Half-time anger inspires Chelsea

Chelsea coach Guus Hiddink has revealed an angry half-time team talk was the inspiration behind the Champions League fightback against Liverpool.

Liverpool, needing to win by three goals, were 2-0 up at half-time but then Chelsea scored three times.

The Reds scored twice more but Chelsea made it 4-4 (7-5 on aggregate) and booked a semi-final tie with Barcelona.

"Sometimes you lose your temper. But they reacted and they knew the first half was not OK," said Hiddink.

"We were angry because we didn't start as we planned and we know Liverpool are a good team tactically with very skilful players.

"Tactically but also mentally we said to each other, that it was not the way we would start the second half. That's why I like to work with this team, it reacts." Chelsea were lacklustre in the first half and goals from Fabio Aurelio and Xabi Alonso gave the visitors a deserved lead.

"You cannot give them a lot of space but we did. We dropped back too much and looked for safety," said Hiddink.

However, goals from Didier Drogba, Alex and Frank Lampard put the Blues back in charge and despite late goals from Lucas Leiva and Dirk Kuyt, Lampard's second sealed a thrilling result.

"We knew that we could score and happily we did rather early after the beginning of the second half," said Hiddink.