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"I missed my penalty and it felt like the worst day of my life. Now it's the happiest day of my life." Cristiano Ronaldo
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Forty years after their first European Cup triumph, half a century on from the Munich air crash and on the night of Ryan Giggs's club-record 759th appearance, Manchester United FC's evening, as they contested the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League final, was so nearly spoiled.
After an epic domestic campaign which saw United sneak out on top of perennial Premier League rivals Chelsea FC, this first all-English showpiece delivered its own brand of engaging encounter at a rain-soaked Luzhniki Stadium.
United were first to show their hand 26 minutes in, Cristiano Ronaldo dropping off Michael Essien and leaping majestically to head Wes Brown's cross low into the corner for his 42nd club goal of the season.
Buoyed by the effervescent Owen Hargreaves and calmed by the composed Paul Scholes, United's goal was first threatened when Rio Ferdinand inadvertently headed that way. Edwin van der Sar to the rescue.
Petr Čech was equally effective in denying Carlos Tévez, and then Michael Carrick, after a sweeping United move. Chelsea, pragmatic as ever despite José Mourinho's departure, rode the storm. They duly drew level on the stroke of half-time, Lampard poking between Van der Sar and Ferdinand after latching on to Essien's deflected shot.
Fortune favoured the Blues and momentum now appeared to be with them too; Didier Drogba struck a post with a shot as venomous as it was deceptive, but extra time was needed. Lampard was next to be frustrated by the woodwork, collecting Michael Ballack's cute pass and chipping against the bar.
Giggs, off the bench to break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record, so nearly marked this poignant night with the winner, only to be thwarted by the retreating John Terry. Drogba was dismissed following an unsightly melee. Cue penalties.
Ronaldo was the odd man out after nine spot kicks, leaving Chelsea captain Terry with the chance to win his side's maiden European Cup. A loss of footing and a post left the Blues aggrieved once more. Giggs converted, Nicolas Anelka was denied and, just a stone's throw from Red Square, it was the Red Devils' night after all.
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00:00To separate Manchester United and Chelsea, it's Chelsea 1, Manchester United 1.
00:08There was still nothing to divide the teams after 90 minutes. Extra time beckoned.
00:13But with the game having already moved into Thursday the 22nd, Moscow time,
00:18the 52nd European Cup final was far from finished.
00:22It is the fifth time that the Champions League final has gone to extra time
00:26and the other four all required a penalty shootout.
00:31There's not been an extra time winning goal in the European Cup final
00:35since Ronald Koeman's free kick for Barcelona against Sampdoria at Wembley Stadium in 1992.
00:43That was where Manchester United won their first European Cup in extra time 40 years ago
00:48with three goals in a six-minute period in the first period that night from Kidd, Charlton.
00:56And best.
00:59What dramas do we have ahead here?
01:02Salomon Kalou was readied but he's not actually come on.
01:07So as we were at the end of the 90-minute period,
01:11Michael Carrick is on the ball for Manchester United.
01:15Already penalties are on the horizon.
01:18He's still there and imminent.
01:40Quite sure why Chelsea didn't make a change during the break.
01:44Pro, Rooney, now Giggs.
01:54It's a little loose.
01:55Essien got it away.
01:57Only to Parker-Eaves.
01:59Ronaldo, Evra.
02:02Tevez stumbled but gathered it.
02:05Carrick.
02:06Treaded through to Giggs and now Tevez and now Rooney.
02:10And Tevez is there.
02:13The ball ran clear through to the break for hands of Penecek.
02:17And it's a predictable ball.
02:23And it's a predictable ball.
02:26And Salomon Kalou, or Cuomo Malouda with a selection dilemma for Abraham Grant prior to the game.
02:32He started with Malouda and now he'll be replaced by the younger Salomon Kalou.
02:52He's not played since the semi-final three weeks ago because of a slight ankle injury.
03:00Ronaldo.
03:03Essien chased him, tracked him.
03:05And he's stride of the way.
03:07He's done an awful lot better against Ronaldo since half-time.
03:10Yeah, absolutely.
03:11He's got closer to him.
03:14Discouraged the ball to be played into his feet.
03:17Once it is at Ronaldo's feet, he's got that trickery and pace that can defeat far better full-backs of urgency or regular full-backs.
03:27And we will look forward to seeing him in the European Championships.
03:38The kick has gone Chelsea's way.
03:42I think Kalou is really an important change.
03:44I don't think Malouda's contribution was considerable.
03:48And I do believe that Kalou is far more goal-conscious and positive.
03:53Raining again here in Moscow.
03:54And for the second time, Chelsea are denied by the Woodwork.
04:23First drop bar, now Lampard.
04:25It just won't go in.
04:27What brilliant disguise by Balak.
04:29And then a clever cunning turn by Lampard.
04:37So unlucky.
04:38Underside of the bar, Frank Lampard.
04:40On the ball again.
04:46John Farlat's in run.
04:47Village gets it away.
04:53Ronaldo.
04:54Rooney is to his right.
04:58Tevez and Giggs are forward two.
05:01Rooney has managed to smuddle the ball back to Cristiano Ronaldo.
05:04In towards Tevez, turned away by Terry.
05:08Giggs gets there, comes through.
05:10Cole and is penalised.
05:11Fantastic heaven flow now about the game.
05:18One has to believe now that whoever scores will then close the game.
05:25Next go wins?
05:25I think so.
05:37Cole.
05:38Looking for a free kick.
05:44He's still down.
05:46He may have a problem with the crown.
