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That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.
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Andrew Hughes is replaced by Aidan White.
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Bradley Johnson is booked for unsporting behaviour.
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Luciano Becchio is being taken off, Lubomir Michalik has come on in his place.
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Jonny Howson is being taken off, Robert Snodgrass has come on in his place.
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Man Utd are replacing Luis de Abreu Anderson with Michael Owen.
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Danny Welbeck is replaced by Luis Antonio Valencia.
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Gabriel Obertan is being taken off, Ryan Giggs has come on in his place.
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The referee has booked Richard Naylor.
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Darron Gibson goes into the referee's book for unsporting behaviour.
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The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 1.
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Half time whistle is blown by C Foy
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Wes Brown is booked for unsporting behaviour.
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Goal!! Jermaine Beckford scores for Leeds.
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The ref has blown his whistle and the match has started.
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Man Utd face Leeds at 1pm on Sunday, January 3rd.
Manchester United 0 - 1 Leeds United
Beckford (18)
Venue: Old Trafford Attendance: 74,526
The Teams
Kuszack Ankergren
Neville Crowe
Brown Kisnorbo
Evans Naylor
De Silva Hughes 90
Welbeck 56 Doyle
Gibson Howson 76
Anderson 68 Kilkenny
Obertan 56 Johnson
Berbatov Beckford
Rooney Becchio 87
Substitutes
Tosic D. Martin
Amos Snodgrass 76
Valencia 56 Michalik 87
Giggs 56 Capaldi
Owen 68 White 90
Carrick Prutton
De Silva Grella
Game Statistics
18 Goal Attempts 10
5 On Target 4
8 Corners 3
11 Fouls 10
2 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
46 % 54
Manchester United v Leeds: friends reunited by FA Cup draw
It has been nearly six years since Leeds faced Manchester United and their FA Cup third round meeting prompts memories of a great rivalry that has entertained down the years.
Pitched battles
FA Cup semi-final 1965
A tetchy, bitter first match ended goalless at Hillsborough after both teams were intent on kicking hell out of each other, Eric Stanger of the Yorkshire Post noting that both sides "behaved like a pack of dogs snapping and snarling at each other over a bone”. Jack Charlton and Denis Law ended up on the floor wrestling with each other with precious little football being played.
The replay at the City Ground was just as combative, with Billy Bremner’s last minute winner for Leeds sparing the sides a third round of confrontation.
Try, try and try again
FA Cup semi-final 1970
This one did go to three matches. A combined attendance of more than 173,000 fans watched two viciously rugged goalless draws, followed by a second replay, again decided by a solitary goal from Bremner, at Bolton’s old Burnden Park ground.
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Crossing the great divide
Leeds 2 Manchester United 3 1978
Gordon McQueen’s return to Elland Road - after following his friend Joe Jordan across the Pennines earlier that year - was one full of hatred and bile. McQueen had stoked the flames by declaring on signing for United that "99 per cent of players want to play for Manchester United and the rest are liars". McQueen had ‘Judas’ daubed on his garage doors when still living in Leeds after the move and ran a gauntlet of hate that day.
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The return of the King
Leeds United 2 Manchester United 1 1994
Each time Cantona went back to Elland Road with United the love the Leeds fans had shown him when the Frenchman propelled them to the 1992 title was bastardised and amplified into seething hatred. Cantona’s classic collar up stare in to middle distance after scoring against his former club turned the dial up to 11 in a fierce Premier League encounter.
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The way things were back then
Leeds United 3 Manchester United 4 2002
A match that represents all that has been good about the Premier League and neatly summed up Leeds vain attempts to topple Sir Alex Ferguson’s side during the early part of the century.
A barnstorming match that was end to end from the start. Both sides were fully committed and after United threatened to run away with it by taking a 4-1 lead through a brace Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and another from Ryan Giggs after Mark Viduka had cancelled out Paul Scholes’ opener, they were made to sweat for their victory. Leeds were supremely talented and energetic but just unable to quite match United’s excellence in a game that was a treat for any neutral.
I also plan to find out more on the pre-match build-up including the history behind the rivalries, the fans views before the game, and Leeds United's decline from the turn of the last century.
I want to break up the commentary, and focus in on key events and highlight, in particular, the goal that stunned old trafford.
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