The Bison is Back!

Michael Essien has been a monster this season. Drogba has been a goal machine, approaching 30 so far, and still in the eyes of many, Essien will win Chelsea player of the year. Last night away in Valencia will have done his cause no harm!

After a period of injury and doubts over whether he'd be fit enough to appear, he stated that he would play, and play he did! In the final minute of injury time, he collected a square pass from Shevchenko and flew down the right edge of the penalty area like a steam train, firing his shot on the run at the near-post of the superb Canizares, to score the winner and put Valencia out.

This is a very difficult place to go, and they have a fantastic home record, but we like to bust European teams' records, and last night Essien made sure we'd make our third CL semi-final.

The perpetual scumbag, Morientes had put them ahead in the first half, and we looked pretty ropey. They almost scored again a minute later, but Ashley Cole did amazingly well to catch the ball just off the line between his thighs!
Morientes also smashed the ball off the upright a couple of minutes before he scored.

The second half saw a different Chelsea team. We've so often played completely different halves, and this game was no exception. We equalised early on through Shevchenko, and amazingly, this was the first goal Valencia had conceded in this season's competition from open play. The only other goal was a Totti penalty for Roma!

We thought we'd blown it when Canizares pulled off two incredible saves. Both of them were worthy of historic references. You see these sort of saves on those nights when it just doesn't go your way, but then, on those nights, you don't have The Bison to smash your way into the next round!