Chelsea draw at Barca as they reach the final

Chelsea have overthrown Barcelona from the European throne. On Camp Nou both teams came and Barcelona was expecting to come back after the disappointing 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, but Chelsea didn’t come just to lose. The match started as expected and Barcelona dominated mostly but they were not efficient in the finishing part. Messi and Sanchez had good chances in the 4^th and 19^th minute but Cech and some luck saved Chelsea. In the 26^th minute Chelsea had a good chance but Drogba couldn’t score from a very small angle. In the 35^th minute Cuenca went fast into the box and sent a ground pass in front of the goal and Busquets was there to score. Barcelona equalized the average score and just two minutes after that John Terry received a red card. The defender hit with his knee Alexis Sanchez without ball, and even though the striker was not hit that severely Terry received a deserved red card and left his team with 10 people. In the 43 minute Messi possessed the ball and he made a through pass to Iniesta who scored for 2-0, so that Barca went in front on average. And just when everything was looking grim for Chelsea, Lampard made an amazing pass to Ramires who with an extraordinary lob shot he shot the ball over the goalkeeper and into the net for 2-1. The half time ended and Chelsea were in front because of the goal at Nou Camp. The second half began as a nightmare for Chelsea. In the 48^th minute Fabregas was fouled by Drogba  in the box and penalty was awarded for Barcelona. The contact seemed very little or none but Messi prepared to score the penalty. However the top striker kicked the upper bar and missed it. Barcelona’s attack lacked ideas and in the 78^th minute Busquets shot a desperate shot which passed well wide. In the 82^nd minute Messi hit the post from a long shot but Cech seemed to cover his goal. While Barcelona were 10 man in attack Chelsea had a perfect chance to score. In the 1^st minute of added time, a corner was cleared and the ball went to Torres who wasn’t offside because he received the ball before he reached the centre and was through. He passed through Valdez and scored against the clean goal. Barcelona were shocked and Chelsea won their way to the final in Munich on May 21^st.

ROLEX FEI WORLD CUP™

The oldest horse in the competition was the 16 year old horse Flexible from Irland. He won the first round of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Final 2011/2012 in the Netherlands on 19th of April.
Just like his name, the stallion’s got out of a really hard fence to jump-the fifth one on the track of 13 fences. It was made by the Dutch course designer Louis Konickx. The stallion proved his qualities in every sense, and none of the other horses could match his pace when he made the best time in 60.26 seconds.
Steve Guerdat from Switzerland and Nino des Buissonnets were at the second place, while the astonishing Rik Hemeryck finished third for Belgium with Quarco de Kerambars. He had on his way the trouble of being first into the ring.
Pius Schwizer and Ulysse finished up fourth and were before  Kevin Staut and Silvana HDC for France in fifth place and Rolf-Goran Bengtsson from Sweden, was sixth with Casall La Silla.
With that night's results converted into points, Fellers  would go into the second round with an advantage of two points at the top of the board. But like any other competition of the FEI World Cup™ final, there are more big fences that have to be jumped. Only there the 2011/2012 Rolex champion will be announced the next round.

Bayern Munich made it to the finals after a dramatic penalty shoot - out

Bayern’s greatest dream has come true! The men from Munich will face Chelsea at their home Allianz Arena in the Champions League final after beating Real Madrid in penatlty shoot out in a dramatic semi-final second leg.

The 80,000 crammed into Estadio Santiago Bernabeu saw Jupp Heynckes’ men make a shocking start, missing two good chances and conceding a Cristiano Ronaldo double strike within the first quarter of an hour. But neither defence looked secure and Arjen Robben cut the deficit from the spot after 27 minutes of a remarkable, end-to-end first period.

The second half opened with a half-chance at either end, but the frantic action died down and the tension mounted as the sides probed for openings. The visitors finished normal time well on top, but Mario Gomez missed a fine opening with five minutes left and the game went into extra time. Bayern Munich picked up a couple of the yellow cards they had so dreaded in the goalless additional 30 minutes, sending the tie into a shoot-out.
Signs of exhaustion crept in on both sides as the second period of extra time went underway, Boateng producing a superb block to deny Kaka in the box, before Real sub Esteban Granero was booked for diving after a challenge from Neuer. Gomez stumbled after Schweinsteiger’s charge into the box, but that was that and the game went to penalties, where the Bavarians held their nerve and saw the chance to realize their dream..

Both sides were riddled with nerves in the decisive spot-kick confrontation, but Manuel Neuer saved twice, with David Alaba and Gomez both scoring before Schweinsteiger calmly applied the final shoot.