P	W	D	L	F	A	PTS
Juventus		6	3	2	1	11	8	11
Porto		6	3	1	2	7	5	10
Celtic		6	3	0	3	8	11	9
Rosenborg	6	1	1	4	4	6	4

Phase 2
UEFA Cup


31 OCTOBER 2001

CELTIC				4-3			JUVENTUS
Valgaeren 24						Del Piero 19
Sutton 45, 64						Trezeguet 51, 71
Larsson 57 (Pen)

Del Piero scored the opening goal with a magnificent, curling free kick.
Moravcik turned Paramatti inside out twice before floating a cross into the
box which was met by Valgaeren's diving header, 1-1. Celtic took the lead
following another immaculate delivery by Moravcik this time from a corner.
Trezeguet smashed Juve level with a left foot strike following a swift move
between Amoruso and Maresca. Celtic were awarded a penalty for absolutely
nothing. 'The best striker in Europe' converted. Sutton won the tie with a
magnificent left foot volley. Trezeguet scored his second following a couple
of lucky deflections but Celtic held on in vain.

Assists : Del Piero, Moravcik (x2), Amoruso, Sutton, Balde


PORTO				1-0			ROSENBORG
Pena 37

Pena headed Porto in Phase 2 from Clayton's cross. Rosenborg rarely
troubled the Portuguese.

Assist : Clayton


23 OCTOBER 2001

JUVENTUS			3-1			PORTO
Del Piero 32						Clayton 13
Montero 47
Trezeguet 73

Downright terrible defending allowed Porto to take the lead. Soderstrom won
a free kick wide on the left about 25 yds from goal. Clayton stepped up and
sent the ball into the box where the entire Juve defence and Buffon managed
to miss it, 0-1. Del Piero equalised with a brilliant free kick. Montero
climbed over the Porto defence to head in Del Piero's corner. Nedved pressed
Rafael into loosing the ball and centred for Trezeguet to score to third.

Assists : Soderstrom, Nedved (x2), Del Piero


ROSENBORG			2-0			CELTIC
Brattbakk 19, 36

Brattbakk came back to haunt his former club. Rushfeldt flicked on a long
ball and Douglas' slip left Brattbakk with an easy chance. The second was
a tap-in after the unlucky Douglas had parried Rushfeldt's shot. Douglas
made a brilliant save from a Skammelsrud penalty.

Assist : Rushfeldt


17 OCTOBER 2001

JUVENTUS			1-0			ROSENBORG
Trezeguet 25

Trezeguet scored with a typical athletic header from a superb Del Piero cross
as three Rosenborg defender's stood in a line and watched. They can't surely
have been playing offside?

Juve totally lacked invention as they have done in the Champions League this
season. They won't get much further than Phase 2 playing like this.

"We paid for the strain of Sunday's Turin derby. After the goal we tried to
create more chances to kill off the match but the Norwegian goalkeeper was
fantastic." - Marcello Lippi

Assist : Del Piero


PORTO				3-0			CELTIC
Clayton 1, 61
Mario Silva 46

Clayton couldn't believe his luck when the humongous Balde missed Capucho's
cross giving him an easy header in front of goal. Another mistake by Balde
gave Porto another goal. He headed a corner straight out into the middle of
the box and Mario Silva smashed the ball past Douglas. A marvellous third.
Clayton played the ball into Deco who returned it with a beautiful rolled
pass and he thrashed a left foot shot in off the crossbar.

Assists : Capucho, Deco


10 OCTOBER 2001

CELTIC				1-0			ROSENBORG
Thompson 21

Thompson earned Celtic would should have been an easy three points with
a low free kick. 

"It was a great night for the club but it's only our third game. We're one million
miles from being the finished article. We just couldn't get the second goal tonight
to give us some breathing space." Martin O'Neill


Assist : Petrov


PORTO				0-0			JUVENTUS

Porto had the best chances but when they managed to get shots on target
Buffon came to Juve's rescue with World Class saves. Pena could have
scored a hat-trick.

"Certainly we could and should have done more and even risked conceding
several goals in the first half but it went better after the break even though
we still didn't create many chances. We had to deal with a team filled with
many internationals tired from the weekend’s World Cup qualifiers."
Marcello Lippi


25 SEPTEMBER 2001

CELTIC				1-0			PORTO
Larsson 36

Celtic worked a short corner, Petta sent the ball into the box, it bounced
off Sutton and Larsson lashed it past Ovchinikov.

Assist : Sutton


ROSENBORG			1-1			JUVENTUS
Skammelsrud 89 (Pen)					Del Piero 85

Juve missed a ton of chances. 0-4 would have flattered Rosenborg. Zenoni and
Salas slipped in the box when shooting for goal. Del Piero hit the crossbar
and went close with a free kick. Juve finally took the lead five minutes from
time. There was a suspicion of handball from Trezeguet as he controlled
Tacchinardi's pass and squared for Del Piero who scored in off the post.
Brattbakk hurled himself over Buffon to win a penalty - emphatically
converted by Skammelsrud. Brattbakk gave Tacchinardi a slap in the face in
the closing minutes. He'll be lucky to get away with it.

Assists : Trezeguet, Brattbakk


18 SEPTEMBER 2001

JUVENTUS			3-2			CELTIC
Trezeguet 43, 55						Sutton 67
Amoruso 89 (Pen)					Larsson 86 (Pen)

Salas, who looks like such a twat with that big girly hairband, abused Valgaeren
and centred for Trezeguet, 1-0. Del Piero picked up the ball on the left wing and
found himself face to face with the ENORMOUS Balde (6ft 3in, 206lbs) so he shit
himself, ran away and sent a deep cross into the box, Trezeguet is just awesome
in the air, 2-0. Sutton cleverly re-directed Petrov's deflected free kick past Buffon.
Davids was sent off for fouling Larsson. He shouldn't have been playing in the
first place (Davids not Larsson). The ref probably got sick of turning down several
penalty appeals by the away side so dreamed one up. 'Europe's top scorer'
(that's official you know) converted from the spot. Valgaeren then threw away
what should have been a well earned point by stupidly grabbing Amoruso in the
box, a higher power (gravity) pulled Amoruso down. To add insult to stupidity,
Amoruso smashed the ball past Doughlas.

"The Scots were energetic and gave us real problems. We should not be ashamed
to say it even if we played a good part of the game with ten men. We were lucky
to find that penalty" - Marcello Lippi

"It was an extraordinary decision. I'm sure when the referee sees it on TV he'll
realise I'm right. It was shocking. I couldn't believe it when he pointed to the
spot.The player was a foot away from the ball." - Martin O'Neill

Assists : Salas, Del Piero, Petrov, Sutton, Amoruso


ROSENBORG			1-2			PORTO
Rushfeldt 90						Pena 10
							Deco 60

Crap defending and a great throughball gave Porto an early lead. Deco headed
in Porto's second from an absolutely awesome, awesome, awesome first time
cross by Mario Silva. Rushfeldt headed in a free kick.

Assists : Deco, Mario Silva, ?