what happened tonight???? CL FINAL

He was moving like a monkey along the line so its ok. But yes he did break the rules by going 3 steps infront of the goal line

There are no scapegoats, noone who should be sold or fired, no ref to blame on, there is nothing - just a big empty hole, which is consuming me... A nightmare that sticks eventhough I´m awake...

After the worst experience of my football watching life I really cant say what happened.obviously the team have not learned from deportivo.Although we played the best football,had the best players(Gerard excepted) and should have won Liverpool played as a team and thats what got them through.Having come back they were always on the up and we were deflated which is what gave them the positive going into the penalties.
Cant help thinking that we have had our pockets picked by the scousers!

As a neutral who watched the game, I would say Milan were by far the better team, if Sheva's free kick just after time had went in it would have went onto 5 or 6 nil.

Liverpool got a lucky break with their first goal (very poor goalkeeping from Dida), another fortunate goal from Smicer, again suspect goalkeeping. And a soft penatly. All in all 6 crazy minutes that makes football such an interesting game. Milan were shellshocked by this and it took until extra time until the players recovered from it.

If the game was played over Milan would beat Liverpool 9 times out of 10, it was mainly bad luck. Can't believe the first few posts berating Shevchenko, I thought he was by far the best player on the pitch and looked a class apart from the rest.

I haven't seen much of Milan in Serie A recently, but I would not be disheartened and demanding the break up a team that played with such skill for the majority of last night's match. In the first 45 minutes Milan showed why they are rated one of the best in Europe.

EL MILÁN SE CONVIRTIÓ EN GALLINA


Es la primera vez que veo una Champions League que en los primeros cuarenta minutos ya tenía campeón: el Milán. Y es la primera vez también que veo que un equipo gana una Copa de Europa en quince minutos: fue el Liverpool. Se hablaba de dos defensas fortísimas en ambos equipos, según la Prensa, pero ayer fueron un colador por momentos. La mayoría de los goles vinieron por el centro, con jugadores descolocados, carreras sin sentido y pifias espantosas. Pero hay que ir a la realidad: sucedió lo que sucedió porque el jugador más importante que tiene el fútbol mundial últimamente se llama cagómetro, aunque a los futbolistas no les guste ni pizca esa palabra.

El Milán, con un 3-0 a favor, por personalidad, por apellido, por el dinero que ganan sus jugadores, no puede dejar escapar nunca un partido, ni siquiera de baloncesto. Desde hoy, ya hay nuevos Gallinas en el fútbol mundial: River por fin tiene un rival. Curiosamente, el Boca derrotó al Milán en la Intercontinental de hace dos años en la tanda y Shevchenko también erró su penalti. ¿Ven como el fútbol se reduce a xeneizes y millonarios? El resto no importa.

Lo que más vergüenza me dio como ex jugador de fútbol viendo el partido fue que durante la prórroga ninguno de los dos equipos quiso ganar. Y si cualquiera de los dos, al margen del cansancio, se lo hubiera propuesto, no hubiera habido penaltis. Luego, en la tanda, el miedo escénico aún subió algunos grados, sobre todo del lado italiano, aunque el Liverpool estaba también asustado. Gracias a un muñeco saltarín llamado Dudek (nunca jamás un portero, por Dios, no me confundan con tipos como éste), que burló las reglas con la permisividad de Mejuto, el trofeo quedó en manos de los ingleses y supongo que también del resacón con el que se levantarán hoy. Pues nada, a comprar acciones de Alkasetzer, que seguro que hoy suben.

Hugo orlando "El loco" gatti- famous goalie in argentina during the seventies

Well he says, the main point, that river got a new rival, AC Milan. Both of them are the chicken of world football. In some way is true though. I can only imagine Milan and river- my beloved teams- loosing in that fashion and ubber hurting way. No way Boca or Juve can win or loose, as a matter of fact, with class and fashion. Thats why they r gonna be Cagones per sempre

my thoughts exactly gabbarelli

i didn't want to wake up this morning. not sure how a team lost a 3-0 lead , a 3-1 lead and 2-1 lead in three successive games.

Diego Armando Maradona admits that he’s been left stunned by Milan’s loss to Liverpool in the Champions’ League Final.

The Rossoneri were in total control of the game before the Premiership outfit hit back in a way which the Napoli legend finds hard to believe.

"I’m very disappointed," he said after commentating on the game for Sky Italia. "Everyone who has played in Italy knows that the game is over at half-time when you’re 3-0 up.

"Not even the Brazil side of 1970 would have made such a comeback.

"We gave away a 2-0 lead in the 1986 World Cup Final against Germany but my Argentina side stayed united.

"Milan conceded three goals in an incredible manner, just as incredible as that Andriy Shevchenko chance in the closing minutes."

Liverpool may have lifted the trophy but the Argentine star has no doubts over who is the better team.

"Liverpool won it but they are not the best European side in my opinion," continued the South American.

"Milan just needed to play a little more football and they would have won the Cup. Unfortunately this is the game that football is."

Originally Posted by Nadir

i didn't want to wake up this morning. not sure how a team lost a 3-0 lead , a 3-1 lead and 2-1 lead in three successive games.

