00:00So Blomqvist starts, York and Cole up front, but in the midfield.
00:04Juventus with Birind Elliott right back for the suspended Mirkovic and Ferrara alongside him.
00:09The best action now from a gripping night at the Stadio delle Alpe with Ron Atkinson and Clive Tilsford.
00:17Davids trying to find Di Livia in behind Beckham who recovered very quickly.
00:21In fact, it was Passato, the left full-back, who had forced his way forward to the edge of the
00:25Manchester United penalty area
00:26and Beckham had to go back with him.
00:28Yeah, looking at the pitch, you know, before the game, it is very wet and greasy.
00:32And that sort of situation, at both ends, is going to cause problems for defenders if they make rash challenges.
00:38Zidane guides it in, Inzaghi was there!
00:43Less than six minutes played, and Filippo Inzaghi has scored for Juventus.
00:54Just as they did at Old Trafford, Juventus strike first.
00:58Only this time, it's come even earlier.
01:01It's a short quarter, he knocks it back into Zidane's right foot.
01:05The delivery's okay, but there's a million red shirts in there.
01:09And how he gets first in that ball, we know he's a predator, we know he's a sniffer.
01:13But really, from a corner, you would expect that area to be defended.
01:19Di Libio to Davids.
01:22Now Pesota.
01:24Inzaghi there again, ahead of Stam, trying to turn the ball across the face of goal, deflected and in.
01:32Twice in the opening 11 minutes, Filippo Inzaghi had struck for Juventus.
01:38The first was a poachers goal, the second needed some luck.
01:42Manchester United need a minor miracle now.
01:46They're two down in no time here.
01:52Just looking at Alex there, I think, if he calls this one out, this will be the greatest achievement he's
01:56had since he's been at United.
01:59The task was to score one, initially, now it is to score two.
02:04The lead left by York, on by Cole, here's Dwight York.
02:08First real glimpse of goal for the Manchester United Go Twins.
02:13Yeah, but better altogether.
02:14Good movement, good movement down the left.
02:16Erwin surges forward, plays the little ball, they do a little dummy over it that they did so well in
02:21the early part of the season.
02:23And Yorkie, half-decent chance, falling backwards.
02:28And Lotti is bidding to become only the second Italian to play in and coach European Cup-winning teams.
02:35He was part of that wonderful Milan team of 89 and 90.
02:39York, oh, he got held back there by Ferrara.
02:42A referee didn't give anything, Beckham in with a shot.
02:44Might still come, the flag is up against Andy Cole.
02:48And a free kick has been given to Juventus.
02:52There's a guy on the line, definitely a guy on the line.
02:55That's a penalty.
02:56That's a penalty, he's dragged him round by the neck.
03:01Stam to Erwin.
03:04Long fist.
03:07But the strange thing is, Cole, if United can score and get it to 2-1,
03:11they'll actually be in a better position than they started the game.
03:16It's about 2-2 would take them through, yeah.
03:20We'll worry about that later on, I think.
03:22And as you say, the next goal is the most massive goal of the season.
03:27Beckham with the corner.
03:29Into what's Keane!
03:32Roy Keane with a captain's goal for Manchester United.
03:36Game on!
03:40He's pulled them back to 2-1.
03:43Manchester United have countered the away goal.
03:47They conceded at Old Trafford.
03:49Another one would put them in the box seat.
03:52Great delivery, but it's all made by the speed, the pace,
03:55and the drive, and the guts of the captain.
03:57He drives in, the keeper's left for dead.
03:59Keepers in no man's land.
04:01And it's a bullet job.
04:02That is a great captain's goal.
04:06Zidane.
04:10Di Livio's gone on ahead of him.
04:12Now a turn inside, and Zidane using that space to get in across.
04:15Bjorn Inzaghi towards Conte.
04:17Smeichel in no man's land.
04:18Oh, and off the line by Yapstam.
04:20How important will that be by the end of the night?
04:24Well, I mean, this is up in the air in eternity.
04:26I think at first everybody thinks Smeichel's come out with no real right to.
04:30And I think everybody thinks, is that going over?
04:32Fortunately for United, the Dutchman's stand reacts and keeps them back in the game.
04:38Keane with Beckham beyond him.
04:39It wasn't the best of passes in Bluntkvist.
04:41Keane brought him down.
04:43Now what's the referee going to do?
04:44It's a yellow card.
04:45And whatever else happens here,
04:48whatever happens,
04:50whatever the impact that Roy Keane's goal made on the night,
04:53he will not play in the Champions League final this season.
05:02Beckham's headed down.
05:04This is Colt.
05:05It's towards York.
05:06It's 2-2.
05:09Dwight York has equalised from Manchester United.
05:14And they have seen the Juventus away goal,
05:17and they have raised it.
05:20As Stinks, Dan,
05:21it's United who go through.
05:26Lovely ball in there.
05:27A little lob there from Cole.
05:29It's pulled away from Ferrara.
05:31And a nice little chug.
05:40This is York.
05:42Dwight York!
05:43Oh, off the post!
05:44And it wouldn't fall for Bluntkvist.
05:48And it's not as if Manchester United have had too many lucky breaks here tonight.
