AS Roma vs Real Madrid

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.

Two minutes of added time.

Roma have enjoyed a decent spell of possession in the closing stages, but have been unable to find a way through.

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.

SUB: Zidane off, Celades on. Young midfielder on for the veteran Frenchman. ZiZu has been excellent tonight, despite the circumstances.

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.

SUB: Figo off, Pavon on for Roma. Perrotta off, De Martino on.

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.

Corvia has a goal rightly ruled out for off-side as he heads past Casillas.

Mancini belts a free-kick goalwards from 35 yards, which Casillas beats away.

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.

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.

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.

Cufre has another shot from distance; this one is substantially less effective than his first - it flies 20 yards over the bar.

Mancini wins a corner off fellow Brazilian Roberto Carlos, but his set-piece evades everyone in the box.

Why no substitutions for Real? Surely this is an ideal chance to give another run-out to Owen, or Moreientes?

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.

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...

Roma have a rare spell of possession but can't really carve out a chance of any description.

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.

Dellas smiles wryly as he clatters in to Carlos in the area; a perfectly-timed challenge.

Zidane is booked for a challenge on Ferrari. Needless foul, really, considering the circumstances.

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.

GOAL! Figo banishes the memories of his earlier Champions League miss by slamming home the spot kick.

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.