05:50Rooney.
05:52And the ball was put out of play when Ferdinand had had crown.
05:55And that's the point that Chelsea are making to the referee and to Manchester United.
06:00Who haven't put it out of play.
06:01Now they have.
06:02Good.
06:04Good.
06:08Well, they said they'd come bouncing into the final after returning the Premier League title.
06:17Ten days ago, but it's Chelsea who found the bounce since the break.
06:22He was looking for a free kick there.
06:25But when he tried to get up, he couldn't.
06:27Cristiano Ronaldo, the leading scorer in this season's Champions League, gave Manchester United the lead with a header after 26 minutes.
06:37His eighth of the competition for Frank Lampard on the stroke of half-time, equalised for Chelsea.
06:43You can see 80 goals in the last four seasons now for Lampard.
06:48Both Key and Drogbaugh have been denied only by the woodwork.
06:52Ah.
06:54A little bit of diplomacy.
06:55We can do a little bit of that with the Russians at the moment.
07:00Manchester United fans swapping shirts with the Army boys who are here in their thousands.
07:05Well, the spirit of diplomacy and accord is not prevalent out on the field.
07:29Manchester United having put the ball out sportingly inside the Chelsea half.
07:36They don't put it back in their own half.
07:42Messiaen closer and heading better.
07:44It's grown and grown in this match.
07:50Carvalho.
07:56Run off the ball by Tevez.
07:57That's Carragh to Giggs.
08:00Rooney.
08:03Can't get past Ashley Cole.
08:08McAlealy.
08:10Kalu.
08:11Just slipped away from Wes Brown.
08:13He's got support here, Salomon Kalu from Michael Essien arriving to his right.
08:17This is Essien going in alone.
08:19Eventually winning a corner kick from Michael Kalu.
08:22There's a perfect example of Essien using that power and energy to surge forward.
08:27Ronaldo was 40, 50 yards back.
08:29Could only stand and stare as Essien drove into the box.
08:33All that explosive drive and bloody strength that he brings to his favourite midfield when he gets there.
08:39Lampard with the corner.
08:47Down by Carvalho, I think, in the scrimmage.
08:51Goal kick.
08:51Manchester United are about to be reacquainted with an old friend because Nicola Anelka scored a winner for Bolton Wanderers against Manchester United earlier this season.
09:04He won't score too often for Chelsea since joining them in January.
09:11But he will replace Joe Cole now.
09:13And his pace against tight legs will provide an interesting new element here in extra time.
09:20Yes, it looks positive.
09:22Joe Cole had a good second half.
09:24Started the game very much on the fringe, but as the whole group of Chelsea players began to find their feet in the second period, he contributed.
09:32Champions League winner with Real Madrid, eight years ago.
09:40Giggs.
09:42Ronaldo.
09:43Evra.
09:47First touch for Anelka.
09:50Essien.
09:52Goal kick.
09:54They're throwing a set of Manchester United.
09:56Ferdinand.
10:08Ferdinand.
10:13Carrick.
10:13The echoes of 1999 are very distant echoes, but, you know, Bayern Munich hit the woodwork twice.
10:26In that game.
10:30Oh, Manchester United won it so dramatically.
10:35Rooney.
10:38Essien's got to watch that one.
10:39And Evra might just get to it ahead of Anelka.
10:42And here's Patrice Evra.
10:43He's got it at the penalty area and pulled it back.
10:45Oh, and somehow, Ryan Giggs was denied the dream goal.
10:49And that somehow is called John Terry.
10:52Remarkable defending.
10:55Absolutely magnificent.
10:56But what remarkable energy and burst by Evra.
11:00Terrific player.
11:01The composure to pass that ball back and invite the goal.
11:06The fairytales always came true for Ryan Giggs.
11:11He will take the corner.
11:15There's a foul there.
11:16Drop bar.
11:17He's as good to send a forward inside his own penalty area as I've seen.
11:25Super.
11:26Super pullback.
11:30But we've come to expect that from Terry.
11:32It was a rather awkward poke by Giggs.
11:35He had the best chance in extra time of that.
11:37FA Cup final last year.
11:39Couldn't take it.
11:41It's the end of Wayne Rooney's night.
11:44And the fresh legs of 21-year-old Nanny.
11:50Will come on his place.
11:51Carvalho.
12:05Anelka.
12:07Cut out by Hargreaves.
12:14Really could go either way.
12:15Check just chipping the ball.
12:30Forward to Kalu.
12:34Cole to McAlealy.
12:39I see they've got forward again there.
12:41But slipped and he's out of the game momentarily.
12:43And Ronaldo's on the ball.
12:46And Tevez has pulled into some space.
12:47He's got Ryan Giggs waiting in the centre.
12:50It's Carlos Tevez.
12:52Well, they went for glory when he had Ronaldo and Giggs.
12:54Probably better placed.
12:55Tireless, Tevez.
12:58Never stops running.
12:59He's now playing as the lead man.
13:07Doesn't know the meaning of standing still, Tevez.
13:10Just keeps on the move.
13:12Always available.
13:13Always seating.
13:15Searching the ball.
13:17Oh, I've seen extra time periods where the two teams have almost stood off each other
13:20and waited for penalties.
13:22Maybe sometimes too tired to affect the outcome of the game.
13:25But this is not such a match.
13:28Both teams believe they can win it here and now.
13:33He's got a smile on his face, hasn't he, Essien?
13:37Recovered from that horrific beginning.
13:43Carrick.
