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Club Brugge vs. Juventus 1:2 (0:0)
Goal scorers: Yulu-Matondo 85' - Nedved 66', Trezeguet 75'.
In an amazing match that was completely one sided with Juventus having a great number of 100% chances but simply couldn't break Club Brugge's excellent goalkeeper Stijn Stijnen who with the performance he presented this evening fully deserves to stand between the posts instead of Croat goalkeeper Tomislav Butina on the Belgium's team next match. The bare fact that the Italian giant had even 11 shots on goal and 26 in total while the home side made 7 out of which one was aiming the goal which even entered says it all.
The opening was very hard on the home side, Pavel Nedved had two excellent chances and then Trezeguet shot directly in the goalkeeper from just a few meters range when he was standing alone in front of Stijnen. Simply the 24 year old goalkeeper didn't even have a time to catch a new breath but he defended his sheet well and kept it untouched until the 66th minute.
Then six minutes after an hour of the game, Zlatan Ibrahimovic was fouled outside the area, and Nedved took out a free kick that gone past the wall and drilled in the right side of the goal for the long waited 0:1 goal. The young Swedish international had a 100% chance as well when he came in the box from the right and waited just like four meters away from Stijnen but he also as Trezeguet struck the ball directly on the goalkeeper and that made him miss a great opportunity to sign his name in the score sheet.
Less than ten minutes later Trezeguet finally struck the back of the net and made it 0:2. The Frenchman received a pass by Mauro Camoranesi in 75th minute and beaten Stijnen with a well taken lob shot after a diagonal run. Right away Ibrahimovic who had most of the chances in this duel could have increased the Old Lady's advantage but again the Belgium goalkeeper was a too big obstacle to go around and score.
Five minutes before the end Club Brugge succeeded to get their consolation goal (1:2) when Yulu-Matondo headed the ball past Christian Abbiati after connecting on Jonothan Blondel loose ball.
Line ups
Club Brugge: Stijnen, de Cock, Maertens, Spilar, Valgaeren (de Oliveira 74'), Vanaudenaerde, Englebert, Vermant (Leko 84'), Portillo (Blondel 52'), Balaban, Yulu-Matondo.
Juventus: Abbiati, Cannavaro, Kovac, Zambrotta, Blasi, Camoranesi (Giannichedda 89'), Emerson, Nedved, Vieira, Ibrahimovic, Trezeguet (Zalayeta 89').
Rapid Vienna vs. Bayern Munchen 0:1 (0:0)
Goal scorer: Guerrero 60'.
This is a kind of a match that could have gone either way. While Rapid had the best of counter-attacks especially at the end of the first half, Bayern Munchen had most of the ball possession and far more shots on the goal.
Moments before the half time break Rapid's captain Steffen Hofmann if quicker could have slotted the ball home but he failed to reach the cross and Oliver Kahn was safe. The same thing happened just before the referee announced the end of the first half, but this time the spotlight was over Marek Kincl who picked up a cross from Axel Lawaree but the Czech only blasted the ball over the crossbar.
Fifteen minutes in the second half Bayern ball possession finally paid of and the Peruvian striker Jose Paolo Guerrero struck the only goal of the match when he picked up a rebound from Roy Makaay's header and shipped the ball past Helge Payer for 0:1.
Rapid could have scored the equalizer and they had the best opportunity to do so eight minutes before the final whistle when the referee awarded them a penalty because of a foul over Muhammet Akagunduz as the home side defender Jozef Valachovic missed the entire goal.
After the match Bayern's chief in charge Felix Magath said that he feared for three points until the very last minute while his colleague on the home side bench Josef Hickersberger admitted that despite the missed penalty the Germans deserved to win.
Line ups
Rapid Vienna: Payer, Adamski, Dober, Valachovic, Bejbl, Hlinka, Hofmann, Ivanschitz (Dollinger 84'), Korsos (Korsos 65'), Kincl, Lawaree (Lawaree 74').
Bayern Munchen: Kahn, Ismael, Lizarazu (Demichelis 52'), Lucio, Sagnol, Hargreaves, Scholl, Schweinsteiger (Deisler 83'), Ze Roberto, Makaay, Pizarro (Guerrero 52').
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