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00:01The 4th of November 2000 had two proud clubs met at Elland Road to extend a rivalry that at times
00:06had been bitter.
00:07There was mutual respect between Leeds manager David O'Leary and Liverpool's Gerard Julier though,
00:12just as there had been between Don Revy and Bill Shankly in the past.
00:16Leeds were doing well in their first season in the Champions League,
00:19thrashing Magictas, beating AC Milan and drawing against Barcelona,
00:23but their league form was indifferent.
00:26They were only in mid-table and had seven international players out,
00:29including Harry Kuehl, Nigel Martin and Lucas Radderby.
00:32However, Lee Bowyer and Olivier de Cour returned to the line-up.
00:36Dominic Matteo, a £4m signing, played against his former club
00:40and he was up against former Leeds favourite Gary McAllister, who started for Liverpool,
00:44along with Sammy Hoopier, who was preferred to Stéphane Ancho in defence.
00:48There was a shock up front as Robbie Fowler, who'd netted during the week
00:51and helped shoot the Reds to third position, was only a substitute.
00:54Patrick Berger replaced him.
00:57Your match commentator is John Helm.
01:02It really is a very nice day here in Leeds,
01:06and that's amazing to think that just 20 miles away the city of York
01:09is virtually cut off with the dreadful floods that we've had in this part of the world all week.
01:22First free kick of the day, awarded by Mr Ellery to Liverpool,
01:26and will be taken by the German international, Christine Zieger.
01:30And this is a rivalry downfield that necessitated Matteo's move here to Leeds.
01:35Taking his position, and a flicked header for Hesky.
01:40Emil Hesky really in a purple patch at the moment.
01:43Five goals in his last three Premier League appearances.
01:53Robinson's goal kick, Robinson continuing to deputise for Nigel Martin,
01:57who looked out two or three weeks ago.
01:59Robinson seems to have undergone a severe examination since.
02:02against the likes of Barcelona, Orlando Manchester United,
02:06who has another examination today from Liverpool.
02:09All the early attacking coming from them, and that's the first free kick.
02:12One by Hesky.
02:14Jonathan Woodgate just letting Hesky know who's marking him today.
02:20The signal for not just Hesky to be in the Leeds United penalty area,
02:26but Marcus Babel, Sammy Hoopje, all top men.
02:28It is Hoopje!
02:29And Sammy Hoopje scores for Liverpool.
02:34With a crushing blow to the home team,
02:36and Liverpool, who have a great record over the years here at Anfield,
02:40at Ellen Road, are ahead already.
02:44Floated in by Berger, Hoopje's header,
02:46and Robinson had no hope.
02:48The ball flashed into the corner of that Leeds goal,
02:51and it's 1-0 Liverpool.
02:54Berger, Hoopje, goal.
03:00And I did refer to the fact that Liverpool have a smashing record here
03:03at Ellen Road over the years.
03:09Woodgate has quite a challenge on his hands today with the in-form Hesky.
03:13And it looks to me as though Leeds are already thinking of a change here.
03:18And Danny Hay, the 6'4 New Zealander, is about to come on,
03:23and David O'Leary is taking drastic action immediately in this game.
03:28A very early substitution indeed.
03:33And it's Woodgate coming off.
03:36Well, that's an interesting one.
03:38And Woodgate looks disconsolate.
03:41And I think he's going to go straight to the dressing room, he is.
03:49So, 25-year-old Danny Hay, who's won 16 international camps for New Zealand,
03:55and has only recently settled in here at Ellen Road,
03:58is called upon to partner Dominic Matteo for the last 75 minutes of this game.
04:07And here later whether Woodgate had an injury.
04:12Or whether O'Leary was unhappy with his performance.
04:15The referee is unhappy with Kelly's challenge on Berger.
04:18Free kick for Liverpool.
04:19For whom everything is going right at the moment.
04:29They've already scored from one free kick.
04:32McAllister's taken hundreds on this ground.
04:34Takes one against Leeds.
04:36Now they're in trouble here.
04:38It's two, it's Christian Ziga.
04:40And Leeds are being caught out by these free kicks.
04:43And Liverpool have a very healthy lead so early.
04:48Poulier delighted.
04:50And it's the two foreign defensive stars who've got the goals.
04:54Hoopier first, and now Christian Ziga.
