Chelsea suffered an ordeal to qualify for the semifinals on Tuesday in the Champions League to settle a 4-4 tie at Liverpool.Down 3-2 in the absence of a quarter of an hour, not Liverpool threw in the towel and gave it back to the scoreboard with a pair of goals in a jiffy at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's fiefdom. If Liverpool had scored the same, the balance had tilted in favor of the Reds.
But Frank Lampard finally ordered to halt the impetus of the Liverpool 89 minutes to convert his second goal of the night and set the final score 7-5 overall.
Previously, Didier Drogba and Brazilian Alex had marked for a Chelsea to Liverpool until he left the skin for a heroic comeback in the stadium outside.
Liverpool, which lost 3-1 at home shock return, it seemed that would result in London when the epic was ahead 2-0 before the half hour.
Brazilian Fabio Aurelio, the 19 minutes, Xabi Alonso and Spanish, from criminal to 28, which resurrected a tie believed sentenced after the collapse of last week at Anfield.
But Hiddink led by left plugged in for the second time and leveled with a pair of goals in a span of six minutes.
The first fell to 51 when the Ivorian Drogba hit a soft center of Nicolas Anelka. Alex scored the second at 57, when the Brazilian got to the bottom of the networks charge a missile at a free kick from 30 meters. Lampard invoiced to the third 76.
Everything sung? Nothing to do with a really crazy party. Far from shy, Brazilian Lucas Leiva scored two to 81 and after the Dutchman Dirk Kuyt gave Liverpool for fourth.
The last minutes were full of drama, sometimes with a goal in each arc, until its conquest Lampard managed to end the ordeal.
In the semifinals, Chelsea will be in Barcelona in Spain to seek re-match for the title after last year lost to the criminal by Manchester United in Moscow. Barcelona progressed after 1-1 tie with visiting Bayern Munich, in sealing a 5-1 overall.
Liverpool got the urge to compete in his fourth semifinal of the European Cup in five years.
Final will be May 27 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
