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Man United 0-0 Arsenal - April 11, 1999 / FA Cup 1998/1999

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FA Cup 1998/1999 - Semi-finals

Villa Park - Birmingham - England

April 11, 1999

39 217

Man United

0 - 0

Arsenal

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84' - Substitution Denis Irwinis substituted by Phil Neville84

90' - Substitution Marc Overmarsis substituted by Freddie Ljungberg

95' - Red card Nelson Vivas

98' - Substitution Ryan Giggsis substituted by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer98

98' - Substitution Nicolas Anelkais substituted by Nwankwo Kanu

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112' - Substitution Andy Coleis substituted by Paul Scholes112

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Man United

0 - 0

Arsenal

Man United Arsenal

Team line-ups

Man United

Schmeichel

Peter Schmeichel

Denmark

B.date18/11/1963

Age35 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Stam

Jaap Stam

Netherlands

B.date17/07/1972

Age26 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Johnsen

Ronny Johnsen

Norway

B.date10/06/1969

Age29 years

H1m90

positionCentral defender

Irwin84

Denis Irwin

Republic of Ireland

B.date31/10/1965

Age33 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Neville

Gary Neville

England

B.date18/02/1975

Age24 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

Keane

Roy Keane

Republic of Ireland

B.date10/08/1971

Age27 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

Giggs90+8

Ryan Giggs

Wales

B.date29/11/1973

Age25 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Butt

Nicky Butt

England

B.date21/01/1975

Age24 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Beckham

David Beckham

England

B.date02/05/1975

Age23 years

H1m82

positionRight Midfielder

Cole112

Andy Cole

England

B.date15/10/1971

Age27 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Yorke

Dwight Yorke

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date03/11/1971

Age27 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Schmeichel		35	388	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jaap Stam		26	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ronny Johnsen		29	103	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Denis Irwin	84	33	425	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Neville		24	203	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Roy Keane		27	221	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ryan Giggs	90+8	25	351	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nicky Butt		24	194	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Beckham		23	195	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andy Cole	112	27	176	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dwight Yorke		27	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

213

Arsenal

Seaman

David Seaman

England

B.date19/09/1963

Age35 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Adams

Tony Adams

England

B.date10/10/1966

Age32 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Keown

Martin Keown

England

B.date24/07/1966

Age32 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Dixon

Lee Dixon

England

B.date17/03/1964

Age35 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

Vivas95

Nelson Vivas

Argentina

B.date18/10/1969

Age29 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

Winterburn

Nigel Winterburn

England

B.date11/12/1963

Age35 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Vieira

Patrick Vieira

France

B.date23/06/1976

Age22 years

H1m92

positionDefensive Midfielder

Parlour

Ray Parlour

England

B.date07/03/1973

Age26 years

H1m78

positionRight central midfielder

Overmars90

Marc Overmars

Netherlands

B.date29/03/1973

Age26 years

H1m73

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Anelka90+8

Nicolas Anelka

France

B.date14/03/1979

Age20 years

H1m85

positionRight Winger

Bergkamp

Dennis Bergkamp

Netherlands

B.date10/05/1969

Age29 years

H1m85

positionSecond striker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	David Seaman		35	414	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tony Adams		32	581	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martin Keown		32	282	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lee Dixon		35	505	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nelson Vivas	95	29	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nigel Winterburn		35	541	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Patrick Vieira		22	120	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ray Parlour		26	261	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Marc Overmars	90	26	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Nicolas Anelka	90+8	20	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dennis Bergkamp		29	149	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

29.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

278

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Phil Neville	84	22	138	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Scholes	112	24	172	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ole Gunnar Solskjaer	90+8	26	108	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Freddie Ljungberg	90	21	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Nwankwo Kanu	90+8	22	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Nicky Butt

Paul Scholes

OUT

Ronny Johnsen

Henning Berg

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Nicolas Anelka

Kaba Diawara

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Alex Ferguson

676

Success rate in this team:

54 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

54 %

Ferguson vs Arsenal

10 victories

10 draws

11 losses

Latest figure on April 11, 1999

Ferguson vs Wenger

2 victories

2 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on April 11, 1999

Manager

Age

Match num

Arsène Wenger

137

Success rate in this team:

53 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Wenger vs Man United

4 victories

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on April 11, 1999

Wenger vs Ferguson

4 victories

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on April 11, 1999

Referee

David Elleray

12 victories	10 draws	4 losses	Man United26 matches	General total	Arsenal19 matches	12 victories	3 draws	4 losses
1 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Man United2 matches	Season total	Arsenal2 matches	0 victory	1 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on December 22, 2002					Latest figure on April 19, 2003

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Key figures

End of streak for Arsenal after 3 consecutive wins surterrainneutre (since 05/04/1998). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 18/04/1993 (2 matches)

