Team selection

While Parma's selection for the match was more straightforward, underdogs Marseille had five players suspended for the final after the team's semi-final victory over Bologna, which ended in a fight in the players' tunnel at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara. Fabrizio Ravanelli, Peter Luccin and William Gallas received yellow cards which barred their participation in the final.^[4] Christophe Dugarry and Hamada Jambay would serve the first match of their respective and five- and four-match suspensions on the sidelines for the final for their involvement in the brawl.^[5]

Summary

Hugh Dallas, the Scottish referee who had also officiated in the Franco-Italian 1998 World Cup quarter-final, conducted the coin toss, which was won by Marseille captain Laurent Blanc and the Frenchman elected to shoot towards his team's own fans in the second half. Roberto Sensini, Parma's captain, chose to kick the match off.^{[citation needed]}

The first 25 minutes saw a cautious Marseille side play much of their football in their own half, only to knock it long to their isolated frontmen Robert Pires and Florian Maurice. Following such an occasion, Sensini hit a long ball forward towards Juan Sebastián Verón, whose headed flick-on looked not to be dangerous until a lazy headed backpass from the experienced Laurent Blanc gifted Hernán Crespo one-on-one with the keeper; the Argentine coolly lobbed Stéphane Porato with his first touch to give Parma the lead after 26 minutes.^{[citation needed]}

Ten minutes later, as the Italians continued to dominate the match, a Parma attack twice looked to have been ended by Marseille's defence, but the ball found Lilian Thuram in an advanced right-back position on both occasions. On the second occasion, Thuram was able to slide in to find Diego Fuser five yards from the byline and just onside. He whipped in a deep cross, and Paolo Vanoli directed his header past Marseille's goalkeeper into the net to double Parma's advantage.^{[citation needed]}

Five minutes before the hour mark, Thuram surged forward down the right before giving the ball to Verón outside him. Verón chipped the ball into the penalty area with a ball looking to be destined for Crespo's boot, a fine dummy duped the Marseille's defence and gave Enrico Chiesa the opportunity to volley home emphatically from 12 yards to make it 3–0 and seal a Parma victory.^{[citation needed]}

The end of the game saw Parma control the game and keep their lead on the scoreboard against a valiant but dominated Marseille team.^{[citation needed]}

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Crespo 25' Vanoli 36' Chiesa 55'	Report

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GK 1 Gianluigi Buffon RB 21 Lilian Thuram CB 17 Fabio Cannavaro LB 6 Roberto Sensini (c) CM 8 Dino Baggio CM 15 Alain Boghossian RW 7 Diego Fuser AM 11 Juan Sebastián Verón  77' LW 24 Paolo Vanoli CF 9 Hernán Crespo  84' CF 20 Enrico Chiesa  73' Substitutes: GK 28 Davide Micillo DF 4 Luigi Sartor DF 14 Roberto Mussi DF 26 Luigi Apolloni MF 23 Stefano Fiore  77' FW 10 Faustino Asprilla  89'  84' FW 18 Abel Balbo  73' Manager: Alberto Malesani

GK 16 Stéphane Porato SW 5 Laurent Blanc (c) CB 4 Pierre Issa CB 17 Cyril Domoraud RWB 2 Patrick Blondeau  50' LWB 28 Edson  46' CM 8 Frédéric Brando CM 27 Daniel Bravo AM 10 Jocelyn Gourvennec CF 7 Robert Pires CF 9 Florian Maurice Substitutes: GK 30 François Lemasson DF 12 Tchiressoua Guel DF 29 Jacques Abardonado MF 22 Martial Robin FW 13 Titi Camara  46' FW 15 Arthur Moses FW 19 Cédric Mouret Manager: Rolland Courbis