EPL 2001/02 - Leeds United vs Manchester United
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00:00Elland Road in March 2002 saw Leeds United take on their rivals Manchester United in a grudge match with both sides needing to win
00:09David O'Leary's men, fifth in the league, had led the premiership at several points in the first half of the season
00:15But then went through a second half slump
00:17They had three successive wins under their belts however
00:20And were aiming to close in on Newcastle who occupied the fourth Champions League spot
00:24If Leeds were to close the five point gap they needed to beat Manchester United for the first time in eight meetings
00:30The Red Devils though had suffered a shock home defeat against Middlesbrough in their previous fixture
00:35Which left their title charge hanging by a thread
00:38Leeds' £11 million signing Robbie Fowler was in good form
00:42He'd scored four goals in his previous three games
00:45But they were still without the injured Rio Ferdinand and Olivier Decor
00:48So Seth Johnson made a rare start
00:51Dominic Macchio had passed the late fitness test and capped in the side
00:54David Beckham had already scored 17 goals for Manchester United
00:58But the team's top marksman Ruud van Nistelrooy was left out by manager Sir Alex Ferguson
01:03Who said the Dutchman was suffering from fatigue
01:05Paul Scholes was fit to play but Juan Sebastian Varon was out with a heel injury
01:12Sir Alex Ferguson eyeing up a fourth successive premiership title
01:16But knowing a win was imperative
01:19Your match commentator is Ian Dunn
01:24Manchester United of course in the red shirts
01:27And an early touch for Gary Neville
01:30Who had a bit of a nightmare here against Harry Kiel a couple of seasons ago
01:34Kiel running ragged for the first half that day
01:38Now Giggs
01:40Nominally is playing out on the left today though I'm sure he'll tuck in plenty
01:44And this man Sylvester will be offered every chance he can to get forward
02:00But
02:01Manchester United will be glad of his competitive qualities in the centre of the midfield
02:06Alongside Roy King today exactly his kind of match
02:10Giggs trying to turn the Leeds defence
02:15Here's Robbie Fowler
02:17The Leeds fans have really taken to him
02:19Harry Kiel
02:21Had a funny sort of season really when he's not shown his best form for a lot of it
02:26Now Seth Johnson
02:30Leeds have won their last three matches
02:34This is Ian Hart with that good left foot of his
02:37And Fowler was attacking it!
02:39He got ahead of Ronnie Johnson as well but couldn't apply the finishing touch
02:47Batting in towards Fowler
02:50Very carefully watched by Blanc
03:01Manchester United in a way have been playing catch up in the title race this year
03:05Remember they were 10 to 1
03:07The bookmakers had them for the championship
03:10Back in late autumn
03:12Or even early December
03:14They have picked up 19 points out of 24
03:17On their current run
03:19But it still is looking as if it might not be good enough
03:26Keane
03:29Picked on towards Solskjaer
03:31Away by Matip
03:35Here's Keane again for United
03:39Now putt
03:42Typical United passing movement
03:44Scholes to Silvestre here
03:47Can he turn inside? He can!
03:49Plays it in and a finish!
03:50It's by Scholes!
03:51And Manchester United have the lead
03:54And they worked it superbly
04:00Paul Scholes
04:02Who was doubtful for this game
04:04With the injury that ruled him out of the England match
04:06On this very ground in midweek
04:09Puts Manchester United in front here
04:11Great work by Mikhail Silvestre
04:14And Scholes criminally unmarked
04:19He had the freedom of the penalty area here
04:32And here is Boya straight away
04:34Viduka, can he get there?
04:35No, Keane was back covering
04:37But Leeds have a free kick for a foul on Boya
04:41Blanc wants to know why
04:49The only good thing for Leeds United really here
04:51Is that they've got a long time to get back into the match
04:55And Ian Hart
04:57And I think everybody in the premiership knows what he can do
05:00From this kind of range with his left foot
05:02He's lining this up
05:06Scored in midweek for Ireland against Denmark
05:15And here's the free kick
05:17And here's the free kick
05:19And here's the free kick
05:21And here's the free kick
05:23And here's the free kick
05:29It is going to be Hart
05:31Curled it nicely
05:33And was just a foot out
05:40Lovely striker at the ball
05:48Here's Viduka who ended his scoring drought
05:50With a goal at Leicester
05:52Last week it was his first in 12 matches that
05:57Mills
06:01Brought down by Paul Scholes
06:10Both teams desperate for the three points
06:13But it's Leeds nil, Manchester United one
06:16Thanks to Paul Scholes
06:18But Leeds with a chance here
06:20To maybe bite back
06:28That's free kick Barthes
06:30Very good punch
06:32Seth Johnson
06:34Back into the mix, keen away
06:36Ian Hart!
