It was Wednesday 26th May 1999, the venue was Nou Camp, Barcelona, Spain ( the home of Barcelona football club). The stage was set for the final match of the 1998-99 champions league season. Manchester United was up against a tough German side Bayern Munich. No one was better than the other as both of them had fought their way to this day for over 8 month competing against the bet in Europe. 32 teams started as always but only 2 reaches for the finals…
The match started, both teams were attacking but the shorts were going of the target and saved by the two ace goalkeepers standing on the opposite ends of the field. On one side was Peter Schmeichel of Manchester United and on the other side it was Oliver Kahn for Bayern Munich. The first goal was of the match was scored by Balser for the German side as quickly as in the 6th minute. Bayern 1-United 0. The match progressed but no goals were scored. The first half ended with the same score line. In the second half too, no goals were scored till the end of the normal stipulated time of 90 minutes and it was looking like this score line will stay till the final whistle until something spectacular will happen. AND IT HAPPENDED.
Just when the match went into the injury time (Of 3 minutes), United’s goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel ventured up to Bayern’s penalty area for a last ditched effort to equalise from a corner of David Beckham. At this point the commentator commented “Can Manchester United score? They always score”. It was 90+1, Beckham flighted the corner in just over Schmeichel’s head, Dwight Yorke put the ball back towards the crowded area, and after Thorsten Fink failed to clear sufficiently, the ball arrived at the feet of Ryan Giggs on the edge of the area. 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. Bayern 1- United -1. And with less than Less than 30 seconds after the subsequent kick-off, United forced another corner, but Schmeichel stayed in his penalty area this time. Beckham again swung the corner in, which was headed downwards by Sheringham. Solskjær shot out a foot and poked the ball into the roof of the Bayern goal for United to take an astonishing lead. It was a fairytale for the red devils, the whole stadium was in traditional red flames for Man Utd’s support. Just as the referee blew the final whistle, the stadium erupted in joy and players had no words to describe their happiness. It was a dream come true for united. 70,000 and more would be able to say “I was there” and the rest is history…
It was Wednesday 26th May 1999, the venue was Nou Camp, Barcelona, Spain ( the home of Barcelona football club). The stage was set for the final match of the 1998-99 champions league season. Manchester United was up against a tough German side Bayern Munich. No one was better than the other as both of them had fought their way to this day for over 8 month competing against the bet in Europe. 32 teams started as always but only 2 reaches for the finals…
The match started, both teams were attacking but the shorts were going of the target and saved by the two ace goalkeepers standing on the opposite ends of the field. On one side was Peter Schmeichel of Manchester United and on the other side it was Oliver Kahn for Bayern Munich. The first goal was of the match was scored by Balser for the German side as quickly as in the 6th minute. Bayern 1-United 0. The match progressed but no goals were scored. The first half ended with the same score line. In the second half too, no goals were scored till the end of the normal stipulated time of 90 minutes and it was looking like this score line will stay till the final whistle until something spectacular will happen. AND IT HAPPENDED.
Just when the match went into the injury time (Of 3 minutes), United’s goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel ventured up to Bayern’s penalty area for a last ditched effort to equalise from a corner of David Beckham. At this point the commentator commented “Can Manchester United score? They always score”. It was 90+1, Beckham flighted the corner in just over Schmeichel’s head, Dwight Yorke put the ball back towards the crowded area, and after Thorsten Fink failed to clear sufficiently, the ball arrived at the feet of Ryan Giggs on the edge of the area. 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. Bayern 1- United -1. And with less than Less than 30 seconds after the subsequent kick-off, United forced another corner, but Schmeichel stayed in his penalty area this time. Beckham again swung the corner in, which was headed downwards by Sheringham. Solskjær shot out a foot and poked the ball into the roof of the Bayern goal for United to take an astonishing lead. It was a fairytale for the red devils, the whole stadium was in traditional red flames for Man Utd’s support. Just as the referee blew the final whistle, the stadium erupted in joy and players had no words to describe their happiness. It was a dream come true for united. 70,000 and more would be able to say “I was there” and the rest is history…
October 7, 2009
Categories: Champions League, ManUTD, Uncategorized, Winners . Tags: 1999, Bayern, Champions, League, Manchester, Munich, Ole, Peter, United . Author: eplindiaunited . Comments: Leave a comment