13:46Rare misplaced pass.
13:48But he was under some pressure from drop bar.
13:49And Kalu can run at Manchester United.
13:52Carrick gets it back.
13:53Always measured, always calm, Michael Carrick.
13:59First chance for Nanny to influence the game.
14:04Carrick has gone on here.
14:07Now he's checked.
14:09Misunderstanding between Nanny and Carrick.
14:11What a clearance this was by John Terry.
14:19It was a strange shot by Giggs, wasn't it, David?
14:21Yes, he seemed to kind of stretch for the ball rather than getting on top of the ball and gliding it in with his instep.
14:31It was a better chance than perhaps we first realised.
14:35It was good defending by Terry, but it really should have given him no chance.
14:40Vidić taking a chance at the other end.
14:54Time for a bit of nail-biding and praying.
14:56And that's what friends are for.
14:57Come on, we've come a long way.
14:58It's only cost us 15 quid to get here and back.
15:00It's enjoying.
15:01We'll be back with the milkmen in the morning, most of them.
15:14There will be two minutes to add to the period of the end of the 15.
15:24Hello.
15:27Cole.
15:27Hargreaves is there, but so too is Ballack.
15:34Owen Hargreaves has been finalised.
15:44Terry going up.
15:47And he's Carvalho.
15:56Hargreaves will take the free kiss.
15:57Wes Brown is timing his jump.
16:00Can see it's a rather cheap corner.
16:12Can these players gather themselves
16:14for one last rousing finale to their incredible seasons?
16:21Header is from Carvalho.
16:24He did another touch.
16:32The season which began back in August
16:35with a big match between Chelsea and Manchester United,
16:39the Community Shield,
16:41which was decided at Wembley Stadium
16:42for a penalty shooter.
16:45Hello, only inches away from that knockdown.
16:47going to Manchester United.
16:48Going to Manchester United.
16:56Going to Manchester United.
16:57young players,
17:06We're not going to be spotted.
17:08We're not going to hang out from all the time.
17:10Nani, barely tackled by Cole, Lampard quickly forward, Ferdinand couldn't improvise, Vidic covered,
17:21Caludo picks up the baton and Vidic is there again, standing firm, Hargreaves,
17:34Lampard wouldn't let him be, Chelsea throw,
17:40Hargreaves bemoaning Nani's movement in front of him, not giving him the opportunity to give him a clean pass.
17:50The end of the first period of extra time and those first half goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Frank Lampard
18:00are still the only goals of the night.
18:02It looked like the game was heading towards a penalty shootout
18:06and one incident in the second half of extra time would have huge significance on what would follow.
18:18Here we go again, it was the 116th minute at Wembley, a year and two days ago,
18:24Didier Drogbaugh struck the only goal of the FA Cup final to win that day for Chelsea.
18:30Now, late in the day, in the early hours here in Moscow,
18:38when we have to go to separate Chelsea and Manchester United.
18:41Essien, Lampard to Anelka.
18:53Towards Drogbaugh, the referee has said that he would toss a coin to decide which end the penalties were taken
18:57because it's wholly Chelsea to our right, wholly Manchester United to our left.
19:03Lampard, Lampard, Lampard, he'll have a pot, blocked by Ferdinand,
19:11and cleared by Nani.
19:14Foot up against Ashley Colt.
19:17Edwin van der Sarge saved all three penalties that Chelsea took at the end of the Community Shield.
19:24Manchester United scored all three of theirs, it was a very one-sided shootout.
19:29But that was then.
19:35Might be frightened to shoot tonight, Michael Ballack.
19:39It's going to be a long summer without European Championship football for a lot of these players.
19:59The cricket season is just around the corner.
20:05Or most involved with English football.
20:10Nani here is in the Portuguese European squad.
20:15Carrick.
20:16Ronaldo.
20:21Fifteen minutes to leave their mark.
20:24Indelible mark on this and many other seasons.
20:28Gix.
20:30Away by Essien.
20:34McAulele.
20:34It was interesting there, Colt had gone well forward and Elka had tracked back very well.
20:42It's going to be vital, he's playing wide right at the moment,
20:44that he's going to have to be very aware of the ball out to Ronaldo
20:48and try and get into positions to stop that ball to Ronaldo.
20:52He's still the main man.
20:53Certainly, since the departure of Rooney,
20:58Ronaldo has it within him to create that golden chance that United now need.
21:06Ever couldn't clear.
21:08Vittich couldn't clear, but he was fouled.
21:09Could it be that man?
21:14The man that everyone thought might be,
21:18if there was a difference between the two teams,
21:20a lot of people thought it might be Drogba if he's in the mood.
21:23He hasn't done too well this evening,
21:25but you can never ignore him.
21:28Had a smart 1-2 with Frank Lampard that baking afternoon at Wendby a year ago.
21:33He scored the goal, but won the FA Cup.
21:35Carrick.
21:43Vittich.
21:45McAlele out chasing the ball there.
21:47McAlele comes away from his sentry role.
21:51Been wonderful tonight, for a man of his age.
21:54Had a good player.
21:56Not many players in World Football whose very name
21:59obviously finds the role they play.
22:01You hear managers say, I need a McAlele.
22:03The original model is still in pretty good working order.
22:11Carrick.
22:13Tevez.
22:14Giggs.
22:15Tried to take it in his stride.
22:16It came last off Ryan Giggs.
22:17It would be a goal kick.
22:25Much of a gap to get through, wasn't it?
