EPL 1999/00 - Middlesbrough vs Manchester United
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00:00Middlesbrough hosted a Manchester United side who were looking to edge nearer to a sixth Premiership crown
00:05Borough, managed by former United favourite Brian Robson, were unbeaten in their last seven matches
00:12United were eight points clear of second-place Liverpool and determined to continue their stranglehold on the Premiership
00:19Middlesbrough fielded the same team that had defeated Tottenham 3-2 in their last fixture
00:24Fit again, Jean-Luca Fester had to make do with the place on the bench
00:27Gary Pallister was injured, so Borough went with a three-pronged attack of Andy Campbell, Brian Dean and Hamilton Ricard
00:35Sir Alex Ferguson kept faith with the same team that had started against Real Madrid in the Champions League
00:41Ferguson was fielding his strongest side as the Red Devils looked to secure the league title before concentrating on retaining their European crown
00:51A noisy Riverside Stadium, your match commentator is Ian Dark
00:58Middlesbrough in their traditional red kit to get us underway
01:07Jepp Stam and Mark Bosnisch with a nice early touch
01:14This is Paul Ince who will want to do particularly well, he was in good form at White Hart Lane last week
01:22Six trophies in his time as the governor at Old Trafford
01:27New York, 2-0
01:45Here's Sculls to Beckham
01:48York is on the near post, Cross doesn't find it but here's Sculls
01:51but he scores!
01:53And well seen and well held in the end by goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer.
01:58He might not have got too clear a view of that.
02:07Irwin.
02:12Good covering to deny Dwight York.
02:16Fester the substitute, getting across quickly.
02:21Goal.
02:37Cole.
02:52Got a lucky bounce.
02:53How lucky we'll see now!
02:55York denied by Schwarzer.
03:01Well that was a vital save from the goalkeeper.
03:08That was some good work too by Foster and Fester in there.
03:12And Schwarzer claims it again.
03:14The goalkeeper whose error at Old Trafford when these two sides met
03:18allowed David Beckham to score in the very last minute.
03:21It was one of the goalkeeping howlers of the season.
03:23But he's already made a couple of good saves tonight.
03:31Ricard helping it in there.
03:33And Campbell has put Middlesbrough ahead!
03:39Well they're on fire at the moment, Middlesbrough.
03:43An early 21st birthday present
03:47for the England under-21 international Andy Campbell.
03:55The ball bounces up.
03:58Ricard and Campbell first to react.
04:01Manchester United just a little dithery here.
04:05One or two chances to clear.
04:08And that's well fit.
04:12Sylvester's throw.
04:19York across the skulls.
04:22Schwarzer only half gets there and Andy Cole misses it!
04:27And is wondering how.
04:32It honestly didn't look that difficult for him to turn it in.
04:38He just rather snatched it.
04:40Big chance there for Andy Cole's
04:43200th career league goal
04:47in club football.
04:49Into the last five minutes of a fascinating
04:53incident-packed opening half at the Riverside tonight.
04:56Middlesbrough one, Manchester United nil.
05:01United eight points clear in the title race
05:04going into this one.
05:06Ahead of Liverpool but not quite home and hosed just yet.
05:14Beckham.
05:28Ince back defending.
05:35Can United strike late in this first half?
05:42Gary Nibble's long throw.
05:44Bounces an awful long way and York's header.
05:48Had to get all the pace on the ball himself.
05:51But it was really the direction that was missing more than anything here.
06:05Paul Durkin says get back there.
06:07That's where I'm telling you the ball went out of play.
06:12Allowing no nonsense at all.
06:17Well that's it, I make it three minutes played.
06:20So does the referee, blows his whistle.
06:23A half-time scoreline here at the Riverside, an interesting one.
06:27Middlesbrough one, Manchester United nil.
06:35Keane making a forward run.
06:39They're obviously going to try to spring him from midfield positions.
06:42He's already scored 12 this season.
06:45He's one of the leading scorers in the Champions League.
06:47In fact with six Roy Keane.
07:05Borough may have a lot of defending to do here.
07:16Here's Gary Nibble.
07:18With a long throw.
07:20Giggs, and they've equalised.
07:23Straight away Manchester United level.
07:27And it looked a half-hit shot that maybe Mark Schwarzer
07:33didn't completely see.
07:35Was he unsighted?
07:39Just what United wanted.
07:43Went through a lot of players.
07:45This might give you a better idea.
07:47Yeah, I think Schwarzer saw that late.
07:51It came out from behind Dwight York, yes it did.
07:56And Ryan Giggs with the goal to put Manchester United
08:01on level terms.
