Barcelona (H)

Group "H" matchday 5

Tuesday 24th October 2000 Leeds United 1 Barcelona 1

Half time 1 - 0 Att:36,721

"Formidable opposition but Leeds deliver the goods. Lee Bowyer strikes early on to put Leeds ahead. Rivaldo spoils the party in the dying seconds of injury time by grabbing an equaliser."

Leeds United Barcelona

13) ROBINSON Paul 1) DUTRUEL Richard (GK)

2) KELLY Gary (C) 2) REIZIGER Michael

3) HARTE Ian 5) ABELARDO Fernandez

4) DACOURT Oliver 7) ALFONSO

6) WOODGATE Jon 8) COCU Phillip

9) VIDUKA Mark 10) RIVALDO

11) BOWYER Lee 12) SERGI (C)

17) SMITH Alan 16) XAVI

18) MILLS Danny * 20) SIMAO SABROSA

19) BAKKE Eirik 21) LUIS ENRIQUE

21) MATTEO Dominic 24) PUYOL Carles

* Misses next match if booked.

26) MILOSEVIC Dejan (GK) 25) ARNAU (GK)

14) MCPHAIL Stephen 3) DE BOER Frank

20) JONES Mathew 6) DE LA PENA Ivan

24) HAY Danny 14) GERARD

25) BURNS Jacob 18) GABRI

31) EVANS Gareth 19) DANI

38) HACKWORTH Tony 28) SANTAMARIA

Coach SERRA FERRER Lorenzo

Referee: HAUGE Terje (NOR)

Statistics

	Half	Full	Half	Full
Shots on goal	5	7	4	15
Shots wide	4	4	1	2
Corners	4	7	3	12
Fouls committed	16	34	9	11
Offside	1	4	1	4
Possession	46%	36%	54%	65%
Ball in play	11'	19'	13'	32'
Total ball in play	24'	51'	24'	51'

Post match reaction:

Paul Robinson:

" I have played in just ten games for Leeds now, but i will never forget that one. I just reacted instinctively when i had to make those saves but tonight has just been the first step on a very long ladder. I have a lot to learn yet. One of the things i will be doing now is watching the video of this game in the next few days to see if i have done my job right. "

Lee Bowyer:

" We were so near to our aim; leading until the last seconds. We shouldn't be going to Milan to get a point to go through. We should have won tonight. We were playing one of the best sides in the world and we held on until the last seconds. Paul robinson made some great saves - he was outstanding. It was a good start for us. We couldn't have asked for anything more and the crowd were superb. They were behind us the whole game. They could tell we were struggling. We have to look at the situation in a positive way and we will be going to Milan believing we can do it."

David O'Leary:

" I'm gutted at the way it happend and i don't know where the four minutes of injury time came from but these things happen in football and you have to take them on chin and get on with it. My players are gutted too because they played their hearts out. They got outclassed in the second half but they still kept battling on. But i also thought that Barcelona played marvellously. It was cruel the way it finished but that's football."

" We'll fight another day over there ( in Milan) and hopefully we'll get a few injured players back for that one. We know what we have to do when we go to Milan. Let us hope that when we get to the last minute we will be celebrating going through."

Besiktas JK 0 AC Milan 2

Serra Ferrer Lorenzo:

" When it got near the end i was suprised when there was only four minutes added on. There was a lot of time lost during the game because of substitutions and there were many stoppages. We now believe that we can achieve our objectives. I am proud of my team - they worked very hard but did not have a lot of luck. I was dissapointed with the referee because i didn't think Dani was offside."

" The performance of the Leeds' keeper was extraordinary but we had a lot of good chances to score, but the goal right at the end proves that our team has a strong character."

" I think it would have been very unfair if we had not scored. In our two games against Leeds we have been the better side, but we know it is not a matter of two games in this group but six."

Leeds United

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