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FA Carling Premiership
Game 30: Sunday 26 March 2000
Leicester City 2 - 1 Leeds United
(Half-time: 1 - 1)
Crowd: 21095
Referee: S J Lodge (Barnsley)
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Teams |
Unused Subs |
| Leeds United |
Martyn, Kelly, Harte, Haaland, Radebe, Woodgate,
Kewell, McPhail, Wilcox, Bakke, Bridges (Huckerby 71) |
Robinson, Mills, Duberry, Maybury |
| Leicester City |
Flowers, Sinclair (Gilchrist 46), Taggart, Izzet,
Lennon, Collymore, Eadie (Cottee 66), Guppy, Savage, Elliott, Oakes |
Marshall, Arphexad, Impey |
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Scorers |
Other Info |
| Leeds United |
Kewell 38 |
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| Leicester City |
Collymore 14, Guppy 46 |
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Yellow Cards |
Red Cards |
| Leeds United |
Harte 58, Haaland 89 |
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| Leicester City |
Lennon 58, Collymore 89 |
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Leeds United |
Leicester City |
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| Fouls committed |
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| Hit woodwork |
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| Offsides committed |
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| Shirt numbers of goalscorers |
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| Yellow cards |
2 |
2 |
| Red cards |
0 |
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Leeds United's championship hopes may well have died here yesterday
with "Leicester City" written on their graves. Where Manchester United
had strolled to victory a week earlier David O'Leary's team stumbled
to a defeat which has left them seven points behind the Premiership
leaders with eight matches to play.
Anything in football is
possible but it is hard to see Leeds overtaking Sir Alex Ferguson's
side who, in addition to their points advantage, have a markedly
superior goal difference. "The best team are winning the
championship," O'Leary conceded afterwards. "Our target all along has
been to finish in the top three for a Champions League place."
At
least Leeds should satisfy that ambition, although their awareness of
targets will need to show a distinct improvement on yesterday. Two
shots from Harry Kewell, one hitting a post the other finding the net,
were never going to be enough to get something from a fast, open game
against a Leicester City team which had snapped out of its torpor of
the previous weekend.
© Guardian Media Group plc
Jon Abbott (jon@leeds-fans.org.uk).
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