1999 champions league final stats

Where to start? . Basler left Bayern after the 1999 final, joining Kaiserslautern, where he stayed until 2003. But what would Manchester Uniteds treble of 1999 look like under a 21st century microscope? UEFA.com picks out some of the most memorable ties from down the years. [52], The match referee was Pierluigi Collina of the Italian Football Federation. A winner of 13 Premier League titles, four FA Cups, four League Cups and two Champions Leagues, Giggs is United's most decorated player in the history of the club. During his time at Anfield the player won the F.A. Is this their moment? In 2005 he joined Austrian team Red Bull Slazburg where he captained the side. Arsenal, Athletic Bilbao, Brndby, Croatia Zagreb, HJK, Internazionale, Kaiserslautern, Lens and Sturm Graz made their debuts in the group stage of the competition. [124] The match was played in front of 61,175 spectators and raised 1.5million for the Manchester United Foundation.[125]. It had also hosted two Cup Winners' Cup finals, in 1972 and 1982; the latter was won on home turf by Barcelona. [76] With the game seemingly drifting away from the English side, Ferguson introduced Solskjr with 10 minutes remaining. Teams in Champions League quarter finals 2023. The Red Devils defeated the Bavarians at the Camp Nou in Barcelona and completed a historic treble (Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League) in the 1998-99 season. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. The man is a sensation. Blomqvist was replaced by Sheringham not long after his miss. With the game seemingly drifting away from the English side, he introduced Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Teddy Sheringham who eventually won United the Champions League crown. The competition was won by Manchester United, coming back from a goal down in the last two minutes of injury time to defeat Bayern Munich 21 in the final. A World Cup winning captain in 1990, a former European Footballer of the Year, the first ever FIFA World Player of the Year, the most capped German international in history with 150 caps, seven Bundesliga titles, two UEFA Cups and a Serie A title, the only trophy Matthaus did not win was the Champions League. Class of 92 member Nicky Butt played for United for 12 years, before joining Newcastle in 2004 where he stayed for six season. After retiring Kahn went on to star in a goalkeeping reality TV show in China and was most recently looking to commission the show in Germany titled I Never Give Up! One of the best full-backs the Premier League has ever seen, Denis Irwin was Sir Alex Ferguson's Mr Reliable. In recent years, Effenberg has featured as a colour commentator on TV. whichever team scored first would be declared the winner. 80' Fink(in) -. Champions League final shoot-out as it happened Phillip Lahm (Bayern) scored 1-0 Juan Mata (Chelsea) missed 1-0 Mario Gomez (Bayern) scored 2-0 David Luiz (Chelsea) scored 2-1 Manuel Neuer. In the breakdown of the FA Cup final, we noted how influential Sheringham was when appearing off the substitutes bench. In 2005 he left for Roma, retiring from the game in 2009. League, teams and player statistics. LIVE. With an xG of 0.47, this is essentially a coin flip to win the European Cup, weighted slightly against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Historically, goals from corners are converted around 2-3% of the time. On 26th of May 1999, Manchester United and Bayern Munich battled each other in the UEFA Champions League final. Coincidentally, this chance had the same likelihood of being converted as Blomqvists. [1] Prior to the 1992-93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. [103] After becoming the first manager of an English club to achieve this honour, Ferguson was made a Knight Bachelor on 12 June 1999 in recognition of his services to football,[104] as well as a bonus from the club reported to be in the region of 350,000 (the players received bonuses of 150,000 each). With three victories in a row from 1974 to 1976,[5] they became only the third team to achieve such a feat after Real Madrid (1956 to 1960)[6] and Ajax (1971 to 1973). [27] On matchday 5, United played their second match against Barcelona their first trip of the season to the Camp Nou and again the two sides played out a 33 draw. [7] They had also finished as runners-up twice: in 1982 against Aston Villa[8] and 1987 against Porto. Group A Cup, the League Cup, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. [92] Matthus later commented that "it was not the best team that won but the luckiest". (14 titles) 2022 UEFA Champions League final. The defensive midfielder, originally from East Germany, suffered with a chronic knee injury, forcing him to retire at age 32. 81' Solskjr(in) - Cole(out) . Solskjr reacted fastest, stuck out a foot and poked the ball into the roof of the Bayern goal for United to take the lead with just 43 seconds of the three minutes of injury time to play. The 1999 UEFA Champions League final was an association football match between Manchester United of England and Bayern Munich of Germany, played at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, on 26 May 1999, to determine the winner of the 1998-99 UEFA Champions League. Main article: 1999-2000 UEFA Champions League first group stage Sturm Croatia Zagreb Sparta Man. Both runners-up played the first leg of their quarter-final at home, as did the teams drawn first in the other two quarter-finals.