Highlights of the perfect match

First half:

26'
GOAL! Ronaldo!

Wes Brown floats in a delicious ball to the back post, Ronaldo leaps unchallenged and finds the bottom left hand corner for his 42nd goal of the season. Game on


45'
GOAL! Lampard!
Chelsea have floundered through this half, they've been dominated in every department but as they move downfield Essien smashes in a shot, it ricochets into Lampard's path and he lifts it over VDS and into the net. 1-1!

Half time! Crikey, hardly time to catch our breath towards the end! The story of the half is basically this: United have been by far the better side but Chelsea have got lucky right at the death. It should be a cracking second half..

Manchester united 1(ronaldo 26) - Chelsea 1(Lampard 45)

Second Half:

54'
Essien turns the tables on Ronaldo! He breaks down the right, sells Ronaldo a dummy and then shoots left-footed. The ball sails over which is a tragedy for Chelsea because Van der Sar had slipped and any shot on target would have beaten him!

58'
The momentum has definitely shifted towards Chelsea in this half. They must have had a rocket from Avram Grant at the break

78'
Drogba has hit the post! He hits a right foot curler which beats VDS all ends up but cannons back off the woodwork! What an effort!


87'
Giggs replaces Scholes and in doing so breaks Bobby Charlton's long standing appearance record for Manchester United. A bit of history in the Champions League final. Super stuff.

92'
The full time whistle! We go into extra time...

Extra time:

98'
Lampard has hit the bar! Ballack fed him in the area, he spun and hit it left footed and the ball has smacked back of the underside of the bar!

103'
What a clearance from John Terry! Evra gets round the back, commits the keeper and feeds Giggs who thought he had scored before JT somehow got a block in! Unbelievable!

105'
That was incredible defending from John Terry. He was only a few yards away from Giggs - who had the whole of the goal to aim at - but he managed to get his head on the rising shot and divert it over the bar for a corner

113'
United have a spell of possession but it goes nowhere, as the rain begins to lash down in the Luzhniki Stadium. That might make things interesting.

120'
A big shoving match ensues after Chelsea failed to give the ball back to United after the Reds had booted it out. Tevez is in the think of it, Vidic goes nuts and Drogba gets a red card! what?! My word! Where did that come from?!

Penalty shoot outs:

Tevez scores 1-0

Ballack scores 1-1

Carrick scores 2-1

Beletti scores 2-2

Ronaldo misses 2-2

Lampard scores 2-3

Heagreaves scores 3-3

Ashely cole scores 3-4

Nani scores 4-4

John terry misses 4-4

Anderson scores 5-4

Kalou scores 5-5

Ryan giggs scores 6-5

Anelka missses 6-7

MANCHESTER UNITED ARE EUROPE CHAMPIONS AND ENGLISH CHAMPIONS FOR 2007/2008