[19], In the draw for the group stage, Bayern Munich were placed in Pot 2 and Manchester United in Pot 3 as Germany was higher than England in the UEFA association club coefficient rankings. Well, besides global domination, Beckham went on to join Real Madrid in 2003 becoming their most famous of Galacticos. However, Sheringham more than played his part in 1999, coming off the bench at the Nou Camp to equalise in injury time and assist Solskjaer for the winning goal. The Norwegian international stayed at Old Trafford for six seasons before moving on to Aston Villa and Newcastle. Ferguson took advantage and played a three man attack in the second half. Live now, Group D Soccer Comments User He currently works for Iranian channel IRIB covering the next World Cup. The UEFA word, the UEFA logo and all marks related to UEFA competitions, are protected by trademarks and/or copyright of UEFA. 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. [16][17] Bayern Munich had an easier time against Yugoslavian champions Obili, winning 40 in the first leg at the Olympiastadion with goals from Stefan Effenberg, Giovane lber, Alexander Zickler and Thorsten Fink, all scored in the space of 17 second-half minutes. Table Champions League Final Stages . 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. Whereas both goals against Newcastle were examples of the 99 Uniteds fine build-up play, this is a scrappy one, born out of Bayerns inability to clear their lines properly and Sheringham hanging off the shoulder of Scholl, hoping to feed on any scraps that come his way. But in the end, Manchester deservedly won. Normally when the opposition equalise you are expecting extra-time and it was a shock to our team when they scored the winner two minutes later. If both sides scored the same number of goals away from home, two 15-minute periods of extra time would be played. Busby died in 1994; the day of the 1999 Champions League final would have been his 90th birthday. Penalty shoot-out if no goals occur in extra time. LIVE. Honestly, I would say Denis Irwin would be the one certainty to get in the team. Goals from Keane and Yorke before half-time levelled the tie but gave United the advantage on away goals, before Cole secured victory with the winning goal seven minutes from the end of the match. Michael Tarnat stayed with Bayern Munich until 2003 when he joined Manchester City. Markus Babbel went on to become very well known to English football fans after leaving Bayern Munich in 2000 to join Liverpool. [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. The Norwegian striker stayed at United for 11 seasons before injury forced him to retire in 2007. He was also nominated for the Ballon d'Or in 2001 and was twice runner-up in the African Footballer of the Year award. [49] Despite the club receiving only 30,000 tickets, it was estimated that up to 100,000 Manchester United fans travelled to Barcelona for the final, paying around 300 for flights and around 1,000 for match tickets. So it is hard to believe that a couple of years later he was packed on his way and sold to Lazio. Basler was the man of the match on the. Manchester United and Bayern Munich had only met twice in competitive matches before the final, both meetings coming earlier in the 199899 season and both finished as draws. Blomqvist was replaced by Sheringham not long after his miss. After analysing the FA Cup wins over Arsenal and Newcastle, we end with the most famous game of all from that 1998-99 campaign: the last-gasp Champions League final victory over Bayern Munich at the Nou Camp. Giggs started on the right wing whereas Jesper Blomqvist starting on the left. [4], Including the victory over Leeds in 1975, Bayern Munich had won the European Cup on three occasions going into the 1999 final. Simply register as a Transfermarkt user and start collecting. Whereas Sheringham found the bottom left, he finds the top right. "[101], In winning the trophy, Manchester United became the first English team to be crowned European champions since the Heysel Stadium disaster ban in 1985, which had resulted in English clubs being excluded from UEFA competitions for five years, and also the first team to achieve the treble of the Premier League, FA Cup, and European Cup in the same season. Yet just because Bayern took a lot of low-value shots does not mean they did not come close to scoring with them. Gary Neville is still very familiar to everyone in the UK and is now Sky Sports' expert pundit. But Scholl, goalkeeper Oliver Kahn and in particular Tarnat cause him a problem, narrowing the space in which he has to score. The original target man, the huge Carsten Jancker was a nightmare to play against. Neville went on to become England's most capped right-back, playing for United for 18 years and eventually becoming club captain. United, meanwhile, struggled to fashion many threatening chances until they absolutely had to. [50] Many were able to buy tickets from touts, who had paid up to 400 to buy from Barcelona fans who had bought through their club for the equivalent of 28. