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00:00Claudio Ranieri's baptism as Chelsea manager came at Old Trafford in September of 2000.
00:06Six titles in eight years and unbeaten over the opening six games of the season,
00:10the Red Devils appeared to be as invincible as ever.
00:13Ranieri, meanwhile, had replaced fellow Italian Gianluca Vialli on the back of a slow start to the season.
00:19And the future for United's Dwight York was up in the air as Sir Alex Ferguson again omitted the striker.
00:25Paul Scholes returned to the side and Raymond van der Haal continued in goal with Fabian Barthez injured.
00:31Ranieri made his name at smaller clubs in Italian football before becoming a fan's favourite at Valencia.
00:37He also introduced Gianfranco Zola to the first team at Napoli and the pair were reunited again at Chelsea.
00:43Dennis Wise and Gus Poit were absent, so John Harley and Jodie Morris were given a chance to shine in front of their new manager.
00:52A bright day at the Theatre of Dreams.
00:55Matt's commentary from John Helm.
01:01We're underway and here is Frank Leberth playing the ball across the line to Marcel Desailly.
01:06Many thought that he might be captain today, but it's Lasseau who gets the vote.
01:11Chelsea's opening up here, back to Zola offside.
01:15Both he and Hasselbank caught off.
01:19Ooh, actually there was a player coming back who may well have been playing them all.
01:27This is Sylvester, the Frenchman.
01:31Cut out well by Panucci, very well indeed.
01:34He's made a good start to this match.
01:36Back from Irwin to Gary Neville.
01:39Enjoying his new role at the moment.
01:41He has played there in the past, of course.
01:46Desailly's header went perilously close to Andy Cole.
01:51Chelsea have settled nicely, which will please Claudio Ranieri.
01:55They're giving a good account of themselves moving forward today.
01:59Jimmy Floyd, Hasselbank has done it again against Manchester United.
02:04A fabulous strike, and Ranieri has the first goal of his management of Chelsea.
02:11And it's in.
02:13It's in.
02:15It's in.
02:17It's in.
02:19It's in.
02:21It's in.
02:23It's in.
02:25It's in.
02:27It's in.
02:30It was a thundering shot from the right boot of the Dutchman.
02:34And Flo did so well to hook that ball back.
02:37Hasselbank didn't waste any time whatsoever.
02:39And smashed the ball high past van der Gaal.
02:43And it's Manchester United 0-0, Chelsea 1-1, Jimmy Floyd, Hasselbank.
02:54Giggs.
02:56Still Ryan Giggs, edge of the area.
02:58Deep cross ball in here, it's a good one too.
03:00There might be an opening for Sheringham.
03:02And it's over the top of his own crossbar from John Harley.
03:07As Manchester United respond briskly to that Hasselbank strike.
03:19So Beckham is going to hit this one short.
03:24For Irwin.
03:25A measured cross from him, it'll drop for Scholes.
03:28Fabulous, absolutely fabulous strike.
03:31Paul Scholes, Manchester United 1-1, Chelsea 1-1.
03:36And we've seen two goals of the highest quality here.
03:41A well-worked routine and certainly a well-driven shot
03:45from Manchester United's prolific midfielder.
03:50And so often Paul Scholes is the one who comes up with the goods
03:54when Manchester United need someone.
04:09Harley may think of a shot on goal too high, but not a bad idea.
04:1520 yards out, John Harley.
04:18And he gets some meat into this.
04:25Found a way through to Cole, but the referee insists it's a free kick
04:29for Manchester United because they derived no advantage.
04:32They might now because Beckham has taken it quickly and found Giggs.
04:39Held by Flo.
04:41I think the referee will interpret that as awkward rather than malicious.
04:48David Beckham has a nasty gash to his head, by the way.
04:53He's just having treatment on the touchline for it.
04:57There it is.
04:59All the more graphic with the shaven head.
05:11Free kick for Manchester and Ryan Giggs.
