Topic: UEFA Champions League 2012 Final
Place: Fusball Arena, Allianz Arena (Munich, Germany)
Clubs: FC Bayern Muenchen (FCB) vs Chelsea FC (CFC)
Didier Drogba, Lampard target win in the last match of life and death:
THE stage is set for Didier Drogba to end his Chelsea career on a high note - with victory in tomorrow's UEFA Champions League final against Bayern Munich at Allianz Arena.
At 34 and after eight prolific years at Stamford Bridge, Drogba is poised to leave the Blues, who are only willing to offer the star Ivorian striker a new 12-month deal.
Drogba wants two more years and, while Chelsea won't come to the party, Spanish giants Barcelona reportedly will in a deal understood to be worth $5 million a season.
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China and the US are also options for Drogba, much to the despair of his teammates who don't want him to leave the London club.
"There is nobody like Didier, not with his sublime touch, his finish and the bulldozer thing he has," Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard told The Times. "I'm desperate for him to stay. He's a machine, he's lost no pace. He's lost none of his finishing instinct.
Drogba's exalted status will scale even greater heights if he can inspire a weakened Chelsea, which will be without suspended quartet John Terry, Ramires, Raul Meireles and Branislav Ivanovic, at Bayern Munich's home ground.
Champions League success would be the jewel in the crown for Chelsea and Drogba, who was sent off in the 2008 final which the Blues lost in a penalty shootout to Manchester United in Moscow.
"I've got a lot of disappointments but I've also got a lot of great moments in finals so I'm going to try to make sure that, for my teammates, this one is a great one," Drogba said.
Bayern, hammered 5-2 by league champions Dortmund in last weekend's German Cup final, will be without suspended defenders Holger Badstuber, David Alaba and Luiz Gustavo. with AFP
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