If you want drama, well, say hello to Bayern. Immensely talented, yet continually tortured.

This is a team that is best compared to a group of sulking teenagers. Just last week, their star, Franck Ribery, apparently hauled off and slugged their other star, Arjen Robben. At halftime. Over a free kick. It gets better. Bayern are top-heavy with egos, and I'm not talking about the locker room. In the telling of "Der Kaiser," Franz Beckenbauer, Bayern isn't close to what they used to be in other words, back when he was the star. Karl-Heinz Rumminegge, the team's chairman, is mildly better, but he too is given to reminding anyone within earshot that he scored a lot of goals in his day. The thing is, this Bayern team is pretty good but because they have already conceded the Bundesliga for the second year running, the club is at panic stations. As most people saw, even a team that boasts some callow defenders in the likes of young David Alaba and Holger Badstuber can play the classically taut German style of containment. And with Ribery and Robben, the Germans also can throw two of the deadliest wingers in the game at your goal. Key for Bayern is Bastian Schweinsteiger, the unnervingly metronomic distributor. When he plays, Bayern is a team able to break up the flanks at speed, confident their runners will receive the ball on their laces. Philipp Lahm is the man who wears the armband, but make no mistake, it is Schweinsteiger who makes the team tick. Suspensions have gutted both these teams, and several key figures will be in the stands after picking up cards in the semifinals. Chelsea will be missing Terry, Raul Meireles, Ramires and Branislav Ivanovic, while Munich must make do without Alaba, Badstuber and Luis Gustavo. If anything, these absences should open the game up even further. So, don't weep over a final without Messi, Xavi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Chelsea and Munich will offer all the excitement any fan could ask.