90+2 min: Barcelona substitution: their conductor, Iniesta, makes way for Pedrito. geddit?) Barcelona v Manchester United 2009. Not all that really, is it?". But I can reveal that AC Jimbo will be here tomorrow for our Champions League Football Weekly Extra special (subscribe now on iTunes if you haven't done so already), and his usual post-Champions League newspaper round-up, which will be up on the site just as soon as he's finished recording it on the bank of the land-fill that passes for a canal out the back of our offices. "Men against boys, as a certain Man Utd defender may have said recently," writes David Junggren. Good save. Eto'o and Messi strike to down United Manchester United failed to retain their UEFA Champions League crown as Barcelona claimed Europe's top club prize with a 2-0 win in Rome's Stadio Olimpico. Gripped by jingoistic fervour, they fly in the face of all available evidence to the contrary and confidently back England, only to see their horse stumble unimpressively through the group stages before being inhumanely destroyed by a vastly superior thoroughbred in the second round or quarter-finals. He added that Vidic and Ferdinand should stop passing the ball back to their goalkeeper all the time, start making braver decisions and try play the ball out of defence. Supporting your club in the stadium? Stadio Olimpico Attendance: Attendance 72,700. 5 min: Rio Ferdinand sends a raking cross-field ball towards Rooney, who traps it perfectly on the left wing. He's obviously learning well from his stints beside comedy double-act John Giles and Eamon Dunphy on RTE. With Transfermarkt's Groundhopping tool, you can collect all of your matches in one list and view lots of statistics. Second half: Manchester United substitution: Anderson off, Carlos Tevez on. First email of the night: "Am standing in line outside the Stadio Olimpico," writes Nick Lesser to minute-by-minute reporter sitting in a chair in a Kings Place office. © 2021 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Their attack breaks down when Evra has to stretch for a pass and clatters into Messi. Barcelona 1-0 Man United (Eto'o 9) Barcelona land a sucker-punch on United, scoring with their first attack. È stata l'ultima volta che una finale di Champions League venne disputata di mercoledì, infatti dall'edizione successiva le finali si disputarono di sabato. Visca EL Barça anyway!" Everyone in the wall jumped - there was definitely a case for him to drill it low and hard towards the near post ... although he'd have looked a bit of a chump if he'd pursued thatt particular course of action and those in the wall hadn't jumped. 36 min: Judging by the number of nerdish, Inspector Logic-type emails in my inbox begnning with: "Excuse me, I think you'll find that in the 13th minute ..." Gerard Pique may have been booked for that block on Ronaldo. On what grounds were they basing this nonsense? Just as Barcelona's players aren't celebrating too raucously or wildly, Manchester United's don't look too gutted, probably because they know they were lucky to escape an even more embarrassing hiding. Xavi sends the ball across the edge of the six-yard box, where Puyol is first to it and plants a meaty header straight at Van der Sar. After a patient build-up in the final third, Xavi tries to thread the ball through United's centre-halves for Messi to run on to, but Rio Ferdinand cuts it out. 9.45pm: Sir Alex Ferguson is standing on the pitch looking very dazed and confused. The goal came about as a result of very slack play from Anderson, while Vidic, who was left hoirribly exposed, will be very disappointed he let Eto'o get past him so easily. 48 min: Henry goes close, so very close, for Barcelona, exploiting the massive John O'Shea-shaped hole that was left at the back when United were dispossessed and caught on the break. Peep! Yes Jamie, their heads are on swivels ... and so is yours. Useless! "He is pretty wee though.". He cuts inside Vidic and toe-pokes the ball past Van der Sar into the botom left-hand corner despite a fruitless last-ditch lunge from Carrick. Le club espagnol remporte le trophée pour la … All rights reserved. 6 min: Cristiano Ronaldo tries his luck from distance, letting fly from about 40 yards. With Andrea Bocelli providing the soundtrack on the pitch, the players emerge from the tunnel and line up. It's sent in from the left and drops nicely for Messi, who swings and misses. United collect their runners-up medals: Followed by Ryan Giggs and the troops, Sir Alex Ferguson leads his side up the steps to where a party of dignitaries including Prince William, Michel Platini and Silvio Berlusconi - more of an indignitary - shake their hands. I honestly couldn't believe how many tabloid johnnies and supposed broadsheet behemoths were breezily predicting a win for Manchester United this morning. Barcelona vs Manchester United. If only ... Barcelona, complete with Iniesta and Henry, but no Eric Abidal (suspended), Danny Alves (suspended) or Rafael Marquez (knacked): 1-Victor Valdes; 5-Carles Puyol, 24-Yaya Toure, 3-Gerard Pique, 16-Silvinho; 