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This one is hard to pick between. If you want to pick someone who had that "game" moment then was Cech or Didi, one saved key pens the other scored at the crucial times. But for the overall game I have it between 3. Cole, Cahill or Mikel. Cole made so many great blocks, Mikel dominated in a way we know he can when he focuses. My vote goes to Cahill though, no football for a few weeks, clearly not 100% but the guy played like a young JT. Threw himself at everything, made so many blocks and I have that image of him launching his body in the way to stop Gomes getting on the end of an effort late on. Many legends born today, this one guy though started the year facing relegation and became a European Champion.

He is the best manager in Chelsea history. Period.

FFP rules out the window then?

Still hard to take in, seen the highlights a few times but still.... amazing. Major credit to the lads and Robbie. Not to forget Roman, we would not be here without him.

Commiserations to Zippy. Your lads did you proud and you are damn unlucky to not be celebrating now mate. Robbie Di Matteo, you are now the greatest manager in Chelsea history.

Worth all the pain, worth all the suffering. A great effort. Bayern do not deserve to be runners up but our effort was magnifcent.

A German side, in Germany we face pens...

Who will take? Lamps Mata Malouda Cole Drogba?

My agony is complete, pens again...

Oh this is agony, why always like this blues?

Oh the nerves. Glad Muller is done but Bayern are still a major threat. We can never do things the easy way can we, win or lose we do not make it easy...

Oh this is far too cruel and now we have another 30 mins of it. If only you could have planted that free kick in Didi to save us all this pain lol

Damn...I was right about Muller.

Well second half due to start so back to the other room I go. Come on lads do yourself and the club proud. Make sure we come out of this with our heads held high!

Our chances of countering have been done by the fact we have had awful first touches in Bayerns final third. A few times Drogba, Kalou and Mata have had a chance to get in to a decent shooting position only for the ball to bobble off them to a Bayern defender.

Good lord I can understand this view at HT in the QPR game but in this one. Well if you are proved right Sir kudos to you but not seen a lot in that half to offer me hope we will win it.

Am surprised how positive it is on here,are we watching the same game? Both sides have been a credit in their work ethics so far no doubt but Is only through sheer luck and bad finishing from Bayern the game is not done and dusted already. It is worrying how easily they have made it in to our box, we got major luck with the Robben effort Cech knocked on to the post. Have offered very little going forward. Carry on like this and appears a matter of when rather than if Bayern put us to the sword.

Well lads couple of minutes to go, so off to the other room I go to watch the game. Even though the odds against us are huge this is the clubs 2nd CL final in our over 100 year history. So lets try and enjoy it and have pride in the lads. Come on Chelsea!

Well yeah there is a lot of ties to Germany in a fair few Canadian families, plus outside of the bridge we are not well liked so...

Some soures say he may be the next Chelsea manager.

They predict our defeat, given everyone loses games by predicting loss after loss sooner or later they will be right and can crow about it.

"Twenty-two-year-old Ryan Bertrand will makes his Champions League debut, playing in front of Ashley Cole in a position on the left of midfield. David Luiz and Gary Cahill both start so Jose Bosingwa is at right-back. Didier Drogba leads the attack with Juan Mata behind and Salomon Kalou on the right. Bayern Munich bring Diego Contento in at left-back and Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, more usual a midfielder, into central defence. Thomas Muller is the one change to the midfield that contested the semi-final against Real Madrid. Chelsea will line-up in the following 4-2-3-1 formation: 1 Petr Cech 17 Jose Bosingwa 24 Gary Cahill 4 David Luiz 3 Ashley Cole 12 John Mikel Obi 8 Frank Lampard © 21 Salomon Kalou 10 Juan Mata 34 Ryan Bertrand 11 Didier Drogba Subs: 22 Ross Turnbull, 19 Paulo Ferreira, 5 Michael Essien, 6 Oriol Romeu, 15 Florent Malouda, 23 Daniel Sturridge, 9 Fernando Torres. Bayern Munich are expected to line up in the following 4-2-3-1 formation: Neuer; Lahm ©, Boateng, Tymoshchuk, Contento; Schweinsteiger, Kroos; Robben, T Muller, Ribéry; Gomez. Subs: Butt, Van Buyten, Rafinha, Usami, Pranjic, Olic, Petersen. The referee is Pedro Proença from Portugal. Source: http://www.chelseafc...2777554,00.html"

I thought there was a chance Torres would start but the lineup is what many of us expected to see today, with one spot up for grabs. Ryan has been solid this season but must have done something in training to convince Robbie that he was the right choice to take Ramires's place. Very bold call and huge moment for him, hope he has a good game. Also bold picking Luiz and Cahill given they are not 100%, you might say he had no choice but if they suffer a relapse you lose 1 or 2 sub options so again bold.

Smart move by Bayern imo, with the pace of Robben and Ribery a watered pitch will give them more chances to get in behind.

I've convinced myself that the Bayern juggernaut will be too much for us and to just try and enjoy the occasion, only our second ever CL final, this time against a famous, none English side.