Astounding

After last week's thumping at Anfield, I though the second leg at Stamford Bridge would be a mere formality. I turned on the telly at half-time to hear the progress of the game and heard Liverpool were winning 2-0 making it 3-3 on aggregate and leaving the Reds needing only one more goal to progress. I thought, hmm, Liverpool are making a real fist of this, the second half could be interesting. The next 45 minutes was the best football I've ever seen as a neutral. 4-4 (7-5 on aggregate) doesn't do the match justice. It flowed back and forth with gleeful abandon. Cheslea fought back to be winning 3-2 with only 12 minutes left, Liverpool came again to score two more goals to be winning 4-3 with seven minutes left and needing just one more goal to go through and then Frank Lampard scored his second, which of course had to cannon off two posts before going in - it was that kind of match. What would have been the result had Gerrard played - or Terry? Barca fans must have been salivating at the prospect of Henry, Messi and Eto'o attacking the defence of whichever team got through. It's certainly going to be a fascinating semi-final, but this game was mind-blowing.