2004 UEFA Champions League Final

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2004 UEFA Champions League Final

Winner
F.C. Porto
Runner-up
A.S. Monaco
Score
3–0
Date
26 May 2004
Venue
Arena AufSchalke
Man of the Match
Deco
Website
UEFA Champions League

The 2004 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match played at the Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on May 26, 2004, to decide the winner of the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League. French club A.S. Monaco faced Portugal's F.C. Porto, who won the match 3–0, with Carlos Alberto, man of the match Deco and Dmitri Alenichev scoring the goals.

Before 2004, F.C. Porto's last triumph in the competition had been in 1987. In 2003, the Portuguese club won the UEFA Cup. Monaco played its first ever Champions League Final. Both teams started their UEFA Champions League campaigns in the Group Stage and defeated former European champions on their way to the final. Porto beat 1968 and 1999 winners Manchester United while Monaco defeated nine times champions Real Madrid C.F..

Both teams were considered underdogs in the competition before the final stages and were led by young coaches: Monaco had former France national football team star Didier Deschamps and Porto was led by rising star José Mourinho, who left the team for Chelsea F.C. after the final.

1 Route to the final
2 Match summary
3 Match details
4 Match statistics
5 Notes and references
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Route to the final

For more details on this topic, see UEFA Champions League 2003-04.

[edit] A.S. Monaco

[edit] F.C. Porto

F.C. Porto, winners of the Portuguese Liga, Portuguese Cup and UEFA Cup in 2002–03, were the only Portuguese team in the UEFA Champions League 2003–04 group stage, after the elimination of S.L. Benfica in the third qualifying round against the Italians S.S. Lazio. Porto was drawn in Group F, along with Real Madrid, Olympique de Marseille and Partizan. Porto's first match was at Partizan Stadium in Belgrade, Serbia. Costinha scored the opening goal on 22 minutes, but Andrija Delibašić scored the equalizer on 54 minutes.^[1] The next game, the first at Estádio do Dragão, was a 1–3 loss against Real Madrid. Costinha scored the opening goal again, on 7 minutes. Helguera equalized on 28 minutes; Solari on 37 minutes and Zidane on 67 scored Real Madrid's winning goals.^[2] After only getting one point from the first two games, Porto went on the secure its place in the first knockout round with three straight wins.

Three straight wins, two against Marseille and one against Partizan, secured Porto's place in the first knockout round before the last game of the group stage, a draw in Madrid. In the first knockout round, Porto met Manchester United. The Portuguese won 2–1 at home and managed to qualify in the final minutes of the second leg, when Costinha scored in injury time the equaliser in a 1–1 game at Old Trafford. In the quarterfinals, Porto met a French team for the second time in the tournament: a 2–0 win at home and a 2–2 draw in France knocked Olympique Lyonnais out of the competition. In the se

[edit] Knockout Stage

A.S. Monaco
Lokomotiv Moskva A 1–2	Morientes 69'	First Knockout Round First Leg	Manchester United H 2–1	McCarthy 29', 78'
Lokomotiv Moskva H 1–0	Pršo 60'	Second Leg	Manchester United A 1–1	Costinha 90'
Real Madrid A 2–4	Squillaci 43' Morientes 83'	Quarter Finals First Leg	Lyon H 2–0	Deco 44' Carvalho 71'
Real Madrid H 3–1	Giuly 45+1', 66 Morientes 48'	Second Leg	Lyon A 2–2	Maniche 6', 47'
Chelsea H 3–1	Pršo 17' Morientes 78' Nonda 83'	Semi Finals First Leg	Deportivo H 0–0
Chelsea A 2–2	Ibarra 45+2' Morientes 60'	Second Leg	Deportivo A 1–0	Derlei 60' (pen)

