FOOTBALL Live

Sunday January 11, 2009 Finished Olimpico

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Roma

  • Vucinic 22’, 72’

Milan

  • Pato 49’, 53’

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Roma
    • Milan
    • 90+3' The final whistle goes at the Stadio Olimpico, and the result is a draw that neither side really wanted. Milan remain in third, nine points behind leaders Inter, and Roma only move up one place to 11th.
    • 90+3' Aquilani fouls Maldini as he fights for the ball in the final minute of added time.
    • 90+1' Milan break quickly and Pato cuts back a cross for SEEDORF... Another header goes off target from Clarence Seedorf.
    • 88' David Beckham hasn't had the most awe-inspiring of debuts, that much is certain, but he gets a warm send-off as he is replaced by Mathieu Flamini.
    • 87' Aquilani has really set out to make his mark on this match, and he will try a LONG-RANGE STRIKE... Wide of the mark, though one part of the ground thought it was in for a moment!
    • 84' The Roma coach brings on a fully-fledged attacker now as Brighi comes off for Alberto Aquilani.
    • 80' Attacking full-back Cicinho replaces cassetti for the final stages of this match - looks like Spalletti is going for the win here.
    • 76' Pato retrieves the ball from inside the Roma box and goes out wide. He hits a cross on the turn that's met by SEEDORF... The Dutchman's pace sent the header well over the bar.
    • 75' Roma are putting pressure on the Milan defenders and Beckham comes back to clear the ball with a hefty whack upfield.
    • 72' GOL!!! Baptista brngs the ball into the Milan box and sets up Brighi for the shot, but it's blocked and loops up into the air and VUCINIC DIVES IN TO HEAD PAST ABBIATI!! Abiatti was rooted to the spot and Roma are level!
    • 71' A ringing endorsement for Milan's superstar loan signing - Ambrosini comes on but it's Ronaldinho who is taken off by Ancelotti.
    • 70' Milan enjoy a nice bout of possession, where they all take it in turns to spray crossfield passes around. In this sphere Becks impresses.
    • 66' From the corner Seedorf receives it short and tees up BECKHAM FOR THE CURLING SHOT... saved by Doni! There's your headline right there: 'BECKHAM HITS TARGET IN MILAN VICTORY'.
    • 65' Milan have a free-kick in a central area about 35 yards from goal. Beckham is nowhere to be seen as Pirlo strikes for goal... beaten away by Doni and Milan have a corner.
    • 65' Spalletti knows he has to change something, and he brings on David Pizarro to replace Taddei to beef up his attack.
    • 64' Daniele de Rossi has options in front of hi, but instead decides to shoot from miles out and the ball heads into the stands. Roma need a performance from him if they are to get something from this match.
    • 60' Milan are a different side since the break, with Pato especially looking very lively. He draws in the defenders with the ball at his feet before setting up RONALDINHO... The Brazilian was leaning back as he struck the ball and it sails over the bar.
    • 58' Seedorf is booked for a foul on Perrotta. Roma have plenty of men forward but take the free-kick short. They probe for an opening before Riise is teed up to BLAST A SHOT... Flashed across the face of goal!
    • 55' Kaka looks to get in on the act by sprinting down the same line that Pato took for that goal. He gets into the area and shapes up to shoot... Great covering tackle by Juan! The defender went to ground and had to time it perfectly, and he did.
    • 53' GOL!! If Pato's first was an easy tap-in, this was anything but. The young Brazilian burst forward down the left with Mexes struggling to keep up and lifted a delightful chipped finish over Doni to turn this match on its head!
    • 51' Beckham will take a Milan corner. He overhits it a bit but it finds RONALDINHO IN SPACE AT THE BACK POST... He blasts the volley into Row Z!
    • 48' GOL!!! Jankulovski finds Kaka in the left wing, and the Brazilian checks back on to his right boot and fires in a low cross that's turned in by Pato!! Beckham was waiting behind him and he looks across to the linesman, who keeps his flag down! Mila are level!
    • 46' No changes for wither side at half-time, although Ambrosini is warming up on the touchline as the second half gets underway.
    • 45+2' Half-time in Rome, and Beckham's long-awaited debut is not going to plan. The ex-England captain has struggled to get into the game, but he hasn't been helped that much by his new team-mates to be honest.
    • 45+1' Pato loses the ball on the edge of the Roma box and the break is on. Vucinic has de Rossi in support but he goes it alone... He drags his shot wide of the goal from distance.
