EPL 98/99 - Arsenal vs Leicester City - video Dailymotion

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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.

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