05:58Here is Paolo Montero,
06:01who arrived at Old Trafford with a wanting poster pin to his reputation,
06:05a criminal record as long as you're armed and more red cars than anyone in Inzaghi.
06:12All the way by Schmeichel.
06:14I tell you what, that must be the fourth time in the game, probably five.
06:17That Inzaghi's just stole across and got into that little space when the blaze developed from the left.
06:27York, great flick on.
06:29David Beckham.
06:30Has Andy Cole in support of him here?
06:32Beckham early in.
06:32It's Andy Cole!
06:34Oh, what an opportunity that was to put it beyond Juventus.
06:37And it ran away from him.
06:40I wonder whether he should have just gone in and tried to knock that and he won.
06:44Pretty sure he tried to get a touch on it instead and just stop it.
06:47I wonder whether he should have just attacked it there and gambled on scoring.
06:59There's Sean Forlund.
07:00Johnson up above Zidane, but a little nudge by Ronnie Johnson.
07:06Conte.
07:08Zidane.
07:13Deschamps.
07:15Now D'Illivio.
07:18In towards Almaruso, dealt with by Stam.
07:21Blomqvist caught in possession, edge in the penalty area.
07:23Conte, Zaghi's offside!
07:24He's offside in Zaghi, it won't count!
07:36I don't think he'll have any argument about this.
07:40Oh, he's well off, well off, well off.
07:42Lions always well, the flag was well up in time as well.
07:44I mean, that's not one he can't even argue about.
07:46Yeah, no question of the shot going in anyway.
07:52York trying to hold off Montero.
07:55Slip it back inside for Beckham.
07:57Now Keane.
07:58Here's York.
08:03Skulls.
08:04Support from Irwin.
08:11Dennis Irwin.
08:12Oh, hit the inside of the post, Irwin again!
08:16Side netting.
08:17They've hit the woodwork twice tonight now.
08:19The inside of the post twice.
08:23You thought that one had to go in once it had hit the post, didn't you?
08:26Can't believe that one's Canada.
08:28And they've allowed Irwin, they've let him check back on his right foot.
08:32He's better with his right foot, probably.
08:37On by Nzaghi.
08:39Conte trying to get there.
08:40It was David Beckham who was back and then Rodney Johnson.
08:42Pissotto down.
08:43Zidane.
08:44Pissotto.
08:46Headed away by Johnson.
08:49Man in the barricades at the moment.
08:52Skulls doing really well.
08:53He's been penalising.
08:54He won the ball, surely.
08:56Oh, and a yellow card.
08:57And poor Skulls would be out of the final if United got there.
09:01And whilst he went in two-footed, he seemed to get the ball.
09:05It's a second yellow for Skulls.
09:07Who joins Keane in agony.
09:21The promised land is inside again.
09:23The 29th of May, 1968.
09:27The last final.
09:29York, he skipped through.
09:30It's Dwight York.
09:31He's brought down by Perunce.
09:33Kull will finish it off.
09:34Full speed ahead, Barcelona.
09:39Manchester United are in sight of the European Cup final again.
09:46Andy Cole has surely made that a certainty now.
09:59And I think that Andy Cole has done the referee and the Juventus keeper a favour there by tucking that
10:05one away.
10:08It looks like the end of the European road for Juventus this season.
10:13The serial finalists about to be stopped in search of a fifth successive final.
10:18I call it destiny, I call it fate, but Manchester United have reached the European Cup final again.
10:2731 years on from Bobby's big night out of Webley.
10:31The new United, the United of Alex Ferguson, had the chance to win the giant trophy once more.
10:37He's followed in the footsteps of his mentor, Matt Busby, and led United back to the gates of football heaven.
10:47The premiership leaders, the FA Cup finalists, just don't know where to stop.
10:54Alex, so many heartbreaks in the past, but you're there.
10:57You're following Sir Matt Busby, taking Manchester United to a European Cup final.
11:01It's a proud, proud moment for me. My players are absolutely fantastic, absolutely magnificent.
11:07But you've also done it against the Italians. You've scored three goals in their backyard, Juventus.
11:13I mean, it's an incredible story tonight.
11:15I thought the first four or five minutes was the best of my time as a manager. I thought it
11:18was absolutely magnificent.
11:19It is an amazing situation, isn't it, to be 2-0 down in Turin against Juventus and come back to
11:24win 3-2.
11:25Yeah, it is, you know, but the team's spirit's superb. I think we've proved that again, you know.
11:29So, going 2-0 down and then getting, like, one back from Keeney, then another one from Dwight, you know.
11:35We always knew that we could get back in to win the game.
11:37Well, I think everyone back home would have said, oh, no, 2-0 down.
11:40But what were the players thinking then at 2-0 down?
11:42Well, again, obviously, we weren't happy about it, you know.
11:44As I said, even at 2-0 down, we felt we'd all the score goals if we get out there
11:47back four.
11:48Again, it took us 20, 25 minutes to settle down.
11:50But once we got going, you know, there's so much goals in the team, it's unbelievable.
11:53And to come back from 2-0 down against a top team like Juventus, you know, the lads deserve a
11:57brilliant credit for us.
11:59Not your way.
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