05:13He's four red shirts in the penalty area.
05:15Can he find any of them?
05:18Oh, there's a foul dash.
05:20Here's Ronnie Janssen coming up at the back post there,
05:23just leaning on the opponent.
05:26The game's settling a little now after that fiery start.
05:33Koudicini's kick just head over the top of Dennis Irwin,
05:36who is so vital to Manchester United because he can play either right
05:39or left at the back.
05:40A lovely touch here.
05:42Chance for Keane.
05:43Manchester United and Koudicini spreads himself magnificently.
05:47Otherwise, Chelsea would have been behind.
05:50A surging run, though, from the Manchester United captain
05:53to get onto that flick from Cole.
05:56Superb goalkeeping and a reactionary stop from Carlo Koudicini.
06:03Sheringham for Scholes.
06:05It's aimed towards Beckham.
06:07He'll try and get beyond Lasseau here.
06:10And what he has done is win the corner.
06:13And Lasseau will settle for that.
06:15It's good to see the England left-sided player back in the thick of things
06:19after that long absence through an ankle problem.
06:22Panucci's clearing header this time, only to Keane.
06:25Oh, a poor touch from Keane.
06:27And Hasselbeck now might just find himself one-on-one with Neville.
06:30And what a mix-up there.
06:33And it was only at the last second that Van der Gaal got his boot to the ball.
06:37Hasselbeck didn't sort of quite believe.
06:39I don't think he had the chance he had.
06:42Manchester United went to sleep there.
06:45I think Ferguson might have been panicking for a moment.
06:56Rafa Van der Gaal and Gary Neville there were totally at odds, I think,
07:01in how to counteract Jimmy Floyd-Hasselbeck.
07:15Chelsea certainly competing well.
07:17And that's epitomised there by Jodie Morris lunging at the ball.
07:20It's still in United's possession, though,
07:23with the elder of the Neville brothers.
07:26Younger Philip among the substitutes today.
07:32Here's Andy Cole.
07:34And Sheringham 2-1 Manchester United.
07:39And the partnership of Andy Cole and Teddy Sheringham continues to prosper.
07:46But what a muddle in the Chelsea defence.
07:50We see it again here, the ball bouncing over the top of the defender.
07:54Cole couldn't get there, Sheringham certainly could.
07:57And the confusion caused amid the Chelsea routs
08:01by the bounce of the ball initially.
08:03Panucci couldn't get a touch of it.
08:05Sheringham decisively could.
08:09And Cole again will pressurise Desai here,
08:12but it's straight through to Curicini.
08:28Zola.
08:30A test of Chelsea's character now,
08:32as the ball is over the top of Silvestre.
08:34Flo should keep this in.
08:36And there are three in the penalty area in blue.
08:40But Zola's not the biggest, and it never got to him.
08:46Well, that's a shocking giveaway.
08:48Straight to Morris, who then was caught by Sheringham.
08:52Teddy Morris just not realising the position there.
08:55And so it's United who sweep forward again.
08:58Giggs may think of a shot.
08:59Still Giggs.
09:00Almost reminiscent of his goal against Arsenal there,
09:03the way he was allowed to go on and on and on.
09:07But at the end there was no goal.
09:10Not this time.
09:12For the Welshman.
09:13But it's Sheringham.
09:14Gear. Cole. Onside.
09:16Off the upright.
09:17Missed.
09:18Sheringham.
09:19Gear. Cole. Onside.
09:21Off the upright.
09:22Beckham has to score.
09:23Chelsea are in disarray.
09:25Manchester United have three goals.
09:39Cole timed the run to perfection.
09:42And although he hit the upright,
09:45it was meat and drink for David Beckham.
09:48Manchester United have their third goal of an absorbing half.
09:54And they're sharing them around.
10:01So, he's hurried into it, but he's got Hasselbank
10:04able to sweep the ball wide for a flow this time.