22:26There will be a nervous Russian millionaire, a certain owner,
22:36and there will be a nervous American owner, also a millionaire,
22:40and in the cosmopolitan game, an Israeli manager.
22:45There's a 66-year-old Scott who's still in there.
22:49Hoping to make the glazers, double glazers.
23:05Kalu guilty of the foul.
23:06It's a weary, proud bodies out there.
23:13There's a good illustration.
23:14He's such a gladiator.
23:17Madjo Vidic is a meal, him, defender, first out of the trenches.
23:20Have a go, hero type.
23:23All that talk about the pitch, Clive.
23:25Can't complain.
23:26It's hosted a very, very good game, an exciting game.
23:32High on quality.
23:39Right now it's Chelsea.
23:40Who would have put the woodwork twice, who would almost agree.
23:43Anelka.
23:44Not a huge challenge from Vinic.
23:47So far, he got the ball, but he got some of Anelka too.
23:50He's got a twinge of crap with troubles.
23:54I thought Anelka had over on the ball there.
23:57Am I wrong?
23:59Yeah.
24:01Can't get the ball, Diddy Vidic.
24:06Oh, it's a yellow card too for the Mervi Vidic.
24:08And then the first half, Chelsea were rewarded a free kick, which Balak and Lampard, Balak and Drogbaugh both offered themselves for.
24:30Balak took it, didn't hit the target.
24:32He said that Drogbaugh would take the next.
24:33It's not to wait a long time.
24:37Similar range from which he scored against Spurs in the Carling Cup final.
24:46It's dropped by this time.
24:50It's wide of the mark.
24:54Who's the angry with now, the ball?
24:55Will he stay or will he go?
25:05Well, if it is to be the swan song of several Chelsea players, it has been rumoured.
25:12And I have to say, they've really put in a shift tonight to give Chelsea supporters good memories of the days.
25:20There's all sorts of rumours about the likes of Lampard and Drogba and maybe Carvalho.
25:26Everyone waiting to see where Mr. Mourinho takes up his next appointment.
25:32In some last hurrah of it is.
25:36Terry.
25:39Ashley Cole.
25:43Didier Drogba.
25:47It's getting straight to Cristiano Ronaldo.
25:48Not a smart thing to do.
25:51Run away from Manelka.
25:52Terry is barely tackled by Balak.
25:59Enjoyed the first half.
26:01Hasn't enjoyed much of it since.
26:02Now he's got cramp.
26:05Tevez is on the ball.
26:07And now Nani.
26:09And Giggs is in support.
26:12Nani tried to slip it into Tevez.
26:14It might come for Giggs.
26:15Terry says, no, it won't.
26:16Ronaldo's got back to his feet miraculously.
26:18Karek.
26:22Hargreaves.
26:24Evra.
26:27Turned away by Balak.
26:28Only as far as Zorin Hargreaves.
26:32Gets it back from West Brown.
26:35Hargreaves with a cross.
26:36Easy for Petr Cech.
26:37Now both goalkeepers must be dreaming, whilst concentrating, of course, of becoming heroes.
26:47Two very tall goalkeepers with great ability to stretch.
26:52Could be a sad end if we have to have penalties, but it's beginning to look that way.
26:57Everyone's getting cramped, everyone's stretching.
27:02And nobody's going to bed.
27:06One or two are going to need some treatment here.
27:08Maybe one or two of them trying to get out and take the penalty.
27:17Not in front of the children, actually, if you don't mind, thank you.
27:19There's a wonderful shot there in midfield of the Chelsea player.
27:22It was Lampard with, I think, Hargreaves.
27:25Both helping each other there.
27:26Great camaraderie, both helping each other to stretch off against the effects of tramps.
27:34I just think they're all suffering.
27:35They're all suffering.
27:37Now what?
27:40Well, you can't raise your hands in those situations.
27:43It's ridiculous.
27:46Whatever grievance they've got here.
27:50Look at Carvalho pushing Tevez.
27:52It's crazy.
27:56Oh, it's just got totally out of hand here.
28:01Oh dear.
28:03Totally out of hand.
28:07Tired minds, but no excuses.
28:09Vinic has lost it there for a moment.
28:10What was it all over?
28:15Well, John Terry was certainly trying to do his bit to calm his players down.
28:19It's all about how you give the ball back to the opponents, this.
28:24I think the onus is on the side who want to protect their own player that's injured or down with cramp or whatever to put the ball out.
28:31I think if you have that rule consistently, and not a rule, an unwritten rule.
28:34About that yellow card in.
28:37And a red card for Didier Drogbaugh for the slap.
28:43He looks mystified.
28:47Not happy with Tevez.
28:48A yellow card for Tevez.
28:53Now what is all this all about?
28:56Didier Drogbaugh becomes only the second player ever to be sent off in a European Cup final.
29:01And it's that little slap of Vinic's face.
29:03That's all it's about.
29:05Totally unnecessary.
29:07But he's had capital punishment.
29:09And the referee saw it so clearly.
29:13And Didier Drogbaugh takes the long walk that Jens Lehmann had to take two years ago.
29:23Probably one of the Chelsea penalty takers, almost certainly.
29:28Now he wants to take up issue with Vinic.
29:31It's an unseemly end.
29:34To a terrific football match.
29:37And it could be crucial.
29:39Because there's five or six minutes possibly left.
29:43A lot of time will be added on here.
29:48Don't expect Chelsea now to try and get the winner.
29:52They've only just realised, you know, that he's gone.
29:54It happened right over in the far corner from there.
29:57Drop bar goes.
