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Man Utd Crash In Cyprus
Submitted By Faz
on Tuesday 29th October 2002
Manchester United lost 3-0 to Macabi Haifa in Greece. This was Manchester Uniteds first defeat in Europe and means they will have to at least get a point from Leverkusen to gain the top spot in there group.
Macabi Haifa scored two brilliant goals and a well-finished penalty.
Yaniv Katan opened the scoring for Maccabi Haifa with a brilliant strike which left Man united keeper Ricardo standing.
Manchester United were missing key players and it did show when the second goal scored by Raimondas Zutautas to finish Manchester United off.
Yakubu Ayegbeni scored from the penalty spot to give macabi a 3-0 win after Ricardo brought down.
There was once again bright performance by Diego Forlan who did hit the crossbar from 35 yards.
There was also a first Manchester United start for Richardson who had a fine game.
Maccabi Haifa: Awat, Zautatas, Harazi, Benado, Badir, Keisi, Ayegbini, Rosso, Zano, Katan, Pralija. Subs: Al Madon, Sevilia, Cohen, Zandberg, Israilevich, Gabrin, Almoshnino.
Man Utd: Ricardo, Gary Neville, Silvestre, Ferdinand, O'Shea, Phil Neville, Scholes, Fortune, Richardson, Solskjaer, Forlan. Subs: Carroll, May, Pugh, Roche, Lynch, Nardiello, Timms.
Referee: Antonio Jesus Lopez Nieto (Malaga).
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