Shakhtar Donetsk go on to second leg of Champions League after beating AS Roma
Shakhtar Donetsk beat AS Roma 3-2 in the first leg of the UEFA Champion’s League last 16 round encounter at the Stadio Olimpico Rome on Wednesday night. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Simone-Perrotta-c33592 and Jeremy Menez scored for Roma, while Jadson, Douglas Costa and Luiz Adriano scored
for the visitors, who move onto the second leg at the Donbass Arena with a luxury of three away goals.
Claudio Ranieri made five changes to his starting line-up that lost to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergio-c33030
in the AS Roma squad. Shakhtar were missing their Brazilian midfielder, Fernandinho, and Ukrainian defender, Olexandr Kucher, because of injuries.
The visitors were immediately on the offensive as they came close to scoring twice in the opening ten minutes. The hosts soon found their footing and dominated the play after the ten minute mark and almost scored twice before the 20th minute was
over. Nicklas Burdisso was probably the only player to have the best chance to find the back of the net. He delivered a thumping header off Totti’s corner, which went inches wide of the far post. AS http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603 finally got a goal in the 28th minute, as
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rodrigo-Taddei-c31490 displayed some beautiful passing before the latter released the ball and plaved it into the back of the net to make it 1-0. Shakhtar immediately equalized after the whistle. Jadson was given too much space to shoot from
20 yards out and the ball took two deflections on its way into the net as Doni had no chance of stopping it. Moments later, the visitors scored another in the 36th minute. This time, Jadson found http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Douglas-Costa-c11607 in the box and the Brazilian midfielder
cut back onto his left before curling a kick inside Roma’s far post to make it 2-1 for Shakhtar. Six minutes later, the visitors doubled their lead, thanks to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Luiz-Adriano-c22841. John Arne Risse conceded the ball to Jadson inside the box, who played the ball square
to Adriano. The Brazilian was able to knock the ball past http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Doni-c11553 to make it 3-1. The Ukrainian side went into the first half leading by 3-1 as the game looked dead and buried at the half time.
Roma substituted Risse with Paolo Catellini at the start of the second half. Roma looked a far better side in the second half as they dominated possession and pushed the Shakhtar defence on regular basis. Just after the hour mark, the hosts scored their
second goal of the evening. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jeremy-Menez-c18345 surged into the box with blistering pace and placed a pinpoint finish into the back of the net. The visitors dried up in the second half as they couldn’t create any clear goal scoring opportunity. However, they clinged
onto a 3-2 away win at full time.
The second leg of the tie will be played at the Donbass arena on 8th March 2011.
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