29:59He's not a great volunteer to take penalties.
30:02He took one in an African Nations Cup final shootout a couple of years ago and missed it.
30:09But he must have been a contender for Chelsea.
30:12But as it is, they lose his goal threat for the last, what, five, six, seven minutes of extra time.
30:19Overall, a disappointing game by Drogbaugh.
30:23Everyone was expecting so much.
30:25He hasn't quite produced tonight.
30:27Manchester United have the extra man.
30:29They have a free kick.
30:30Essien on Ronaldo.
30:31And there's another yellow coming out here.
30:35It's Essien now.
30:38Five for Chelsea.
30:40Three for Manchester United and a red by my calculations.
30:43Everett has gone on.
30:46Across comes Carvalho.
30:48Everett catches him.
30:52And Elke gone up front.
30:54Lone front man.
30:58Chelsea could come under some late pressure here.
31:00They want to get one or two set pieces and get the centre backs up, I suggest.
31:04That was the red card and this was the reaction of the red man.
31:17Pouring down now here in the early hours.
31:231.15 at local time nearly.
31:26Calou on the ball for Chelsea.
31:28The ten men are Chelsea.
31:36I think Chelsea will take the penalties right now.
31:41No support there for Calou.
31:44Just an Elke in the box.
31:46Once again, it came from a very short challenge from Ashley Cole.
31:51Very good second half, Ashley Cole.
31:56Ronaldo.
32:04Essien got their head of Everett.
32:09And it is a Chelsea try.
32:14Avram Grant getting animated.
32:17Must be a final.
32:18There's Bannerham one day.
32:21Still hasn't got a tie on Clive.
32:26Well, we're in the last of the 15 minutes of this second period.
32:39There's going to be a lot more Carrick.
32:42Tevez.
32:43Giggs is offside.
32:44Offside.
32:45Great flip round the corner by Tevez, wasn't it?
32:48Giggs just caught.
32:49He's got some penalty takers to choose.
33:07And everybody involved with Manchester United and Chelsea has got an ordeal to go through.
33:14That seems certain now.
33:16We're going to be an added two minutes here at the end of extra time.
33:19Two minutes away from that fairground sideshow, which will once again settle one of the great football occasions.
33:32Once again, a referee will be part of the story here tonight.
33:35Ferdinand, McAleady's header.
33:51Nani.
33:53Lost out to Lampard momentarily.
33:55And he won it back.
33:57Tevez.
33:58Giggs.
34:03Managed to right the challenge from Essier.
34:05Right, Giggs is crossed.
34:07Nani's got some space.
34:08Terrific defended by Ashley Cole.
34:10And he's caught one in the face as a result.
34:13Lampard's limping badly at this moment in time.
34:15And you just wonder, Clive, if he goes to penalties.
34:18If people are suffering with cramp, if they've got any type of muscle problem, it will affect them.
34:24It affects them psychologically when they go up to take those kicks if they're not feeling good.
34:30We're going to have another long stoppage here because both Cole and Nani are going to need some treatment.
34:39Chelsea unlucky overall.
34:40David, what's your assessment of the football we've seen tonight?
34:43I think considering the way United went for the game in a more aggressive and constructive manner in the first period,
34:50I think Chelsea reacted very well in the second period without changing their shape particularly,
34:54showing a more mentally aggressive attitude to the game.
34:58They got Essien tighter.
35:00They made him make forward runs off Ronaldo.
35:02The service to Ronaldo petered out.
35:04The danger man in the first half.
35:06And you have to say the score at the 90 minutes was probably a fair reflection.
35:12I don't think either team, and even now, I would say, as we predicted probably before the game,
35:17and the league positions this season would suggest the same,
35:20you absolutely can hardly split them.
35:22And I think it's such a sadness that we're going to have to see a winner come from a possible penalty shootout.
35:27Well, Chelsea went out of this competition on penalties in the semi-final at Anfield last year.
35:34Manchester United lost an FA Cup final on penalties to Arsenal three years ago.
35:39Neither has an especially good record in shootouts.
35:43Eight shootouts each.
35:44Manchester United have won four.
35:45Chelsea three.
35:46It looks like both Cole and Nanny will be fit to resume at least.
36:02But even the World Cup final has been decided by spot kicks.
36:05Maradona, Platini, Van Basten, Beckham, they've all missed in high-profile shootouts at major international tournaments.
36:12It can happen to anybody, and it's going to happen to somebody tonight by the looks of it.
36:16Everett, Rinaldo, how much more time to play now?
36:27This is added time to the added time.
36:32Carrick.
36:34Both the injured players come back out together, and Nanny gets to the ball first, it's come back to him.
36:39Still Nanny.
36:41Rinaldo.
36:43Clipped in towards Tevez!
36:46It's got to be.
36:47Shades of that last-second winner at Blackburn the other week from Tevez there.
36:52He's scored a few at Spurs.
36:55In Lyon.
36:55Claude McAuley will make way for Giuliano Belletti.
37:06And Manchester United are going to bring on Anderson.
37:08Changes, presumably, with a penalty shootout in mind.
37:15There's hardly any time remaining, but they've got to get the player on the field before the end of the game for it to take part in the penalty shootout.
37:22And Manchester United, just in two minds to say exactly who they're going to replace.
37:33And it is Wes Brown.
37:35He was a substitute back in 1999.
37:41Manchester United only needed two that night.
37:45He didn't get on.
37:46But his winner's and loser's medal is now in the hands of some of his colleagues.
