Season 1999-00 - Everton vs Leeds United
see full Premier-League Games on :
soccerland.sports-classics.stream/premier-league.html
soccerland.sports-classics.stream/premier-league.html
Transcript
00:00At Goodison Park on October the 24th 1999 in a Premiership matchup that saw 9th play first in the league standings
00:09Everton were hoping to bounce back from a 4-1 defeat at Highbury
00:12While Leeds hadn't lost in any competition since a 2-1 defeat against Liverpool way back in August
00:19Walter Smith recalled club captain Dave Watson who was on the brink of his 38th birthday
00:25Watson played alongside Richard Goff in an
00:28experienced defense. Goff was only four months his junior. It was only the third time the two had played together
00:33David Unsworth pushed up into midfield in place of the injured Abel Xavier. Francis Jeffers was still suspended
00:40Leeds striker Michael Bridges had already scored seven goals for his new club since his transfer from Sunderland
00:47They fielded the same side that had beaten at Locomotive Moscow in the UEFA Cup
00:53Stephen McPhail continued in midfield with David Hopkin and Darren Huckabee on the bench
00:58Leeds were aiming to make it 11 straight wins and extend a club record
01:04Your match commentator is John Champion
01:09Leeds United in record-breaking form
01:13Little wonder they sit proudly on top of the English Premier League with 25 points from their opening 11 fixtures
01:19and buoyed by yesterday's results
01:22Manchester United's defeat at Spurs
01:25Arsenal winning 3-2 in a thriller at Chelsea with that Canu hat-trick
01:32This does represent a chance for Leeds to cement their position at the top
01:44Bridges couldn't keep it within bounds
01:46David O'Leary employing a youthful strikeforce combined age of Mrs. Kewel, Bridges and Smith is just 61
01:54Compare that with Watson and Goff at the heart of the Everton defence
01:59combined age 75
02:04Here's Michael Ball for Everton
02:06Off goes Kewel and there is one of those veterans, Watson
02:19Not quite stride for stride with the young Australian
02:27McPhail
02:30Kewel
02:33Flag was up
02:36Dermot Gallagher from Banbury in Oxfordshire is the referee
02:39a commercial manager of non-league Tame United
02:43When not engaged in the middle
02:57Not many spare seats around Goodison today. A crowd of roundabout 37,000 expected
03:06Gary Kelly
03:15Collins, now Kevin Campbell, 1-0 Everton
03:26Cleanly crisply taken
03:33Set up by John Collins
03:36There's something about Goodison that brings out the best in Kevin Campbell
03:42Averaging a goal a game here
03:48Perfect start for Everton and the league leaders are behind
03:57Kewel up against Watson
04:00Goodison
04:04Nigel Martin beaten already by a very well-constructed goal
04:12Woodgate
04:21There's Bridges
04:25Offside
04:29Good finish mind you
04:34It's a pretty filthy afternoon on Merseyside rain lashing down. It's for a good slippy surface
04:43Get the best games on wet pitches as the ball zips about players slide in with tackles
04:55Bradaby
04:57McPhail
05:00Oh
05:10Strong Scottish influence to this Everton side unsurprising with Walter Smith in charge
05:15five Scots in the starting 11 today
05:18Goffin we're John Collins Scott Gemmell Don Hutchison
05:24They played international football for Scotland
05:29And
05:33It's an Englishman who backed the goal Kevin Campbell
05:41Down by Libia
05:53Needs don't appear too
05:56Concerned by the fact that they're trading the goal has come so early in the game
06:00And they have been scoring so freely of late
06:05Fresh from that 4-1 thumping of locomotive Moscow at Elland Road on Thursday in the UEFA Cup
06:19Kelly
06:27Oh, yeah
06:30Oh
06:37Bridges
06:45Eight goals for the season already for Michael Bridges two of the young guns combining to outgun Everton
06:55Created by Kewel finished by bridges
07:00Leads back on terms they trailed for little more than 10 minutes
07:13And that's brought Walter Smith down
07:16the directors box
07:19To oversee this change Scott Gemmell is withdrawn and Mark Pembridge comes on
07:26Some fight to the central midfield battle
07:36Gotta be
07:39For Pembridge now Don Hutchison
07:46That's a super second
07:56You
08:01Finished with plenty of style
08:07Hutchison played Cameron and with the goalkeeper on his way down Campbell chipped him
08:18Would get rather be
08:26Heart
08:28It's cure
08:31Recovery by Watson not far short of his 38th birthday
08:37Veteran of League Championships with Everton
08:42On the last of their nine titles back in 1987
08:51Ian Hart
08:55Woodgate's effort deflected over
09:02Still only 18 Jonathan Woodgate
09:10Contrast to some of those around him
09:1437 Watson nearly 38
09:20Pensionable age for footballers
09:23It's rather bait swing and a miss
09:29You have a scored two career goals for Leeds Lucas rather be
09:37Bridges
09:41Sliding in was Alan Smith
09:46Four days short of his 19th birthday
09:53The time of James, please
09:59Age a theme and a factor at both ends of the scale in this game the oldies and the youngsters
10:18Leeds winners of the last ten games in all competitions
10:23Breaking a club record that had stood for 68 years
10:29David O'Leary delighted with the progress that his babies as he calls them a making
10:40Cure Oh Gerard stranded
10:45Harry kill scores a spectacular goal for Leeds
10:49Did he really mean it?
