EPL 98/99 - Arsenal vs Leicester City

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00:001999 looking for their first win there in a quarter of a century
00:04Not that Arsene Wenger's Arsenal were in the mood to offer them respite
00:07They were one point behind Chelsea in the Premier League table and more importantly five behind leaders Manchester United
00:14Who they're just held to a midweek draw
00:16Ominously for Leicester the Gunners had won 10 of their 11 home games
00:21Nigel Winterburn and Emmanuel Petit were both suspended. So in came Nelson Vivas and Remy Gard
00:26There was also a start for Gilles Grimondi
00:29Dennis Bergkamp was back from suspension. He'd scored a hat-trick against Leicester the previous season
00:35Martin O'Neill's side had just made it through to the Worthington Cup final
00:39But Hayabri was a different proposition altogether
00:41And it would be especially difficult without Emil Heskey and Tony Cotty who were injured
00:46That gave room for the Icelandic international Arnegud Laughsen to make his first start
00:51With both sides coming through testing midweek games the squad players had a prominent role. Your match commentator is John Champion
01:00Arsenal unbeaten at Hayabri this season in the Premier League
01:03seven wins five draws
01:07All three of their defeats in league competition this season have come on their travels
01:12At Sheffield Wednesday, at Wimbledon and most recently at Aston Villa
01:16Here Hayabri has turned into something of a fortress for them under Arsene Wenger
01:22But if ever there's a team capable of coming to one of the big grounds in the Premier League and causing an upset
01:29Very probably is Martin O'Neill's Leicester City. Here's Ray Parler hustled off the ball by Lennon
01:37Patrick Vieira
01:43Arsenal's throw
01:47One one draw at Old Trafford on Wednesday was a fairly Herculean effort by Arsenal
01:53Interesting to see how much is taken out of them
01:56Overmars, Sinclair's header out. As far as Bergkamp
02:06Three of them couldn't stop him. Still going Dennis Bergkamp
02:13In play with Overmars
02:17This time Pontus Cormack manages to clear
02:25Now Steve Guffey, Ullathorpe
02:38Now Steve Guffey, Ullathorpe
02:47A playoff final and a League Cup with Leicester
02:51It's the best times of the modern era for the club
02:56And the prospect of another League Cup final
03:00Against Spurs next month coming up
03:10Vivas playing at left-back for Arsenal today. This is Remy Gard
03:16Change was forced upon Arsene Wenger because of those suspensions to Manu Paty and Nigel Winterburn
03:26Parler
03:30Guffey
03:36Ivory looking splendid today in the early spring sunshine
03:4038,000 people inside. Watching on as Bergkamp attacks
03:50Well he's been in sprightly form of late
03:55And he does have an excellent record against Leicester, Dennis Bergkamp
03:59Remember that sublime hat-trick at Filbert Street in the 3-0 draw last season
04:05Including arguably the goal of the season
04:11Lee Dixon
04:15Sinclair's header as far as Parler
04:19Vieira
04:21Arsenal largely in control
04:27Marco Gomez
04:34Vivas
04:36Vivas
04:41Lennon tidying up
04:43And here's Arnaud Gunnlaugsen
04:45Not for long
04:49Scrappy period of the game
04:52But here's Patrick Vieira
04:55Lucky ricochet! Good save by Casey Kellogg
04:59Mod of acknowledgement from the player
05:03Sinclair's clearance
05:05Wrapped against Vieira
05:16Adams
05:18Adams
05:27Dante
05:28Finding Gunnlaugsen
05:33Is it?
05:37Has to wait for support
05:40Here comes some savage
05:42Away by Vivas
05:49Leicester desperately short of firepower
05:52With Heskey and Cotty both out injured today
05:54Here's Bergkamp over the top
05:57It's Nicola Nelka
05:59It's 1-0
06:04Taken with consummaties
06:10Leicester will be concerned that one ball
06:12One long pass
06:14Caught up their entire defence
06:18It was Dennis Bergkamp
06:20That played it through
06:23And Nelka with his pace
06:25Once he was clear was never going to be caught
06:29It's his 12th goal of the season in all competitions
06:32Quick look up from Bergkamp
06:33Then the dispatch of the pass
06:37Off the chest
06:38Into the back of the net
06:48Vieira
06:53Last 11 times the league champions
06:56Won the Premier League title for the first time last season
07:03Also the FA Cup for the 7th time in the club's history
07:07Therefore the club's second double
07:12It's hard to better that
07:14It's gutty for Leicester
07:19Matt Elliot
07:25Now Bergkamp
07:27And Nelka through the middle
07:29And Nelka's in again
07:31And has scored again
07:39You'll never find two goals that are exactly the same
07:43But Nicola and Nelka's grace today
07:45Are remarkably similar
07:49Both created
07:51By Dennis Bergkamp
07:54Both involve his
07:56Frightening pace
07:59And both right-footed finishes
08:01Across the goalkeeper
08:03Perfect
08:05The timing of the release from Bergkamp
08:08And not a Leicester defender in sight
08:10Bergkamp
08:16Vieira
08:18Adams
08:20Overmars was clipped
08:24And Kontos Komag
08:35Bergkamp
08:37Vieira
08:38And Nelka
08:39This is lovely from Arsenal
08:42It's the second time that Casey Keller
08:44Has had to plunge at the feet of Patrick Vieira
08:50Arsene Wenger in his third season
08:53Having won the title in his second
09:02Robb Alarthor
09:05Ginn Larkson
09:13Is it?