08:04And that goal coming within a minute or so of the restart.
08:09In fact somebody who's had a watch on it reckons it was 55 seconds.
08:15And here are United again with Andy Cole.
08:22He's not just in the mood at the moment is he, Andy Cole?
08:27But Borough absolutely caught out here.
08:31Cole in behind them.
08:34And that could and probably should have been 2-1.
08:43A pendulum's just swung the other way though in this second half.
08:47Dwight York going down this time.
08:51And it was almost an arm lock with Vickers.
08:57Very, very physical. Dwight York whose
09:00goal ratio is better than that of Andy Cole's
09:03since he joined Manchester United.
09:06Now it's Beckham.
09:08Long way out even for him.
09:10But he might fancy it.
09:13He doesn't fancy it, he tries to chip Giggs.
09:16It's come out to Ryan Giggs again!
09:18And how did that stay out?
09:21How did that stay out?
09:25It just needed a touch.
09:30No doubt about it, Giggs.
09:33And that's a goal.
09:36It just needed a touch.
09:41No doubt about it, Giggs meant it as a shot.
09:43It seems to have taken some kind of deflection on the way through.
09:46I must say that escaped me.
09:50But that's hit a Middlesbrough boot somewhere.
09:55And whoever it was,
09:57maybe that was a little miracle for Middlesbrough.
09:59Here comes the corner kick.
10:01Free header for York!
10:03Away by Ince.
10:06And Middlesbrough
10:08just riding their luck back there.
10:10But look at Andy Campbell here, wants to take them all on.
10:12And he's got the speed too.
10:15It's a solo run from Andy Campbell.
10:18But it's destined to end in a cul-de-sac.
10:23Well he'd have needed to do a Michael Owen against Argentina,
10:26wouldn't he, to have scored there.
10:28Now let's have a look at this incident again.
10:30The ball chipped out, Giggs drives it.
10:33And it did hit a Middlesbrough foot on the way through.
10:36It might have been that of Fester.
10:49Paul Sculls.
10:53Manchester United, at the moment, looking in command.
10:57Beckham.
11:00Oh, that's a lovely ball, it's Cole!
11:02That'll do! 2-1 to Manchester United.
11:08Andy Cole's 200th goal in club football.
11:17And within a quarter of an hour of the restart,
11:19Manchester United have turned this round.
11:23Middlesbrough had a deserved lead at the break,
11:25beautifully set up by Beckham.
11:28And Andy Cole, at last, gets the radar right.
11:33Middlesbrough 1, Manchester United 2.
11:3722nd of the season for Andy Cole.
11:41The crowd tonight is 34,475.
11:46Beg your pardon, 775.
11:50Which is not Borough's biggest of the season.
11:53That was against Liverpool.
11:56Andy Cole.
12:01Keane.
12:02Now Sculls.
12:04Good save, and well held too, by Schwarzer.
12:08Stretching that 6ft 5in frame.
12:13Now here is Janinho,
12:15on loan here from Atletico Madrid until the end of the season,
12:19but the word is, he's not coming back.
12:22It's Master that comes off,
12:24so a defensive midfield player,
12:26ball-winning type midfield player off.
12:29And a very much attacking midfield operator on,
12:34in the Brazilian.
12:37Here's Brian Dean.
12:40Janinho.
12:45Easily hustled out of it by Sculls.
12:47Easily hustled out of it by Stam.
12:52Look at Beckham in space here.
12:54Is he going to let one go?
12:57He does.
12:59He almost seemed reluctant to do it, David Beckham.
13:03It was the kind of angle he usually relishes.
13:07I remember him exploding one into the roof of the net,
13:11on the last day of last season against Tottenham,
13:13from almost exactly there.
13:16Here's Beckham's corner,
13:18and he'll have a chance for another one.
13:45Schwarzer seemed to be impeded.
13:49Nothing given, Giggs back in again,
13:51he really got hold of it as well.
13:56Giggs towards the back post,
13:57and Vickers has to give away the corner.
13:59I must say, my impression as that corner came over,
14:02was that Schwarzer, the Middlesbrough goalkeeper,
14:04was being impeded.
14:09Oh, and that's a cracking goal from Sculls!
14:15Yet another one from his locker,
14:18of magnificent strikes.
14:26Well, this one is hit like an absolute tracer bullet.
14:31Whack.
14:34Scored a screaming volley at Bradford,
14:37a couple of weeks back,
14:39and look at that.
14:41Oh, dear, oh dear,
14:42that almost took the back of the net off.
14:46Eleven this season for Sculls,
14:49and five in his last three Premiership games.
