsea's lead in the 80th minute to put them 2-1 ahead by evading Robert Kovac to head home a Joe Cole cross. With John Terry hampered by a worrying leg injury and his team-mates relaxing, Bayern, however, came back improbably to win.In stoppage-time, one substitute, Paulo Guerrero, turned in a Bastian Schweinsteiger shot before another, Mehmet Scholl, tucked in a cut-back. Those steps to a 3-2 victory went unwatched by the substantial part of the crowd who had already stomped to the exits. When Frank Lampard, assisted by a ricochet, put Chelsea ahead after half an hour Jose Mourinho's side held an unassailable 5-2 aggregate advantage. Those disgruntled spectators could have left much earlier. In causing such dismay to esteemed opponents Chelsea have underlined their new standing.
If they fret now, it is because they realise their sights must be on taking the Champions League prize. In that regard there will be concerns. Glen Johnson was dropped, Robert Huth had a stab at playing right-back and Chelsea may not be watertight again this season unless Paulo Ferreira comes back from injury. The problems may undermine Chelsea, especially if Terry - who said later "my leg's in bits" - is missing for a crucial period. Mourinho may need a brilliant strategy.
Lampard had already claimed two goals in the first leg and Bayern's coach Felix Magath said before this return that "we need to defend well and then the Lampard problem will not be there". His side did not look as if they had enough concentration even to remember hearing his instructions.
Bayern will bemoan the deflections for last night's opener and for Joe Cole's at Stamford Bridge. The Premiership leaders do get goals like that regularly, but there is method involved in setting up positions for controlled drives. They are abetted, too, when a side such as Bayern let Cole come in from the left and roll the ball to an unmarked Lampard. His low 25-yarder skipped off Lucio's heel to wrongfoot Oliver Kahn.
Until then much of Chelsea's energy had gone into thwarting Bayern's quest for the 2-0 win they desired. Mourinho deployed a back four composed wholly of centre-halves. Huth was nominally on the right but usually stayed near the middle so that he could help clear crosses.
Claudio Pizarro pulled the ball back for Michael Ballack in the fourth minute and Terry had to make a block tackle. Almost immediately Ze Roberto came inside Huth for a low cross which set up Pizarro for a drive which Petr Cech denied with his legs.
None the less, Chelsea had already shown they would not be subdued throughout. In the second minute Lampard freed Drogba, who had so intimidated Bayern at Stamford Bridge, but he could not get the better of Kahn. Drogba was injured later and seemed shorn of his usual power after 43 minutes as Kovac tracked the striker down when Lampard seemed to have sent him clear.
Having gone 1-0 down, Bayern required three unanswered goals to advance. But Chelsea still had notions of adding to their lead. With almost an hour gone, Drogba occupied the centre-backs at a free-kick and Damien Duff dashed through, only to be frustrated by Kahn's fine save.
Bayern soon equalised. Cech shoved Ballack's downward header against a post but Pizarro, who had been offside, knocked in the rebound. Five minutes later a Bixente Lizarazu cross came off Huth to strike the bar and, within moments, Ballack's header was kicked off the line by Eidur Gudjohnson.
This reminded Chelsea of the difficulties of the Champions League but the deeper impression is of how regularly they overcome them.
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Sun:
B Munich 3 Chelsea 2
(Chelsea win 6-5 on aggregate)
CHELSEA almost turned a cruise into a nightmare before earning a Champions League semi-final with either Liverpool or Juventus.
Frank Lampard's deflected 20-yarder and Didier Drogba's header put the Blues 2-1 up on the night and 6-3 on aggregate - but Bayern's late double forced them to sweat out the closing seconds.
Maybe, though, on a night when boss Jose Mourinho took a cab journey away from Bayern Munich's Olympic Stadium, it should have been no surprise that Chelsea took an unusual route.
Lampard's opener on the half-hour slightly flattered them, before Claudio Pizarro bundled Bayern level.
Drogba's neat flick seemed to settle any fleeting nerves - but Peter Cech hade to make two top-class blocks when Munich finally surged forward.
It all seemed irrelevant, though, as John Terry in particular stood firm in the Blues' defence.
But Paolo Guerrero and Mehmet Scholl shot goals in the 89th minute and stoppage time to provoke a strange climax.
England midfielder Lampard and Drogba had led Chelsea's bright start.
And early on the Ivory Coast striker was thwarted only by a sliding tackle from onrushing giant Oliver Kahn in the Munich goal.
Fit-again Pizarro and Roy Makaay were back leading the Munich front line, so the Blues knew their rearguard would have to match their Premiership form.
But it needed Cech's fine save to prevent Pizarro's low drive from putting the Germans in front in two minutes later.
GOAL-DEN ... Lampard after his goalPicture: RICHARD PELHAM
Chelsea, though, still enjoyed the better of the midfield exchanges.
And Bayern's crossing was frustrating the home fans, with Pizarro and Makaay receiving scant service in attack.
Munich's woes deepened, apparently beyond repair, when Chelsea went three goals in front on aggregate.
And again it was Lampard, two-goal hero of the first leg, who put the Blues in control.
Lucio had deflected the busy Joe Cole's wayward shot past his own keeper at Stamford Bridge and the German defender was once more at fault this time.
Lampard's low strike hit Lucio as he turned.
And, despite Kahn's last-ditch attempt to recover, the ball cannoned in off the keeper's foot.
Michael Ballack, whose last-minute penalty at Chelsea had given the Germans hope for the second leg, blazed a clear chance high in the 40th minute as Bayern finally created openings.
Cech pushed Bastian Schweinsteiger's long-range effort round the post when the hosts started to infiltrate the home defence.
But Chelsea almost doubled their lead on the hour after Lampard's free-kick fell to Damien Duff on the edge of the six-yard box.
Kahn, however, thwarted him superbly at point-blank range.
The Blues paid for that miss four minutes later when Pizarro tucked home an equaliser from the goal-line after Makaay's header beat Cech.
OOPS ... Oliver Kahn and Lucio watch the ball go in
The ball bounced off the inside of the keeper's left post and ran across the line for the waiting Pizarro to finish.
Bayern were now in full flow, albeit knowing they still needed two more goals to go through.
And the double miss they will rue arrived in the 68th minute.
Robert Huth, sometimes uncomfortable at right-back, deflected Bixente Lizarazu's cross onto the top of Cech's bar.
Then Eidur Gudjohnsen cleared a Ballack header off the line.
Chelsea, though, seemed to have sealed the tie 10 minutes from time.
Drogba, the physical scourge of the home side in the first leg, soared to glance Cole's cross into the bottom corner.
But the Germans won the game on the night, perhaps deservedly, with a late burst.
Guerrero turned in a Schweinsteiger cross-shot, then Scholl flashed the goal of the night inside the near post.
DREAM TEAM STAR MAN- JOHN TERRY (Chelsea)
Chelsea: Cech 7, Carvalho 6, Terry 9, Gallas 6, Huth 6, Duff 6, Cole 7, Lampard 8, Makelele 7, Gudjohnsen 7, Drogba 7. Subs: Tiago (for Duff, 70min) 6, Geremi (Gudjohnsen, 88) 5, Nuno Morais (Cole, 90) 5. Not used: Johnson, Forssell, Smertin, Cudicini.Booked: Gudjohnsen.
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