37:53Anderson is on for a brief cameo appearance and presumably a penalty.
37:57Penalties, it will be.
38:03The season which started back in August with a shootout between these two will end here in May in exactly the same way.
38:10But who would be the hero?
38:12Edwin van der Sar hadn't conceded in the Community Shield back in August.
38:17Following Drogba's red card, John Terry volunteered to take penalty number five for Chelsea.
38:23Fergie's men had been practising from 12 yards all week, just in case.
38:28And when the skipper won the toss, the Reds chose to step up and take the first spot kick.
38:33Hopefully applying some added pressure on the Blues.
38:36Talk about tension.
38:42Petr Cech has never saved a penalty in a shootout for Chelsea.
38:46He's faced seven in two shootouts.
38:48He hasn't stopped one of them.
38:50Carlos Tevez is going to take the first penalty of the night.
38:56Five each.
38:57And if they're still level after that, it goes to sudden death.
39:03Tevez scores for Manchester United.
39:07First block to them.
39:10Calmly sends Petr Cech.
39:13The wrong way.
39:13And it will be a German to take the first for Chelsea.
39:20Now, Edwin van der Sar lost to Champions League final on penalties 12 years ago.
39:26Ajax beaten by Juventus in Rome.
39:29And now we'll face Michael Ballacher to that critical penalty to beat Manchester United at Stamford Bridge three weeks ago.
39:35When Frank Lampard was absent after a long, long, long delay.
39:39Scored in a World Cup shootout for his country too.
39:42Surprise, surprise.
39:42Germany versus Holland.
39:44Germany versus Holland.
39:49It's Michael Ballach.
39:511-1.
39:54Did anybody really think he was going to miss?
39:57Chelsea players, as indeed the Manchester United players, lock arms, as Michael Carrick takes her long trip forward.
40:08One of the goal scorers in the Community Shield shootout back in August for Manchester United.
40:14Carrick is next.
40:23Yes.
40:26Three taken, three successes.
40:31Now, here's an interesting penalty taker because Giuliano Belletti has been a part of this Champions League final for moments.
40:39He was brought on right at the end.
40:41He scored the winning goal in the final two years ago, as every Arsenal fan will tell you.
40:50But he's been watching with the rest of us all night long.
40:53And now he just asked to stand up, go out and beat Edwin van der Saar with Chelsea 2-1 down in the shootout.
41:03Belletti, how's your nerve?
41:07Easy.
41:11Made it look easy anyway.
41:14It's quite something.
41:16Now, Cristiano Ronaldo scored the penalty at Wigan ten days ago, which helped Manchester United clinch the title.
41:24But missed his previous one in Barcelona in the semi-final.
41:28The man who got the decisive penalty against England in the World Cup quarter-final shootout at Gelsen-Kirchen.
41:36The man who scored with his head down at the other end earlier tonight.
41:41Maybe the best player in the world against maybe the best goalkeeper in the world.
41:44The man who scored with his head down at Gelsen-Kirchen-Kirchen-Kirchen-Kirchen-Kirchen-Kirchen-Kirchen-Kirchen-Kirchen.
41:49Some things are just meant to be.
41:52The man who has been unable to stop scoring all season, stop halfway through his run-up and Petr Cech kept him out.
42:02The first miss of the shootout is by Cristiano Ronaldo and he will be followed by Frank Lampard.
42:14Who took the penalty against Liverpool during extra time in the semi-final, six days after the death of his mother.
42:22Which was one of the emotional moments of the season.
42:28Oh, and Van der Sar got a hand to it.
42:31But Chelsea are in charge, they lead by three goals to two in the shootout.
42:36Lampard has scored another massive penalty for them.
42:40And Manchester United now are in a situation where they just cannot afford to miss.
42:44And it will be Owen Hargreaves.
42:50The only England goalscorer in that World Cup quarter-final shootout against Portugal.
42:59If he fails and he can't watch, Chelsea will be at match point.
43:07Hargreaves against Cech.
43:09Oh, just, just.
43:14Next up for Chelsea, Ashley Cole.
43:25How did he get that in?
43:28Cole scored England's sixth penalty.
43:30Chelsea, he wasn't one of the original volunteers in the Euro 2004 quarter-final against the Portuguese.
43:37Just before Daraas Vassil's miss.
43:39And he can put Chelsea right on the verge here.
43:49He scores.
43:50Manchester United have to score.
43:57Ashley Cole to give Chelsea match point.
43:59Oh, and Van der Saar got hands on that too.
44:04But it wriggled into the net.
44:07And Chelsea are on the brink.
44:09They know they're very close now on the verge.
44:18And it will be Nani.
44:20The young Portuguese international.
44:22Just 21 years of age, who must score, must score.
44:34Or Chelsea are the European champions.
44:36Oh, and again the goalkeeper got close.
44:50But Nani scored.
44:51And it will be left to John Terry to take the penalty, which could put the European Cup in his hands.
45:02Terry volunteered for an England penalty against Portugal in the Euro 2004 quarter-final shootout and scored.
45:10The man who appeared to be out of this game when he was stretched from the field at Stamford Bridge 10 days ago.
45:21The captain, the heart and soul of Chelsea Football Club.
45:26With one kick of the ball.
45:30To give them the trophy.
45:33Oh, he's missed it.
45:35He's missed it.
45:36I think he clipped the outside of the post on its way past.
45:42Ronaldo is reprieved.
45:44And the shootout will go on.
45:46It's for all.
45:50Just slipped.
