Chelsea’s exhilarating never-say-die attitude in the game that put them into their first Champions League final was perhaps best characterised by Magda Eriksson’s heart-stopping added-time goalline clearance to help heave them across the line, when a Bayern Munich goal would have put them ahead on away goals.
The influential captain has been missing for too much of this competition but, in that moment, the Sweden international, who will lift the trophy on home soil in Gothenburg should Chelsea triumph against Barcelona, was exactly who the Blues needed.
