Episode

Match of the Day: 27th August 2002: Uefa Champions League: Manchester United v Zalaegerszeg

Name: Match of the Day: 27th August 2002: Uefa Champions League: Manchester United v Zalaegerszeg
Released: 2002-08-27
Duration: 80 min
Cast: Gary Lineker, Jimmy Hill, John Motson, Barry Davies, Des Lynam

Match of the DaySeason 2002/032002-08-27

Overview

Coverage from Old Trafford of this Uefa Champions' League third qualifying round second-leg. After their shock injury-time defeat by this Hungarian side in the first leg, Manchester United will be taking no chances tonight. Failure to qualify for the Champions' League would be a major embarrassment, and Alex Ferguson will want to deploy some of his biggest weapons to ensure their one-goal deficit is overturned.

Details

Series: Match of the Day
Season: Season 39
Episode: Episode 3
Air date: 2002-08-27
Runtime: 80 min

Episode context

27th August 2002: Uefa Champions League: Manchester United v Zalaegerszeg is Episode 3 in Season 2002/03 of Match of the Day. It aired on 2002-08-27. The runtime is 80 min.

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Episode 2: 14th August 2002: Uefa Champions League: Zalaegerszeg v Manchester United 2002-08-14 | 80 min Manchester United travel to Hungary for this Uefa Champions' League third qualifying round first-leg match, as they look to make amends for last season's disappointments.

Episode 4: 30th August 2002: Uefa Super Cup: Real Madrid v Feyenoord 2002-08-30 | 80 min Last season's Champions' League winners, Real Madrid, take on the Uefa Cup holders from the Netherlands, Feyenoord, in the annual European Super Cup final at Monaco's Stade Louis II. Madrid will start as favourites, with their glittering squad that includes the world's most expensive footballer, French midfield maestro Zinedine Zidane. But Liverpool showed last season, when beating Bayern Munich, that the Uefa Cup winners are not necessarily the poor relations in this fixture.

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