Chelsea 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain

(agg 3-3, Chelsea win on away goals)

Demba Ba struck three minutes from time to spark scenes of delirium at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea made it to another Champions League semi-final.

An evening of increasing tension was getting decidedly uncomfortable for the Blues, who had looked well on course to turn a 3-1 deficit around after taking a first half lead.

But just as it appeared the Blues might come up short, sub Ba got ahead of a defender to a deflected drive from Cesar Azpilicueta and his shot hit the roof of the net.

Mourinho exploded in relief and charged down the touchline to celebrate with his players in the manner of that famous touchline charge at Old Trafford in 2004.

Mourinho has never lost a last-eight tie in the competition in which he made his name and true to his word before the match, this was not about to be the first time.

But boy did his men leave it late.

'Champions of Europe, we've done it before,' was a confident, recurring refrain from the Matthew Harding End. They kept the faith and with good reason.

This is a club, and a manger, simply made for nights like this.

Forget the doom that threatened to engulf the club a week ago after a night to forget at the Parc des Prices. Back on home soil, the Blues looked comfortable – aware of what they had to do and in the mood to carry out their task.

After absorbing some early PSG possession, they started to take charge, with a succession of set pieces – Frank Lampard free-kicks in particular – starting to erode the away side's confidence.

The Parisian fans – on their feet and full of confidence at the outset and even striking up chants of 'ole' at one point – began to quieten and a sense of destiny began to grip when Andre Schurrle opened the scoring after 32 minutes.

The German arrived on the penalty spot to sweep home a low shot to the left of keeper Salvatore Sirigu after Branislav Ivanovic's long throw had rolled invitingly into space off the back of David Luiz.

The identity of the goalscorer was particularly significant because Schurrle – deployed as a false number nine in the first leg rather than Fernando Torres - began the evening on the bench, but was introduced after only 18 minutes in place of Eden Hazard.

The Belgian did not appear to be injured, but had started in subdued form and Mourinho is not one to dither at such moments.

The force was undeniably with the Blues into the second half and Schurrle almost had a second goal with a rasping first time shot against the bar from a Willian pull-back.

In the next moment, Oscar smacked a free-kick against the same bit of woodwork and it began to take on an air of inevitability

Not quite.

Ezequiel Lavezzi – scorer of a stunning goal in the first leg - tested Petr Cech with an angled free-kick and Edinson Cavani twice almost made Chelsea pay for switching off when long diagonal balls reached the Uruguyan.

As the game became stretched, Lucas' piledriver could have finished the contest, but Cech was equal to it.

For Paris, there seemed to be self-doubt, their lack of previous in the competition to call upon seemingly significant. They also suffered for not having the talismanic Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who pulled up lame in the first leg.

Whatever it was, it looked as if they never quite believed. In stark contrast to the Blues.

Line up: Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta; Lampard (Ba 66), David Luiz; Willian, Oscar (Torres 81), Hazard (Schurrle 18); Eto'o. Subs not used: Schwarzer, Cole, Mikel, Kalas.