06:37Oh that was tremendously well struck
06:41And he was pretty close too
06:44This is wonderful technique
06:46From the Irish international Ian Hart
06:49That might look easy, it isn't
06:59Leeds with more goal attempts
07:01But Manchester United with the strike that matters
07:09Away by Matteo
07:11Oh
07:16Seth Johnson not accurate enough
07:24Manchester United would return to the top
07:26If only for a few hours
07:28If they did win this
07:30Beckham
07:33Woodgate
07:34But picked it up
07:41Smith did well
07:43Boya
07:46Carries on with his run, Fowler pulls away
07:50And it's Feduka in here!
07:52And Leeds are level
07:541-1
07:56And they worked it superbly
08:0120th minute
08:02And Leed Boya on his return to the side
08:05Sets up the goal
08:07With this lovely little ball for Feduka
08:10Gary Neville went down
08:12And you wondered whether a free kick might be given here
08:15But the referee saw absolutely nothing
08:17And Feduka, who scored at Old Trafford against Leeds
08:31Fowler!
08:33Tremendously struck
08:40That goal
08:42I'm sure was being cheered
08:44Both at Highbury and Anfield as well
08:541-1 already
08:56And there was always the prospect of this being
08:59A rather more open affair
09:02Because both sides know that a draw isn't really good enough
09:07In relation to their various targets this campaign
09:17Park
09:18Falling over, but a decent ball anyway
09:20Feduka
09:26After 0-11
09:272-2 for Feduka
09:30Beckham
09:32And Woodgate has to give away the corner
09:35Has to give away the corner
10:00Now can United get another one?
10:03It's Beckham
10:04Oh!
10:05And Sylvester is wondering how he missed that
10:09And so am I
10:12They don't pick him up as an absolute sitter quite honestly
10:18And somehow the left back puts it wide
10:26Mills and Woodgate rather got in each other's way
10:29Now it's Scholes
10:31Can really hit them like that
10:32Still might be a chance
10:33Solskjaer makes it 2-1
10:36He's so sharp
10:39Martin won't be happy because he couldn't hold the shot
10:42And Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
10:45Strikes again just as he did at Old Trafford
10:48Against Leeds
10:50This one came earlier
10:52Scholes it was too hot to handle
10:55And Solskjaer banged it home for his 19th of the season
11:00Scholes has now scored one and set up one
11:07And that takes Manchester United to 80 goals in the Premiership this season
11:21Gary Neville
11:23Great idea, Woodgate read it
11:29Manchester United scoring at the rate of two and a half goals a game
11:34Right the way through the campaign which is fairly phenomenal stuff
11:42Keane
11:49Manchester United haven't given up hope of a fourth successive championship
11:54Here is Sylvester
11:55Giggs
11:56Couldn't work it
11:57And there's Solskjaer again
11:58Oh it's 3-1
12:00It took a horrible deflection off Matteo on the way through
12:04But Manchester United won't be complaining about that
12:07And Alex Ferguson must be thinking that the points are pouched
12:15Leeds hit twice in a couple of minutes
12:19Sylvester again, Giggs miscued it
12:21Solskjaer didn't
12:23And that took a nasty deflection
12:26Off Matteo I believe it was
12:29And that completely wrong-footed Nigel Martin
12:34Couldn't blame him for that
12:41Now Fowler
12:44Great challenge by Keane
12:46But Smith's effort took a deflection off Keane on the way through for a corner
12:56You never know, there might be a twist or two in this one yet
13:04It's Boja
13:06Too long for Viduka
13:09Hart couldn't get any shot away
13:13Seth Johnson
13:14Viduka!
