Paulo Ferreira

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FERREIRA ON SHACKLING RONALDO AT WEMBLEY

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2020/04/25/ferreira-on-shackling-ronaldo-at-wembley?cardIndex=0-2

At 3pm today, The 5th Stand app will be showing the full game re-run of our 2007 FA Cup final victory over Manchester United, the first at the newly-rebuilt Wembley Stadium and an encounter which featured a key battle between two Portuguese internationals down the Chelsea right flank.

With the previous six finals having been held at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, it was a huge game to mark the return of the showpiece fixture to its natural home as the two best teams in the country went head-to-head for the famous trophy.

The match itself was tight, perhaps unsurprising with so much at stake and so little to choose between the teams, who would go on to compete in the Champions League final just one year later.

In the Premier League United had finished as champions, six points ahead of the Blues, but it was Chelsea who would come out on top at Wembley as Didier Drogba - who else? - scored a dramatic extra-time winner when he latched on to a clever Frank Lampard flick and poked the ball home to seal what would be the first of four FA Cup triumphs in just six years.

Paulo Ferreira was given the unenviable task that afternoon of trying to shackle Cristiano Ronaldo, his international team-mate and United’s biggest attacking threat. It was a job he excelled in, with the attacker a peripheral figure for much of the game, and our former defender explains why our game-plan worked so well.

‘That season Cristiano was flying, I think he scored 42 goals and did really well,’ recalls Ferreira. ‘For me, I had to play against him because he was on my side, but the team did really well that day.

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