AS Roma vs Real Madrid
Who won: Real Madrid 3-0
Real Madrid beat AS Roma 3-0 on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 at Olimpico. Goals for Real Madrid: Ronaldo (9') and Luis Figo (61' pen, 82').
Play by play
- 90'
FULL TIME: Job done for Real. Obviously, the circumstances made it difficult, but Roma offered nothing in this farce of a game. It's all smiles, and everyone's happy.
- 90'
Two minutes of added time.
- 89'
Roma have enjoyed a decent spell of possession in the closing stages, but have been unable to find a way through.
- 87'
I think everyone concerned wants this game to end right now. To say it has drifted aimlessly in this last period would be a horrific understatement.
- 85'
SUB: Zidane off, Celades on. Young midfielder on for the veteran Frenchman. ZiZu has been excellent tonight, despite the circumstances.
- 84'
SUB: Owen on, Ronaldo off. Ronaldo has been Real's best player tonight, and Owen gets the chance to add to his impressive record for Madrid.
- 82'
SUB: Figo off, Pavon on for Roma. Perrotta off, De Martino on.
- 81'
GOAL! Figo lights up a very dull period with a peach of a goal; flicking the ball over a defender in the area before firing a low half-volley in to the corner.
- 79'
Corvia has a goal rightly ruled out for off-side as he heads past Casillas.
- 77'
Mancini belts a free-kick goalwards from 35 yards, which Casillas beats away.
- 75'
Leverkusen are now two-nil to the good, meaning that the group will almost certainly - bar an incredible turnaround in the final ten minutes - finish with the Germans top, and Madrid second.
- 74'
Zidane finds Raul 30 yards out. Perhaps the atmosphere has convinced the Spanish star he in fact is playing in a training game, for he attempts an audacious first-time volley. Needless to say, it loops high, high over the bar.
- 73'
Is it just me, or is there something in Walter Samuel's eyes that is deeply unsettling? He looks like he might have the ability to shoot lazer beams out of them.
- 72'
Cufre has another shot from distance; this one is substantially less effective than his first - it flies 20 yards over the bar.
- 71'
Mancini wins a corner off fellow Brazilian Roberto Carlos, but his set-piece evades everyone in the box.
- 70'
Why no substitutions for Real? Surely this is an ideal chance to give another run-out to Owen, or Moreientes?
- 69'
Ronaldo is taken out by Cufre as he attempts to launch a one-man counter-attack. No card, despite the cynical nature of the foul.
- 68'
Figo breaks in to the area, but in attempting to control the ball, flicks it into his face. Cue howls of derision from the crowd...
- 66'
Roma have a rare spell of possession but can't really carve out a chance of any description.
- 65'
Candela, one of the few Roma players to have shown any great enthusiasm tonight, breaks in to the box and forces a good challenge from Helguera.
- 64'
Dellas smiles wryly as he clatters in to Carlos in the area; a perfectly-timed challenge.
- 62'
Zidane is booked for a challenge on Ferrari. Needless foul, really, considering the circumstances.
- 61'
Replays have confirmed my initial view that it was a very soft penalty decision. The goal has all-but sealed Madrid's passage through to the knock-out stages - and sealed also a very tedious half-hour in Rome.
- 60'
GOAL! Figo banishes the memories of his earlier Champions League miss by slamming home the spot kick.
- 59'
PENALTY! Ronaldo wonderfully beats five Roma defenders on the break, and, sensing he was running out of puff, threw himself to the ground under the weakest of challenges from Dellas.