45:51Lost his standing foot.
45:54As he hit the ball.
45:57Shades of David Beckham.
46:01And we go on.
46:03Now it's sudden death.
46:04Now it's Anderson.
46:05Another late substitute.
46:07Another late entry into the game.
46:13Oh, and he just drove that almost through Petr Cech.
46:18And Manchester United now are on the verge.
46:22Because if Salomon Kalou cannot score...
46:27What do you get for the man who has everything?
46:33This.
46:34You can't buy this.
46:37Edwin van der Sar.
46:39With a chance...
46:40To become a Manchester United hero forever and a day.
46:44Salomon Kalou must score...
46:48Must score...
46:49Must score...
46:50For Chelsea.
46:55Is this the moment?
46:57Kalou.
46:59Calmly done.
46:59It's five all in the shootout.
47:01It's five all in the shootout.
47:03And we are now down to players...
47:05Who didn't put their hands up.
47:07When asked if they wanted to take a penalty.
47:10It's Ryan Giggs.
47:12On the night that he creates Manchester United history.
47:15No player...
47:16No player...
47:18In the club's history...
47:20Has ever appeared for Manchester United more times than Ryan Giggs.
47:26He would no doubt be involved in the presentation tonight as club captain.
47:30If...
47:30If Manchester United win.
47:32And some just cannot look anymore.
47:37Giggs...
47:37Screws it into the bottom corner.
47:39And for the second time.
47:43Match point.
47:44Manchester United.
47:46And Nicola Anelka.
47:48Who has scored goals against Manchester United.
47:53For Arsenal.
47:55Manchester City.
47:55And earlier this season a winning goal for Bolton in the Premier League.
48:00A Champions League winner.
48:02With Real Madrid.
48:04Who must score.
48:05A former Liverpool and Manchester City player.
48:11With the responsibility.
48:13Of taking.
48:14This key penalty.
48:17Anelka.
48:19Van der Sarge saved it.
48:21United again.
48:25The newly crowned champions of England.
48:28Are the new champions of Europe.
48:302008 is another Manchester United vintage year.
48:38And Cristiano Ronaldo breaks down in tears.
48:43It's Nicola Anelka.
48:46Who is the victim of the drama.
48:49It is Edwin van der Sar.
48:51Who is the hero of the moment.
48:53And the red flag really will be flying in the Russian capital tonight.
49:00Wembley.
49:01Barcelona.
49:02Moscow.
49:03Manchester United.
49:04Three times European champions.
49:06He's known the misery with Holland.
49:17Three of the four shootouts in major international tournaments in which he's involved.
49:21Van der Sar has finished on the losing side.
49:24Big ones.
49:25Two semifinals on a quarterfinal.
49:27But he's won this one.
49:30England's first European Cup winners become England's 11th European Cup winners.
49:37The nine year itch has been well and truly scratched here tonight.
49:43And the giant trophy is heading to Old Trafford for the first time since 1999.
49:48The promised land revisited.
49:54Ronaldo reprieved by big Edwin van der Sar.
49:59It takes a special man to be competing at this level at 37 years of age.
50:04Chelsea almost inconsolable.
50:08But it's double top for the Red Arrows.
50:11Too good for Chelsea and the rest in the English title race.
50:14And too good by a whisker for Chelsea and the rest.
50:18In the quest to become European champions.
50:21Without peers at home or abroad.
50:27John Terry who slipped.
50:31And Gabriel Clarke is with the hero of the moment.
50:3430 years ago, 1 in 12 years ago.
50:36I lost it by penalties.
50:38And we won it now.
50:40So unbelievable.
50:41Such long a time.
50:42With the club and his players.
50:45It's a fantastic, fantastic thing.
50:46What are you thinking, Ria, when John Terry steps up to win it?
50:51I think he's going to score.
50:52He's a great penalty taker normally in trading.
50:54Because unfortunately he slipped.
50:55But for us it's great.
50:57And someone's got to lose.
50:59Today it was them.
51:00And today we've been fortunate enough to win.
51:02Edwin with a great save.
51:03I can't believe it.
51:04I've got a fans now.
51:05Here's Ryan.
51:07Beauty!
51:08Ryan, a winner in 99 but tonight?
51:12Well it's, I mean I can enjoy it a little bit more.
51:15In 99, you know you think that it's going to come on again.
51:20But tonight, it's brilliant.
51:21We deserve it.
51:22We've been the best team.
51:23Do you think you deserve it over tonight's game though?
51:26Yeah, we had to.
51:27But both had chances.
51:29It's no one put in the way.
51:31But, you know, credit to Edwin.
51:34Come good in the end.
51:35Brilliant.
51:36What has brought you through tonight?
51:39Because Chelsea did look physically stronger in the second half.
51:42Yeah, I think first half we dominated.
51:44Second half they had their chances.
51:46But we held our nerve in the end.
51:49You just remember these nights.
51:50The best nights of your life.
51:51Is there a sense of faith about this as well?
51:54When you look at 58, when you look at 68?
51:56Well, we looked back to the City game and we were all disappointed.
52:00And, you know, hopefully this has made up for them.
52:02I'm sure it has.
52:03And what are the ironies tonight?
52:04Of course, Ronaldo.
52:07You're a match winner so often this season.
52:09You're a hero this season that so often misses a penalty.
52:12Yeah, he scores a goal.
52:13He scores a goal.
52:13He's deserved it.
52:14He's been the best player in Europe.
52:15Well, here he is now.
52:17Cristiano.
