What a game - Chelsea 4 Liverpool 4

Chelsea 4 Liverpool 4. That is the result from this morning's UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg. And with that, London giants Chelsea, who are now coached by legendary Dutchman Guus Hiddink (at least until the end of this season), go through to the semi-finals 7-5 on aggregate. Games at the very highest level are often low scoring affairs.

You may have the occasional blowouts, like Barcelona's 4-0 hammering of Bayern Munich last week. But how often do you get 2 top teams (in this case, 2 of England & Europe's top teams) putting 4 goals past each other? Not very often, but it did happen this morning in London. A crazy result, a remarkable scoreline, & a very entertaining end-to-end game it was - though it must be said that the defending was not very great from both sides. When the Champions League draw paired Chelsea with Liverpool, many might have thought that the quarter-final ties would be low-scoring affairs, as both teams have played numerous times in the past & therefore know each other inside out. The complete opposite happened, especially in the second-leg - we got loads of goals.

Liverpool were up against it going into this game, because they had lost their home leg 3-1 to Chelsea the previous week. They had to score early to have a chance of overturning the deficit, & this they did, leading 2-0 after about 30 minutes played, thanks to a free-kick from Aurelio & a penalty from Xabi Alonso. They took this score into half-time, needing just 1 more goal without reply to go through. Unfortunately for them, Chelsea were the ones to score next, in the 51th minute thanks to Drogba. A few minutes later, Chelsea equalised via Alex's thunderbolt freekick, so it was now 2-2. Chelsea went in front 3-2 for the first time through Frank Lampard. Then more dramas in the last 10 minutes. Liverpool went 4-3 in front in a matter of minutes, thanks to goals by Lucas in 81th minute & Kuyt in the 83rd minute. At that point, they need just 1 more goal to get past Chelsea on the away goals rule. Will there be another goal in this see-sawing match? Yes, there would be - but it would be scored by Frank Lampard towards the end of the match. Lampard's second goal meant it was 4-4 & that was the final score, sending a valiant Liverpool out of the Champions League.

Phheewwww......what a game! At various stages, given the way the match went, it was anybody's guess which team would be going through to the semi-finals. In the end, Chelsea's 3-1 away win in the first leg proved a little too much for Liverpool to overcome.

Chelsea, who lost last year's Champions League final to Manchester Utd in a penalty shoot-out, are now in this year's semi-finals. They would play Barcelona, who got a 1-1 draw in Munich. It will be tough for Barcelona, but they can do it.