04:58Robinson maybe a little flat-footed as the free kick from McAllister comes in.
05:03And Robinson is beaten by a header for the second time in the early minutes.
05:1017 minutes gone and Christian Ziga plunders his first goal as a Liverpool player.
05:16Well, if Leeds are going to win this one, they've got to come back sharply.
05:22Seiga! Seiga! Seiga! Seiga! Seiga! Seiga! Seiga! Seiga! Seiga! Seiga!
05:29The Leeds are in real trouble.
05:31And what a shocking start for Hay.
05:34Not to say that he was to blame for that,
05:36but he's been on the field as a substitute about 30 seconds.
05:39And the free kick came in.
05:42And the free kick came in.
05:42Seiga's head was the one to make contact.
05:45Heskey now.
05:46Through the middle.
05:47It'll break for Harman.
05:49Now Heskey once more.
05:50They're all over the place, Leeds.
05:52And this time Heskey fails to thread it into the path of Murphy.
05:55Dacor breaks for the men in white.
06:00Free kick for Burns.
06:02Carragher's challenge.
06:05Well, it's all smiles, I can tell you, down on the Anfield bench at the moment.
06:09Gerard Houllier and Phil Thompson, it's a dream start for them.
06:15They could find themselves at the end of this morning.
06:17Joint to the top with Manchester United on 24 points.
06:20Here's a Leeds free kick, and the answer is from Smith.
06:24And it's just over the top from Alan Smith.
06:28Good effort from him, and that certainly would have lifted Leeds if this had found the net.
06:32He gets in well.
06:35Hearts free kick, Smith up high, above Seiga.
06:38And the ball over the bar.
06:42The only previous away win in the Premier League so far this season
06:45was at Derby County in their last fixture, 4-0.
06:50Almost a collision there between Ziga and Kupia.
06:53Scores it, two goals, it's broken to Viduka.
06:55Can he punish them? He can!
06:57Leeds are back in it, Mark Viduka.
07:00And catastrophe for Christian Ziga there.
07:03And Leeds have found that little lifeline I was talking about
07:07from a very unlikely situation.
07:11And Mark Viduka looks to the heavens.
07:13But what is Ziga thinking about here?
07:16Under challenge from Smith, he plays it across.
07:18I think it brushed off Smith's studs.
07:20And Viduka kept his cool to Chip Westerveld.
07:22And Leeds have their first goal of the day.
07:25And they're right back in it, though still trailing 2-1.
07:33Viduka uses his strength to get it away from McAllister.
07:37And Leeds have a quarter.
07:39Not put many of those yet.
07:43Seven minutes remaining in the half.
07:46And Leeds looking to claw their way back into this match,
07:50which was going so much against them inexorably so in the first bullets.
07:56They've come in from Bowyer.
07:59He found their way through to back him, but he wasn't too aware of the ball.
08:05Liverpool keep breaking.
08:07There's a huge gap appearing on the right.
08:09Here's Dietmar-Hermann, could make it three.
08:11Robinson makes a splendid stop.
08:14And that might well have been curtains for Leeds
08:17if Dietmar-Hermann had repeated the goal he scored against Leeds last season.
08:22A poor thought by Heskey.
08:24He's getting booed for everything he does here.
08:27But Paul Robinson there again has showed what a promising young goalkeeper he is.
08:33Terrific break involving Smitsa again,
08:35whose roving commission today is proving a problem for Leeds.
08:39Berger surely getting nowhere now.
08:43That enables Ian Hart to get to halfway.
08:51Widuka have got that Leeds goal.
08:53Now Dakor looking for a second Leeds goal!
08:56That's the moment of the match so far.
09:00Olivier Dakor looking for his first goal as a Leeds player.
09:03Really extending Westerveld.
09:05Gets hold of that and it was flying towards the top left-hand corner of Westerveld's goal.
09:12We're in the time added on in the first half at Ellen Road,
09:14with a Lee Beaulieu coin.
09:16High one.
09:18He loses out to Heskey, much to Liverpool's relief.
09:22It looks as though they're going to take their lead with them into the break.
09:36I think David O'Leary's team talk will be very interesting.
09:40Leeds have shown signs in the last 15 minutes or so of getting into this game a little more.