13:18Well they put a £30m price tag on Viduka Leeds this week
13:27Well he'll feel they've already got it in the bag although they can't relax
13:38Manchester United 3-1 to the good here
13:42After a very eventful first half
13:49Leeds getting us underway at the start of the second half
13:53I think Robbie Keane may be introduced reasonably soon
13:58If things don't break for Leeds early in the second half
14:01He's already got his tracksuit bottoms off I can tell you
14:04But no changes so far
14:07Batty
14:09Cut out by Sylvester, picked up by Keane
14:12Here's Solskjaer again
14:19Batty
14:20To Smith
14:22Leeds struggling to create anything in this second half so far
14:26And we're nine minutes in
14:29It's not what David O'Leary would have been looking for and I wonder how long
14:33Before he thinks about making a change
14:40No sign of any real movement from the bench yet
14:47Boja, great challenge by Keane
14:52Here's Smith, taking on Sylvester
14:59Mills
15:00He's looking for the one-two, didn't get it
15:03And here come United on the break, no that's good retrieval by Batty
15:08Hart
15:13Hart
15:14Now then, Beckham
15:16Here's a United counter
15:18Beckham powering away down the right-hand side
15:20As Giggs and Solskjaer are waiting in the middle
15:22Here comes the cross, it's Giggs, and it's 4-1
15:25Shelling Pease really
15:31Lightning break by Manchester United
15:34And that really is game seven
15:36And we're nine minutes in
15:38It's not what David O'Leary would have been looking for
15:41Manchester United
15:42And that really is game seven match
15:45First goal in three months, look where the mood started
15:49On the edge of their own penalty area
15:51Beckham looked ahead of him, Hart was out of position
15:55Must have run what, 80 yards with the ball?
15:58Looked up, saw Giggs who was rather criminally unmarked
16:02Even though they were Leeds defenders
16:04And he just had to pass it into the net
16:07Classic break
16:09Now Manchester United are going to be crossing the pannines
16:12With three points
16:15Barring something exceptionally dramatic
16:23Now the Leeds fans here have been stunned into silence
16:28Danny Mills
16:32And Bartosz holds it under the bar
16:35Well I think David O'Leary probably feared the worst
16:39Because that defeat by Middlesbrough last week has stunned Manchester United
16:44And they're catching Leeds on the rebound and Solskjaer
16:48And swell play by Woodgate
16:55It is becoming a mauling
17:05Beckham to Sculls
17:07Oh, little reverse ball
17:18Silvestre
17:21Oh, and here's Ronny Janssen
17:23Off the bar, surely a chance for Solskjaer
17:25With a hat-trick but no
17:27Mateo got there in the nick of time
17:30But Leeds at the moment are being crushed
17:33Leeds at the moment are being ripped to shreds
17:40Janssen
17:41Gary Neville
17:43Corner, Manchester United
17:50Janssen hits the underside of the bar
17:52Did Martin get a finger to this? If he did
17:54It's a wonderful save
17:56He might have got a little bit of something on it
18:04Manchester United are in danger
18:06Of running riot here
18:11Here's Beckham
18:13Sculls, he'll fancy this
18:16Blocked on the way through by Ian Hart
18:28Fowler
18:29Fowler
18:32Free kick
18:35And this is the first yellow card of the day
18:40It's Roy Keane
18:41These two know each other well
18:43Down the years
18:48I was in a hotel in Manchester last year
18:50Before the Manchester derby
18:51And there were some Irish fans
18:53And they said to David Ellery
18:55Who was staying in the hotel
18:56Please
18:57Be kind to Roy today
19:00David Ellery sent him off
19:02It was for an awful challenge on
19:05Harfinger Haaland
19:06To be quite honest with you
19:09It's the only option open to David Ellery
19:11No yellow cards
19:13So far here
19:16Which for such a combustible fixture is
19:19Quite remarkable really
19:21Ian Hart
19:22Ian Hart
19:24Can he give Leeds some hope?
19:32Oh yes he can
19:34What about that?