    • 45' Vucinic latches on to a long ball over the defence, but he was just past the last man when the ball was played.
    • 42' Pirlo spreads the play out to Beckham, who is slightly off balance when he crosses but his pass still results in a corner, but agains the Englishman's delivery is cleared - which is more to Roma's credit than Beckham's detriment.
    • 41' Beckham plays Zambrotta down the wing and the full-back is tripped by Riise. Beckham will deliver the free-kick from the right, but Baptista heads it away.
    • 37' Milan beginning to apply some pressure now. Pato drifts across the edge of the box and feints a shot before playing it out to Kaka. Another Beckham delivery is headed away but they retain possession.
    • 34' Simone Perrotta has a pop from around 25 yards, but again it's low and rigth at Abbiati.
    • 31' Doni flaps at a cross and palms it into the path of Pato, who turns and STRIKES... Blocked on it's way to goal! Baptista turns brilliantly to start the Roma break and he passes to VUCINIC... Vucinic went for an audacious lob from distance rather than pick out a better-placed team-mate, and gives his apologies.
    • 28' Becks gets the opportunity to deliver his first cross from the right wing, and it's a good one, but Pato is muscled out if the way by Mexes.
    • 26' Beckham's quest to get a touch of the ball takes him to right-back, where he picks it up and tries a ball down the wing to Pato, which riise gets to first.
    • 24' Julio Baptista is bombing through midfield with the ball at his feet - until Pirlo trips him up. Pirlo is booked for his 'fallo tactico'.
    • 22' GOL!!! Riise's cross lands at the feet of Vucinic and the Montenegrin twists and turns to evade the challenge of Maldini before blasting past Abbiati from close range!
    • 21' Vucinic is one-on-one with Abbiati put shoots right against the keeper! The ball rebounds back to him and this time he goes round Abbiati and knocks the ball into an empty net... All this happening while the flag is up for offside!
    • 20' Beckham plays the ball out to Zambrotta and then overlaps the full-back. Zambrota instead cuts inside and STRIKES... Slashed high and wide.
    • 18' The pace of this match is slowly building now as Roma open up. Casseti feeds a ball forward for Vucinic to SHOOT ON THE TURN... A comfortable save in the end for Abbiati.
    • 17' Riise hoists in a diagonal ball to Vucinic who heads back across goal for Baptista, but Favalli is on hand to clear.
    • 16' Taddei fires a free-kick from the centre circle into the Milan box for MEXES... Zambrotta followed him all the way and did just enough to put Mexes off and win the goal-kick.
    • 13' Seedorf tries a long-range strike, but the ball was always rising and lands in the crowd. Beckham has been something of a passenger in this match thus far. Not that surprising, considering this is his first competitive match since October.
    • 9' Riise comes inside and has time and space to SHOOT... The shot is right at Doni but the keeper spills it before smothering the loose ball.
    • 8' Ronaldinho is nudged over in the area and Beckham tries to flick the ball round Juan and chase on to it but the defender gets in the way.
    • 6' Ronaldinho is complaining that the ball hit the arm of Mexes, which it did, but there wasn't much the defender could have done about it.
    • 5' Ronaldinho pulls rank and STRIKES... right into the wall.
    • 5' Kaka slides an inch-perfect through ball forward for Pato, who is bundled over by cassetti. Beckham and Ronaldinho stand over the ball...
    • 4' Kaka and Zambrotta trade passes down the wing, but the Brazilian's pass into the box is intercepted.
    • 2' Riise bombs down the left wing, past Beckham but not past zambrotta, who tackles the Norwegian and concedes a corner. Milan - ever the well-drilled unit - clear their lines from the set piece.
    • 1' Milan kick-off, and another page in The David Beckham Story is about to be written.
    • 19:30 The players are shaking hands on the pitch as we speak, we're just moments away from the kick-off!
    • 19:27 By contrast, strugglers Roma are without injured skipper Francesco Totti, so striker Mirko Vucinic will be supported by Simone Perrotta, Julio Baptista and Daniele de Rossi. The Giallorossi can move up as high as 8th with a convincing win tonight.
    • 19:25 Here comes the news that the world has been waiting for - David Beckham will make his Milan debut tonight from the start. He lines up in a frankly mind-boggling midfield that also feature Kaka, Seedorf, Pirlo and Ronaldinho. They may have a combined age of around 150, but there's no denying it's a mouth-watering prospect.
    • 19:24 Ciao, come stai and welcome to Eurosport-Yahoo!'s LIVE coverage of Roma v Milan at the Stadio Olimpico!

