[lfc-news] Milan scrape through to final - PA

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PA Sport, 4 May 2005
MILAN SCRAPE THROUGH TO FINAL

AC Milan duly took their place in the Champions League final against
Liverpool, but only just.

It took a 90th-minute goal from Massimo Ambrosini to take the Italian
giants through despite a 3-1 second-leg defeat.

Milan, up 2-0 from the first leg, flirted with elimination before
eventually going through on the away goals rule.

PSV started the second leg with a mountain to climb, but armed with the
knowledge that Milan collapsed to a 4-0 defeat in Coruna last season,
they set about the task with gusto.

And within nine minutes they'd halved the deficit as South Korean World
Cup star Ji-Sung Park blasted a left-shoot high into the Milan net.

The Dutch champions dominated the the opening period and could have been
level on aggregate before half-time when Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink hit
the bar with a header.

They did level the tie up at 2-2 overall midway through the second half
when Phillip Cocu rose superbly to head home a fine left-wing cross from
Pyo-Young Lee.

The game appeared to be heading for extra-time when Ambrosini headed
home a cross from Kaka at the near post.

Now PSV needed to score twice in stoppage time, and they did get one
when Cocu volleyed home superbly.

But there was no time for them to get another and the evening ended in
heartbreak for Guus Hiddink's side.

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