In extra time it was France who looked the more likely to score as Franck Ribery shot agonisingly just wide after 99 minutes before Zidane forced the spectacular save from Buffon after meeting a Willy Sagnol cross with a stunning header.

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One of the streets near where I live is rue Buffon, after the pioneer botanist and geologist George Louis Buffon.

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Datolo leveled in the 64th minute when he pounced after keeper Gianluigi Buffon could only parry a header from German Denis and the rebound fell in his path.

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