Remember the second game of the Champions League semifinal between Villareal and Arsenal? If not, there’s no biggie. You have to know that Riquelme missed a penalty shot with Lehmann protecting the English goal. The minute? Almost 90′. Arsenal went to meet Barcelona in the final.

On that momentous 25 April night in Spain, Riquelme’s Villarreal hosted Lehmann’s Arsenal as the two sides went in search of Champions League glory. A tense match went right down to the wire, practically to the last kick of the game, when the Germany number one saved a penalty from the Argentinian playmaker.

Lehmann’s outstanding stop sealed Arsene Wenger’s team’s semi-final victory and it was they, not Villarreal, who went on to face Barcelona in their first-ever Champions League final. However, the Paris showpiece turned sour for Lehmann, who collected a red card after 18 minutes and he was a bystander as Arsenal went down to two late goals.

The tension will once again be unremitting in Berlin as the duo cross swords, proudly wearing the colours of their national teams. Though the prize at stake on this occasion is a place in the semi-finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the goal will once again be to get the better of a great rival and move one step closer to glory.

Source: WCoffsite