[5]. [122] Ferguson returned to manage the side, six years after his retirement from full-time management, joined by his 1999 assistant Steve McClaren and former club captain Bryan Robson as head coach. In the process, Manchester United won their second Champions League title. Check Champions League 1999/2000 page and find many useful statistics with chart. [25] Bayern also recorded a pair of victories over Barcelona, winning 10 at the Olympiastadion[26] and 21 at the Camp Nou. The match was played at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, to determine the winner of the 1998-99 UEFA Champions League. The German international won 55 caps for his country throughout an injury prone career. He did however win the Bundesliga title three times and captained Bayern to the Champions League title victory of 2000-01. Manchester United left England two days before the final, first flying from Manchester Ringway Airport to Heathrow,[60] where they boarded a Concorde aircraft for the flight to Barcelona. Full match of the 1999 epic final that faced Manchester United and Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou. The current Champions League format was introduced in 1999, until 2003 the second round consisted of the 16 teams being split into four groups. Markus Babbels disruption of the wall helps too. [15], Since neither Manchester United nor Bayern Munich had won their respective leagues in 199798, both sides faced a qualifier to enter the 199899 Champions League. The result meant that Bayern finished as group winners, but United's points total was enough to see them go through as one of the two group runners-up with the best record. It looked as if, having been behind for most of the match, United had forced extra time. [110] While Manchester United finished the season as treble champions, Bayern ultimately lost the DFB-Pokal final to Werder Bremen, which meant they finished the season with the Bundesliga title as their only silverware. At Highbury in one game, he had a bad pass back in the last minute and [Dennis] Bergkamp came in and scored. To score them in stoppage time to win a Champions League final and complete a league, cup and European treble is simply extraordinary. Before all that though, there is Bayerns opening goal from Mario Baslers free-kick the games very first shot and one with a low xG value of 0.07, according to StatsBombs expected goals model. But those few seconds were enough for Manchester [United] to get back into the game. Six minutes into the match, Johnsen fouled Bayern striker Jancker just outside the area,[76] and Basler placed a low free kick around the United wall to score the first goal, as Schmeichel was caught flat-footed. Butt then went on to represent Birmingham City before a short stint with South China ended his playing career in 2011. Manchester United were drawn against Polish champions KS d and won 20 on aggregate, goals from Ryan Giggs and Andy Cole in the first leg at Old Trafford giving them the victory. Were it not for the late flurry and had they lost 1-0, United could not have much to complain about. [54], The match ball for the final was the Nike NK 800 Geo, a white ball with a standard 32-panel design. [56], Before kick-off, opera singer Montserrat Caball moving around the field on the back of a golf cart[57] performed a live version of "Barcelona", a song she recorded with the late Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1987, accompanied by a recording of Mercury on the stadium's electronic screen. Those Who Missed out 2 of 14 These are the. Simply register as a Transfermarkt user and start collecting. He currently has coaching ambitions in Germany and was recently linked with a return to Bayern, only to turn down a position as a reserve team coach, perStephan Uersfeld'sarticle for ESPNFC. Stam played for Netherlands at four major championships, accumulating 67 caps. . [40] Manchester United fell behind early in the second leg in Turin, as Filippo Inzaghi scored twice in the first 11 minutes. [67] With Keane out, goalkeeper Schmeichel who in November 1998 had announced his intention to leave Manchester United at the end of the season[68] was named as captain for his final Manchester United appearance;[69] this meant that both sides were captained by their goalkeepers, as Oliver Kahn wore the armband for Bayern. [94], Staying true to his word from earlier in the season, the match was Schmeichel's last in a Manchester United shirt, and a month later he signed for Portuguese club Sporting CP. His right-footed snap-shot was weak and poorly struck, but it went straight to Sheringham, who swiped at the shot with his right foot, and nestled the ball in the bottom corner of the net. Live now, Group B The two sides had played each other earlier in the competition, having both been drawn in Group D in the group stage; Bayern won the group, while Manchester United qualified for the knockout phase as one of the two best runners-up across all six groups. As we have seen