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Wednesday October 24, 2007 Finished Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)

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Milan

  • Gilardino 6’, 14’
  • Seedorf 62’, 69’

Shakhtar

  • Lucarelli 51’

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Milan
    • Shakhtar
    • 90 FULL-TIME: A stroll in the end for Milan, although Lucarelli's strike just after the restart had their hearts thumping for a while.
    • 85 SHOULD HAVE HAD A HAT-TRICK! Seedorf breaks in to the penalty area from the right, he cuts back inside and only has the keeper to beat from five yards, but his effort is blocked.
    • 75 Shakhtar haven't quite given up, but they seem to recognise that the game is slipping away from them now.
    • 69 GOAL! Seedorf surely seals the win - and what a strike! The Dutch star fires home a first-time volley after a corner from the right had been header out to him, 25 yards from goal!
    • 65 GREAT CHANCE! Ancelotti's side are flying now; Pirlo really should have done better with a header from six yards after being picked out unmarked by a cross from the left.
    • 62 GOAL! Seedorf restores Milan's two-goal advantage, picking up a loose ball at the back post from a corner and firing through a crowd!
    • 61 OFF THE POST! Kaka hits the post from a tight angle after cutting in from the right wing! How did that stay out?
    • 56 GREAT DEFENDING! Gattuso's shot is blocked by a desperate dive from a defender after he had been picked out by Kaka's low cross from the right.
    • 54 GOAL! Kalac keeps out Brandão's effort from the edge of the box, but Lucarelli is on hand to turn home the rebound! The visitors are back in it.
    • 50 SHOULD HAVE SCORED! Milan carve Shakhtar apart with a swift counter down the left; Gilardino closes in on goal but opts to try and square a pass to Kaka instead of shooting, and the ball is cleared.
    • 46 The second half is underway...
    • 45 HALF-TIME: Two clinical strikes from Gilardino send the home side in with a two-goal advantage at the break.
    • 42 DECENT EFFORT! Brandão cuts in from the right before firing in a left-foot shot from a tight angle...but Kalac is able to watch the effort fly the wrong side of his near post.
    • 37 Lewandowski fires in a decent effort from distance, but Kalac is able to comfortable tip the drive over the crossbar.
    • 35 Gilardino springs the off-side trap down the right channel, but the keeper is quickly out of his box to clear. The Milan striker was in acres of space there, if only the pass had been better.
    • 31 Nice build up play between Seedorf and Gilardino, but the striker just fails to lay the final pass in to the run of the lung-busting run of the Dutch midfielder.
    • 27 MESSY! Pyatov comes for a cross he can't claim and is caught out of position when Kaka collects at the back post; the Brazilian takes aim before firing in his shot, but the keeper has got back in time to palm clear.
    • 21 Fine challenge from Nesta as he cuts out Lucarelli as the Italian striker looked to get on to a through-ball down the right channel.
    • 15 GOAL! Gilardino doubles Milan's lead when he powers home Seedorf's cross from the left. Fine start from the Italians.
    • 11 OOH! SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER! Seedorf breaks down the right before clipping a low ball in to he middle; goalkeeper Pyatov slides out but can't hold on to the ball, although Kaka can't find the net from a tight angle.
    • 9 SAVE! Kalac acrobatically saves Lucarelli's header after fine work down the left wing by Srna.
    • 7 GOAL! MILAN TAKE THE LEAD! Gilardino nods in a corner at the near post! Simple stuff from the Italians, but that wasn't great defending.
    • 6 FINE SAVE! Castillo brings a fine low save out of Kalac with a drive from distance.
    • 4 Gattuso snaps in to a tackle in midfield; tonight is the sort of occasion he relishes.
    • 1 We're underway in Milan...
    • - Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE text commentary on the Champions League Group D match between Milan and Shakhtar from the San Siro.

  • Team Stats

    Milan Stats Shakhtar
    46% Possession 53%
    17 Shots 21
    9 Shots on target 10
    0 Saves 0
    7 Corners 8
    12 Fouls 9
    4 Offsides 1
    2 Yellow cards 3
    0 Red cards 0
    17 Tackles 13
    292 Accurate passes 370
    50 Bad passes 57