09:46The referee is having to shield his eyes to see that his assistant has signalled a foul here by Ziger
09:53on Smith.
09:54I think the German might be cautioned in a moment.
10:03He might look anxious.
10:06And he's a head teacher is David O'Leary.
10:09Now this time he is reaching for a card for Deconate.
10:12And what's the decision going to be?
10:14It's obviously a free kick against Christian Ziger.
10:16I don't think it's going to be a yellow card.
10:21It's a very unnecessary thing for him to do.
10:24The proximity to the half-time whistle.
10:27He's just handed Leeds some encouragement here that they might snatch an equaliser.
10:34The road will erupt if they do.
10:36And now Berger.
10:37He's going to be booked as well because he wasn't the required ten yards.
10:41And Leeds can go a little closer to the penalty area.
10:43Two bookings in a minute for two of Liverpool's foreign stars.
10:50Ullier and Phil Thompson angry on the touchline.
10:53They know that their own players are the ones here who were just handing Leeds the opportunity of getting level.
11:02Ian Hart might look to bend it around this three-man wall.
11:06McAllister thinking he'd make up with a four-man wall.
11:10He's now run the end of it and they're anywhere at the moment.
11:13So it is Hart.
11:14Oh, it hits the base of the upright.
11:16It flew off a Liverpool player, McAllister I believe.
11:20And flicked off the upright.
11:22Otherwise it would have been 2-2.
11:24It hits McAllister's head.
11:29Leeds with the corner.
11:30McAllister the one to clear.
11:31That's the last action of the half.
11:33There's plenty happening here at Ellen Road.
11:36Early goals from Sammy Hooper's head.
11:40And then also from the head of Christian Ziga.
11:42So that Liverpool were two up very early in this game.
11:46And then Leeds pull the goal back through Mark Viduka.
11:49It is Leeds United 1, Liverpool 2.
11:58We're underway again here.
12:00Still a lovely day here in Leeds.
12:03Stark contrast to what the weather was offered earlier in the week.
12:09towards Smetsa, who's had an excellent first half for Liverpool.
12:14Leeds feel that they are very much back in the game after that Viduka goal,
12:19which had an element of fortune about it.
12:20The ball scraping off the studs of Alan Smith as Ziga played it square
12:25to open the door for Viduka.
12:27He took for excellent advantage.
12:29And there's a free kick for Leeds for the foul by Babylon Smith.
12:41The backer has stroked it wide for Gary Kelly,
12:44who's a very dependable full-back who speed takes him beyond Berger.
12:48Good cross, Viduka's header!
12:502-2!
12:512 for Viduka, Leeds right back in the match.
12:56And just as Liverpool struck in the first two minutes of the game,
13:00so Leeds are struck in the opening two minutes of the second half.
13:04Super work from Gary Kelly down the right,
13:07who left Bergerford dead here,
13:09and the cross was measured onto the head of the Australian Viduka.
13:14And it's Trump beyond Sander Westerveld,
13:17and it's two apiece.
13:20Just a minute into the second half as Viduka rose,
13:24and he continues this great rich seam of form he's having at Ellen Road.
13:29Good.
13:31That's seven goals in the last five Premier League games for him.
13:40That's Ford, Viduka into the area.
13:42If you're pressurised,
13:44has to take evasive action, and that's so expertly.
13:51He steps in to win it and to give it to Burns.
13:54Oh, you're a little drag back.
13:56Leeds are certainly posing problems here.
13:59Alan Smith must surely score.
14:01What an astonishing escape for Liverpool.
14:04And Smith holds his head in his hands.
14:07It's Jamie Carragher who has saved Liverpool from going behind.
14:11Desperate between Babel and Westerveld,
14:14Smith seems certain to score.
14:17Still can't believe he hasn't done.
14:19I can't believe it.
14:20He can't believe it.
14:21It's still 2-2.
14:23That has to go down as one of the misses of the season.
14:28Liverpool are coming back immediately with a response from Smith there,
14:32which elicit to a free kick.
14:34Alan Smith there, who marked his debut for Leeds two seasons ago
14:38with a goal in four minutes against Liverpool,
14:44seemed absolutely certain to score.
14:46He stroked the ball.
14:48Unfortunately for Bessers, Babel and Westerveld,
14:51Carragher stuck out the boot.
