Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko’s management company has played down the significance of an invitation from AC Milan for the Ukrainian to attend Wednesday’s Champions League final in Athens as their guest.
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Russian media have hailed Spartak Moscow after they finally snapped a record 22-match winless streak in the Champions League by beating Sporting 3-1 in their final Group B match on Tuesday, REUTERS reports.
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December 6, 2006Spartak Moscow players almost missed the start of the Champions League match against Inter Milan after being stuck in traffic on their way to the Luzhniki Olympic stadium and had to use the Moscow underground to get to the arena.
It proved their undoing as Julio Cruz struck just 58 seconds into the match and Inter held on for a 1-0 victory.
Spartak coach Vladimir Fedotov blamed the notorious Moscow gridlock for his team’s bad start to the match.
“As you know we got stuck in traffic and had to take the metro to the stadium,†he told Russian television after the match.
“I must thank the metro people for letting us use it for free.
â€I was also afraid that we would lose some of our players there because most of them probably have never used the metro before and could have got lost there. I had to chase after everyone and make sure no-one was left behind,“ Fedotov said.
â€We were running late, thus we didn’t have a proper warm-up and it all contributed to our poor play at the beginning. Unfortunately, we paid dearly for our mistakes.“
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