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Milan
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      16 Zeljko Kalac 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0
      4 Kakha Kaladze 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 19 3 1
      19 Giuseppe Favalli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 11 1
      44 Massimo Oddo 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 19 0 0
      13 Alessandro Nesta 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 15 3 1
      22 Ricardo Kakà 0 7 3 1 1 0 0 24 4 1
      21 Andrea Pirlo 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 32 2 3
      8 Ivan Gennaro Gattuso 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 46 1 3
      23 Massimo Ambrosini 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 40 7 5
      10 Clarence Seedorf 2 5 4 0 0 0 1 44 14 1
      11 Alberto Gilardino 2 2 2 0 2 2 0 11 1 0
      9 Filippo Inzaghi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      32 Christian Brocchi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      5 Emerson Emerson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      29 Valerio Fiori 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Marcos Cafu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      27 Claudio dos Santos Serginho 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 1
      25 Daniele Bonera 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 0
    • Shakhtar
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      30 Andriy Pyatov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0
      5 Olexandr Kucher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0
      11 Ilson Pereira Dias Júnior 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 32 0 1
      27 Dmytro Chigrynskiy 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 33 3 1
      18 Mariusz Lewandowski 0 3 2 2 2 0 0 53 14 1
      8 Jadson Rodriguez 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 29 6 2
      26 Razvan Rat 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 50 12 2
      33 Darijo Srna 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 49 2 3
      7 Fernandinho Fernandinho 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 43 11 0
      25 Brandao Brandao 0 5 2 2 1 0 0 12 0 0
      99 Cristiano Lucarelli 1 4 4 3 1 1 0 11 2 1
      9 Alberto Nery Castillo 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 14 3 0
      55 Vladimir Yezerskiy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      4 Igor Duljaj 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      35 Yurii Virt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 Tomás Hubschman 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 26 2 2
      22 Willian Borges Da Silva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      21 Oleksandr Hladky 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0

  • Summary

    • 85 SHOULD HAVE HAD A HAT-TRICK! Seedorf breaks in to the penalty area from the right, he cuts back inside and only has the keeper to beat from five yards, but his effort is blocked.
    • 69 GOAL! Seedorf surely seals the win - and what a strike! The Dutch star fires home a first-time volley after a corner from the right had been header out to him, 25 yards from goal!
    • 62 GOAL! Seedorf restores Milan's two-goal advantage, picking up a loose ball at the back post from a corner and firing through a crowd!
    • 61 OFF THE POST! Kaka hits the post from a tight angle after cutting in from the right wing! How did that stay out?
    • 56 GREAT DEFENDING! Gattuso's shot is blocked by a desperate dive from a defender after he had been picked out by Kaka's low cross from the right.
    • 54 GOAL! Kalac keeps out Brandão's effort from the edge of the box, but Lucarelli is on hand to turn home the rebound! The visitors are back in it.
    • 50 SHOULD HAVE SCORED! Milan carve Shakhtar apart with a swift counter down the left; Gilardino closes in on goal but opts to try and square a pass to Kaka instead of shooting, and the ball is cleared.
    • 42 DECENT EFFORT! Brandão cuts in from the right before firing in a left-foot shot from a tight angle...but Kalac is able to watch the effort fly the wrong side of his near post.
    • 27 MESSY! Pyatov comes for a cross he can't claim and is caught out of position when Kaka collects at the back post; the Brazilian takes aim before firing in his shot, but the keeper has got back in time to palm clear.
    • 15 GOAL! Gilardino doubles Milan's lead when he powers home Seedorf's cross from the left. Fine start from the Italians.
    • 11 OOH! SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER! Seedorf breaks down the right before clipping a low ball in to he middle; goalkeeper Pyatov slides out but can't hold on to the ball, although Kaka can't find the net from a tight angle.
    • 7 GOAL! MILAN TAKE THE LEAD! Gilardino nods in a corner at the near post! Simple stuff from the Italians, but that wasn't great defending.
    • - Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE text commentary on the Champions League Group D match between Milan and Shakhtar from the San Siro.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo

  • Milan

    Manager: Carlo Ancelotti

    Captain: Massimo Ambrosini

    On the Field

    • Kalac
    • Oddo
    • Kaladze
    • Nesta
    • Favalli
    • Pirlo
    • Gattuso
    • Ambrosini
    • Seedorf
    • Kakà
    • Gilardino

    Subs

    • Inzaghi
    • Serginho
    • Brocchi
    • Cafu
    • Emerson
    • Fiori
    • Bonera

    Injured

    • Jankulovski
    • Ronaldo

    Suspended

    • Dida

  • Shakhtar

    Manager: Mircea Lucescu

    Captain: Cristiano Lucarelli

    On the Field

    • Piatov
    • Srna
    • Kucher
    • Chyhrynsky
    • Rat
    • Lewandowski
    • Ilsinho
    • Fernandinho
    • Jadson
    • Lucarelli
    • Brandao

    Subs

    • Virt
    • Castillo
    • Hübschman
    • Duljaj
    • Yezersky
    • Gladkiy
    • Willian

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None