End of streak for Arsenal after 3 consecutive wins surterrainneutre in FA Cup (since 20/05/1993). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 13/03/1972 (2 matches)

Nicky Butt played his game number 10 vs in his professional career

Read the next 25 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Neutral ground

LEverton 1-0 Manchester United20/05/1995

VManchester United 2-1 Chelsea31/03/1996

VManchester United 1-0 Liverpool11/05/1996

VManchester United 4-0 Newcastle United11/08/1996

DManchester United 1-1 Chelsea03/08/1997

LArsenal 3-0 Manchester United09/08/1998

Overall

VChelsea 0-2 Manchester United10/03/1999

VNewcastle United 1-2 Manchester United13/03/1999

DInter Milan 1-1 Manchester United17/03/1999

VManchester United 3-1 Everton21/03/1999

DWimbledon FC 1-1 Manchester United03/04/1999

DManchester United 1-1 Juventus07/04/1999

Current form

Neutral ground

VArsenal 1-0 Parma04/05/1994

LArsenal 1-2 Real Zaragoza10/05/1995

DStoke City 1-1 Arsenal22/10/1996

VWolverhampton 0-1 Arsenal05/04/1998

VArsenal 2-0 Newcastle United16/05/1998

VArsenal 3-0 Manchester United09/08/1998

Overall

VArsenal 1-0 Derby County06/03/1999

VArsenal 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday09/03/1999

VEverton 0-2 Arsenal13/03/1999

VArsenal 2-0 Coventry20/03/1999

DSouthampton 0-0 Arsenal03/04/1999

VArsenal 1-0 Blackburn06/04/1999

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Drawing streak	0	2
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	21
Winless streak	2	2
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	0	6
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	2	5

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	3	1
Unbeaten streak	4	20
Drawless streak	3	1
Scoring streak	7	1
Invincibility streak	3	6

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

5	Number of games (Competition total)	5
4	Victories (Competition total)	5
1	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0

Goals

8	Goals scored (Competition total)	11
2	Goals conceded (Competition total)	5
1.6	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2.2
0.4	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	4
3	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	4

Bookings

8	Yellow cards (Competition total)	8
1	Red cards (Competition total)	1

Key players

Dwight Yorke	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	Marc Overmars
Denis Irwin	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Dwight Yorke	3 goals during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	4 goals during the last 5 matches	Marc Overmars

Historical head to head

Home

84 matches

48 v

22 d

14 l

156 gf

76 ga

Away

86 matches

22 v

13 d

51 l

107 gf

179 ga

Neutral ground

5 matches

1 v

1 d

3 l

6 gf

10 ga

Total

175 matches

71 v

36 d

68 l

269 gf

265 ga

Historical head to head

Home

86 matches

51 v

13 d

22 l

179 gf

107 ga

Away

84 matches

14 v

22 d

48 l

76 gf

156 ga

Neutral ground

5 matches

3 v

1 d

1 l

10 gf

6 ga

Total

175 matches

68 v

36 d

71 l

265 gf

269 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	April 26, 1952
Neutral ground	2 - 1	April 16, 1983

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	January 30, 1937
Neutral ground	3 - 0	August 09, 1998

Latest head to head

February 17, 1999 - Premier League 1998/1999

Man United

1 - 1

Arsenal

September 20, 1998 - Premier League 1998/1999

Arsenal

3 - 0

Man United

August 09, 1998 - Charity Shield 1998

Arsenal

3 - 0

Man United

March 14, 1998 - Premier League 1997/1998

Man United

0 - 1

Arsenal

November 09, 1997 - Premier League 1997/1998

Arsenal

3 - 2

Man United

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Mark Hughes	8 goals	1984 - 1995
Denis Law	8 goals	1963 - 1966
Lee Sharpe	6 goals	1990 - 1995
Steve Coppell	6 goals	1975 - 1983
Dennis Viollet	5 goals	1958 - 1961
Liam Whelan	5 goals	1956 - 1957

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/09/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Man United

John Radford	7 goals	1965 - 1973
Malcolm Macdonald	7 goals	1976 - 1978
Alan Smith	6 goals	1988 - 1991
George Eastham	6 goals	1961 - 1965
Ray Kennedy	5 goals	1970 - 1974
John Barnwell	4 goals	1959 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/09/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Bobby Charlton	29 matches	1958 - 1973
Tony Dunne	22 matches	1962 - 1972
Bill Foulkes	22 matches	1956 - 1968
Bryan Robson	22 matches	1982 - 1993
Mark Hughes	22 matches	1984 - 1995
Alex Stepney	21 matches	1966 - 1978

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/09/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

David O'Leary	33 matches	1975 - 1991
Tony Adams	31 matches	1984 - 1999
Nigel Winterburn	26 matches	1988 - 1999
George Armstrong	25 matches	1962 - 1977
Lee Dixon	25 matches	1988 - 1999
Graham Rix	24 matches	1977 - 1988