10:07Needs a good cross in here.
10:08And it was aimed towards Hasselbank.
10:10Flicked off the head of Keane.
10:12And Irwin completes the clearance.
10:15In fact, Beckham doesn't even allow the ball to run out.
10:20There again, that tireless effort from the Manchester United players.
10:24That's a bad challenge, though.
10:26Cole has gone in on Levert here.
10:30Oh, they did have a bit of a spat last season.
10:41Levert.
10:43Finds Zola in the area.
10:46Final shot from Harley, not a good one.
11:03Showing the ball to Flo before releasing Sylvester.
11:06Deep cross, Chelsea certainly can't afford to give anything else away.
11:10But it's Beckham continuing the tilt.
11:13I think that's too far for Cole.
11:14No, he's brought it down.
11:16And Chelsea again, maybe accused of sleeping.
11:19I think they thought the ball was going dead, as I did.
11:23Panucci couldn't get the masterly skills again from Andy Cole.
11:28And they really are asking a lot of questions of this Chelsea defence,
11:32Manchester United.
11:33It's with Keane this time.
11:35Then with Giggs.
11:36First time ball in.
11:38And finally Lesaut got the ball away as far as Zola.
11:51Two minutes to be added.
11:57Desai simply takes it away from Sheridan with ease.
12:02Lesaut.
12:04And he's cantered on down there.
12:06Now if Chelsea were to get a goal, we would have a contest in the half.
12:09Hasselbeck calling for it.
12:10It's Flo's header.
12:11And it's gone in as well.
12:14And Old Trafford absolutely silenced.
12:17I think for a start people thought that Lesaut may have run the ball out.
12:21But when he crossed, time seemed to stand still.
12:25But Torriandre Flo has brought Chelsea right back into the corner.
12:29Torriandre Flo has brought Chelsea right back into the contest on the stroke of half time
12:34with the header.
12:35Too hot for van der Haal.
12:37And it's Manchester United 3 Chelsea 2
12:41with Flo's first goal of the season.
12:44And his first ever against Manchester United.
12:49Well I did say that it was the match of the season so far.
12:52What a match it has been.
12:54And Claudio Ranieri announces his arrival to the Premier League
12:58with 45 breathtaking minutes in front of him.
13:01So the end of a half which has been unforgettable.
13:05How can we live up to this in the second half?
13:07We shall see shortly.
13:08Half time at Old Trafford.
13:10Staggeringly.
13:11Manchester United 3 Chelsea 2.
13:19Melchior has come on and he looks to be playing on the right side of midfield.
13:25Di Matteo in the centre of that midfield.
13:27Alongside Jodie Morris.
13:35And Gianfranco Zola is also on that right touchline.
13:39It may just be a small positional adjustment made.
13:43Mario Melchior getting his chance.
13:45He missed virtually the whole of last season after a couple of bad injuries.
13:51He broke a bone in his foot twice.
13:58Di Matteo stabs the ball in for Hasselbacher.
14:01Touchdown to Melchior. They're 3 against 3.
14:04And Melchior surely won't score from there.
14:09Zou wasn't quite sure what to do there, Mario Melchior.
14:15The ball whisked across Van der Gaal's goal but never threatened it.
14:28Hasselbacher.
14:31Touchback for Di Matteo.
14:33Manchester United do look square at times across the back.
14:36And they've managed to find Melchior in space down the right.
14:39And there are 3 in blue shirts across the middle.
14:42But it's the head of Jansen that meets the ball.
14:45Only out to Panucci.
14:49It looks like a quality player and gets his cross ball in.
14:53But there's nobody near it in blue.
14:58I think Chelsea breathed new life into their ambitions for this match
15:04with that goal just before half-time.
15:07They were 3-1 down and might easily have gone 4-1.
15:11But they are definitely in the contest.
15:14And they're playing quite well in this half.
15:18United at times, as I've mentioned before, looking vulnerable.