14:53It went for a corner, it wasn't a goal.
14:59Well played Jamie Carragher.
15:03It reminded of an incident when a certain Gordon Smith
15:06missed a certain goal in the FA Cup final for Brighton,
15:11and the phrase then wasn't Smith must score,
15:14but it didn't.
15:14It reminded of Alan Smith.
15:19McAllister free kick for Liverpool, danger here to Leeds,
15:22but it's gathered by Robinson.
15:30They're certainly giving plenty of money today, these two sides.
15:38Heskey, problem here for Hayes.
15:40Heskey, can he do what Smith couldn't do?
15:43No, he can't either.
15:44Because of Robinson, who for the second time today
15:47makes a save with his legs.
15:50And Paul Robinson continues to grow in command here
15:54as the Leeds United goalkeeper.
15:59William Dacor has gone in very sharply on Carragher,
16:04who, to his credit, doesn't make anything of it at all,
16:07actually pats the Frenchman on the back.
16:10Free kick.
16:13Worries again for Leeds with a McAllister free kick
16:16which will curl across their penalty area.
16:20Could it be the height of Heskey or Hoopier
16:22or Babel here for Liverpool?
16:26It's gone beyond the lot of them,
16:27but straight through to somebody else in red,
16:29Berger.
16:30And, oh, this time Marcus Babel is foiled.
16:33Well, it's astonishing that this scoreline
16:35hasn't changed in the last five or ten minutes.
16:38Marcus Babel denied what would have been
16:40a first goal for the club
16:42to follow the first one scored by Christian Ziga earlier.
16:48Nicely covered by Babel.
16:49Then Amman angles it into the path of his fellow German, Ziga.
16:53Score of Liverpool's second goal.
16:55Here goes Berger now.
16:57It's perfect for Smitsa.
16:583-2 Liverpool.
17:00And Wladimir Smitsa has only his second ever Premier League goal.
17:06Well, he's worked hard today
17:08and Wladimir Smitsa gets his rewards.
17:13Ziga made the inroads
17:15and then it's cut back perfectly by Berger
17:18and from one check to the other
17:20and it's 3-2 Liverpool.
17:25Super goal.
17:27Beautifully constructed
17:28and delightfully executed
17:30by the Czech Republic international.
17:34Just over an hour gone.
17:373-2 Liverpool.
17:38They regain the lead
17:39that they lost when Viduka scored
17:40in the first minute of this half.
17:46Robbie Fowler is about to come on
17:48and so is Steven Gerrard.
17:51So, two English internationals coming on.
17:55Only Murphy, one of those, are being replaced.
17:59This will be worrying for Leeds United with Robbie Fowler.
18:03Scorer of seven goals against them in the last six seasons off.
18:06As is Gary McAllister.
18:10Steven Gerrard, his replacement.
18:18Hart's ball.
18:20The chase on with Viduka and Babel.
18:28No one.
18:32It's a young man, of course.
18:34There's a full England international now.
18:37Liverpool looking to protect this lead
18:39that they have
18:40with just under 20 minutes remaining.
18:48Gakor has turned one man well
18:50and looks to win a corner here
18:51and gets it too.
18:54Off Gerrard.
18:55Well, it really would set it up if Leeds were to get a third goal.
19:00I think we could look forward to a pulsating last quarter of an hour then.
19:05Can they score from Beaulieu's corner?
19:10Oh, Dakot got a touch, and he's got another one, and it comes back off a defender.
19:15Arms raised, but he smacked it straight into Christian Ziga.
19:19Leeds unlucky not to profit from that corner, and Ziga has gone off the pitch.
19:26He's grabbing a part of the anatomy where it hurts a great deal, I can tell you.
19:32He's already been treated off the pitch by Steve Galli, or Dave Galli.
19:38I think he did his job, though, Ziga, getting in the way of that Dakot effort,
19:43otherwise it would have been 3-3.
19:47Leeds looking to be level again.
19:50Showed some character in coming from behind once.
19:53We've got to dig deep again now.
19:55The ball in is to Beaulieu.
19:58Dakot, inch-perfect.
19:59Viduka turns, must get the shot in, he scores!
20:04It's a hat-trick for Mark Viduka!
20:08Leeds three, Liverpool three.
20:10What a match!
20:12And what a game for Mark Viduka.
