The 2009 Coppa Italia final was the final match of the 2008–09 Coppa Italia, the top cup competition in Italian football. The match was played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 13 May 2009 between Lazio and Sampdoria; Lazio won 6–5 on penalties after the match ended 1–1 after extra time. Hugo Campagnaro missed his spot kick for Sampdoria and allowed Ousmane Dabo to slot home the winner for Lazio.
Route to the final
LazioSampdoriaBeneventoH5–1Mauri 9'Meghni 22'Manfredini 54'Pandev 57', 90'Third Roundnot played–AtalantaH2–0 Ledesma 17'Pandev 83'Fourth Roundnot played–MilanA2–1(a.e.t.)Zárate 87' (pen.)Pandev 92' Round of 16EmpoliH2–1Bonazzoli 31'Fornaroli 46'TorinoH3–1Pandev 47'Mauri 55'Rocchi 91'Quarter-finalsUdineseH1–1(a.e.t.)Pazzini 10'JuventusH2–1 Pandev 66'Rocchi 78' Semi-finalsFirst legInternazionaleH3–0Cassano 9'Pazzini 30', 41'JuventusA2–1Zárate 37'Kolarov 46'Second legInternazionaleA0–1
Pre-match Team selection Goran Pandev and Pasquale Foggia both returned to fitness for Lazio in the lead up to this match; however, they had to do without the services of their Brazilian midfielder Matuzalém, who missed out through suspension. Sampdoria welcomed back defensive duo Pietro Accardi and Stefano Lucchini, as well as Paolo Sammarco, who passed a late fitness test, to assure him of a spot in the final.
Sampdoria coach Walter Mazzarri said that the final should be played in a neutral venue, and that it would give more balance to the match.
Ticketing Although the usual capacity of the Stadio Olimpico is over 72,000, not every single ticket has been sold. In fact, Lega Calcio decided to sell about 20,000 tickets for each club, and the remain tickets at the neutral public (even if they had been bought for the most part from Lazio fans because the final was in Rome). Lazio fans took place in "Curva Nord", while the Sampdoria ones at the opposite side. Between Lazio fans and Sampdoria fans a sector, the "Distinti Sud Est", has been left empty to leave a large space between the "Curva Sud" and the "Tribuna Tevere", due to avoid fights between fans. That space was occupied in part by children of the youth Lazio teams. At the end of the match, it has been counted about 50,000 Lazio fans and 18,000 Sampdoria fans.
Kits Having been designated as the official "home" team, Lazio could wear their usual kit, that is the light-blue one. Nevertheless, Sampdoria could wear their home kit too, but with blue shorts instead of white ones.
Match Match details
GK 86 Fernando MusleraRB 2 Stephan LichtsteinerCB 13 Sebastiano Siviglia CB 22 David RozehnalLB 3 Aleksandar KolarovRM 5 Cristian Brocchi CM 24 Cristian Ledesma (c)CM 6 Ousmane DaboLM 17 Pasquale Foggia CF 19 Goran Pandev CF 10 Mauro ZárateSubstitutes:GK 1 Juan Pablo CarrizoDF 32 Ştefan RaduDF 29 Lorenzo De Silvestri DF 87 Modibo DiakitéMF 11 Stefano MauriFW 81 Simone Del Nero FW 18 Tommaso Rocchi Manager: Delio Rossi GK 1 Luca CastellazziCB 16 Hugo CampagnaroCB 6 Stefano Lucchini CB 5 Pietro Accardi DM 21 Paolo Sammarco DM 19 Daniele Franceschini RM 23 Marius StankevičiusLM 46 Mirko PieriAM 17 Angelo Palombo (c) CF 10 Giampaolo PazziniCF 99 Antonio CassanoSubstitutes:GK 83 Antonio MiranteDF 28 Daniele Gastaldello DF 84 Andrea RaggiMF 88 Daniele Dessena MF 20 Marco PadalinoMF 40 Gennaro Delvecchio FW 89 Guido MarilungoManager: Walter Mazzarri
Post-match
After the match, some Lazio players wore a T-shirt to joke A.S. Roma rivals with written on it Io campione, tu zero titoli (I'm a champion, you have no honours), quoting a sentence said by José Mourinho who had, earlier in the season, correctly predicted that Milan, Juventus and Roma would have completed the season with no honours.
Lazio captain, Tommaso Rocchi, has been rewarded by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano in front of the "Tribuna Montemario", and gave him the trophy that Rocchi lifted with the captain of that match, Cristian Ledesma.
Cristian Brocchi and Lorenzo De Silvestri dedicated the victory to Gabriele Sandri, a fan who was killed last season, and coach Delio Rossi said that the triumph was also dedicated to the fans and everyone who had made many sacrifices to get the team to the final.
After the match, a minority of Lazio fans clashed with police and tried to smash shops in Rome city centre following the win over Sampdoria, according to a statement on 14 May 2009. Police said three arrests had been made before and after the final and added that five police officers had been injured.
See also 2008-09 UC Sampdoria season 2008-09 SS Lazio season
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