What the back pages of the papers say - April 23

John Arne Riise scored a bizarre injury-time own goal just when Liverpool seemed to be within touching distance of a place in their third Champions League Final in four years.

Also: Manchester United were given a Champions League injury scare last night when key defenders Nemanja Vidic and Wes Brown sat out training at the Nou Camp.

THE SUN

Rafa Benitez lashed out after a 94th-minute John Arne Riise own-goal left Liverpool's Euro dream hanging by a threat.

Also: Alex Ferguson has had a big Euro dig at Liverpool and Chelsea.

DAILY MIRROR

An own goal by John Arne Riise four minutes into injury time saw Chelsea leave Anfield last night as favourites to reach the Champions League Final.

Also: Tom Hicks took his seat in the front row of the directors' box last night, despite police advice that his safety could not be guaranteed at Anfield.

DAILY STAR

A last-gasp own goal turned a titanic Champions League semi-final tussle on its head at Anfield last night.

Also: Sir Alex Ferguson has urged his Manchester United players: Forget 1999 - and write your own piece of history.

DAILY EXPRESS

A bizarre own goal by John Arne Riise in front of the Kop deep in injury-time gave Chelsea an away goal to take to Stamford Bridge next week.

Also: Wayne Rooney last night answered Sir Alex Ferguson's plea for Manchester United to raise their game to a new level here by saying: "We want to go down as the best United team in history."

THE INDEPENDENT

He sat in the front row of the directors' box, as he had promised, he surrounded himself with adoring supporters - his own, not his club's - and he sang along to one of the most rousing and sustained choruses of "You'll Never Walk Alone" prior to kick-off. Except Tom Hicks does. Walk alone that is.

Also: If the airport check-in was anything to go by, then the players most eager to be back in Barcelona were those present on Manchester United's last adventure in the city, on a certain heady spring evening in May 1999.

THE GUARDIAN

Sir Alex Ferguson faces taking Manchester United into the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Barcelona this evening without half of his usual defence.

Also: Rafael Benitez accused the referee Konrad Plautz of bias and poor timekeeping last night after John Arne Riise's stoppage-time own-goal cost Liverpool a precious lead in their Champions League semi-final first leg with Chelsea.

THE TIMES

Sir Alex Ferguson could have been forgiven for feeling nostalgic as he returned yesterday to the scene of his greatest triumph, but the Manchester United manager has urged his players to forget the mesmerising events of nine years ago and concentrate on carving their names into history.

Also: Sir Allen Stanford, the billionaire behind the proposed 20million winner-takes-all Twenty20 match between England and a West Indies all-star side, has had talks with the ECB about creating an English version of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Advantage Chelsea. With almost the last touch of the game, deep into stoppage time, Chelsea gained a lifeline in this Champions League semi-final with John Arne Riise's terrible own goal cancelling Dirk Kuyt's first-half strike.

Also: The Football Association will this week sign off a breakthrough refinancing agreement with a group of banks which will help ease the growing financial pressures on the new Wembley Stadium.