Football
Reuters 18y

Soccer-Late keeper blunder puts Juve through against Werder

TURIN, Italy, March 7 - Juventus beat Werder
Bremen 2-1 to reach the Champions League quarter-finals on the
away goals rule on Tuesday after a dreadful late blunder by
German goalkeeper Tim Wiese gifted the Italians victory.

With the score at 1-1 on the night and two minutes to go
Wiese, who was outstanding until then, fumbled a harmless cross
and Brazilian Emerson slotted the ball into an unguarded goal to
make the aggregate score 4-4 and put Juve through.

Werder went into the second leg of the first knockout round
tie with a 3-2 lead after a late revival on home soil and within
13 minutes they had doubled their advantage.

Midfielder Christian Schulz picked out Frenchman Johan
Micoud and the Frenchman showed great composure to lift the ball
over the advancing Gianluigi Buffon to put the Germans ahead.

Juve drew level on the night in the 65th minute when French
forward David Trezeguet drove home after being put in by Pavel
Nedved before Wiese's error saw the Italians reach the last
eight.

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