52:18Cristiano, the first emotion tonight.
52:20The first emotion must be relief.
52:24I don't know what to say.
52:26When you miss that penalty?
52:28I think we're going to lose.
52:29I think, in my opinion, I play good in the game.
52:33I score a goal and I miss the penalty.
52:35I feel, well, the bad day of my life.
52:40The worst day of your life.
52:41Oh, my God.
52:43But the lads, they do the proper job.
52:45And I feel very proud for the lads.
52:49It's like, I miss, but the lads, they're going to believe and they score.
52:52So when John Terry is stepping up with match point for Chelsea, can you look?
52:57What are you thinking?
52:59Well, to be honest, I don't know what I'm thinking.
53:03You know, the penalties is a lottery.
53:05You never know who's going to win.
53:06But I think we deserve to win because we play better in the whole game.
53:10I know you want to achieve so much with this club.
53:12What does this achievement mean to you tonight?
53:15Well, it's just...
53:15After all you've achieved personally this season.
53:17It's everything for me because we win both trophies.
53:20The Champions League and the league, I feel very happy.
53:23Is there any sympathy for Chelsea because it was a wonderful game to watch.
53:36Ebbed and flowed.
53:37Chelsea hit the woodwork twice.
53:38Chelsea is always difficult to bet.
53:41And I think the supporters enjoy to watch the game and I'm enjoying it as well.
53:47Brilliant.
53:47Here's Sir Alex.
53:49Sir Alex, many, many, many congratulations.
53:51Can you believe?
53:52I mean, 99 was tough.
53:54Tough on the ticker.
53:56That's the first Pellet Kicks you've ever won.
53:59The first ever?
54:00First ever in a big game.
54:01Won the Childish Shield, the European Cups, Scottish Cups, FA Cups.
54:06First one.
54:07A sense of faith about this?
54:10I think so, yeah.
54:11I think so.
54:12I think we deserve to win.
54:13I think the first half were fantastic.
54:16We should have been three up.
54:17And they score right in halftime.
54:18A lucky break they got.
54:20Second half, I thought they were the better team.
54:22Extra time we got better.
54:24And I'm just delighted for these people here.
54:27And my players have been proud.
54:28I'm proud of them.
54:29Is this your best team?
54:31I think it's going to make us the best team, yeah.
54:34It's an amazing achievement.
54:35Fantastic achievement.
54:36A great team.
54:38And what about another European Cup for Manchester United?
54:41Fantastic.
54:42Oh, we deserve it.
54:44The SDS club, we started the British sojourn into Europe, 1955, through Pusse and Maia.
54:51And we deserve to get the softs doing it.
54:54Well done.
54:55Thanks, everyone.
54:56And so it is written.
55:00Fate honors the victims of the Munich air crash.
55:03Fifty years ago, one of the finest young teams ever produced by an English football club, led that British crusade into Europe.
55:11Eight of them never returned from Belgrade that snowy night in 1958.
55:14Five of the survivors are here tonight.
55:17And in the year when the anniversary of their passing was marked at every English football ground, Manchester United marked it with a momentous victory in the same competition.
55:29Tribute, indeed.
55:31Tribute, indeed.
55:32Tribute, indeed.
55:33Tribute, indeed.
55:34Tribute, indeed.
55:35Just shaking the hands of Joe Cole.
55:37He has said many times that Manchester United should have won more European Cups.
55:42He will probably say it again in the morning.
55:43But in Moscow in 2008, two became three.
55:49Third British manager to win the ultimate club prize more than once.
55:53Clough, Paisley, Ferguson.
55:59Nikola Anelka has lived with the memory.
56:05Of the saved penalty.
56:08Which was the final deciding factor.
56:11All that can separate Manchester United and Chelsea.
56:15All that separates those seniors from that dejection to the joy that we just saw in young Nani.
56:22And Abram Grant addressing the players.
56:25It has been said on more than one occasion this season that he isn't the orator that his predecessor was.
56:31That he doesn't have the same hold and respect of the players.
56:35But there was a very apparent unity there in that Chelsea group before they walked through the Manchester United Guard of Honour.
56:43And prepare to collect their losers' medals.
56:47They have cleared their heads since the turn of the year.
57:01Losing only to Manchester City on an emotional derby day to Portsmouth.
57:04The eventual FA Cup winners in the competition are to Chelsea last month.
57:10So Bobby Charlton is down there.
57:11He will collect a special plaque which is handed to the winners.
57:15Once the beaten Chelsea team have gone to collect their silver medals.
57:20Wes Brown, Manchester through and through, a real local lad.
57:25And there's the congratulations.
57:27And Edwin van der Sar, who's, like his manager, has had some real penalty shootout heartaches to endure in his long career.
57:39Gets a very meaningful handshake from his boss.
57:42Peter Kenyon, the former Manchester United chief executive, now holds that role with Chelsea, trying to console John Terry.
57:52David Pleat has been watching all this alongside me.
57:55And just, there's nothing between them.
57:57It's a paper-thin verdict.
58:00No, absolutely.
58:01There's a poignant irony, of course, 50 years after Munich.
58:05And whether you believe in fate or not, somehow you felt that there may have been some destiny for it to go back to Old Trafford.
58:15I thought Chelsea responded very well at half-time to a disappointing first half.
58:21Where, for sure, I would agree with Ryan Giggs.
58:24United were much quicker into the stride, much the better team.
58:27United were resilient when Chelsea were on top in the second period.
58:32They defended well.
58:34And in the end, they came good.
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