20:15It was a lovely ball from Dakot.
20:19Let's give him some credit as well here.
20:21Voya, Dakot's ball, perfect.
20:24Viduka twists and turns beyond Berger,
20:27slips it across Westerveld,
20:29and Liverpool just can't deny the Australian
20:33his first ever hat-trick in the English Premier League.
20:37Super goal for the Australian,
20:39who is red-hot at the moment.
20:43It's game on again,
20:45and it's a one-man ban for Leeds United.
20:51Well, tremendous stuff from Mark Viduka.
20:57And the supporters saluting him,
20:59and he's so elated, look at him,
21:01the adrenaline really pumping through his veins.
21:10And off goes Berger, worryingly for Liverpool,
21:14though Nicky Barnaby, of course, is due to come on.
21:29Well, we believe that it's a twisted ankle,
21:33the injury suffered by Patrick Berger,
21:35doing his best to deny Viduka.
21:37But another international, Nicky Barnaby,
21:39who scored on this ground in April for Everton,
21:42is coming out to replace the Czech international.
21:46Tremendous drama here in Yorkshire,
21:48but it's an Australian who has captured the hearts of the local fans.
21:54Always a golden moment for a player to score a hat-trick
21:57and to get one against Liverpool,
21:58a side he's never played against before.
22:01It's a wonderful feeling for the Australian.
22:05Took a little while to settle in here at Tremend Road,
22:07he's settled in there all right.
22:08Oh, it's through the middle for Burns,
22:10he's one-on-one,
22:11the other Australian, Jacob Burns.
22:14Not this time.
22:20That door is so influential.
22:22Can't get it through this time, but he's still got options, Dagor.
22:25It's Viduka!
22:26He's onside!
22:28Has he got four?!
22:30He has!
22:31What a moment!
22:33What a day!
22:36Unbelievable!
22:37Two in two minutes for Mark Viduka,
22:40and leads ahead for the first time in the match.
22:45Well, very, very few players score four times against Liverpool.
22:50Very few get four in a Premier League game.
22:53Dagor again the architect.
22:56These precision passes are splitting Liverpool open.
22:59He hit Viduka!
23:01Viduka hit the net!
23:03Astonishing!
23:05Well, I'm not sure,
23:06I think that Dagor may have been attempting a shot there,
23:09but when it's your day,
23:11everything comes off,
23:12and it's certainly coming off Mark Viduka.
23:16But Mark Viduka there has ripped his name into folklore,
23:21and he's very happy, you could say.
23:24And so is he.
23:26That's snowing down there.
23:29Top 30 for her.
23:32Matteo wins a header.
23:37Dagor's back there,
23:39but it's a free-kick given.
23:42Burns his challenge.
23:44This must be Liverpool's last hope of securing a point.
23:48Amman rolls it forward.
23:51Here goes Gerrard.
23:53Ziga.
23:54Back to Hoopia.
23:56Danger for Leeds here.
23:57Still danger, but the flag is raised.
24:00It's going to be offside.
24:06Mr Ellery says, play on.
24:08Liverpool will certainly do that,
24:09but Leeds in the shape of Eric Bakker.
24:12Lifts the ball up into the other half of the field.
24:15Again, Mr Ellery consults his watch.
24:18It's all over.
24:19It's his day.
24:21It's all over.
24:22Well, the mark of a champion,
24:24Mark Viduka brings a huge smile to the face of David O'Leary.
24:30It's not a one-man show by any beans, but Mark Viduka with a four-goal salvo.
24:37There's pull this match around for Leeds,
24:39who seemed almost dead and buried when they went behind two early headers from Sammy Hoopia and Christian Ziga.
24:45And he gets a colossal hug from his boss.
24:49And he's earned it.
24:51Four for Viduka.
24:53David O'Leary's men victorious in an outstanding match.
24:57Although Liverpool lost, they remained an irresistible force.
25:01And Gerard Houllier's men were duly rewarded.
25:03They successfully captured a treble of cups and equalled their premiership best,
25:07finishing third to earn a place in the Champions League.
25:11Mark Viduka's quadruple lifted Leeds to seventh position after this match.
25:15And although they dropped to 13th by New Year's Day,
25:18they posted a premiership season best of 13 games unbeaten to prepare.
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