UCL 2007-2008 Quarter-Finals Day One

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1 April 2008<br>
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ROMA 0<br>
MANCHESTER UNITED 2 (Ronaldo 39, Rooney 66)<br>
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Manchester United set-up a Barcelona semi-final with what turned into a comfortable victory over Roma. The visitors took the lead shortly after O'Shea replaced the injured Vidic. United knocked the ball around the Roma half before Carrick chipped back to O'Shea, he passed to Rooney who made Mexes look like a chump with a great turn then played in the unmarked Scholes on the right, Scholes hung a cross upto the centre circle and out of nowhere Ronaldo came steaming in with a bullet header down into the bottom right corner. Brilliant goal. <br>
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Spalletti's half time team talk seemed to do the trick as Roma finally managed to put the United goal under consistent pressure. Unfortunately for the Giallorossi their best chances fell to Tonetto and Panucci. Van der Sar pulled off a spectacular save to deny Vucinic on a corner. At the other end the abysmal Doni fumbled a Park cross leaving Rooney with a tap-in. Ronaldo caught Aquilani dithering in his own half and almost made it 0-3, his shot rebounding off a post. In fact had United took all their chances they could have put another seven goals past Roma.<br>
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Roma were missing their best defender, key defensive midfielder and of course Totti. However injuries are part and parcel of the game and easy to accept. What isn't easy to accept is how and why a team with over a billion dollars of debt is still allowed to sign players. That is bullshit.<br>
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Attendance : 80,023<br>
Assists : Scholes, n/a<br>
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SCHALKE 0<br>
BARCELONA 1 (Bojan 12)<br>
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Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, the hero against Porto in the last round, fumbled after Henry ruined a fantastic sixteen pass move with an atrocious shot, he poked the rebounded across goal for Bojan to tap into an empty net. Kuranyi was substituted on the hour mark and suddenly Schalke began to threaten from crosses but Larsen, Westermann and Bordon all failed to take advantage.<br>
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Attendance : 53,951<br>
Assist : Henry<br>
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