Date: 22-06-2004
Stage: first round
Place: GUIMARAES
Running time: 103 min.
Colour: PAL
Quality: HD 1080 50fps (9,5)
Commentary: MULTI : english/spanish/italian
My rating: **
Notes: Cassano,DelPiero,Buffon,Pirlo
MATCH SUMMARY
Tuesday, 22 June 2004, 19:45
Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, Guimarães
Attendance: 16,002
Meteo: Overcast, 21°C
ITALY
Gianluigi Buffon
Marco Materazzi
Alessandro Nesta
Christian Panucci
Gianluca Zambrotta
Stefano Fiore
Simone Perrotta
Antonio Cassano
Bernardo Corradi
Alessandro Del Piero (c)
Andrea Pirlo
Coach: Giovanni Trapattoni (ITA)
44′ Marco Materazzi
54′ ↓Bernardo Corradi ↑Christian Vieri
68′ ↓Simone Perrotta ↑Massimo Oddo
83′ ↓Marco Materazzi ↑Marco Di Vaio
BULGARIA
Zdravko Zdravkov (c)
Ilian Stoyanov
Zlatomir Zagorčić
Daniel Borimirov
Marian Hristov
Predrag Pažin
Milen Petkov
Dimitar Berbatov
Zoran Janković
Zdravko Lazarov
Martin Petrov
Coach: Plamen Markov (BUL)
45′ Martin Petrov
49′ Valery Bozhinov
66′ Ilian Stoyanov
80′ Zdravko Lazarov
46′ ↓Zoran Janković ↑Valery Bozhinov
64′ ↓Predrag Pažin ↑Kiril Kotev
79′ ↓Marian Hristov ↑Velizar Dimitrov
Referee: Valentin Ivanov (RUS)
Goals:
45′ Martin Petrov (p) BUL
48′ Simone Perrotta ITA
90′ Antonio Cassano ITA
Match overview
Italy came from behind for a bittersweet victory; Cassano’s stoppage-time winner proved academic once word filtered through of Sweden’s late equaliser in Porto.
Trivia
Despite finishing unbeaten, Italy were eliminated – the only side to exit a EURO group without losing a match.
