When Bayern Munich's Tomas Mueller headed home the first goal of a tightly-contested UEFA Champions League final, Chelsea chances of lifting the trophy looked doomed.

Didier Drogba had other plans though, delivering a vital late equalizer to set up extra time and a dramatic penalty shootout for the ages.

Bayern Munich manager Jupp Heynckes was in celebratory mood during his press conference that followed a thrilling 3-1 penalty shoot-out win over Real Madrid and sent the Bavarians into an evenly matched final against Chelsea at home on May 19.

Not many predicted that the Blues and Bayern would successfully pass through their respective semifinal ties against Barcelona and Real to reach the big final at Allianz Arena next month.

We had to summon our inner strength to prevent ourselves from captioning that ridiculous photo above ("YOU took my red jacket, admit it b***h") without sounding like an 11-year-old. An invariably difficult task because Real Madrid are a team armed with delightful facial expressions and secondly, because Crackovia exists.

Wenn am 13. Dezember das Spiel "Match against Poverty" steigt, sind viele Ex-Stars mit dabei. Für die HSV-Allstarmannschaft gehen dabei Spieler wie Jörg Albertz, Sergej Barbarez, Stefan Beinlich, Collin Benjamin, Rudolfo Esteban Cardoso, Nico-Jan Hoogma, Mehdi Mahdavikia, Zé Roberto, Stefan Schnoor, Anthony Yeboah, Stig Töfting, Richard Golz und Bastian Reinhardt an den Start.

Ottmar Hitzfeld, the man who guided Bayern Munich to the domestic treble as recently as 2008, believes that the German giants are only a shadow of themselves without key playmaker Bastian Schweinsteiger, thus boosting Manchester City's hopes of Champions League progress.

In order to qualify for the Round of 16, the Citizens must get a result from Bayern's visit to the Eastlands next week while also hoping that Napoli fall to Villarreal.

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Shot in a docudrama style much like the early 2000′s show, 'MTV Cribs' (R.I.P.), Schweini (Bayern Munich footballer) went head-to-head with Steffen Hamann (Bayern Munich basketballer) in a shoot out. Bastian, being the cuter of the two, obviously has an unfair upper hand (see also: Looks Influences Winning, A Kickette Case Study) and the result is testament to that.

Joahim Low did not have to dig his nose to strike gold. Mario Gotze serves notice that he might be the next best thing to Mesut Oezil who is already the best thing since Lukas Podolski, Miroslav Klose, and Bastian Schweinsteiger. Then there is the small matter of Thomas Muller and Andre Schurrle.

Was irgendein ehemaliger Spieler in irgendeinem Blog von sich gibt, interessiert uns nicht. Das interessiert Bastian nicht, das interessiert mich nicht und das interessiert die Mannschaft nicht.

Philipp Lahm, Kapitän des FC Bayern München, kontert die Kritik vom ehemaligen Bayern-Torwart Oliver Kahn, dass Lahm und Schweinsteiger die Bayern nicht richtig führen können

Bayern Munich progressed to the 2011 Audi Cup final after a 5-3 penalty shootout victory over AC Milan after an entertaining 1-1 draw. Alberto Paloschi missed the decisive penalty for the Italians after blazing horribly over before a superb Bastian Schweinsteiger sealed the shootout victory. Zlatan Ibrahimovic had gave the Serie A champions a 4th [.

Dave Kidd (for the second time in recent weeks, worryingly enough the first was his suspicions over the now disappeared "Fulham Daisy") recently tweeted about Seve Ballesteros (funny how it used to be "baLL" and now we're all sophisticated it's "baY"; I remember either Barry Davies or Martin Tyler called Soren LerbY "Soren LerbU" in some tournament or other and it just sounded wrong.

One of the joys of having younger children is you can sometimes indulge in the guilty pleasure of revisiting films from your own childhood without appearing foolish in the extreme. Well, perhaps you might look somewhat foolish when said children decide to leave the sofa without finishing that tale midway through, bored by its outdated special effects and lack of princesses, only for you to be the remaining person watching it with rapt attention until the conclusion.

Bayern Munich vs Inter a smash and grab? naaa more like a monster mash a la Internazionale, with all fault of losing lying at the feet of Bayern players and perhaps the woodwork on one or two occasions. "After seeing Bayern miss so many chances, we told ourselves that qualification was not lost," said Inter's Lucio while Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger referring to.