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With Leeds having no game today, Manchester United can return to the top of the table with a win. Everton have drawn their last three league games.
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00:00United reached the pinnacle of their dominance.
00:02Earlier in the year, they'd won that famous treble.
00:04And in December, with Everton sporting enough to applaud them onto the pitch,
00:08United had returned from a 12,000-mile trip to Tokyo with the Intercontinental Cup.
00:14United had beaten Palmeiras of Brazil in Tokyo,
00:18and Roy Keane had scored the goal that had effectively made them world champions.
00:22Now, it was back to Premier League business.
00:27Sir Alex Ferguson had given his squad alertness tests after their travels,
00:31and Teddy Sheringham came into the Champions XI in place of David Beckham.
00:35Otherwise, they lined up as expected.
00:38Mind you, Yapstam and co. could be forgiven for feeling weary.
00:41They'd already completed 26 games.
00:44Everton had played eight less than United.
00:46They were without their suspended Scottish international Don Hutchison,
00:50Abel Xavier deputised.
00:55So, could Sir Alex Ferguson and Steve McLaren inspire their squad
00:58to keep focused after the globe-trotting?
01:01Everton were capable of providing just as stiffer test as anyone else in the world.
01:06Your match commentator is John Champion.
01:09So, it's now official.
01:10Manchester United really are the best club side in the world.
01:14It doesn't protect them from defeat at the hands of Everton today.
01:19A north-west derby.
01:20Plenty of feeling between these clubs.
01:22Two managers, Alec Ferguson and Walter Smith,
01:26are close friends.
01:28But that's forgotten for the next 90 minutes.
01:34Manchester United
01:36seeking to regain their equilibrium after their globe-trotting
01:40and to return to winning ways in the English Premier League.
01:45Another too many defeats
01:48for Alec Ferguson
01:50and Manchester United
01:51of their last 12 games in all competitions.
01:53They've lost five.
01:57But only two losses in the Premier League.
02:005-0 at Chelsea.
02:023-1 at Tottenham.
02:04At home.
02:06Well, this remains a pretty impregnable fortress.
02:09Certainly in league competition.
02:11Here's Giggs.
02:14It's a stumble there.
02:17By Paul Scholes.
02:20Gary Neville.
02:23Roy Keane.
02:30Keane's cross.
02:32Giggs.
02:33And Scholes!
02:36It was a good solid block by Richard Dunn.
02:41Giggs.
02:44Unsworth.
02:47Everton can't get it away.
02:51David Weir vying for it.
02:56But it was Richard Dunn
02:58who got in the way of Paul Scholes' effort.
03:06Collins.
03:08Everton have drawn their last three Premier League games.
03:12Seven without a win.
03:14Since the 1-0 victory at Liverpool in September.
03:17This is Mark Pembridge.
03:19Intervention was by Stam.
03:23Unsworth.
03:24With time.
03:25And Jeffers has scored for Everton.
03:33And Bosnich is injured.
03:38Francis Jeffers.
03:41The 18-year-old striker.
03:43In whom Everton have invested so much hope for the future.
03:49Scores after seven minutes at Old Trafford.
03:55And what's more.
03:56As well as losing a goal.
03:58Manchester United might be about to lose their goalkeeper.
04:05It's difficult to see exactly what he did.
04:08But Rob Swire.
04:09The physio.
04:10Is accompanying Mark Bosnich.
04:13And Raymond van der Haal.
04:14Is going to have to come on.
04:19He's having real problems with goalkeepers.
04:21The Manchester United manager.
04:23Replacing Schmeichel.
04:24Is proving.
04:25A very awkward task.
04:29Valencia here in the Champions League on Wednesday.
04:33Massimo Taibbi is ineligible for the Champions League.
04:37Mark Bosnich obviously has the injury.
04:39And so here comes 36-year-old Raymond van der Haal.
04:44Older Smith won't be too disappointed.
04:49Scholes.
04:52Away by Weir.
04:53Only as far as Keane.
04:57That was being held by John Collins.
05:07Giggs.
05:08Solskjaer.
05:11That's some save by Paul Gerrard.
05:18Crowd.
05:19Held its collective breath.
05:21Expecting the net to bulge.
05:24That it didn't.
05:25Was down to an inspired piece of goalkeeping.
05:29Now it's a free kick.
05:31But Everton's hero.
05:33Was Paul Gerrard.
05:34Who had to change direction.
05:36And thrust out that left arm.
05:44It's been a strange season for Everton.
05:47Mid-table in the Premier League.
05:48But beaten by Oxford in the League Cup.
05:51And they go to St James' Park.
