Chelsea 1 Bayern 1. Chelsea win 4-3 on penalties. Didier Drogba delivers club football's ultimate prize for Roman Abramovich with his last kick as Chelsea player.
It came down to this: Didier Drogba standing alone, facing the vast banks of the whistling Bayern Munich fans. This was his moment to make history.
In goal Manuel Neuer stood imposingly tall, stretching up to rattle the bar. Into that wall of noise, Drogba strode forward and struck the ball low and to his left. With what could prove his last kick of a ball in a Chelsea shirt, Drogba won the European Cup.
Frank Lampard and John Terry hoisted the trophy together as those Bayern players and supporters who could stomach it, watched on in disbelief. This was the fitting finale to European campaign that has stretched credibility.
Chelsea were written off in Naples, were given the longest of odds with 10 men in Barcelona and were a minute away from defeat here in the Allianz Arena, having been thoroughly outplayed by a classy Bayern side.
Yet the German club had wasted chance after chance before finally going a goal up with eight minutes to go thanks to Thomas Müller.
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