09:15That's a half it
09:17By Vieira
09:19He's got runners left and right
09:21He's picked out Bergkamp
09:25Who today is better at setting up goals
09:27Than scoring them it seems
09:29But it is wave after wave
09:32Of Arsenal attacking
09:43These two sides drew one apiece
09:45At Filbert Street back in September
09:48When Leicester were up to their usual tricks
09:50Against the big boys
09:52Leading the lead for most of the match
09:54Through Heskey and then
09:56Only conceding an equaliser in stoppage
09:58Time to Stephen Hughes
10:04That's Adams header
10:06Parler left it a little short
10:09Clearance by Remy Gard
10:12Sinclair
10:16Bergkamp
10:22Look at the space
10:24Ray Parler
10:29And all three goals have now been set up
10:31By the same player
10:35Dennis Bergkamp
10:44It's all to do with the timing of the pass
10:48Parler cutting in
10:50From the right flank
10:53Similar to Anelka in the previous two goals
10:55Driving the ball across Casey Keller
10:57And into the far corner
11:05It's a struggle
11:08Parler throwing
11:15Bergkamp
11:17What next?
11:19That's what
11:23Vieira
11:25Nearly
11:27He's in the mood all right today
11:29Dennis Bergkamp
11:31And when he's in the mood
11:33The opposition tend to suffer
11:41Amazing that he struggled as
11:43Inter
11:45When he went from Ajax to play in Italy
11:51Here's Ray Parler
11:53Lee Dixon
12:05Rimondi
12:11This game as good as won already
12:17Vieira
12:19He's over Mars
12:21Anelka
12:23Has a first-half hat-trick
12:29And what's more
12:31He's barely had to break sweat to get it
12:37Last year it was Bergkamp
12:39That got a hat-trick against Leicester
12:41This time round
12:43It's 19-year-old Nicola Anelka
12:47Served up for him neatly
12:49Tastefully on a plate
12:51By over Mars
12:55Arsenal's pace is simply too much
12:57For Leicester
13:01It's four
13:03And it's not even half-time yet
13:09Over Mars
13:11Surely not a fifth before the break
13:15Taking on Cormark
13:17Cormark, the Swede
13:19And nodded behind by Sinclair
13:27The clock end behind that goal in raptures at the moment
13:33I've had glimpses of this sort of football from Arsenal
13:35But
13:37Never quite as sustained as this before
13:43Well what a shame that it has to be interrupted at all
13:45Leicester will be grateful
13:47But for the neutral it's been just wonderful
13:49Watching Dennis Bergkamp at Arsenal
13:51And a clinical dissection
13:53That they've carried out
13:55At visiting Leicester City
13:57Bergkamp creating three of the four goals
13:59The first three
14:01Two of them for Anelka
14:03One for Ray Parler
14:05And then Anelka set up by over Mars
14:07In the penultimate minute of the first half
14:09Almost passing
14:11His hat-trick goal into the net
14:13He won't be 20 until next month
14:15Anelka
14:17But he's the spearhead of a particularly potent
14:19Arsenal team today
14:21And Leicester have chosen the wrong day
14:23On which to visit Highbury
14:25It seems. How many more to come?
14:27We'll see. It's Arsenal 4
14:29Leicester City 0
14:37The crowd gradually taking their seats again
14:39In the historic stands around Highbury
14:43A few changes by Martin O'Neill
14:45Steve Walsh and Andy Impey
14:47Both sent on
14:49But how do you rejuvenate
14:51The fortunes of a side trailing 4-0
14:53Against a team playing
14:55Cavalier football
14:59Dennis Bergkamp the architect so far
15:03And here he is
15:05Looking for Anelka
15:13Up the cross
15:17Sinclair
15:23Maybe the fact that this game comes just
15:25Three days after
15:27Leicester earned their place in the League Cup
15:29Final with that 1-1 draw with Sunderland
15:31Has not done them any favours
15:33Set against that is the fact that
15:35That same night up at Old Trafford
15:37Arsenal were in action against their great
15:39Rivals Manchester United
15:43Only five points behind Manchester United
15:45And one point short of Chelsea
15:49Three points look likely to be added
15:51To their tally today
16:03Leicester Brains Trust
16:05John Robertson, Steve Walford, Martin O'Neill
16:07Without too many answers right now
16:13Is it?
16:27Is it?
