Ernad@ernad

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Oct 4 (edited)

The game is more remembered for it's history. Arsenal were looking to win their first UCL in their final season at Highbury, while Barcelona were looking for their 2nd UCL trophy, 14 years after Cruyff won them their first, this time with another Dutch legend, Frank Rijkaard. It's not that entertaining for a neutral to be honest but still iconic and relevant today with both Arsenal and Barcelona being real contenders to win the UCL again. The two clubs were just friends until the 18th minute where Lehmann went too far with his flirting and got sent off for his foot fetish, becoming the first ever Goalkeeper to be sent off in a UCL final. For some reason, the referee didn't play advantage and the frenchman Giuly couldn't get his goal. So the score stayed 0-0 until the Spurs legend Sol Campbell scored in the 37th minute from a set piece. Some things never change I guess. After the red they dropped into a deep 4-4-1 with Henry alone up front, and tried to survive and counter. Barcelona on the other hand kept the ball but couldn't break the block. So Rijkaard added a young Iniesta at half-time, who impressed me, mostly by having hair for once. And after the hour he added the actual game winners, not an injured 18 year old autistic golden boy, but the swedish Larsson who came off the bench and gave Barcelona a lush life. As well as Belletti (Balotelli if you're dyslexic) in the 71st minute. Larsson set up Samuel Eto'o who finished it near post past Almunian foil to equalize in the 76th minute. Some claim it was offside but there was no VAR back then to waste 5 minutes and make a wrong decision. So Barcelona kept their momentum and the Swede got his 2nd assist in his last ever game for the Catalans just 4 minutes later, by passing it to the random kid right back Belletti to make it 2-1. Arsenal, a solid defensive side that kept 10 clean sheets on the way to Paris, went up 1-0 but got dominated and lost. Hmm, I hope nothing similar happens to them 20 years later...

lucas.sterra@lucas.sterra

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Sep 14 (edited)

golaço do beletti e a cena icônica do henry na bandeirinha, merecia uma Champions inclusive tenho uma camisa do Ronaldinho dessa final, muito foda

Retr0@retr0

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Aug 31

Unforgettable final.

AZ@footballfan

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Sep 14

Barca second UCL

zainab@sakavertz

May 30

knew what would happen and still gasped out loud. SO STRESSFUL TO WATCH AND I KNEW HOW IT WOULD END i can’t imagine how it felt watching this live

Mo@mooo

☆☆☆☆☆★★★★★Jun 8

Always the small details.