Newsgroup: it.sport.calcio.milan
Titolo: (R) 2007 UEFA Champions League Final

AC Milan v Liverpool
Wednesday 23rd May 2007
2007 UEFA Champions League Final
Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece
Kick-Off: 7.45pm BST

THIS SEASON'S RECORDS FOR BOTH SIDES THIS SEASON IN THE CHAMPIONS
LEAGUE:
AC Milan: P14; W8; D3; L3; F21; A10
Liverpool: P14; W8; D3; L3; F21; A10
* The last time the European Cup Final was held in Athens (1994), AC
Milan thrashed Barcelona 4-0 to win the trophy.
* The two sides have only ever met once before in a competitive match.
That being the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final in Istanbul, which
Liverpool went on to win via a penalty shoot-out.
* When Italy won the World Cup in 1982, an Italian side played in the
final in Athens the subsequent year and lost. Hamburg took the spoils
against Juventus.
STARTING LINE-UPS:
AC MILAN: Dida; Massimo Oddo, Alessandro Nesta, Paolo Maldini, Marek
Jankulovski; Gennaro Gattuso, Andrea Pirlo, Massimo Ambrosini,
Clarence Seedorf, Kaka; Filippo Inzaghi.
LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB: Pepe Reina; Steve Finnan, Daniel Agger, Jamie
Carragher, John-Arne Riise; Jermaine Pennant, Javier Mascherano, Xabi
Alonso, Steven Gerrard, Bolo Zenden; Dirk Kuyt.

 Alonso, Steven Gerrard, Bolo Zenden; Dirk Kuyt.
Fair enough.

Pennant is owning Jankulowski in one on one situations, but his
crosses are a little off.
On the other side, Carragher appears to be having to work too hard and
Inzaghi almost caught Carragher and Agger sleeping.

 crosses are a little off.
Have Pennant's crosses ever been on?
P

 crosses are a little off.
Have Pennant's crosses ever been on?
P

 crosses are a little off.
Have Pennant's crosses ever been on?
P

Milan 1-0 up at the stroke of half-time.
Inzaghi.
I'd say we've been outplaying Milan so far, they'll be hard to beat
now.

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   Not really.  Pennant and Zenden have been creating shite.  Best
chances so far have been provided by Milan's defensive mistakes.

Well as a Milan supporter I hope that isn't the deciding goal. Firstly
Kaka dived to get the free kick and I'm pretty sure Inzaghi used his
arm.
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Well as a Milan supporter I hope that isn't the deciding goal. Firstly
Kaka dived to get the free kick and I'm pretty sure Inzaghi used his
arm.
On May 24, 2:35 am, 
wanyik...@gmail.com
 wrote:
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 arm.
They're Italian.  What do you expect?  ;-)
UD

Well as a Milan supporter I hope that isn't the deciding goal. Firstly
Kaka dived to get the free kick and I'm pretty sure Inzaghi used his
arm.
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 wrote:
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   Not really.  Pennant and Zenden have been creating shite.  Best
chances so far have been provided by Milan's defensive mistakes.
ac

 arm.
I'm a neutral. Probably slightly favoring Liverpool, but only mildly.
The free kick looked reasonable to me. He was pretty clearly hip-checked.
The "handball" is a much tougher call. From the angle looking towards 
the goal, it looks like the ball hit him in about his armpit, hitting 
both the chest and the arm. Since he was clearly trying to pull the arm 
back it's obviously not an "intentional" handball, and in any event I 
don't know the letter of the law here, but that's a really hard goal to 
overturn.
(I've seen much more blatant stuff not get called.)
-Ron

Sigh.
That second goal was stoppable, if the defenders had continued to play 
until the whistle instead of waiting for the refs to bail them out for 
getting beat. 
The scorer had to go wide enough, and didn't put that much on it. If one 
of the three closest defenders had just sprinted back towards the center 
of the goal, he'd have had a shot to clear it.  Maybe he wouldn't have 
made the play, but he'd have had a chance.
Disgraceful.

bwahahahaha
they lost.
i knew they would

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15 min. after the final whistle and Benitez is STILL pointing at his
watch.  What a baby.
FORZA MILANO

On May 23, 2:23 pm, 
benrobertsm...@hotmail.com
 wrote:
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15 min. after the final whistle and Benitez is STILL pointing at his
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AC Milan 2-1 Liverpool
Wednesday 23rd May 2007
2007 UEFA Champions League Final
Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece
Attendance: 74,000
Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)
AC MILAN GOALSCORER: Inzaghi (45th minute, 82nd minute).
LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB GOALSCORER: Dirk Kuyt (89th minute).
TEAMS:
AC MILAN: Dida, Oddo, Nesta, Maldini, Jankulovski (Kaladze 79),
Gattuso, Pirlo, Ambrosini, Seedorf (Favalli 90), Kaka, Inzaghi
(Gilardino 88).
LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB: Reina, Finnan (Arbeloa 88), Carragher, Agger,
Riise, Pennant, Alonso, Mascherano (Crouch 78), Zenden (Kewell 59),
Gerrard, Kuyt.

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Uncle Dave ha scritto:
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I expect you to take this trophy and stick up your ass
:-)
Bye loooooooser