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Fiorentina

Steaua Bucharest

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Fiorentina
    • Steaua Bucharest
    • - Thanks for joining us tonight... plenty more to enjoy tomorrow with Liverpool and Chelsea both in action... until then!
    • 90'+4 Full time in Florence! And it's Steaua who will be the more pleased with a point after a goalless draw.
    • 78' Frey to the rescue! What a save from the Frenchman! He sticks out a leg to divert the ball round the post! Steaua pushing for a late opening goal!
    • 76' MUTU AGAIN GOES CLOSE! But his header at the far post is from too tight an angle and the ball only finds the side netting!
    • 66' But here's a chance for the Viola with a free kick, 25 yards out... Mutu takes it! Oooh! Off the post!
    • 60' An hour gone in Florence and still no breakthrough...
    • 46' One change to tell you about at the break... Zauri has come on for Fiorentina in place of Jorgensen.
    • 46' Back underway at the Artemio Franchi in Florence!
    • 45' There goes the half time whistle in Florence and the teams head in locked at 0-0.
    • 33' MUTU! Oooh! Great effort from the Romanian! He turns and volleys goalwards in one swift movement! It's straight at Zapatat in the Steaua goal though...
    • 29' Chance for Fiorentina now... Vargas whips in a free kick, but Gilardino can't get there...
    • 17' Gilardino gets his head to a near post cross, but his effort goes wide of the mark!
    • 15' Semedo flashes a goal wide of the post for the Romanian side! That's the closest they've come to opening the score!
    • 1' Underway in Florence!
    • - And tonight's referee will be Englishman Mike Riley.
    • - And Steaua: Zapata, Ogararu, Goian, Ghionea, Marin, Nicolita, Radoi, Lovin, Stancu, Moreno, Badea - Subs: Cernea, Golanski, Szekely, Toja, Baciu, Tiago Gomes, Kapetanos
    • - The teams are inÂ… Fiorentina will line-up like this: Frey, Jorgensen, Gamberini, Dainelli, Vargas, Almiron, Felipe Melo, Montolivo, Santana, Gilardino, Mutu - Subs: Storari, Kroldrup, Zauri, Donadel, Kuzmanovic, Osvaldo, Pazzini
    • - The Viola started their campaign with a draw against Lyon two weeks ago while the Romanian side fell to a narrow defeat at home to Bayern Munich.
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of tonight's Group F clash between Fiorentina and Steaua Bucharest!

  • Team Stats

    Fiorentina Stats Steaua Bucharest
    52% Possession 47%
    16 Shots 7
    3 Shots on target 2
    1 Saves 1
    4 Corners 1
    22 Fouls 20
    6 Offsides 2
    0 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    17 Tackles 23
    272 Accurate passes 227
    48 Bad passes 36

  • 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
    • Fiorentina
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Sebastien Frey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 0
      3 Dario Dainelli 0 0 0 3 5 0 0 35 5 3
      6 Juan Vargas 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 21 8 1
      5 Alessandro Gamberini 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 37 0 2
      24 Mario Santana 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 17 2 3
      30 Sergio Almiron 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 19 4 3
      18 Riccardo Montolivo 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 27 14 0
      88 Felipe Melo 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 43 5 2
      20 Martin Jorgensen 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 17 0 1
      11 Alberto Gilardino 0 4 1 5 4 1 0 13 2 0
      10 Adrian Mutu 0 7 1 3 3 3 0 12 4 1
      9 Pablo Daniel Osvaldo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      29 Giampaolo Pazzini 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0
      4 Marco Donadel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      22 Zdravko Kuzmanovic 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 2 0
      2 Per Kroldrup 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      14 Luciano Zauri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 1
      13 Marco Storari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Steaua Bucharest
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Robinson Zapata 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 1
      24 Sorin Ghionea 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 15 1 1
      6 Mirel Matei Radoi 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 35 4 4
      18 Petre Marin 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 13 6 5
      2 George Ogararu 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 29 0 3
      3 Dorin Goian 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 23 3 0
      20 Florin Lovin 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 30 5 0
      16 Banel Nicolita 0 1 0 5 7 1 0 24 2 3
      9 António Semedo 0 3 1 3 2 0 0 8 4 3
      10 Dayro Moreno 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 19 4 0
      28 Bogdan Stancu 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 18 3 1
      12 Cornel Cernea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      35 Pantelis Kapetanos 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
      7 János Székely 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
      30 Tiago Filipe Figueiras Gomes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2
      4 Pawel Golanski 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      17 Eugen Baciu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      14 Juan Carlos Toja 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • - Thanks for joining us tonight... plenty more to enjoy tomorrow with Liverpool and Chelsea both in action... until then!
    • 78' Frey to the rescue! What a save from the Frenchman! He sticks out a leg to divert the ball round the post! Steaua pushing for a late opening goal!
    • 76' MUTU AGAIN GOES CLOSE! But his header at the far post is from too tight an angle and the ball only finds the side netting!
    • 66' But here's a chance for the Viola with a free kick, 25 yards out... Mutu takes it! Oooh! Off the post!
    • 33' MUTU! Oooh! Great effort from the Romanian! He turns and volleys goalwards in one swift movement! It's straight at Zapatat in the Steaua goal though...
    • 17' Gilardino gets his head to a near post cross, but his effort goes wide of the mark!
    • 15' Semedo flashes a goal wide of the post for the Romanian side! That's the closest they've come to opening the score!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Mike Riley

  • Fiorentina

    Manager: Claudio Cesare Prandelli

    Captain: 3. Dario Dainelli

    Starting line-up

    • S. Frey
    • M. Jorgensen Substitution Out (46′)
    • A. Gamberini
    • D. Dainelli
    • J. Vargas
    • F. Melo
    • A. Sergio Bernardo Substitution Out (73′)
    • R. Montolivo Substitution Out (80′)
    • M. Santana
    • A. Mutu
    • A. Gilardino

    Subs

    • 14. L. Zauri Substitution In46′
    • 4. M. Donadel
    • 2. P. Kroldrup
    • 13. M. Storari
    • 29. G. Pazzini Substitution In80′
    • 22. Z. Kuzmanovic Substitution In73′
    • 9. P. Osvaldo

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

  • Steaua Bucharest

    Manager: Marius Lacatus

    Starting line-up

    • R. Zapata
    • G. Ogararu
    • D. Goian
    • S. Ghionea
    • P. Marin Yellow Card
    • B. Nicolita
    • F. Lovin
    • A. Semedo Substitution Out (89′)
    • M. Radoi
    • S. Stancu Yellow Card Substitution Out (76′)
    • D. Moreno Substitution Out (86′)

    Subs

    • C. Cernea
    • E. Baciu
    • 35. P. Kapetanos Substitution In89′
    • J. Toja
    • J. Szekely Substitution In76′
    • P. Golanski
    • F. Tiago Gomes Substitution In86′

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None