Athens Ho!!

We did it again!! Overturning a 1-0 deficit from the first leg, our Anfield heroes made it a night to remember with a spectacular display of football to book our place in the Champions' League finals.

Chelsea were the odds-on favourites but at Anfield anything could happen. The defence marshalled superbly by Carragher and Agger thwarted any form of Chelsea aggression - leaving them with only one chance from Drogba which Reina easily saved. Joe Cole, so often the nemesis of Liverpool, hardly had a look at goal; Lampard was his usual unremarkable self.

Liverpool needed to score and Agger scored a striker's goal in the 22nd minute. There was a time where Chelsea threatened towards the end of the first half, but came to nought. In the second half, Liverpool had all the attacking play and chances - two saves from Cech and a Kuyt attempt ricocheting off the crossbar; clearly Liverpool were the better team but still no goals.

Went on to extra time with little difference as we were the hungrier of the two teams - a harshly disallowed goal from Kuyt and a last gasp save at the death from Cech ensured a nailbiting penalty decider: in the end Reina made two great penalty saves while we scored all four!! Appropriately my man-of-the-match Kuyt scored the winning penalty (that guy deserved it, he worked his socks off!!)

As usual the 'Special One' was all sour grapes as he claimed the better team on the night lost - come on, even the blind could see who the better team was; Rafa rightly praised our 'special ones' for our victory - the fans who waved, shouted and sang the team to victory!

So who are we going to meet in Athens? For now we don't care...because we can beat the best - bring it on!! But I have a sneaky feeling that we will have a repeat of the 2005 finals come end of this month...