10:53Oh
10:56Well his reaction suggests that really
11:00It was meant as a cross
11:03Just floated towards the back post
11:07Gerard wasn't that far off his line in fact, but it's 2-2
11:11Harry Kelly is Leeds longest-serving player
11:18Is Hutchison
11:21Would you believe it?
11:24Everton take the lead for the third time
11:30And there's still nearly ten minutes to play in this game
11:33Slight element of fortune to it
11:36Bambi might have been penalized for foot up and then a big deflection off Radebeck, but Hutchison will claim it
11:44But he's got the ball
11:47He's got the ball
11:50He's got the ball
11:53He's got the ball
11:56He's got the ball
11:59He's got the ball
12:01But Hutchison will claim it
12:12I think if anything the rain has helped the spectacle
12:17A much quicker game than we might have had in dry conditions
12:22It's half-time, it's a pity to interrupt the entertainment
12:26Let's hope for more of the same in the second half
12:29Kevin Campbell with a pair of goals for Everton
12:32Don Hutchison has scored as well
12:35Bridges and Kewel, maybe with a mishit cross, scoring for Leeds
12:39And at half-time here at Goodison, it's Everton 3, Leeds 2
12:44Everton's throw
12:50Nick Bambi, a native of Yorkshire, but not the Leeds area, he comes from Hull
12:57Ball
13:00Glanced off Woodgate
13:03Campbell went down in stage one
13:06Ball
13:09Glanced off Woodgate
13:11Campbell went down in stages
13:13And Dermot Gallagher gives the free-kick
13:16And an injury to Lucas Radeby in the process
13:24Sender Baku has given good service to Leeds
13:27He joined in the Howard Wilkinson era
13:30Came with another South African, Phil Messinger, who was a striker
13:36Acknowledgement from one injured player to the other
13:38Campbell seems in better shape than Radeby at the moment
13:46Pembridge
13:48Hutchison
13:50Guided round the post by Nigel Martin
13:57Reacted as if he saw it rather late
14:01A daisy-cutter from Hutchison's right boot
14:10Collins
14:12Radeby
14:14Unsworth
14:16Oh, what a chance
14:19For Don Hutchison
14:24Hooked on in hope by Unsworth
14:28Quickest to react was Everton's number 10
14:45Goff
14:53Collins
14:55It's Batty
15:00Leeds being made to struggle more in this game than in
15:03Most of their other fixtures this season
15:07Watson left it a little short and Gerrard did well for Everton
15:12Now the break's on at the other end
15:15And down goes Hutchison and he looks plaintively at the referee
15:19Who says no foul
15:20Well, had he given a free kick against Lucas Radeby there
15:23He might well have had to issue a red card as well
15:29There are no covering defenders helping out Radeby
15:33I think that was a foul
15:36Leeds have had a major slice of luck there
15:40This is Campbell
15:42Weak finish
15:43Continues to be a really engaging contest this
15:52David Batty
15:55McPhail
15:57Michael Bridges
15:59Had a go
16:00And
16:01Steered it just wide
16:03Leeds carry such a threat up front
16:06One of these young players, Bridges and Smith and Kuehl
16:10Bollier breaking from midfield
16:19Second season of
16:21This
16:23Is the
16:25Final
16:27Of
16:29The
16:31Second season of David O'Leary's tenure
16:38Leeds fifth and then fourth in the last two seasons
16:42Playing in the UEFA Cup for the second campaign running
16:46Signs of progress at Elland Road
16:50Kuehl
16:54And still Harry Kuehl
16:55Kuehl
16:59He's 21
17:01And he appears to have the world at his feet, Harry Kuehl
17:08And a world class talent in those feet
17:13No defender could get close to him
17:18Woodgate
17:20Hart
17:23Watson
17:25Bollier
17:37Bridges
17:41Huckabee
17:43Bridges!