28-Sergio Busquets, 6-Xavi, 8-Andres Iniesta; 10-Lionel Messi, 9-Samuel Eto'o, 14-Thierry Henry.Subs: Pinto, Caceres, Muniesa, Keita, Gudjohnsen, Bojan, Pedrito. For my money, the greatest football chant of all time as it manages to be simultaneously endearing and offensive on a number of levels. In the middle of the pitch, which is surrounded by one of my pet hates - a running track (I even hate them when they're not surrounding football pitches) - there's some sort of pre-match opening ceremony involving a lot of heavily made-up dancers with black bob hairstyles, dressed in long, predominantly red dresses and holding shields gadding about in formation in each half, while a shiny lady dressed as a Roman deity is behaving in a god-like fashion and making off with the European Cup. 81 win: Nine minutes to go and Manchester United need a goal. Formations, lineups and stats for Barcelona vs Manchester United Champions League 2008/2009 90 min: There'll be three minutes of injury time. Final | Ce match se déroule le 27 mai 2009 et débute à 20:45. He could have had no complaints if he'd been sent off for that. He's been let down by plenty of his big-name players tonight: O'Shea, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra, Carrick, Anderson, Rooney, Giggs, Berbatov, Scholes ... were all very, very poor. Their humiliation is complete. Oh, go on then: Manchester United 2-4 Barcelona. Line-ups for the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final between Barcelona and Manchester United at the Stadio Olimpico, Rome, on 27 May 2009 Date 28 May 2009, 13:52 (UTC) I'm not a racist and I have nothing against Scousers. He keeps it in play and wins a corner, from which Cristiano Ronaldo heads well over despite slack marking from Barcelona's defenders. Chelsea might like to have a think about that!". 40 min: Oh crumbs! La finale de la Ligue des champions 2009 est la cinquante-quatrième finale de la Ligue des champions de l'UEFA. Good evening everybody, and a very warm welcome to one and all of you wherever you may be. It gives me no pleasure to reveal that James didn't get that particular gig this year. Carbineri, you have been warned - let Nick Lesser in or there'll be hell to pay. 27/05/2009 En directo ... 27/05/2009 En directo El Manchester busca la ruta 66 hacia la gloria. 44 min: Messi drills a low ball across the edge of the six-yard box which Van der Sar should gather comfortably but doesn't. Watch the full match between FC Barcelona and Manchester United in the 2009 Champions League Final. He spills the ball from his grasp and Rio Ferdinand is forced to step in hack clear. La finale della 54ª edizione della Champions League fu disputata mercoledì 27 maggio 2009 allo Stadio Olimpico di Roma, tra la compagine spagnola del Barcellona e quella inglese del Manchester United. You're better than that. This from Andrew Cummings, who is watching in Spain. 41 min: A promising Barca attack down the left flank comes to naught when Eto'o is beaten to a Lionel Messi pass by Park Ji-sung, who sets off on the counter. First published on Wed 27 May 2009 06.53 EDT. 87 min: Berbatov's been leaden-footed of touch, inaccurate of shot and generally worse than useless since coming on - it's time Ferguson cut his losses, admitted buying the Bulgarian was a mistake and got rid of him. 2008/09 FC Barcelona 2-0 Manchester United FC: Report. Anyway, please desist from (a) firing off the same email over and over again, because the original is almost certainly already sitting in my inbox unopened (or opened and unpublished because it's a bit ... er, too good), (b) sending in emails that have absolutely no punctuation or capital letters where punctuation and capital letters are meant to be and (c) dispatching outraged accusations of bias just because I happen to describe a risible performance, misplaced pass or terrible shot by somebody playing for whatever team you support. 76 min: Barcelona are playing keep-ball, Manchester United's players are still chasing shadows. Did he get a nudge? The first touch of these Barce players is just so good, but you know that Man U will bag one later on, just to give the idiot Tyldesley something to bang on about.". It's not random vandalism, as he's being very methodical and meticulous about it, carefully measuring out squares before snipping. Read up on the 2009 final before watching it … Moments later, Scholes joins him in the book for one of his trade-mark lunges on Busquets. 90+1 min: Manchester United are 2-0 down in injury-time in a Champions League final and their opponents are taking the piss out of them, stroking the ball around the edges of their (the United) penalty area. I mean, c'mon, look at this pass ... pass ... move ... move stuff. Barcelona's players go up the red and gold steps surrounding what looks a bit like the bridge of an alien spaceship on Star Trek or Flash Gordon, receive their medals and wait for Carles Puyol to arse his way through the throng ("we're gonna need a bigger stage") and receive the trophy from Michel Platini.
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