15:22Centrally in defence, Lissau.
15:27Can't get beyond Beckham but he will win the corner kick.
15:37Chelsea, of course, with only one First Division title in their history.
15:4145 years ago.
15:43Ken Bates, their chairman, so desperate for success.
15:46That's why Vialli was released from his contract and Ranieri brought in.
15:50Bates has to finish first.
15:52There's a chance maybe Flo sort of stumbled into that.
15:56It looked as though he had to get a clear header there,
15:58especially being 6 feet 5.
16:01But he just failed to get a touch.
16:03It all happened quickly, though.
16:09But if anything, Chelsea are bossing the half.
16:16And they have a free kick too.
16:19Jansson on Flo.
16:23Exasperation there on the face of the Norwegian, who's such a gentle giant.
16:27He mostly never complains about anything.
16:33But he's got this free kick and Zola is urging the referee's assistant
16:38to send Giggs back a bit.
16:40He's got the cross in and Pellucci nearly...
16:43Well, he did get a touch with the header.
16:45It virtually struck Van der Gaal, I think.
16:49But Cristian Pellucci, very, very close to what would have been his second goal for Chelsea.
16:56Here he is, number 2.
16:57Watch him, steals in between the Manchester United defenders.
17:01A little flicked header and I think he hit the fist of Van der Gaal.
17:05David Beckham has just come to the touchline because that wound has reopened.
17:09They took off the huge plaster in the dressing room at half-time.
17:13One stitch inserted, but the wound has reopened and of course that can't be allowed.
17:20So Manchester United down to 10-9 and they've presented a chance here for Hasselbeck to make it 3-3.
17:26But he's high and wide.
17:29I don't think he expected the chance.
17:31That was the problem there for Jimmy Floyd, Hasselbeck.
17:34But an error by Mikhail Silvestre.
17:38They've barged into one another, Silvestre and Neville.
17:41Well, I've referred to that lack of unity in the Manchester defence.
17:45Jimmy Floyd, Hasselbeck, almost extracting some reward from that.
17:59Good hustling from Morris.
18:05Well, again you have the feeling that the next goal in this game is of vital importance.
18:09And Cole's got the better of his man, Andy Cole.
18:12Brilliant on the goal line, kept out there by Graeme Lesaut and Andy Cole cannot believe it.
18:20When I said brilliant, I was referring to Lesaut.
18:23It was brilliant also by Cole.
18:25But look at this for a goal line save from Graeme Lesaut.
18:28How did he get that ball over the top of the crossbar?
18:31Andy Cole was destined to celebrate his seventh goal of the season until Lesaut intervened.
18:39And you could see the joy etched on Lesaut's face.
18:46Sometimes you have to admire defending skills as much as attacking skills.
18:50And certainly that was top draw stuff from Lesaut.
18:54Lesaut has given away another corner.
18:59Cole's in the six-yard area.
19:01Keane, Sheringham, Youngston, Silvestre and Scholes will try and make their presence felt elsewhere in the area.
19:10It's into the six-yard box and did well here.
19:13Koudicini gets more than a finger to the ball.
19:17Probably got two to it.
19:24Key moments in the game, these.
19:31Lovely passing from Manchester United.
19:34Breathtaking stuff and now Sheringham pings the ball across with the outside of his boot.
19:39Cole desperately trying to beat away Zola.
19:42Fails in that ambition.
19:45But there's a free kick I think against Andy Cole.
19:50There's nothing to be dragged away.
19:57On the way out to Lesaut.
19:59Very much the hero a couple of minutes ago.
20:01And he kept that ball out.
20:02Flo.
20:04Again Gary Neville and Scholes this time getting one another's way.
20:09And there's a slip but there's a foul by Giggs.
20:20That's why Panucci went to ground.
20:24Of course he says.
20:25The referee agrees.
20:32Hasselbach definitely headed down into Moises' tracks.