previously, 1999 was a time when top teams were more willing to shoot from range. United put together an attack when, after a healthy period of possession, Giggs crossed towards Blomqvist, who could only knock the ball over the bar after a desperate stretch. Champions League quarter-final appearances and titles listed below are since 1992/93, when the competition was revamped and rebranded from the . Final of the 199899 edition of the UEFA Champions League, Independent Manchester United Supporters Association, FC Bayern Munich in international football competitions, Manchester United F.C. German striker Alexander Zickler spent 12 season with Bayern Munich before joining Austrian team Red Bull Salzburg. [119] In Spain, the match was shown on TVE. The big German was a supreme talent and in 2002 became the first and only goalkeeper in history towin the Golden Ball, per BBC Sport. I said: 'Well, one mistake in 10 years isn't bad.' The triumph capped off an amazing season for Sir Alex Fergusons men. [11], Although it was the second Champions League season to feature clubs that had not won their national leagues the year before, Manchester United and Bayern Munich were the first such clubs to reach the final of the competition. [74] Babbel was originally intended to play a man-marking role on Giggs, with his defensive abilities earning him selection ahead of the more attack-minded Thomas Strunz;[71] however, this was nullified by Giggs' selection on the right wing, where he would play against Tarnat. Cole once again found himself with a chance in the Bayern box, but goalkeeper Kahn hurried out of his goal to punch the ball to safety. Each tie in the quarter-finals and semi-finals was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home, while the final was played as a single match at a neutral venue. United took the lead just before half-time through a Roy Keane strike from just outside the penalty area; however, Hasan Salihamidi equalised for Bayern in the 55th minute and the game finished as a 11 draw. Their best is Carsten Janckers overhead kick, late on and from the edge of the six-yard box, which struck the crossbar. And given they were 1-0 up for the majority of the evening, perhaps Bayern felt they could afford to try their luck. [29] Qualification for the quarter-finals was only guaranteed for the group winners,[30] meaning that both United and Bayern had to play for victory in their final match against each other at Old Trafford. A unique memento of some of the most memorable matches of the modern era. Tyldesley on ITV's broadcast of Solskjr's injury time winner[79], Less than 30seconds after the subsequent kick-off, United forced another corner, but Schmeichel stayed in his penalty area this time, under instruction from Ferguson. Sheringham left United in 2001, returning to his former club Tottenham. In the final, if the scores were level after 90 minutes, two 15-minute periods of golden goal extra time would be played; i.e. And in 2013, Fergie gave Irwin the greatest compliment of all when he said the player would be the only guaranteed starter in his all-time best Manchester United XI. The latters absence resulted in Bayern playing a three man attack of Basler, Jancker and Zickler while Lizarazu was replaced by Michael Tarnat. In contrast to Bayern, and perhaps because they were chasing the game for so long, United generally refrained from shooting at range and looked to work the ball into advantageous scoring positions. But what would, Blomqvist was replaced by Sheringham not long after his miss. [106] After the treble was secured, much debate arose among English football fans as to whether the 1999 Manchester United team was the greatest club side ever, alongside past European Cup-winning teams. The scores were level and United were buzzing. 1998 Playoffs Summary 2000 Playoffs Summary. . Manchester United have reached the promised land! Most recently, Zickler has been a coach at Salzburg, working within their youth academy. To score two in a row at any time of any match is remarkable. Beckham flighted the corner in just over Schmeichel's head, Yorke put the ball back towards the crowded area, and after Fink failed to clear sufficiently, the ball arrived at the feet of Giggs on the edge of the area. West Ham thrashed Arsenal 5-1 at the Emirates Stadium to win the FA Youth Cup for the first time since 1999. The teams were divided into six groups of four teams each, with the teams in each group playing each other twice (home and away) in a double round-robin format. You have to feel this is their year. Jancker in currently a youth team coach at Rapid Vienna. [86] Matthus had captained Bayern in the 1987 European Cup final and lost in similar circumstances to two late Porto goals. United, meanwhile, struggled to fashion many threatening chances until they absolutely had to. Top-division clubs. We were winning 1-0 against Manchester United in the Champions League final when president Franz Beckenbauer went into the elevator at the Camp Nou. The player stayed in English football for four years, with an on-loan stint at Blackburn Rovers. After spells at several clubs after leaving Old Trafford, Blomqvist retired in 2010.

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