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Given how he smacked his hands together after watching it beat him, Schmeichel knew he could have done better. The victory completed a treble-winning season for Manchester United, after they had won the Premier League and FA Cup. [76][77] Scholl then almost scored from a delicate 20-yard chip after a run from Basler, but the ball bounced back off the post and into Schmeichel's arms. The Independent joined up with StatsBomb to analyse three key United games, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. quarterfinal ; Chelsea 3 1. Their next meeting saw the pair again play out a draw as the game finished 1-1. Not one of their chances scores more than 0.25 xG on StatsBombs model. The Bayern defence was anchored around sweeper Matthus, who played behind Thomas Linke and Ghana international Samuel Kuffour the only non-German in the Bayern side (by comparison, Manchester United had four Englishmen in their team); Linke and Kuffour's partnership at centre-back meant club captain Thomas Helmer had to settle for a place on the bench. Beckham again swung the corner in, finding the head of Sheringham, who nodded the ball down across the face of goal. For the second time, the runners-up of eight domestic leagues entered the competition. In 2005 he left for Roma, retiring from the game in 2009. In the quarter-finals and semi-finals, in the event that two teams scored the same number of goals over the two legs of their tie, the winner would be determined by the number of goals scored away from home. It could take days or even weeks to recover from this but I must say that Manchester are great champions. The scores were level and United were buzzing. Babbel went on into football management after his playing career retirement, coaching Stuttgart, Hertha Berlin and most recently Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga. [5], In the quarter-finals, the two best runners-up could not be drawn together, nor could the winners and runners-up from the same group. 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! For the best possible experience, we recommend using, Solskjr answers Manchester United's prayers. [61] They stayed in the Meli Gran hotel in the town of Sitges, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) down the coast south-west of Barcelona. The former Trindad and Tobago striker stayed with United until 2002 before signing for Blackburn Rovers. 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]. Alex Fergusons tactical adeptness won the day for the Red Devils. [112], Manchester United planned an open-top bus tour of the city of Manchester the day after the game, at which they would parade their three trophies for an expected 700,000 people lining the streets between Sale and the city centre. Fiorenzo Treossi (Italy), The game's ending was so unexpected that UEFA President Lennart Johansson had left his seat in the stands before Sheringham's equaliser to make his way down to the pitch to present the European Cup trophy, which was already decorated with Bayern ribbons. Even so, it is the type of chance that only goes in one in 15 times. You might say that there was nothing expected about Sheringham and Solskjaers goals at all. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! [107] It was such a significant achievement for an English football club that Prime Minister Tony Blair took the time to watch part of the match and congratulate Manchester United from the opening of the new National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff. During his time at Anfield the player won the F.A. As seen in Find your team Arsenal Aston Villa Birmingham City Blackburn Rovers Brentford Burnley Cardiff City Celtic Charlton Athletic Chelsea Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County England Everton Fulham Hearts Hibernian Ipswich Town Ireland A minute later, when he got out of the. Despite the bad start United began to dominate possession. [123] Despite not having been with Manchester United during the 199899 season, Karel Poborsk, Mikal Silvestre and Louis Saha completed the squad as regular participants in Manchester United Legends matches. [89] When emerging from the tunnel at the final whistle, he was stunned, and he later said: "I can't believe it. [76] Hitzfeld responded with a substitution of his own, bringing on Mehmet Scholl, who immediately set up Effenberg for a long-range shot that went narrowly wide. The 1999-2000 season was Real Madrid C.F. The current Champions League format was introduced in 1999, until 2003 the second round consisted of the 16 teams being split into four groups. Sheringham left United in 2001, returning to his former club Tottenham. Football Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Three points were awarded for each win, with one point each for a draw and none for a defeat. Referee Pierluigi Collina has cited this match as one of the most memorable of his career, and described the noise from the crowd at the end of the game as being like a "lion's roar". Here we take a brief look at all of the participants from the match in 1999: (Stats fromSoccerbaseorPremierLeague.com, unless stated.). 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. [92] Matthus later commented that "it was not the best team that won but the luckiest". United Chelsea Arsenal Real Madrd Valencia Barcelona Bordeaux Marseille Leverkusen Dortmund Bayern Hertha Olympiacos Milan Fiorentina Lazio Feyenoord Willem II PSV Molde Rosenborg Boavista Porto Spartak Rangers Maribor AIK Galatasaray Dyn. [96][97] It was also Blomqvist's last competitive appearance for the club. The sheer improbability of what Uniteds 1999 team achieved in those 103 seconds between equaliser and winner is why they are still celebrated and revered, two decades on.