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Man United 3-0 Olympiacos - October 23, 2001 / Champions League 2001/2002

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Champions League 2001/2002 - Group G 1st round

Old Trafford - Manchester - England

October 23, 2001

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Man United

England

3 - 0

Olympiacos

Greece

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

79'

Ryan Giggs

88'

Ruud van Nistelrooy

90'

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46' - Substitution Dimitris Mavrogenidisis substituted by Ilias Poursanidis

63' - Substitution Alexios Alexandrisis substituted by Gabriel Alvez

72' - Substitution Nicky Buttis substituted by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer72

79' - Goal Ole Gunnar Solskjaer79

83' - Substitution Stylianos Giannakopoulosis substituted by Zizi Roberts

88' - Goal Ryan Giggs88

90' - Goal Ruud van Nistelrooy90

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Man United

3 - 0

Olympiacos

Man United Olympiacos

Team line-ups

Man United

Barthez

Fabien Barthez

France

B.date28/06/1971

Age30 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Blanc

Laurent Blanc

France

B.date19/11/1965

Age35 years

H1m90

positionSweeper

Brown

Wes Brown

England

B.date13/10/1979

Age22 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Neville

Gary Neville

England

B.date18/02/1975

Age26 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

Irwin

Denis Irwin

Republic of Ireland

B.date31/10/1965

Age35 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Butt72

Nicky Butt

England

B.date21/01/1975

Age26 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Giggs88

Ryan Giggs

Wales

B.date29/11/1973

Age27 years

H1m80

positionLeft central midfielder

Verón

Juan Sebastián Verón

Argentina

B.date09/03/1975

Age26 years

H1m82

positionCentre Midfield

Scholes

Paul Scholes

England

B.date16/11/1974

Age26 years

H1m71

positionCentre Midfield

Beckham

David Beckham

England

B.date02/05/1975

Age26 years

H1m82

positionRight Midfielder

van Nistelrooy90

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Netherlands

B.date01/07/1976

Age25 years

H1m88

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Fabien Barthez		30	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Laurent Blanc		35	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Wes Brown		22	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Neville		26	312	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Denis Irwin		35	515	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nicky Butt	72	26	293	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ryan Giggs	88	27	457	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Juan Sebastián Verón		26	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Scholes		26	286	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Beckham		26	311	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ruud van Nistelrooy	90	25	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

213

Olympiacos

Eleftheropoulos

Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos

Greece

B.date07/08/1976

Age25 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

Patsatzoglou

Christos Patsatzoglou

Greece

B.date19/03/1979

Age22 years

H1m82

positionVersatile Defender

Kontis

Christos Kontis

Greece

B.date13/05/1975

Age26 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Karembeu

Christian Karembeu

France

B.date03/12/1970

Age30 years

H1m77

positionRight central defender

Anatolakis

Georgios Anatolakis

Greece

B.date16/03/1974

Age27 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Amanatidis

Giorgios Amanatidis

Greece

B.date04/04/1970

Age31 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Mavrogenidis46

Dimitris Mavrogenidis

Greece

B.date23/12/1976

Age24 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Giannakopoulos83

Stylianos Giannakopoulos

Greece

B.date12/07/1974

Age27 years

H1m72

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Djordjevic

Predrag Djordjevic

Serbia

B.date04/08/1972

Age29 years

H1m84

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Alexandris63

Alexios Alexandris

Greece

B.date21/10/1968

Age33 years

H1m78

positionForward

Ofori-Quaye

Peter Ofori-Quaye

Ghana

B.date21/03/1980

Age21 years

H1m82

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos		25	183	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Christos Patsatzoglou		22	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Christos Kontis		26	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Christian Karembeu		30	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Georgios Anatolakis		27	174	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Giorgios Amanatidis		31	244	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dimitris Mavrogenidis	46	24	171	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stylianos Giannakopoulos	83	27	214	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Predrag Djordjevic		29	209	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Alexios Alexandris	63	33	278	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Ofori-Quaye		21	97	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

151

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Ole Gunnar Solskjaer	7972	28	215	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Ilias Poursanidis	46	29	159	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Zizi Roberts	83	22	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gabriel Alvez	63	26	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Andy Cole

