2003 UEFA Champions League Final

2003 UEFA Champions League Final
Event	2002–03 UEFA Champions League
	Milan won 3–2 on penalties
Date	28 May 2003
Venue	Old Trafford, Manchester
Man of the Match	Paolo Maldini (Milan)
Referee	Markus Merk (Germany)
Attendance	63,215
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The 2003 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place at Old Trafford in Manchester, England on 28 May 2003 to decide the winner of the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League. The match was contested by two Italian teams in the shape of Juventus and Milan. The match made history as the first time two clubs from Italy had faced each other in the final. It was also the second intra-national final of the competition, following the 2000 UEFA Champions League Final three years earlier. Milan won the match via a penalty shootout after the game had finished 0–0 after extra time. It gave Milan their sixth success in the European Cup.

[edit] Background

Juventus went into the Champions League final as champions of Italy for the 27th time. Milan came fourth in the league, finishing with sixteen fewer points than Juventus, and had to qualify for the third qualifying round. ln the Serie A games between the two sides in the 2001–02 season, Milan drew 1–1 at San Siro under Carlo Ancelotti on 9 December 2001,^[1] while Juventus won 1–0 at Stadio delle Alpi on 14 April 2002 under Marcello Lippi.^[2] They also met in the Coppa Italia games, where Juventus won 3–2 on aggregate in the semi-finals.^[3]^[4]

[edit] Route to the final

[edit] Milan

Milan won Group G of the first group round, a group that also included Bayern Munich, Lens and Deportivo La Coruña, advancing to the second group round where they won Group C. They defeated Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Lokomotiv Moscow. They lost only two matches (Dortmund 0–1, and Real Madrid 1–3), and advanced to the quarter-finals where they met Ajax. The first leg was a draw (0–0) so the decisive match was the one at the San Siro which Milan won (3–2). In the semi-finals, they met local rivals Internazionale. Both matches finished equal (0–0; 1–1), but Milan advanced on away goals.

[edit] Juventus

Juventus won Group E of the first group round, in which the other teams were Newcastle United, Dynamo Kyiv and Feyenoord. They finished second in Group D of the second group round, after Manchester United, due to their losses against the English side (1–2; 0–3) and against Basel (1–2), but they qualified to the quarter-finals where they eliminated Barcelona in extra-time (1–1; 2–1). In the semi-finals, Juventus met Real Madrid; they lost the first match (1–2), but they won the second (3–1).

[edit] Build-up

[edit] Match summary

After a brisk start, Milan had an Andriy Shevchenko goal ruled out after appeals that Rui Costa had blocked Buffon's line of view from an offside position. However replays later showed that Rui Costa moved out of Buffon's line of sight before the shot, but the decision stayed. Conte nearly scored for Juve after coming on as a sub in the second half, his header clattering against the post with Dida beaten. Pirlo also hit the bar for Milan. Later, in the second half, both teams began to sit back and not create many chances.

Both Juventus and Milan had injuries to defenders, Tudor leaving early in the 1st half after pulling a muscle in his right thigh. In extra time, Roque Júnior limped out due to fatigue and injury, leaving Milan down to 10 men (Milan had made all three allowed substitutions).

The penalty-shoot out has caused controversy among some fans as replays showed that Dida was off his goal line when saving penalties from Trezeguet, Zalayeta & Montero. Buffon was also off his goal line when saving penalties from Seedorf and Kaladze. Andriy Shevchenko put away the final penalty to win the European Cup for Milan for the sixth time. Shevchenko himself became the first Ukrainian footballer to win a European Cup winner's medal.

[edit] Match details

28 May 2003 19:45 BST	Juventus	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Milan	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 63,215 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)
		Report
		Penalties
	Trezeguet Birindelli Zalayeta Montero Del Piero	2 – 3	Serginho Seedorf Kaladze Nesta Shevchenko

Juventus

Milan


JUVENTUS:
GK	1	Gianluigi Buffon
RB	21	Lilian Thuram
CB	2	Ciro Ferrara
CB	5	Igor Tudor		42'
LB	4	Paolo Montero
RM	16	Mauro Camoranesi		46'
CM	3	Alessio Tacchinardi	69'
CM	26	Edgar Davids		65'
LM	19	Gianluca Zambrotta
CF	17	David Trezeguet
CF	10	Alessandro Del Piero (c)	111'
Substitutes:
GK	12	Antonio Chimenti
DF	7	Gianluca Pessotto
DF	13	Mark Iuliano
MF	8	Antonio Conte		46'
MF	15	Alessandro Birindelli		42'
FW	24	Marco Di Vaio
FW	25	Marcelo Zalayeta		65'
Manager:
Marcello Lippi


MILAN:
GK	12	Dida
RB	19	Alessandro Costacurta	18'	66'
CB	13	Alessandro Nesta
CB	3	Paolo Maldini (c)
LB	4	Kakha Kaladze
CM	8	Gennaro Gattuso
CM	21	Andrea Pirlo		71'
CM	20	Clarence Seedorf
AM	10	Rui Costa		87'
CF	7	Andriy Shevchenko
CF	9	Filippo Inzaghi
Substitutes:
GK	18	Christian Abbiati
DF	24	Martin Laursen
DF	25	Roque Júnior		66'
MF	17	Cristian Brocchi
MF	23	Massimo Ambrosini		87'
MF	27	Serginho		71'
FW	11	Rivaldo
Manager:
Carlo Ancelotti