Manchester United 1 Chelsea 1, United win 6-5 on penalties, Champions League final, May 21, 2008 The red stars floated into the Moscow night sky and hours later Manchester United supporters were looking to the heavens.
Some braved the spectacle of a penalty shootout. Some could not bear to watch. Anderson, the United midfielder who had turned the tide with his sudden-death conversion and impassioned celebration, was on his knees and unable to watch as Ryan Giggs, the most experienced footballer on the pitch, brushed away the drizzle from his brow and awaited Lubos Michel’s whistle.
Petr Cech could not have dived further away from Giggs’s side-footer. A penalty failure has never felt more inevitable than Nicolas Anelka’s.
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