London: Frank Lampard scored a penalty in extra time on Wednesday and Didier Drogba later added his second goal of the night to send Chelsea to their first Champions League final with a 3-2 win over Liverpool in the second leg of the semi-finals.
Lampard, playing for the first time since his mother died of pneumonia on Thursday, beat Pepe Reina with his penalty in the 98th minute after Sami Hyypia had brought down Michael Ballack in the area.
The Chelsea midfielder ran to a corner flag after he scored and kneeled. He then took off his black armband, looked to the sky and kissed it.
After embraces from his teammates, Lampard ran back to the center circle and pointed to his father in the crowd. Frank Lampard Sr. was also a professional football player.
Drogba, who had given Chelsea the lead in the 33rd, added another goal in the 105th to make sure Chelsea would face English champion Manchester United in the Champions League final on May 21 in Moscow with a 4-3 win on aggregate.
Fernando Torres and Ryan Babel scored for five-time champion Liverpool, who lost to AC Milan in the Champions League final last year.
It's the first all-English final in the Champions League, and will feature the two teams fighting for the Premier League title. Both teams have 81 points, but United lead on goal difference with two games remaining.
Lampard's deciding penalty came only three minutes after Chelsea thought that Michael Essien had scored. But the goal was called back for offside - after the stadium scoreboard had given the goal to Chelsea and UEFA had changed the score on its website.
Chelsea, who haven't lost in 12 straight home games in the Champions League, were playing in the tournament's semi-finals for the fourth time in five years.
The Blues had twice lost to Liverpool and once to Monaco.
Chelsea are also undefeated in 82 games at Stamford Bridge.
No London club has ever won the Champions League. United, who beat FC Barcelona 1-0 on Tuesday to advance to the final, have won the European Cup twice, in 1968 and 1999.
Chelsea's only European success was in the Cup Winners' Cup, which they won in 1971 and 1998.
Drogba scored the game's first goal by tapping in a rebound after Salomon Kalou's initial shot was pushed away by Reina.
Torres equalised in the 64th, knocking in a pass from Yossi Benayoun and sparking loud cheers from the traveling Liverpool fans.
After Lampard's penalty, Drogba added another by scoring off a cross from Nicolas Anelka, who had replaced midfielder Joe Cole at the beginning of extra time.
Babel scored the final goal in the 117th.
In last week's first leg, Chelsea earned a 1-1 draw at Anfield off an injury-time own-goal from Liverpool defender John Arne Riise, who started on Wednesday.
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