Magic Lamps

He okay all round, with a couple of last ditch clearances, most notably the one when the ball wobbled around in our box like on a snooker table and ofc the match-winning tackle. He always raises his game when we are pinned with the back to the walls. We maybe can not rely him week in week out but somehow, in a final he never puts a foot wrong.

^no surprise really, just the usual nuisance you get from refs. The team accepted it and got on with it, so will we as we once again won against the ref

I'd rather not... I hope we do not play next season with an Europa League winners badge or shit like that on the kits. As happy as I am about this success now, the more happy I will be when this is part of our history and not of our current reality.

Maybe I am biased, but I think most members have been pretty respectful towards the Benfica fans who subscribed. Anyway, I liked your contribution before and after the match. Posters from other teams who behave this way are always welcome here.

Take it this way. 1. Mou and Frank love to work together, so him staying is defo a good thing 2. I rather fancy Mou win the trophy in his first year than Pellegrini or Moyes TBH 3. We will have Essien back, cos no one except Mou will pay wages that high for a shadow of a player 4. Hazard, Oscar will greatly improve next season. 5. We will either sign a striker like Schürrle, or even make a big signing à la Cavani or recall Lukaku, so our striker's department will get better 6. We will get rid of Paulo, Hilario, Yossi, Turnbull cos their contracts won't be extended. By replacing them we will get an upgrade in terms of quality in any case, cos there is no margin in the other direction 7. We will most likely not have so many matches again 8. We will have Romeu back, so more depth in midfield 9. There are no players like Meireles who will simply be sold in knee-jerk reaction by the board so we most probably will go into the season with a bigger squad 10. We will sign another big name apart from the striker in CB and/or in midfield so that will improve our first team, too.

I think there are enough traditional wingers out there, but they are not fancied any more and are told to cut inside and shit. My younger brother played for a youth academy team. He is two-footed,lightning fast and can hit a cross in full run, the ideal winger, but the coaches always played him in defence and said "everything you can do is run, so we do not need you further forward". Players who rely on their pace and play directly are often underestimated and used wrongly. It is symptomatically Schürrle is by some distance the fastest man in the German squad but is not that fast, maybe just as fast as Ramires btw. We should have signed Lucas Moura instead of Oscar...

whatever. Lamps has owned "Bastian" every time he faced him. +Lampard also won every time he faced Javi Martinez before he came to Bayern...

Just as the last time they faced Lampard and Mikel...Schweini and Martinez can only watch and marvel when Lamps hits his long rangers. Mourinho will scarp that lousy 4-2-3-1 and Bayern will not see any daylight when facing a 3 man midfield.

we do not need to cancel them. They bring welcomed money and cos there are no regulations we can simply send some youngsters to USA. This is a showpiece, everyone knows that and I am pretty sure this idea of buying European teams for post-season matches won't get popular anyway, so we do not really need to perform there at all.

completely agree. I would not like to have Müller here anyway, our system has no space for s.o. like him. Rumours in germany that the deal has fallen through. I rather have an out-and-out winger who is even faster than Schürrle anyway.

no. we will have Mourinho, one or two marquee signings and a world class squad competing on all front. If Lamps bows out next season, he will leave with another Premier League winners medal.

not gonna happen

We qualify for CL, Lamps breaks the record, we win the Euro league and Lamps gets the new contract... Best possible end of the season.

Epic night. Did a Salomon Kalou celebration and ran through the City with only a jeans and a Chelsea scarf on. Damn that was cold but totally worth it :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :cfc: :cfc: :cfc: :cfc: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

After last year's 2-2 at Barcelona which send us to the final, Geoff Shreeves confronted Ivanovic that he will miss the final due to a yellow card. hence Geoff is associated with bad news

FUN FACT. Our very own Marco Marin is now the only German player with an international title to his name.

Great performance from Lamps today, that's what we need from our leader. Maintains his 100% win record as captain in major finals for chelsea. Surely no coincidence

love the jurassic park music in the stadium, reminds of the last time benfica won a european trophy

Ramires has been offside about 10 times today

these basterds always foul us on the way up

now that was lucky, did not see him offside

this has to be red card for garay, oscar was through, no one had stopped him

getting better now. just do not concede before HT and rafa can give one of his hairdryer speeches...

oh shit, not azpi

this ref has already made half a dozen wrong decisions against us