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The latest results against Barnsley 3-2
: 25 Feb 1998
Next fixtures against Chelsea (H)
: 18 Feb 1998
The
team that Manchester United trash at Old Trafford in the last League meeting
got their revenge last night and boy was it sweet for the fans. Two goals
that came from Scott Jones who has never scored a senior goal before pick
the perfect time to score the two goals against Manchester United.
The cup tie was a thriller it all started when Darren Bernard's pass found John Hendrie, who was arguably offside finished superbly hitting the crossbar and into the back of the net pass United's keeper Peter Schmeichel.
United who has a large list of injusry problems such as Giggs, Johnsen and Solksjaer, kept on pressing with Andy Cole and Teddy Sherringham but to no avail. On the stroke of halftime Barnsley had a free kick whic floated into the United box that found Scott Jones totally open as most of the defenders had rush to Wallace and Schemeichel was beaten again.
The second half seem to be more of a Manchester United fightback and Barnsley laying off defending. With all the pressure United got one back when Beckham layed on for Sheringham, the shot that was going strait to Watson got a deflection from Moses which made the keeper helpless.
Then came the nightmare, Jones struck again. This time from a conner. As the corner flew in Schemeichel sliped and could do nothing but watched Jones head the ball onto the crossbar and into the goal for his second senior goal of the night.
And again the pressure was on United to get the equaliser. United serged forward, Gary Neville's header was cleared of the line, Teddy Sheringham's header was just to far for Andy Cole to slip in and all that pressure finally paid off when Sehringham passed one to Cole who fired home under the diving Watson. That made the tally for Cole scoring against Barnsley 10 in 7 games but that wasn't enough.
The few final minutes was classic a cup tie match, chance came and gone Gary Neville's effort was blocked and Ben Thornley with the missed of the day and opened goal and he blasted it over. There were six minutes of injury time and the Yorkshire side fans were crossing their fingers and when finally the whistle was blowned, they were relieved.
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