LONDON (AP):

Chelsea and Barcelona advanced to the Champions League semi-finals with separate other draws yesterday and will face each in the next round.

Chelsea held on to oust Liverpool 7-5 on aggregate after a 4-4 draw at Stamford Bridge in the second leg of the quarter-finals and two-time champions Barcelona advanced past Bayern Munich 5-1 on aggregate after a 1-1 draw in Germany.

The first leg of the semi-finals will be at the Nou Camp on April 28. The second leg is set for May 6 in London.

Fabio Aurelio and Xabi Alonso scored in the first 28 minutes to give Liverpool hope of overturning the 3-1 loss at Anfield, but Frank Lampard ended up with two goals for Chelsea and Alex and Didier Drogba added the others. Liverpool's Lucas Leiva and Dirk Kuyt also scored late.

"We had a bad start," Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink said. "It is possible to have one if you are playing against a team that is good tactically. But we knew we had to come back with a reaction in the second half and that is what we did."

Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez said: "I think, clearly, when you lose you have to be disappointed. But when you lose in this way you have to be proud and have your head up.

"Thinking about the Premier League, maybe it's positive because if we can score four goals here at Stamford Bridge, we can do the same in any stadium. We can win a lot of games with this mentality," he added.

Barcelona did just enough in Munich as Franck Ribery gave Bayern the lead in the 47th minute, taking a pass from Ze Roberto and beating Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes with a high shot to the far right side. Seydou Keita equalised for the Spanish league leaders in the 73rd after a pass from Xavi Hernandez.

Reacted well to the defeat

"We reacted well to the defeat in Barcelona," said Bayern coach Juergen Klinsmann. "We went out against the best team in the world at the moment."

Barcelona were coached by assistant Tito Vilanova because head coach Pep Guardiola was banned to the bench after his outburst in last week's first leg.

"We still have a lot of time before we have to think about Chelsea, but they are a great team," Vilanova said. "We have not reached our goals yet. "