Manchester United's Diego Forlan battles for the ball with Leicester City's Nikos Dabizas during their Premier League clash in April 2004. Tony Marshall
Tony Marshall
BACK IN 2004, Manchester United were looking to make it back-to-back Premier League titles but faced stiff competition from Arsenal and Chelsea.
On April 13th, they hosted Leicester at Old Trafford and it took Gary Neville’s first top-flight goal in three years to secure the three points. United were without Roy Keane and Ruud van Nistelrooy but their starting XI featured a number of much-maligned players.
This was the #MUFC side that day: Carroll, Neville, Brown, Silvestre, O'Shea, Ronaldo, Butt, Scholes, Bellion, Forlan, Saha. #SSNHQ
The highlights are well worth a watch. In a rather action-packed 70 seconds, we see some dodgy goalkeeping from Roy Carroll, some generally dodgy defending from United, a young Ronaldo providing some dazzling footwork and a superb pass from Gary Neville that eventually leads to his goal.
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Here’s hoping for more of this kind of entertainment later today!
Here's the Manchester United team from when they last played Leicester
BACK IN 2004, Manchester United were looking to make it back-to-back Premier League titles but faced stiff competition from Arsenal and Chelsea.
On April 13th, they hosted Leicester at Old Trafford and it took Gary Neville’s first top-flight goal in three years to secure the three points. United were without Roy Keane and Ruud van Nistelrooy but their starting XI featured a number of much-maligned players.
The highlights are well worth a watch. In a rather action-packed 70 seconds, we see some dodgy goalkeeping from Roy Carroll, some generally dodgy defending from United, a young Ronaldo providing some dazzling footwork and a superb pass from Gary Neville that eventually leads to his goal.
Here’s hoping for more of this kind of entertainment later today!
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