Manchester United vs Chelsea (1994 FA Cup Final) - Match Day Thread (CLASSIC MATCH FREE ON MUTV - March 21 2020, 7PM GMT)

LInkash

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As you may know, MUTV are showing classic matches every couple of days for free on MUTV/manutd.com/Man Utd app (IT WILL GO LIVE AT 7PM ON MANUTD.COM) so here's a match day thread to follow along...

Telecast Schedule and Info

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Date - Saturday May 14 1994 / Saturday March 21 2020
Kickoff Time - 1900 Hrs GMT
Venue - Wembley Stadium, London



FA Cup form guide

Manchester United: WDW
Chelsea: WWW

Previous Meetings in the FA Cup

Manchester United 2–0 Chelsea

Manchester United 3–0 Chelsea

Manchester United 2–1 Chelsea

Chelsea 2–0 Manchester United

Manchester United 1–0 Chelsea

All-Time Record in the FA Cup

Manchester United wins: 4
Chelsea wins: 1
Draws: 0


Road to Wembley


Team News




Know the opposition



Chelsea Football Club are an English professional football club based in Fulham, London. Founded in 1905, they compete in the Premier League, the top division of English football. Chelsea are not among England's most successful clubs; they have been league champions just once. Their home ground is Stamford Bridge.


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I was only talking about this match the other day in the "First Game You Remember Watching" thread. Other than the goals, I vividly remember somebody fouling Giggs while he was running so fast that he did a full somersault in the air.

In other news, that is the first time I have ever typed, written or read the word somersault. Still not convinced that's how it should be spelled.
 

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I was only talking about this match the other day in the "First Game You Remember Watching" thread. Other than the goals, I vividly remember somebody fouling Giggs while he was running so fast that he did a full somersault in the air.

In other news, that is the first time I have ever typed, written or read the word somersault. Still not convinced that's how it should be spelled.
Summersalt shirley?
 

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Chelsea are such a small club, one league title and one FA cup in their history, we'll roll them over.

League and cup double here we come! :D
 

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I was only talking about this match the other day in the "First Game You Remember Watching" thread. Other than the goals, I vividly remember somebody fouling Giggs while he was running so fast that he did a full somersault in the air.

In other news, that is the first time I have ever typed, written or read the word somersault. Still not convinced that's how it should be spelled.
Are you sure it wasn't Irwin who did the somersault when Giggs fed him for the first penalty?
 

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This is the match that made me start supporting United and the earliest match I can recall watching live.
 

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Line-ups:

Chelsea
Dmitri Kharine, Steve Clarke, Erland Johnsen, Jakob Kjeldbjerg, Frank Sinclair, Craig Burley, Eddie Newton, Gavin Peacock, Dennis Wise, John Spencer, Mark Stein

Substitutes: Kevin Hitchcock, Glenn Hoddle, Tony Cascarino

Manchester United
Peter Schmeichel, Paul Parker, Steve Bruce, Gary Pallister, Denis Irwin, Andrei Kanchelskis, Paul Ince, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Mark Hughes, Eric Cantona

Substitutes: Gary Walsh, Lee Sharpe, Brian McClair
 

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Enjoy, especially those who never saw that team. One of our best of my lifetime, nearly 40 years, and my personally favourite United side.
 

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This match!!

I was chatting with Gavin Peacock only a week ago about this game. Whenever he brings up playing United, he makes a point of pointing out that Eric Cantona, "walked around like he owned the field", which according to him, really mentally got in the heads of his Chelsea teammates since they sometimes lost the game mentally even before it started.
He also said that Wembley was terrible to play at, since the field was like a sound vacuum, so you couldn't hear much from the 80,000 of so in the crowd. Weird.
 

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Switched it on from about 15 mins in and we've been Awful, Chelsea all over us.