05:53Next Saturday in the FA Cup.
05:55Not Newcastle but Exeter.
05:57Oh and they've hit the frame of the goal.
06:01Jeffers header.
06:03Hitting the crossbar and coming out again.
06:06It could so easily have been two.
06:09And maybe, just maybe,
06:11this is a good day to visit Old Trafford.
06:15There aren't many.
06:17There aren't many.
06:27Wait, wait, wait, come here.
06:34Hansel set her out.
06:39Gary Neville's throw.
06:44The top half position has been a distant dream for Everton for much of the last few seasons.
06:50But there have been signs this year that things are going to get better for them.
06:54Oh, was that handball?
06:56It was.
06:58By Richard Dunne.
07:04Well, that's just what Everton didn't need.
07:08He went to head it.
07:09And it hit his arm.
07:12A major misjudgment.
07:15And so Manchester United have been gifted the opportunity of an equalising goal.
07:26Mr. Reliable from the penalty spot.
07:29Dennis Irwin.
07:31Rolls it in for 1-1.
07:48Comprehensive enough.
07:54Why, oh why, did Dunne handle?
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09:53As cold as it might look from those pictures.
09:58Which feels cold after Tokyo.
10:03Scything challenge by Keane, but plays allowed to continue by Graham Pohl.
10:13Balmby.
10:14Pembridge.
10:16Now it was impeded.
10:18This is a free kick.
10:24Balmby runs over for Collins to strike.
10:37Never really threatened.
10:47Everton have played eight games fewer than Manchester United this season.
10:50United's tally bolstered by 11 non-Premier League matches.
10:55Here's Solskjaer again.
10:57And he's scored again.
11:05And this game is rapidly running away from Everton.
11:12They spent a large portion of this first half in the lead.
11:15But now they trail 3-1.
11:17And Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
11:19This oh so popular Norwegian.
11:24Has just claimed his 50th Manchester United goal.
11:32It's more like it.
11:36Not from Walter Smith's perspective though.
11:39So much success at Rangers.
11:40But life is altogether tougher with Everton.
11:51Sheringham.
11:54Solskjaer.
11:54Weir gets to him this time.
11:57There is a lack of pace in that Everton back line which has been exposed a couple of times.
12:03Dunn, Gough, Weir and Unsworth.
12:05None of them are sprinters.
12:12There is Irwin.
12:17There's golf.
12:19And Giggs!
12:33Well had the half-time whistle come a little earlier.
12:37It wouldn't have been greeted with quite such a raucous and enthusiastic cheer.
12:41But as it is.
12:42There's plenty for the home supporters to be happy about.
12:45Francis Jeffers.
12:47Gave Everton an early lead.
12:48Dennis Irwin equalised from the penalty spot after Dunn's mystifying handball offence.
12:54And then a pair of goals from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
12:57The second of them is 50th in the red, white and black of Manchester United.
13:03Normal service has been resumed at Old Trafford.
13:06And the half-time score is familiar.
13:083-1 to Manchester United.
13:14Everton prepare to get this second half going.
13:16And they need to get themselves going.
13:23Because they've allowed the impetus to slip away.
13:27They must be wondering what might have happened had Francis Jeffers' header that hit the crossbar prepped in to make
13:33it 2-0.
13:34But it didn't.
13:36That's ancient history now.
13:37And they face an uphill battle to take anything from this game.
13:41I suppose their only hope is that Manchester United will surely tire a little after all their travelling.
13:53Archie Knox on the left there accompanying Walter Smith.
13:57Five new signings this season.
13:59All of them overseas players for Everton.
14:02No surprise though that there are three Scots employed by a Scottish managerial duo.
14:07Goff and Weir and Collins.
14:12They're not making much impression on Manchester United at the moment.
14:17Nor on their Scottish manager.
14:26Manchester United's travels are far from over.
14:29Next month they head off to Brazil for the World Club Championship.
14:34Controversially been excused from FA Cup duty.
14:38Here's Giggs.
14:39And still Ryan Giggs.
14:42And Keane.
14:44And Sheringham couldn't get there.
14:45Keane felt he was fouled.
14:48Graham Cole didn't.
14:57Too sure that Keane didn't have a case.
14:59Unsworth sliding in on him.
15:07Collins.
15:09Pembridge tried to retain his onside position and failed.
15:18There wasn't a lot in it.
15:23Everton missing Don Hutchison today through suspension.
15:30They've made progress the last two seasons.
15:32Two years ago under Howard Kendall.
15:3417th.
15:35Just avoided the drop with 40 points.
15:38Three points in three places better off last season.