  • Team Stats

    Roma Stats Milan
    40% Possession 59%
    24 Shots 14
    9 Shots on target 4
    0 Saves 1
    3 Corners 6
    13 Fouls 14
    4 Offsides 2
    2 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    35 Tackles 15
    299 Accurate passes 481
    42 Bad passes 97

  • 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
    • Roma
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      32 Alexander Doni 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
      5 Philippe Mexes 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 25 2 2
      17 John Arne Riise 0 3 1 2 0 0 1 42 12 6
      77 Marco Cassetti 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 21 0 7
      4 Silveira dos Santos Juan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 3 5
      16 Daniele De Rossi 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 38 5 3
      20 Simone Perrotta 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 24 0 1
      33 Matteo Brighi 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 29 4 7
      11 Rodrigo Taddei 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 28 2 1
      9 Mirko Vucinic 2 6 2 4 1 3 0 21 1 2
      19 Julio Baptista 0 5 3 2 2 0 0 26 8 0
      7 David Pizarro 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 15 4 0
      8 Alberto Aquilani 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0
      25 Artur Guilherme De Morães Gusmão 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 Cicero João de Cézare 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 8 0 1
      23 Vincenzo Montella 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Christian Panucci 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Simone Loria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Milan
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      12 Christian Abbiati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 0
      3 Paolo Maldini 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 24 3 0
      18 Marek Jankulovski 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 69 23 5
      15 Gianluca Zambrotta 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 54 1 4
      19 Giuseppe Favalli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 6 0
      22 Ricardo Kakà 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 33 10 1
      21 Andrea Pirlo 0 1 1 2 4 0 0 88 22 1
      32 David Beckham 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 54 3 2
      10 Clarence Seedorf 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 61 17 2
      7 Alexandre Rodrigues Da Silva 2 3 2 0 3 2 0 17 1 0
      80 Gaucho Ronaldinho 0 4 0 4 0 0 1 26 7 0
      23 Massimo Ambrosini 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 11 3 0
      84 Mathieu Flamini 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      9 Filippo Inzaghi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      77 Luca Antonini 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Nelson de Jesus Dida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      76 Andriy Shevchenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      4 Kakha Kaladze 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 72' GOL!!! Baptista brngs the ball into the Milan box and sets up Brighi for the shot, but it's blocked and loops up into the air and VUCINIC DIVES IN TO HEAD PAST ABBIATI!! Abiatti was rooted to the spot and Roma are level!
    • 66' From the corner Seedorf receives it short and tees up BECKHAM FOR THE CURLING SHOT... saved by Doni! There's your headline right there: 'BECKHAM HITS TARGET IN MILAN VICTORY'.
    • 55' Kaka looks to get in on the act by sprinting down the same line that Pato took for that goal. He gets into the area and shapes up to shoot... Great covering tackle by Juan! The defender went to ground and had to time it perfectly, and he did.
    • 53' GOL!! If Pato's first was an easy tap-in, this was anything but. The young Brazilian burst forward down the left with Mexes struggling to keep up and lifted a delightful chipped finish over Doni to turn this match on its head!
    • 51' Beckham will take a Milan corner. He overhits it a bit but it finds RONALDINHO IN SPACE AT THE BACK POST... He blasts the volley into Row Z!
    • 48' GOL!!! Jankulovski finds Kaka in the left wing, and the Brazilian checks back on to his right boot and fires in a low cross that's turned in by Pato!! Beckham was waiting behind him and he looks across to the linesman, who keeps his flag down! Mila are level!
    • 31' Doni flaps at a cross and palms it into the path of Pato, who turns and STRIKES... Blocked on it's way to goal! Baptista turns brilliantly to start the Roma break and he passes to VUCINIC... Vucinic went for an audacious lob from distance rather than pick out a better-placed team-mate, and gives his apologies.
    • 22' GOL!!! Riise's cross lands at the feet of Vucinic and the Montenegrin twists and turns to evade the challenge of Maldini before blasting past Abbiati from close range!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Sig. Morganti

  • Roma

    Manager: Luciano Spalletti

    Starting line-up

    • D. Doni
    • M. Cassetti Substitution Out (81′)
    • P. Mexès
    • J. Juan
    • J. Riise Yellow Card
    • R. Taddei Substitution Out (65′)
    • M. Brighi Yellow Card Substitution Out (83′)
    • D. De Rossi
    • S. Perrotta
    • M. Vucinic Goals×2
    • J. Baptista

    Subs

    • 23. V. Montella
    • 2. C. Panucci
    • 7. D. Pizarro Substitution In65′
    • 8. A. Aquilani Substitution In83′
    • 24. J. Menez
    • 3. J. Cicinho Substitution In81′
    • 25. G. Arthur

    Injured

    • 10. F. Totti
    • 22. M. Tonetto
    • 89. S. Okaka

    Suspended

    None

  • Milan

    Manager: Carlo Ancelotti

    Starting line-up

    • C. Abbiati
    • G. Zambrotta
    • G. Favalli
    • P. Maldini
    • M. Jankulovski
    • D. Beckham Substitution Out (88′)
    • C. Seedorf Yellow Card
    • A. Pirlo Yellow Card
    • R. Kakà
    • A. Pato Goals×2
    • .. Ronaldinho Substitution Out (70′)

    Subs

    • 23. M. Ambrosini Substitution In70′
    • 9. F. Inzaghi
    • 1. N. Dida
    • 76. A. Shevchenko
    • 4. K. Kaladze
    • 77. L. Antonini
    • 84. M. Flamini Substitution In88′

    Injured

    • 13. A. Nesta
    • 8. G. Gattuso
    • 25. D. Bonera
    • 11. M. Borriello

    Suspended

    None