20:39Lesaut knows that both Flo and Hasselbach will be hoping for a cross ball as he seeks to get past Beckham.
20:45And he did so very well.
20:46It's Flo.
20:47It's three apiece.
20:50And superb play down the left initially by Graeme Lesaut.
20:55And the strike.
20:56His second of the afternoon now for Torriandre Flo.
21:00Brings the match back level.
21:03And it's David Beckham who gives second best here to Lesaut.
21:08Super running from the England international.
21:10And a measured finish from the Norwegian.
21:14And we have a scoreline of Manchester United 3 Chelsea 3.
21:19Flo has got his second goal of the season following hard on the heels of the first.
21:2420 minutes to go.
21:263-3.
21:27Ranieri thrilled.
21:33But others will seek to get up in support of Cole.
21:38One of those now being Scholes who is caught here by Lesaut.
21:42Correct decision.
21:51United are going to make another substitution in a moment.
21:54I can see Wes Brown getting ready for action.
21:56And in fact Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as well.
21:59So it will be a double switch.
22:01And in fact it's Andy Cole who is coming off.
22:09Free kick for Manchester United now.
22:12From Giggs.
22:14Speared it in and it went dead centre over the crossbar.
22:21See that Giggs shot again just flying over the top.
22:25I don't get ever really troubled Curicini.
22:28Here come United with Silvestre.
22:31Both sides in a curious way might settle for a draw now.
22:39Chelsea having got back to 3-3 having been 3-1 behind.
22:43And United having conceded the last two goals in the game.
22:46But they've got chances of their own now.
22:48It's Solskjaer.
22:50Still squared for Giggs.
22:52It should have been.
22:55He kicks the ground in despair.
22:58He kicks the ground in despair.
23:00Perfectly laid on for him by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
23:03Ryan Giggs cannot believe he's not hit the target.
23:06Or at least forced a save out of Curicini.
23:09What an opening and what a glaring miss from the Welshman.
23:14Should have been 4-3.
23:15It's still 3-3.
23:18Tremendous match.
23:20All that is best about the Premier League encapsulated into this one.
23:27Welsh might yet have another roll of the dice to come.
23:33Tannucci will take Chelsea's throw in on a line with the 18-yard area.
23:37Flo will juggle.
23:38And he's got the corner.
23:41He did well.
23:43Despite the outstretch, the harm of Mikhail Silvestre.
23:46It's Flo smiling.
23:48Can Chelsea capitalise?
23:52It's 3-3 and Chelsea have a corner kick.
23:573-3.
23:58It flicked off his head.
23:59It's now Hasselbank.
24:00He might look to curl it.
24:01He has done.
24:02Chance for Le Boeuf.
24:03Back post into the side netting.
24:07Hasselbank knew what he was doing there.
24:09Curled it over for Le Boeuf.
24:11It'll be just seen as another result at the end of the long and arduous season.
24:16But a healthy result nonetheless.
24:20Particularly for Chelsea.
24:22Manchester United, I can tell you, will not be too upset
24:25about dropping a couple of points here.
24:33Referee Jones points to the tunnel.
24:36It does end 3-3.
24:37Claudio Ranieri has his first point as Chelsea manager.
24:41There will be a healthy respect between the two bosses.
24:44A memorable game here at Old Shetland.
24:46And at the end of the day, both sides are happy to settle for a point.
24:51The ball facts are that Manchester United and Chelsea have drawn here 3-3.
24:57Chelsea had spent around £34 million on new players
25:00and eventually finished 6th to qualify for Europe.
25:03Having taken charge with the club in 17th place,
25:06it represented a satisfactory start for Claudio Ranieri.
25:10Dutchman Jimmy Foyt Hasselbank lived up to the pressure of being Chelsea's record purchase.
25:14He was top scorer in the Premiership with 23 goals.
25:18Manchester United then lost to Arsenal before going on an 8-game winning streak.