[edit] Match summary

The match was between French club AS Monaco FC, in their first European final, and Portuguese club F.C. Porto, the UEFA Cup winners the previous season. This was also the second time Porto had appeared in the Champions League final. Porto were the favourites after knocking out Manchester United in the second round of the competition, while Monaco had knocked out Real Madrid and Chelsea. Following much pre-match speculation, Monaco captain Ludovic Giuly took up a central attacking position from the start, and four times in the opening three minutes his pace nearly caught Porto cold. On three occasions the experience of his opposite number Jorge Costa was just enough to keep him at bay as he darted through, but once, from Lucas Bernardi's searching pass, Vítor Baía had to race from his goalline to effect a risky last-ditch tackle. Giuly was now coming into his own with some deft touches on the edge of the Porto area, setting up Édouard Cissé whose cross was tantalisingly out of reach of Bernardi's outstretched leg, then providing Jérôme Rothen with a chance to cross from the other flank but this time Fernando Morientes was just out of range. Sadly for Monaco, it was to be nothing more than a cameo from their captain as, after just 22 minutes he limped out of the game clutching his midriff, handing the armband to Julien Rodriguez and being replaced by Dado Pršo. Undeterred, Monaco kept their momentum and Nuno Valente became the first player to be booked after a clumsy foul on Cissé, then Morientes was adjudged offside from another astute pass from Bernardi. The pendulum swung Porto's way when Rothen lost possession to Paulo Ferreira who ran up the right flank and crossed to the near post where Rodriguez just beat Deco to the ball. Five minutes later though Porto took the lead from the same source. This time Paulo Ferreira's centre was a lofted one and it found Carlos Alberto. Unselfishly, he tried to lay the ball off to Derlei but the ball bounced back to the teenager off the hapless Akis Zikos and this time it was despatched with aplomb past Flavio Roma's left hand. Up to that point, five minutes from the interval, Monaco had been the better side, but in the opening period of the second half Monaco looked shell-shocked, a goal down and minus the inspirational Giuly. Gradually however they crept back into contention as Porto failed to capitalise and only another marginal offside verdict denied Morientes an equaliser.On the hour Porto withdrew Carlos Alberto in favour of Russian midfield player Dmitri Alenichev, and four minutes later Monaco brought on Shabani Nonda in place of Cissé as Monaco threw caution to the wind. But as their forays began to founder on the edge of the Porto area, the chance of a decisive counterattack grew more likely. In the 71st minute, Deco broke clear and found Alenichev on the left. The Russian put the ball straight back into the playmaker's path and Deco stroked home Porto's second. Four minutes later the game was over. This time it was Derlei who broke free, and he found Alenichev courtesy of a cross that deflected off Sébastien Squillaci, by now on for Gael Givet. Alenichev needed no second invitation as he drove the third nail in Monaco's coffin. Two days later, manager José Mourinho left Porto to take over as Chelsea boss.

[edit] Match details

May 26, 2004 20:45 CET	AS Monaco	0 – 3	F.C. Porto	Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen
		(Report)	Carlos Alberto 39' Deco 71' Alenichev 75'





AS Monaco





FC Porto


AS MONACO:
GK	30	Flavio Roma
RB	4	Hugo Ibarra
CB	27	Julien Rodriguez
CB	32	Gaël Givet	72'
LB	3	Patrice Evra
CM	14	Édouard Cissé	64'
CM	7	Lucas Bernardi
CM	15	Andreas Zikos
RW	8	Ludovic Giuly (c)	23'
LW	25	Jérôme Rothen
CF	10	Fernando Morientes
Substitutes:
GK	29	Tony Sylva
DF	19	Sebastien Squillaci	64'
MF	6	Jaroslav Plašil
MF	35	Hassan El Fakiri
FW	18	Shabani Nonda	72'
FW	9	Dado Pršo	23'
FW	24	Emmanuel Adebayor
Manager:
Didier Deschamps Man of the Match: Deco Assistant referees: Jens Larsen Jørgen Jepsen Fourth official: Knud Erik Fisker


FC PORTO:
GK	99	Vítor Baía
RB	22	Paulo Ferreira
CB	2	Jorge Costa (c)	77'
CB	4	Ricardo Carvalho
LB	8	Nuno Valente	29'
RM	23	Pedro Mendes
CM	6	Costinha
LM	18	Maniche
AM	10	Deco		85'
CF	11	Derlei		78'
CF	19	Carlos Alberto Gomes	40'	60'
Substitutes:
GK	1	Nuno Espírito Santo
DF	5	Ricardo Costa
DF	17	Bosingwa
MF	3	Pedro Emanuel		85'
MF	15	Dmitri Alenichev		60'
FW	9	Edgaras Jankauskas
FW	77	Benni McCarthy		78'
Manager:
José Mourinho