17:45That's a lovely goal
17:51A really lovely goal
17:56Scored by a class act
18:02Signs of his talent when he was playing for Sunderland but now it's really coming to fruition
18:12And Darren Huckabee the substitute
18:15Helped in its creation
18:18Three times Everton have led
18:21Three times Leeds have pulled level
18:26Bollier
18:30Huckabee
18:33Behind by Weir
18:35Everton being troubled by Huckabee's pace
18:38That's why he's been sent on
18:55Hart, the regular taker of all the Leeds set pieces
19:05Batty
19:08Bridges
19:14Hutchison
19:17Collins
19:25Huckabee
19:32Kuehl
19:35Bollier
19:37Picked away from him by John Collins
19:47Weir
19:50Here's Campbell and out comes Nigel Martin
19:55Leeds have won on this ground once in the last decade
20:02That's offside
20:04It's a miss anyway by Michael Bridges
20:05Michael Bridges
20:24Leeds fans singing their club's anthem with some gusto
20:31Showing plenty of resilience today, Leeds United
20:35And off goes Huckabee
20:38Always looking to release him
20:44Kicked by Boll
20:55The pace of this game has been ceaseless
21:06Chisholm
21:10Armby and Pembridge in a two-man Everton wall
21:18Hart
21:25The, fairly close to his ideal position for a free-kick, Ian Hart
21:30Wide on the right, plenty of room to swing it in
21:36He'll now take the corner from the opposite side
21:43Woodgate
21:45Leeds are in front
21:52For the very first time in a topsy-turvy game
22:02Everton's marking went awry for once
22:06Woodgate gets his third senior goal
22:12Now it is a game that Everton have to chase
22:22Goff for Unsworth
22:30Free kick is given against Jonathan Woodgate
22:35Unsworth
22:45Unsworth
22:47Where? Yes!
22:534-4
23:01And in stoppage time, a first Everton goal
23:04For the Scottish defender, David Weir
23:11And if it stays this way, if it stays this way
23:16Who can deny that both these sides don't deserve something
23:20For such rich entertainment
23:29Woodgate
23:33Woodgate
23:38Dirty days
23:40Lead to attractive football
23:44There's a truism in the sport
23:46And it's certainly been the case today
23:49Nightmare day for coaches there
23:54If they had their way
23:56Football would be a much more sterile game
24:02A bit of juggling by Unsworth
24:07Woodgate
24:09Woodgate
24:12Woodgate
24:14Woodgate
24:16Woodgate
24:19Woodgate
24:21Collins
24:29Well played, both teams
24:33A minor classic
24:34Eight goals shared
24:35Everton in front three times
24:37Leeds hitting the front with 18 minutes to play
24:40Weir rescuing a point for Everton
24:43Everton 4, Leeds 4
24:48A scoreline that reflected the attacking football
24:50On display throughout at Goodison Park
24:53Everton reached the heights of 6th place in March
24:55For the first time since 1996
24:58But a failure to score any goals
24:59In their final three home games of the season
25:01Meant a finishing place of 13th
25:04Leeds managed to stay top of the league
25:06Until the end of January
25:08Then defeats to Liverpool and Manchester United
25:10Amongst others saw them slip back
25:12Despite a four game losing streak
25:14They managed to hang on to third place in the table
25:16And thereby qualify for the Champions League
25:19Golden times, but they weren't to last