16:29Put in by Grimondi
16:31Hard working Lennon
16:33To the newly arrived Impey
16:35A little better
16:39Walsh
16:41That isn't
16:47Over Mars, offside
16:49Dennis Bergkamp
16:53It's been a change of formation
16:55Here by Leicester
16:57The arrival of Walsh at the back
16:59Servant of some 13 years
17:01With the club means that Matt Elliott
17:03Has now been pushed up front
17:05Alongside Arne Gunnlaugsson
17:07Elliott
17:09Gunnlaugsson
17:11And the drive
17:13Straight
17:15Into Siemens Midriff
17:17From Muzzy is it
17:19At least it's an effort on goal
17:37Goal
17:41Goal
17:43Adams into touch
17:49Gunnlaugsson
17:53Over Mars
17:59Is Parler
18:01And still Ray Parler
18:03Good chance
18:05It's 5
18:09And guess who set him up
18:15Number 10
18:17Dennis Bergkamp
18:19Creator now of 4
18:21Of Arsenal's 5 goals
18:29In 5 months of the season
18:31Ray Parler before today had scored once
18:33Now he has 2 more
18:35In 8 minutes
18:39And Leicester are being ripped to shreds
18:43Come on Arsenal
18:45Cheer up
18:59Bergkamp
19:01Over Mars
19:03Trying to come back
19:07Flag up on the far side
19:15Leicester dicing with death every time they push up
19:17Looking for an offside
19:19Some of the decisions have been mighty tight
19:31And it's
19:33Between
19:35Adams and Siemens
19:37Clearing up any danger
19:47Parler
19:51Lee Dixon
19:57Criticising for having a go at 5-0
19:59Criticising for having a go at 5-0
20:03The odds were always heavily stacked against him
20:05Scoring from there
20:21Guard
20:23Sets it up
20:25It's a second heavy beating in the recent past for Leicester
20:31Beating 6-2 at home, remember, by Manchester United
20:37Not won in 5 Premier League games since
20:39Defeating Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 on Boxing Day
20:43It's almost 2 months ago now
20:45League Cup is providing some solace and some respite and some glory.
20:54You have to be aware that their league position needs some attention.
20:59Bergkamp.
21:01This time it's Vieira! And he's onside!
21:04And that's a very good save by Casey Keller.
21:08Woodwork helped him out.
21:11But if he hadn't got a touch onto the ball, it would have been six.
21:24Is it? Gatti?
21:28Selden do you see Leicester City under Martin O'Neill?
21:31As roundly beaten as this.
21:34Apparently been playing the same game as Arsenal.
21:41Overnights.
21:48Dixon.
21:50A flick from Bergkamp.
21:53And the emergency clearance by Andy Impey.
21:55Gunn-Larsen.
21:57Escaping from Tony Adams for once.
21:59And from Grimaldi.
22:02And Elliot wanted the pass in the middle.
22:04First start today for Arne Gunn-Larsen in Leicester City Blue.
22:14It's been a tough experience for all involved really.
22:21Diwale.
22:25Bergkamp.
22:28Speed with which Arsenal break is phenomenal.
22:31We've rarely seen the like of it in English football.
22:34There's Diwale.
22:37All it lacked was an end product.
22:46Hansen-Wenger has brought many things with him into the English game.
22:48But an attacking philosophy is one of the most attractive.
22:59Kanu.
23:02Kala.
23:04It's been 40 minutes since Arsenal scored.
23:15And yet that 40 minute period they've dominated.
23:18They could have had 3, 4, maybe 5 more goals.
23:23Is it?
23:29As it is the scoreline retains a semblance of respectability.
23:35Here's Diwale. Maybe it will be 6.
23:40Maybe it should have been 6.
23:48Inadvertent touch of Robbie Savage took it into his path.
23:56Just a question now of waiting for the whistle.
23:59And applauding the performance.
24:05One of those days.
24:07Fold away.
24:09And you can sign to the back of your memory if you're Leicester City.
24:13If, however, you're an Arsenal supporter.
24:16You will have thoroughly enjoyed everything that's happened in the last 90 minutes.
24:21Dennis Bergkamp, absolutely superb.
24:24Setting up 4 of Arsenal's 5 goals.
24:27The only crime was that he didn't score.
24:29And they are still on the coattails of Chelsea.
24:32And more particularly Manchester United.
24:34Lessons learned by Leicester.
24:36Painful lessons indeed.
24:38Arsenal 5.
24:40Leicester 0.
24:42And they are still on the coattails of Chelsea.
24:45And more particularly Manchester United.
24:47Lessons learned by Leicester.
24:49Painful lessons indeed.
24:51Arsenal 5.
24:53Leicester 0.
24:55And they are still on the coattails of Chelsea.
24:57Arsenal 5.
24:59Leicester City 0.
25:01A feast of football at Highbury.
25:04Well, Martin O'Neill apologised to the Leicester fans after the match.
25:08But what can you really say about a result like that?
25:10His side had been comprehensively beaten by the reigning Premier League champions.
25:14Nothing, though, could deflect Manchester United from the title that year.
25:18And Arsenal had to settle for second place.
25:21Better times were ahead for Leicester, who finished 10th.
25:27.