15:42Solskjaer.
15:44Scholes.
15:47Nicky Butts.
15:49Poor control.
15:51And Barnby clears.
15:55Now Irwin.
15:56There's Solskjaer.
15:59There's a hat-trick.
16:06Not bad for a player who before today
16:08had scored just one Premier League goal in the last seven months.
16:14Splendid delivery from Irwin.
16:16And the nod of approval from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
16:30It's as if they'd never been away.
16:43It's as if they'd never been away.
16:50But Francis Jeffers goal for Everton seems an awfully long time ago.
17:00Three for Solskjaer.
17:02Four for Manchester United.
17:05And his is the name on the lips.
17:08Of the 55,000.
17:10The vast majority of whom are supporting the Reds.
17:28Giggs.
17:29Giggs.
17:33Barnby.
17:35Solskjaer dumped in the seat of his pants.
17:38Collins.
17:39Collins.
17:43Scholes in that right-sided role
17:45with Beckham taking a rest on the bench today.
17:50Paul Scholes.
17:54Have another go.
17:58Pembridge.
18:03Barnby.
18:08Jeffers.
18:08Gall carbohydrate.verco
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18:10going to be a blooming game. Hapteller
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18:34Jeffers.
18:39Balmby
18:44Ever out was by Sylvester
19:08Looks like an 11th Premier League win of the season for Manchester United
19:1411 wins out of 16 games
19:19A couple of blips along the way
19:21At the end of their Premier League record 29 games unbeaten
19:24With the 5-0 hammering at Chelsea
19:27Which equaled their worst defeat under Alec Ferguson
19:31Remember they lost 5-0 at Newcastle a couple of years back as well
19:35Premier League champions in four of its six seasons
19:46Only Blackburn in 1995 and Arsenal in 1998 have denied them
19:53Bondsworth
19:57Done
19:58Oh, give them straight to Giggs
20:00Problems here for Everton
20:03Solskjaer
20:06He's got four
20:14And it's the second time
20:15He's managed that feat
20:18This calendar year
20:19In the Premier League
20:20He got four at Forest back in February
20:27That day Manchester United won 8-1
20:29Four in ten minutes
20:32This is four in 29 minutes
20:37What a nice position to be in
20:40Coming on as a substitute
20:41And Old Trafford for Manchester United
20:445-1 up
20:47As Phil Neville replaces Mikel Sylvester
20:57All the signs are
20:59That they believe the job has been well done
21:05Cole coming on in place of Giggs
21:07That's the word we're getting from the fourth official
21:09Which he now confirms to the crowd
21:12These changes being made
21:13Very much with Champions League duty in mind
21:15Valencia here on Wednesday
21:19Those hamstrings of Ryan Giggs being protected
21:49Scots
21:53Andy Cole
22:00But
22:01Oh
22:06Still coming in
22:07The far post
22:14He just hung it up
22:16And hoped
22:19Keane
22:38Philip Neville
22:45That was a foul
22:46But the referee
22:47Playing on
22:48With Manchester United in possession
22:51Scam
23:00Header over the top
23:01By Sheringham
23:12It's looking like a good week
23:14For Manchester United
23:17Intercontinental crown
23:19And then a drubbing of a
23:20Really local rival
23:22In the English Premier League
23:34Hansworth
23:35To Tony Grant
23:39Jeffers
23:40Trud on the ball
23:45And to think his afternoon began so promisingly
23:51Andrew Smith
23:52Almost rendered speechless
23:54He's a pretty phlegmatic character
23:59Grant
24:04Gary Neville
24:19That's a job well done by Manchester United
24:22From unpromising beginnings when they fell behind
24:25To a seventh minute goal by Francis Jeffers
24:28But Ole Gunnar Solskjaer writes his own headlines
24:31And four goals
24:33Will ensure him plenty of
24:35Column inches tomorrow
24:37Four in 29 minutes
24:39As Manchester United completed a nap hand
24:4411 wins in 16 Premier League games
24:48Intercontinental champions
24:49Good for the bank balance
24:50Good for the air miles
24:52And good for the heart
24:54To see them back
24:54And playing at their best
24:56In front of their home crowd
24:585-1
24:59Winners today
25:01So Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took the match ball
25:03For that hat-trick
25:04And had a souvenir for him
25:05After what had been a fantastic week for United
25:08And it wasn't long before
25:10Sir Alex Ferguson's side
25:11Had more trophies
25:12To add to the collection
25:13They ran away with the Premier League that season
25:16Second-placed Arsenal
25:17Were a massive 18 points behind them
25:20Everton meanwhile
25:21Had a
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