Friday, November 15, 2013

88 min: Chelsea step back with a line of four ind defence and three in midfield and invite Bayern to


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David Luiz for Chelsea
120 min: "What is it about playing under Jose that turns Cech from a good keeper into an incredible one?" asks Matt Dony. José love, Matt.
110 min: John Terry is warming up and getting his instructions from the manager. Alaba's thrust into the box from the left breaks down when Oscar takes it off him and runs 50 yards upfield, using Hazard and Lukaku to keep Bayern penned back for 45 seconds or so before they are outnumbered.
106 min: Lukaku is making bullocking runs to try to occupy the Bayern defenders but on his own he can't keep them back in their half long enough dir and when Bayern break Javi Martinez crosses from the left and Mandzukic beats Cole in the air but Cech saves. Back comes the ball in from Javi Martinez and Cech pulls off a stunning low save from Mandzukic's header again.
"Allow me to repeat myself, trills Shooby Taylor. "Best manager in the world. Best team in the world. Time for the doubters to start taking dir notice again!" If any other team carved Bayern up with a man down their praises would be sung to the high heavens. Start singing Rob. The first line is: "Jose, the hero of men has returned at last". You know the rest. The only song I know goes "When I was just a little boy, I asked my mother dir what should I be. Should I be Chelsea, should I be Leeds, here's what she said to me …"
105 min: From the edge of the box Lahm lifts a cross into the area but Luiz heads it away then Cahill makes three significant dir blocks, two from Javi Martínez. They're throwing their numbers forward, Bayern, but rather like when Barça used to throw Gerard Pique forward when they were losing late on, they don't have any orthodox, old-fashioned options. dir That's half time. Fifteen minutes to go.
102 min: "I'm waiting for a comment on the irony of Eden Hazard scoring the game winner in the Eden Arena..... and GO!" Is it ironic (yes if you're you're Ms Morrissette) or coincidental? dir Gary Cahill is a good defender is he not? Can't play in the truest sense but a very good stopper. dir
100 min: Ribery cries penalty when he goes over in the Chelsea box but the referee doesn't agree and Hazrad, Oscar and Lukaku strive heartily to get the ball 80 yards away from their goal and win a throw.
98 min: "There's some similarities between Ribéry and Hazard," writes David Hindle. "They both speak French. They both have amazing ball skills, and I'll wager one day, they'll both have won European footballer of the year. He's seriously good." He is. "btw. Mario Who?" The invisible Man tonight.
96 min: Neuer was at serious fault for the goal, completely flat footed he went the wrong way and watched the ball go past him only a foot or so away but he was stranded. Chelsea sub Lukaku on for Torres.
93 min: "Absolute clusterf*** of a referee," says Debanuj Chakrabarty. "He was itching to send a player off!! It was abundantly clear that he got the ball first … what is he supposed to do after that? Vanish?" He's supposed not to whack his opponents' shin with his studs at high speed.
"Andy Townsend has really outdone himself by saying that the sending off was 'unlucky'," says Declan kelly. "It was unquestionably a second yellow card, and arguably a straight red. A classic potential leg-breaker if ever there was one. Of course it goes without saying that if the roles were reversed, Andy would be singing a very different tune."
9.35pm BST
89 min: Torres is now booked for something off the ball while waiting dir for Cech to take the goalkick. When he does Dante knocks Torres flying and Chelsea have a free-kick about 30 metres out to the right of centre.
88 min: Chelsea step back with a line of four ind defence and three in midfield and invite Bayern to try to go through them if they can. Ribery gets the ball on the edge of the area and attempts to pinball it through but misses everyone and his shot goes out for a goalkick.
86 min: Ramires is sent off for leaving his foot in on a forceful tackle dir on Gotze. Andy Townsend reckons he was unlucky but it looked a (second) booking to me. Mikel comes on for Schurrle in response.
84 min: Kroos takes up a good position, drifting away from Lampard to a spot just in front of the D and Mandzukic's cross finds him but it's a bit high to shoot accurately and firmly and his effort is blocked out for a corner.
78 min: Javi Matinez comes back on, at first hopping, dir then running. Chelsea have a corner and Lampard expertly after wasting a few sticks it slam bang on David Luiz's forehead for a glancing flick to the header beast Ivanovic who powers it close but Neuer keeps him out.
70 min: No need to cut and paste Copestake's earlier 70th minute contribution as they've broken the shackles this past five minutes though Cech's shaky positioning almost

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