19:37I think
19:38Vartis
19:39Got a hand to it
19:40But couldn't keep it out
19:44Ian Hart
19:45With his sixth goal of the season
19:48It's a crackerjack no
19:49He couldn't get that
19:50Vartis
19:51And the reason was
19:52It was always curling away from him
19:54At pace
19:55Brilliant free kick
20:02Nicely measured
20:03Robbie Keane
20:15Mills the Leeds
20:22Boja
20:23Viduka
20:26Promising so far
20:28Backer into the danger area
20:29Robbie Keane
20:30With a wonderful chance
20:32A really wonderful chance
20:34And Leeds had to make that count you felt
20:38He was in a lot of space
20:41But could not
20:42Finish it off
20:43Look at that
20:44Totally unmarked
20:45Where were the Manchester United defenders?
20:49And that's a big miss
20:52Come on
20:53Come on
20:54Manchester United 4-2 to the good here
20:57And Silvestre
20:58Going through some rather limp challenges
21:05Scholes
21:07So sure he wanted it back
21:09He gets it back
21:10But it was all too narrow in the end
21:12Just a never enough run
21:19Viduka
21:21Robbie Keane
21:25Takes on Ronny Janssen
21:26Good run
21:27Great chance
21:28Fowler
21:29And Leeds United
21:30Are back in reach
21:32The goal
21:33Stands despite protest
21:35By Vartis
21:37Some great work here
21:40By Robbie Keane
21:42Pulls it back
21:43And Robbie Fowler
21:45Applies
21:46The finish
21:47So it's Boja who got his head to it on the end
21:51It looked
21:52For all the world as if Fowler had put this into the corner
21:54But Boja was there
21:55With the last touch
21:57Well if Manchester United
21:59Let this slip
22:00He knows that that
22:02Would be just about curtains
22:04For this year's championship challenge
22:16Here's Alan Smith
22:17Free kick
22:18This is Ian Hart territory again
22:21Right on the edge of the box
22:24Laurent Blanc with the challenge
22:31And Leeds United here
22:33Have a real opportunity
22:36At an absolutely
22:37Throbbing
22:38Rocking Ellen Road
22:41To maybe
22:42Come up with
22:43What would be
22:44An incredible equaliser
22:47It's Hart
22:49Oh
22:51Well the whole crowd
22:52Waited with
22:53Bated breath
22:54To see where
22:55That was going to end up
22:56Vartis
22:57Stood rooting
22:58Praying
22:59On his line
23:01Oh
23:02How close was that?
23:07Dear oh dear
23:13Beckham offside
23:15And he kicked the ball away
23:16And will be booked
23:17Couldn't complain
23:18Silly booking really
23:19For the England skipper
23:20That one
23:22But in the circumstances
23:24David Lallery
23:25Had no option at all
23:33Martin launches it downfield
23:35Leads with everybody
23:36Forward and Alan Smith
23:37Oh
23:38Tremendous effort
23:39With the
23:41Tumbling volley
23:42How close was he?
23:46About a yard away
23:53Sculls
23:56Looked like a foul
23:57By Forlan
23:58Which gives Leeds
23:59The chance to just
24:00Hoist the ball forward
24:02Probably one last time
24:07Oh
24:08Oh
24:09Oh
24:10Oh
24:11Oh
24:12Oh
24:13Oh
24:14Oh
24:15Oh
24:16Oh
24:17Bouncing around dangerously
24:18Bowyer's in there
24:19Vartis claims
24:21To
24:22The relief
24:23Of the Manchester United contingent
24:27Oh what a game we've had here
24:29Philip Neville
24:30Or trying to get this down
24:31Into one of the corners
24:32I would think
24:33No he doesn't do that
24:34He's given Leeds the ball back
24:36But the whistle goes anyway
24:38Manchester United
24:40Have the points
24:41And Sir Alex Ferguson
24:42Is still in business
24:44In this championship race
24:47But what a match
24:48What a match
24:49We've been served up here
24:51In the high noon confrontation
24:52At Allen Road
24:54A pulsating contest
24:56Stretching United's unbeaten run
24:57Against Leeds
24:58To nine games
25:00But in the end it was a rare
25:01Trophy-less season
25:02For Sir Alex Ferguson
25:03And his men
25:04As they finished outside
25:05The Premiership's top two
25:06For the very first time
25:08Leeds eventually had to settle
25:09For a UEFA Cup place
25:10And that disappointment
25:12Resulted in the departure
25:13Of manager David O'Leary
25:15After his four-year
25:16£100 million outlay
25:18On new players
25:19Failed to translate
25:20Into a major trophy