I turned up to be a crap and can't sleep until sunrise. Unconsolable until my mentor talked and smiled to me this morning. He got amazed how such a person like me can stay up from 2.30am and still staying sleepless at 11am with such a vitality I showed.
But the lack of sleep effected on me both on lunchtime and breakfast. It was really scary. I was really want to vomit after putting my meal to my mouth, if I was not having a lunchout with my mentor.
I'm keeping on agreement on Maradona's opinion.

I didnt want to wake up because I look like crap. I had around only 3 hours of sleep, and my eyes looked scary because it was spent on the computer all day. And thats just me. Imagine how a milanista would look like with the tears and everything :scared:

i actually didn't cry. i cried after milan-ajax in 1995 but now i was more mad than sad. mad at the stupid !@#!@#! milan players who thought the game ended at 45 mins.

Originally Posted by Gabbarelli

As a neutral who watched the game, I would say Milan were by far the better team, if Sheva's free kick just after time had went in it would have went onto 5 or 6 nil.

Liverpool got a lucky break with their first goal (very poor goalkeeping from Dida), another fortunate goal from Smicer, again suspect goalkeeping. And a soft penatly. All in all 6 crazy minutes that makes football such an interesting game. Milan were shellshocked by this and it took until extra time until the players recovered from it.

If the game was played over Milan would beat Liverpool 9 times out of 10, it was mainly bad luck. Can't believe the first few posts berating Shevchenko, I thought he was by far the best player on the pitch and looked a class apart from the rest.

I haven't seen much of Milan in Serie A recently, but I would not be disheartened and demanding the break up a team that played with such skill for the majority of last night's match. In the first 45 minutes Milan showed why they are rated one of the best in Europe.

Very good post.

Originally Posted by Nadir

i actually didn't cry. i cried after milan-ajax in 1995 but now i was more mad than sad. mad at the stupid !@#!@#! milan players who thought the game ended at 45 mins.

in all fairness I too thought the same way but then last night did something I really didn't want to..I re-watched the second half (since we are both in Canada Nadir you know that TSN and TLN replayed the game).
Milan actually started the second half stronger than Liverpool despite contrary belief. It was in the first 7 minutes that Sheva almost scored on his free kick. It was literally 7 minutes of madness...then Milan started playing again and in extra time controlled, dominated but did not score. Over all there is no question they dominated the game...

however, maybe someone can explain this to me:
On the second Liverpool goal I was surprised that Dida missed the long shot...obviously he did not clearly see it as two Liverpool players in a 'passive' offside position were hampering his view. however, one of those players Baros did an incredible job of hindering Dida's view (watch the replay) which is why the linesman called him offside (but the ref did not): this call is worse than the PK: how can anyone really say that he is NOT part of the action. That rule is ridiculous.
Anyhow, over all I too agree that it shoudl never have come to this but I believe the 7 minutes of 'hell' can be attributed to many factors such as 'lapse in concentration', 'perseverance by Liverpool' and 'calls going there way'. I don't blame the ref (don't get me wrong) however, it certainly is a contributing factor.
Whatever...

Originally Posted by Nadir

i didn't want to wake up this morning. not sure how a team lost a 3-0 lead , a 3-1 lead and 2-1 lead in three successive games.

When we dropped from 3-0 to 3-3, I just felt so familiar. It took me a while recalling that happened in the game against Palermo, which is conceding 2 goals (this time 3 ) in just a spell of 2 or 3 minutes, one of them being a penalty awarded by the referee.

Originally Posted by AcMilan_Montreal

in all fairness I too thought the same way but then last night did something I really didn't want to..I re-watched the second half (since we are both in Canada Nadir you know that TSN and TLN replayed the game).
Milan actually started the second half stronger than Liverpool despite contrary belief. It was in the first 7 minutes that Sheva almost scored on his free kick. It was literally 7 minutes of madness...then Milan started playing again and in extra time controlled, dominated but did not score. Over all there is no question they dominated the game...

however, maybe someone can explain this to me:
On the second Liverpool goal I was surprised that Dida missed the long shot...obviously he did not clearly see it as two Liverpool players in a 'passive' offside position were hampering his view. however, one of those players Baros did an incredible job of hindering Dida's view (watch the replay) which is why the linesman called him offside (but the ref did not): this call is worse than the PK: how can anyone really say that he is NOT part of the action. That rule is ridiculous.
Anyhow, over all I too agree that it shoudl never have come to this but I believe the 7 minutes of 'hell' can be attributed to many factors such as 'lapse in concentration', 'perseverance by Liverpool' and 'calls going there way'. I don't blame the ref (don't get me wrong) however, it certainly is a contributing factor.
Whatever...

i taped the game but didn't want to watch it again. i agree with the ref on the second goal. had the ball been passed to baros to score, then yes he was offside. it was a crowded box so baros probably wasn't intentionally blocking the view of the goalie. he just happened to be there. milan have scored goals similar to that so we cannot complain. what was bad was just PRIOR to the second goal, liverpool were offside and milan should have slowed the pace down on the resulting freekick.

i should have watched the TLN version instead of TSN because that #!@#! tommy smyth was so biased against milan. would love to him.

anyway, the season is over - the game is over. no amount of analysis will help now. we'll get it next year.