Manchester U 2 Leicester 2

Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Lei­cester City 2, Old Traf­ford, Eng­lish Pre­mier Lea­gue Au­gust 15, 1998. Con­trary to most pre­dic­tions, Man­chester Uni­ted were held to a dis­ap­point­ing 2-2 draw ag­ainst little fan­cied Lei­cester City. At Old Traf­ford, Sir Al­ex Ferguson´s boys came from be­ing two goals down to res­cue a point in their open­ing ga­me of the 1998-99 campaign.

Sir Al­ex Ferguson´s Man­chester Uni­ted Fir­st Te­am Squad for the 1998-99 sea­son con­tained Nick Culkin, Pe­ter Schmei­chel, Rai­mond van der Gouw, Hen­ning Berg, Wes­ley Bro­wn, Mi­chael Clegg, John Curtis, Dan­ny Hig­gin­botham, De­nis Ir­win, Ronny John­sen, Da­vid May, Ga­ry Ne­ville, Phil Ne­ville, Jaap Stam, Da­vid Beck­ham, Jes­per Blom­qv­ist, Nicky Butt, Ry­an Ford, Ry­an Gig­gs, Jon­athan Green­ing, Roy Ke­ane, Paul Scho­les, Paul Teath­er, Mi­chael Twiss, Ron­nie Wall­work, Ma­rk Wil­son, Andy Cole, Al­ex Not­man, Teddy Sher­ing­ham, Ole Gun­nar Sol­skjaer, and Dwight Yorke. On the open­ing day of the Pre­miership cam­paign, Lei­cester City went in front in the sev­enth min­ute of the en­counter when hard run­ning mid­fielder Muzzy Izz­et fou­nd Eng­land U21 in­ter­na­tion­al stri­ker Emile Hes­key who ham­mered ho­me from in­side the six-yard box. And wi­th just four­teen min­utes re­maining of the clash, Mar­tin O´Neill´s Lei­cester sco­red ag­ain as Muzz­et fed the ball out to for­mer Man­chester Uni­ted play­er Rob­bie Sal­vage who­se cross was met by ex­per­i­enced stri­ker To­ny Cot­tee who head­ed pa­st Den­mark in­ter­na­tion­al Pe­ter Schmei­chel to give The Foxes a sur­prise 2-0 lead. But three min­utes la­ter, Teddy Sher­ing­ham, who had re­placed Ga­ry Ne­ville in the 77th min­ute, fou­nd the tar­get for Man­chester Uni­ted and the hosts fi­nally had their equal­iser thanks to a well pla­ced Da­vid Beck­ham free-kick which flew pa­st sub­sti­tute goal­keeper Peg­guy Arph­ex­ad and in­to the bot­tom left cor­ner of the net in stop­page time. Man­chester Uni­ted Te­am: Pe­ter Schmei­chel, Ga­ry Ne­ville, De­nis Ir­win, Ronny John­sen, Jaap Stam, Da­vid Beck­ham, Nicky Butt, Andy Cole, Ry­an Gig­gs, Roy Ke­ane, Paul Scho­les. Sub­stitutes: Phil Ne­ville, Teddy Sher­ing­ham, Da­vid May, Hen­ning Berg, Nick Culkin. Lei­cester City Te­am: Ka­sey Keller, Frank Sin­clair, Ste­ve Wal­sh, Muzzy Izz­et, Neil Len­non, Rob­bie Sav­age, Emile Hes­key, Ste­ve Guppy, Matt El­li­ott, To­ny Cot­tee, Theo Za­gora­kis. Sub­stitutes: Garry Par­ker, Ger­ry Tag­gart, Stu­art Wil­son, Pon­tus Kaamark, Peg­guy Arphexad.

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