Worthington Cup
Round 3: Wednesday 13 October 1999
Leeds United 1 - 0 Blackburn Rovers
(Half-time: 0 - 0)
Crowd: 24353
Referee: J Winter (Stockton-on-Tees)
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Worthington Cup Leeds United 1 - 0 Blackburn Rovers(Half-time: 0 - 0) |
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| « Watford | Sheffield Wednesday » | |
| Match Facts | ||
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| Teams | Unused Subs | |
| Leeds United | Martyn, Mills, Radebe, Woodgate, Kelly, Hopkin (McPhail HT), Batty, Bakke Kewell, Smith, Bridges (Huckerby HT) | Robinson, Haaland, Jones |
| Blackburn Rovers | Filan, Johnson, Kenna, Short, Corbett, Dunn, Duff, Jansen, Taylor, Ward, Gill | Kelly, Grayson, Ostenstad, Richardson, Brown |
| Scorers | Other Info | |
| Leeds United | Mills 89 | |
| Blackburn Rovers | ||
| Yellow Cards | Red Cards | |
| Leeds United | Smith | |
| Blackburn Rovers | ||
| Match Statistics | ||
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| Leeds United | Blackburn Rovers | |
| Corners won | ? | ? |
| Fouls committed | ? | ? |
| Hit woodwork | ? | ? |
| Offsides committed | ? | ? |
| Shirt numbers of goalscorers | 18 | 0 |
| Yellow cards | 1 | 0 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
| Match Reports | |
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| Fans' Reports | |
| Nick Allen | vs Blackburn |
| Joe Skinner | Last Night |
| Newspaper/Newswire/Net Reports | |
| The Guardian | Mills brings belated relief |
| The Electronic Telegraph | Filan's feats all in vain as Mills strikes |
| The Times | Mills leaves it late to send Leeds through |
| Express Sport | Last gasp Mills is relief for O'Leary |
| The Independent | Mills' missile sinks Rovers |
| Yorkshire Evening Post | Danny boy ends the Rovers' resistance |
| Soccernet | Blackburn blitzed by Mills' late winner |
Shockingly bad game...shockingly poor football...won by a poor free kick - whoever had that report that said it was a thunderbolt, you are having a laugh. Mills charged at it like he was gonna launch it, he grubbed it, under a wall that conveniently jumped over the ball, and through a keeper who conveniently let it through his grasp.
Our attitude was chronic - Batty, Lucas, Woody and Kelly excepted - I've never seen so many backheels, attempted flicks, dribbling it out of defence, and Harry trying to beat that 7th defender one more time just to lose the ball again - still Blackburn were worse they came for the penalties - so they got what they deserved.
I suppose at least we got the bad game out of the system for a while.
POINTS
MARTYN -6- Nothing to do
MILLS -3- Shockingly bad defensively - constantly caught out of
position he then relies on his speed to get back - and his
challenges are always just a lunge.
KELLY -6- did well out of position - was worried when he went down
like he'd been shot. Didn't seem to move until he'd been carried
off.
WOODGATE -7- rock solid
RADEBE -7- solid as a rock
HOPKIN -3- anonymous, rightly substituted.
BATTY -7- industrious, coupled with quality passing. Even burst
forward on occasion.
BAKKE -6- made the odd howler, but looks to be getting to grips
with the English game.
KEWELL -5- runs fast, beats lots of men, loses the ball.
SMITH -5- battling but largely ineffective
BRIDGES -5- only played first half - looked subdued.
Subs
McPHAIL -6- Good effort and quality passing - so better than Hopkin
then.
DARREN -5- runs fast, plays football like a kid in the
schoolyard.
Crowd - where were you?
I won't bother doing much of a match report because it was that bad but;
I can't believe there were only 24,300 people at ER when it was only £12. I appreciate that not everyone can afford every game but are we not top of the league?
I suppose people will be vindicated by the performance and result and I know it's only the 'worthless' cup but it could prove our only route into Europe. Why was there a full house for the Partisan game when they're not a glamour team and the result was almost in the bag. Blackburn are only just out of the premier and it was a one off tie with the possibility of extra time and penos.
Batty played well so did Lucas and Johnny, without those 3 we would have been pasted. Mills, Kewell and Bakke played okish as did Huckerby. Hopkin was toss and I wanted him off after half an hour, Bridges still won't tackle or get involved (pattern developing here) and I assume that's why he was substituted. Smith had a couple of shots but was quiet other wise, McPhail put some good passes together and I bet Alfie's well pissed off - on the way out? Kelly did OK out of position but nothing understandably went down the left all night.
A win's a win as they say in boxing, Blackburn came to defend but oddly looked great when they came forward and should have scored, especially when Jansen (who looked pretty good all night) hit the bar late on. I thought we were destined for penalties until the freekick went in.
I can't believe we missed Bowyer and Harte that much, so I'll put it down to an incredibly bad performance. We're still playing badly and winning but when are we going to start playing well? I think that either someone soon is in for a pasting (Wednesdays?) or these bad performances are going to turn into losses.
Hope they keep ticket prices down for cup games and why are we away in the next round to Leicester ? I thought it was supposed to be redrawn, when did they do that?
Copy from Football Unlimited of 14/10/1999.
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It took them some considerable time but the Premiership leaders Leeds United finally ended Blackburn's brave resistance last night.
A quite dreadful game had slipped into injury-time when the defender Danny Mills swept in a free-kick to carry Leeds through into the fourth round.
At last, a Premiership manager appeared to take seriously a tournament of waning stature. Well, on paper at least.
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