Thursday 19 April 2012

We're only halfway there! Drogba warns 'lucky' Chelsea they need to score again in Barcelona

 
Didier Drogba has warned his Chelsea team-mates they need to score in the Nou Camp if they are to reach the Champions League final after their 'lucky' 1-0 win over Barcelona.

The 34-year-old found the net with his - and the Blues' - only shot on target in the semi-final first leg at Stamford Bridge to give Roberto Di Matteo's men hope of reaching next month's final.

Otherwise, like the rest of his team-mates, the veteran striker was limited almost exclusively to chasing around a Barca side who had 72 per cent possession.
Drogba looks certain to leave Chelsea when his contract expires this summer after the club refused to offer him more than a one-year extension.

'We have to go there now and try to score another one,' said Drogba, who knew that would mean Barca having to score three, something they could easily have done had they not wasted the five gilt-edged chances that fell their way.

Drogba added: 'That's football and I think we were a bit lucky. You have to work for luck to come and to happen. We worked a lot. We worked hard.'

Some have doubted whether the Ivorian's body is still able to handle playing two matches in quick succession, but the man who also scored a stunning opener in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final thrashing of Tottenham said: 'For those who said that I was too old, they saw that I could run maybe one, two or three more years!'

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