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10¹ A thirty yard shot from GOVOU caused the 'keeper no problem. 11¹ GOAL!! A twenty-five yard free-kick was skillfully thundered into the back of the net by SAVIOLA. (1-0 Barcelona) 16¹ A header by RIQUELME at the near post was comfortably collected by the 'keeper. 20¹ GOAL!! With his back to goal SAVIOLA swivelled and stabbed the ball past FÁBIO. (2-0 Barcelona) 21¹ A shot from GOVOU seemed a certain goal but LEO FRANCO managed to fist the ball clear. 24¹ RIQUELME beat four São Paulo players and slammed an effort inches wide. 25¹ The 'keeper dived to his right to stop a fierce drive from Barcelona's SAVIOLA. 27¹ GOAL!! After being forced wide SAVIOLA managed to drive the ball in from the narrowest of angles. (3-0 Barcelona) 30¹ RIQUELME ran onto a wonderful ball from GILBERTO SILVA but dragged his effort wide. 39¹ A corner bobbled toward GOVOU who headed an effort over the bar. 1² A right foot effort from SAVIOLA was blocked by the São Paulo 'keeper. 3² TADDEI rattled an easy chance past the lefthand post. 7² MARCELO MATTOS beat RIQUELME and whacked the ball to GOVOU who hit his shot wide. 9² CUFRÉ shot over. 18² GOAL!! A hefty goal-kick from DEDÉ caught the Barcelona defence square and JÚLIO BAPTISTA ran on to round the 'keeper and score. (3-1 Barcelona) 21² FÁBIO did well to hold onto a powerful strike from SAMUEL. 25² GOAL!! A definite penalty was awarded to Barcelona, after CRIS had fouled SAVIOLA which PIATTI comfortably converted. (4-1 Barcelona) 27² A free-kick from MARCELINHO went just wide. 35² A strike from TADDEI held little difficulty for the Barcelona 'keeper. 38² SAVIOLA touched the ball through a crowd of players but the São Paulo 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 40² MARCELINHO floated the ball to JÚLIO BAPTISTA who forced it inches over. 44² GOAL!! After MARCELO MATTOS was tripped McCLUSKEY waved play-on and GOVOU went on to comfortably score. (4-2 Barcelona)

Barcelona   League position: 20 Home league form: L--- Overall league form: LL------ Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups LEO FRANCO 6½ 1 6  FÁBIO Deivson Nicolás BURDISSO 7½ 2 7½ MAICON Douglas(c) Leandro CUFRÉ 7  3 7  DEDÉ (c)GILBERTO Aparecido da SILVA 7½ 4 7½ MARCELO Mendonca MATTOS Walter SAMUEL 8  5 6½ CRIS Ezequiel GARAY 6½ 6 6½ ALEX Rodrigo Luis GONZÁLEZ 7  7 7½ Rodrigo TADDEI Javier SAVIOLA 7  8 5½ MARCELINHO (p)Pablo PIATTI 7  9 7  Sidney GOVOU(p) (f)Juan Román RIQUELME 7  10 6  GUILHERME Milhomem(f) Mauro ZÁRATE 6  11 6  JÚLIO César BAPTISTA Manager César DELGADO    12    RAFINHA Óscar USTARI    13    DIDA Gabriel PALETTA    14    LUCAS Pezzini Christian GIMÉNEZ    15    EDUARDO RATINHO Gustavo CABRAL    16    Julien FAUBERT

São Paulo   League position: 14 Away league form: X--- Overall league form: XX------ Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Barcelona 4 São Paulo 2 (Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 41,831, Stadium: Camp Nou, Referee: James McCluskey 5½) Saviola 11¹, Saviola 20¹, Saviola 27¹, Piatti 25² (pen) Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Júlio Baptista 18², Govou 44²             5 2 6 14 3 5 10 5 5 12 15 17 6 3 51% 49% ¶ Man of the match: Walter Samuel ¶