15:02Now here's Paul Ince.
15:05Brian Dean.
15:10Ince again, but very hard going for Baranau,
15:13who, to be honest with you, can hardly get a touch.
15:17Not a significant one anyway.
15:24And understandably, just a little dispirited,
15:27Middlesbrough now.
15:32Just as they did against West Ham United,
15:34though not in such spectacular fashion.
15:36Manchester United have punished a side
15:40who have taken the lead against them.
15:44One by Henningberg in the air,
15:47flicked on by Cole, trying to pick up York,
15:50it's a mistake by Vickers, it's Dwight York,
15:53and somehow it stays three.
15:59Well, he loves to smile, Dwight York,
16:02but it may be a smile of embarrassment there.
16:06Vickers will be more embarrassed,
16:08and very relieved.
16:14Campbell.
16:16Another Barra corner, spirited rally here
16:19from the home side.
16:27And if they were just to sneak one,
16:29who knows?
16:31Well, Beckham's missed it completely,
16:33and off the line somehow.
16:37The goalkeeper came for that Bosnage.
16:39The goalkeeper came for that Bosnage.
16:43It was an air shot from him.
16:46It bounced off, but then Campbell,
16:48and off the line.
16:51Well, astonishing developments in there.
16:58It's good to see the two players
17:00having a bit of crack about it.
17:02Somebody wants to get on the pitch and join in.
17:05Here's the corner, Bosnage has missed it again,
17:07and Barra have got one with Paul Ince,
17:09would you believe?
17:11Scores against Manchester United again.
17:15Handball, says Bosnage,
17:17whose goalkeeping on those two crosses
17:20left plenty to be desired.
17:22Was there a bit of hand by Ince?
17:25Referee doesn't think so.
17:27Well, it might have been off his shoulder,
17:29but the goal stands.
17:33Well, it certainly wasn't handball,
17:35looking at that.
17:37It just ricocheted off him.
17:393-2.
17:44With a little over three minutes to go.
17:49Suddenly that miss by Dwight York
17:52looks a bit expensive.
17:55And United,
17:57who may well have been in the comfort zone,
18:00have got some work to do.
18:02Here's Nicky Butt.
18:06And a chance for number four, is that offside?
18:08It looked it.
18:10It looked offside from Quentin Fortune.
18:16And the goal's been given.
18:19Well, we've got uproar here now.
18:22Every Middlesbrough player
18:24thinks that was offside.
18:26Quentin Fortune scored it.
18:32And I must say,
18:34there was a very strong suspicion of offside,
18:37but was he offside when the ball was played through?
18:45High drama.
18:48The goal is given.
18:50Paul Durkin says goal.
18:55Andy Campbell having a lot to say.
18:59Now, let's have a look at this
19:01and see if we can untangle it.
19:04Look, keep your eye on Fortune
19:06in the middle there.
19:08Now he was definitely onside.
19:10And give all the credit in the world
19:12to the assistant
19:15who kept his wits about him.
19:23Middlesbrough feeling aggrieved.
19:28A heated, emotive finish here.
19:33Three-kick to Middlesbrough.
19:36But it surely is beyond them now.
19:384-2 behind. Ricard on the turn.
19:40Good effort.
19:52Quentin Fortune, by the way,
19:54his second league goal for Manchester United.
19:56He got one against Bradford earlier.
20:00Three minutes to be added on here.
20:14Here's Campbell.
20:18Wide for Juninho.
20:22Splendid stuff so far from Juninho.
20:24And look at that!
20:26Splendid stuff so far from Juninho.
20:28And look at that!
20:30What a goal from the little Brazilian.
20:34Well, it's an incredible finish here.
20:374-3 now, would you believe?
20:43A really amazing night
20:45at the Riverside, this one.
20:47Juninho nutmegged
20:50Butt and then bent his shot
20:52into the corner of the net.
20:55This game has
20:57exploded into some unexpected life
20:59late on.
21:01Festers' header.
21:03Curtis Fleming.
21:06United will want to keep the ball.
21:18Colin Vickers
21:21in a rather unseemly heap.
21:24Game over.
21:26Manchester United have the three points.
21:28Middlesbrough three,
21:30Manchester United four.
21:32Middlesbrough's seven-game unbeaten run
21:34coming to an exciting end,
21:36but the team stabilised during the final run-in
21:38and lost only one of their remaining six fixtures.
21:41They eventually finished in 12th place
21:43on 52 points.
21:45Manchester United were never truly threatened
21:47at the top of the premiership
21:49and cruised to their sixth title.
21:51Scoring for fun and invincible at home,
21:53they've been a class of their own.