Rate your best match ever

Well I started to watch football in 98, France world cup... so from that point till now the best games I saw are:

1. Czech Rep. 3-2 Holland (EC 04)
2. Holland 0-0 Italy (EC 00)
3. Argentina 2-2 England (WC 98)
4. Holland 2-1 Argentina (WC 98)
5. Brazil 1-1 Holland (WC 98)

And in the clubs competitions:

1. Dynamo K. 3-3 Bayern (CL 98/99)
2. Man Unt. 3-3 Barcelona (twice that season CL 98/99)
3. Juve 2-3 Man Unt. (CL 98/99)
4. Man Unt. 2-3 Real (CL 99/00)
5. Real- Bayern 2-4; 1-4; 2-0; 1-2 (4 great matches in CL 99/00)
6. Valencia 5-2 Lazio (CL 99/00)
7. Valencia 4-1 Barca (CL 99/00)
8. Real 7-5 Man Unt (aggr. CL 02/03)
9. Milan 1-1 Inter (CL 02/03)
10.Milan 0-0 Juve (CL 02/03)
11.Milan 4-1 Depor (CL 03/04)
12.Milan 1-0 Barca (CL 04/05)
13.Chelsea 4-2 Barca (CL 04/05)
14. Milan 3-3 Liverpool (CL 04/05)

Some more personal fav.:

Barca 0-4 Dynamo K. (SHEVA SHEVA SHEVA CL 97/98)
Germany 1-1 England (EC 96)
Holland 3-1 Germany (EC 92)
USSR 2-0 Italy (EC 88)
Holland 2-1 Germany (EC 88)
USSR 0-2 Holland (EC 88)

I hope I remembered the years and the results right, surely the most entertaining tournament so far was the CL, after that the Euro cup and unfortunately WC ended only third... too many boring games.

Milan 6 - 0 Inter
Milan 4 - 0 Barca (94 CL Final)


that springs to mind

As do the 2 Liverpool v Newcastle games that finished 4-3 both times and Liverpool v Luton in the F.A. Cup a few weeks ago, that match had everything.

Germany 1 - 5 England ... sorry Susi

I'm sure there are many others ...

Milan-R. Madrid 5-0 (Ancelotti, Gullit, Rijkaard, Van Basten, Donadoni)
Croatia - Germany 3-0 (France '98)

Yeah... some great matches.

Well those are great matches. Now if you are talking about the ones that I did go to... then the one that tops it off for me is the 2003 CL QuarterFinal 2nd Leg Match
Milan 3-2 Ajax. Friggin had to wait to the dying seconds for the awesome Pippo goal. I honestly believed that was the match that definitely made the difference for us in order to win the whole d@mn thing at Wembley. Why is it the greatest??? For starters we were tied with Ajax ahead on away goals, yet almost all Milanisti stayed with some idea that we could win this in the dying seconds, no matter what the odds against it could be. All of A sudden...... GOAL! PIPPO INZAGHI! The emotion was so strong because of the close end of it. I can tell you that there were Milanisti in tears of joy with this vital goal. From there you guys no the rest of the story.
The cream on top of this dessert was that at the final whistle... we didnt taunt Ajax at all. They came with a respectable fighting spirit worthy of some praise. NO.... we didnt jeer them. We did it in old Rossoneri fashion... We taunted INTER! HEY! HEY! Chi non Salta Nerazurra!

there are too many to think of but the best for me is definatly

Milan 3-2 Inter

when they were leading 2-0 at HT from goals from c.zanetti and stankovic... JDT pulled one back, then kaka scored from outside the box, and with 6 mins to go ... seedorf releases a bullet from no where to win the match.... the adrenaline in me that time was unbelievable

My personal Top 10:

AC Milan 4 - 0 Barcelona (93/94 CL Final)

AC Milan 5 - 0 Real Madrid (88/89 CL Semi-Finals)

AC Milan 4 - 0 (88/89 CL Final)

AC Milan 2 - 1 Werder Bremen (93/94 CL Group - not exactly a great game per si, but it was the only Milan game I've haver watched alive, so to me it's real special)

AC Milan 3 - 2 Napoli (87/88 Serie A)

AC Milan 6 - 0 Internazionale (2000/2001 Serie A)

Botafogo 1 - 0 Flamengo (89 Carioca Championship Final)

Germany 3 - 3 France, p 5-4 (82 World Cup Semi-Final)

Argentina 3 - 2 Germany (86 World Cup Final)

Belgium 4 - 3 USSR (86 World Cup Second Round)

That Belgium-USSR match... u know man I come from Ukraine (former USSR) and many people there believe that we were rubbed that day. That the referee should award a penalty for the soviets, and that the Belgians scored 2 goals in offside position... so I don't know. BTW why is this match one of your favorites? Ussr considered one of the strongest teams that years.

Originally Posted by Sash22

That Belgium-USSR match... u know man I come from Ukraine (former USSR) and many people there believe that we were rubbed that day. That the referee should award a penalty for the soviets, and that the Belgians scored 2 goals in offside position... so I don't know. BTW why is this match one of your favorites? Ussr considered one of the strongest teams that years.

Jesus, The USSR was really shamefully HARMED by the referee on that game, my friend!!! The soviets were outdoing the belgiuns, it was definitely a pitty.

Well, you could say that I'm a 'commie', so I love the soviet team those days.

Soviet football was harmed for a long time by the western referees and UEFA (because the cold war and all that nuclear missiles threat and stuff)...
In that particilar match also I know that the coach Lobanovsky even didn't make to the match, he was bussy making the arrangements for the next match, he was so sure in the success (that what my dad told me)... But we did have great team that years including Belanov, Blokhin (both of them Balloon od'dore winners), Zavarov, Aleinichev, Mihailichenko, Dasaev and others... Very great team, made to the final at euro 88 only to loose to Holland... We did beat them in the group stage earlier 1-0 and were better in the final, but still lost (Belanov missed a penalty and hit the bar). And we beat th italians in the semis, who hosted the tournament.

Oh yes, The soviet performance at Euro 88 was really outstanding, it was a very moving and lively side, with a game style based on an incessant and extremely pacy. interplay between the players. One must remember too that in the same year they have won the gold medal at the Olympics football tournament in Seoul, with a memorable display (1 - 0, with a scorching lob over the keeper by Sabitchev) against a very good brazilian side, with players like Romario, Taffarel, Muller and Branco.

Originally Posted by Sash22

That Belgium-USSR match... u know man I come from Ukraine (former USSR) and many people there believe that we were rubbed that day. That the referee should award a penalty for the soviets, and that the Belgians scored 2 goals in offside position... so I don't know. BTW why is this match one of your favorites? Ussr considered one of the strongest teams that years.

where you from in the ukraine?
do you still live there?

dynamo kiev killing barcelona was awesome, i was only like 6 years old but i still remember it.

and the kiev-bayern match was heartbreaking
2-0 in bayern and then to tie 3-3

in recent memory england-portugal at the euros was a great game, but the best ever would have to be the worst day of my life, may 25, 2005: milan-liverpool

Oh my, it was really a pitty the outcome of that game involving Dynamo Kiev and Bayern, 'cause the ukrainian team was certainly heading for the title.

and the kiev-bayern match was heartbreaking
2-0 in bayern and then to tie 3-3

Well not entirely correct... the first leg was at kiev, and the second was in munich, and it ended only 1-0 (and not 2-0). I remember when I watched that match I was about 16 years old, I was all shaking because of excitement, yes football can do it for u sometimes... We were great that year, beat Arsenal 3-1 and Real 2-0 (who was the outgoing champions), Sheva was magnificant that year... realy classic performance (in CL maybe his best, even before he came to Milan).


P.S. I'm from Donezk originally, but now I live in Israel.

Originally Posted by Sash22

Well not entirely correct... the first leg was at kiev, and the second was in munich, and it ended only 1-0 (and not 2-0). I remember when I watched that match I was about 16 years old, I was all shaking because of excitement, yes football can do it for u sometimes... We were great that year, beat Arsenal 3-1 and Real 2-0 (who was the outgoing champions), Sheva was magnificant that year... realy classic performance (in CL maybe his best, even before he came to Milan).


P.S. I'm from Donezk originally, but now I live in Israel.

yea, my memory is kinda hazy, as i said i was only like 6 years old...
im from kiev, now im in chicago

Originally Posted by GRE-NO-LI

Oh my, it was really a pitty the outcome of that game involving Dynamo Kiev and Bayern, 'cause the ukrainian team was certainly heading for the title.

read what sash22 said above, we were on our way to a title
just cuz dynamo is from ukraine it doesnt mean they cant play with the best teams in europe
i tried to hard to not use expletives here