OUT

Gary Neville

Phil Neville

OUT

Laurent Blanc

Mikaël Silvestre

OUT

Denis Irwin

Dwight Yorke

OUT

Ryan Giggs

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

OUT

David Beckham

David May

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Peter Ofori-Quaye

Zizi Roberts

OUT

Georgios Anatolakis

Jorge Bermúdez

OUT

Stylianos Giannakopoulos

Andreas Niniadis

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Alex Ferguson

818

Success rate in this team:

55 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

55 %

Ferguson vs Olympiacos

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 23, 2001

Ferguson vs Lemonis

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 23, 2001

Manager

Age

Match num

Panagiotis Lemonis

Success rate in this team:

72 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

72 %

Lemonis vs Man United

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on October 23, 2001

Lemonis vs Ferguson

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on October 23, 2001

Referee

Vitor Manuel Melo Pereira

2 victories	0 draw	1 loss	Man United3 matches	General total	Olympiacos2 matches	0 victory	0 draw	2 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Man United1 match	Season total	Olympiacos1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on October 23, 2001					Latest figure on October 23, 2001

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Key figures

Olympiacos keeps its 13 consecutive matches without a win away from home in Champions League running (since 16/09/1998). It's a record streak. The first of history

End of streak for Man United after 3 matches with at least one goal conceded (since 13/10/2001).

The last time Olympiacos has lost with a difference of 3 goals , It was on the 26/10/1999 (vs )

Read the next 13 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VManchester United 3-2 Fulham19/08/2001

VManchester United 4-1 Everton08/09/2001

VManchester United 1-0 Lille18/09/2001

VManchester United 4-0 Ipswich Town22/09/2001

LManchester United 2-3 Deportivo La Coruña17/10/2001

LManchester United 1-2 Bolton Wanderers20/10/2001

Overall

LDeportivo La Coruña 2-1 Manchester United25/09/2001

VTottenham 3-5 Manchester United29/09/2001

VOlympiacos 0-2 Manchester United10/10/2001

VSunderland 1-3 Manchester United13/10/2001

LManchester United 2-3 Deportivo La Coruña17/10/2001

LManchester United 1-2 Bolton Wanderers20/10/2001

Current form

Away

VPAS Giannina 1-5 Olympiacos22/04/2001

LPanionios 2-1 Olympiacos06/05/2001

DAris Thessaloniki 2-2 Olympiacos27/05/2001

DDeportivo La Coruña 2-2 Olympiacos18/09/2001

LLille 3-1 Olympiacos25/09/2001

DPAOK FC 1-1 Olympiacos14/10/2001

Overall

LLille 3-1 Olympiacos25/09/2001

VOlympiacos 2-0 Panionios30/09/2001

LOlympiacos 0-2 Manchester United10/10/2001

DPAOK FC 1-1 Olympiacos14/10/2001

VOlympiacos 2-1 Lille17/10/2001

VOlympiacos 5-0 Ionikos20/10/2001

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	2	2
Winless streak	2	2
Drawless streak	7	10
Scoring streak	6	16
Conceding streak	2	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	2
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	1	3
Winless streak	5	0
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	17	3
Conceding streak	6	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

4	Number of games (Competition total)	4
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	2
2	Victories (Competition total)	1
1	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Home / Away)	1
2	Losses (Competition total)	2
1	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

6	Goals scored (Competition total)	5
3	Goals scored (Home / Away)	3
5	Goals conceded (Competition total)	8
3	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	5
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.25
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.5
1.25	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	2
1.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.5

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	3
1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	2
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	3
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	2
1-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-2 (1 times)

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	5
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	4
0	Red cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Ruud van Nistelrooy	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Stylianos Giannakopoulos
Ruud van Nistelrooy	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Stylianos Giannakopoulos
Ruud van Nistelrooy	2 goals during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Andreas Niniadis

Historical head to head

Away

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

0 ga

Total

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

0 ga

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

2 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

2 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	October 10, 2001
Home	No success yet

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

October 10, 2001 - Ligue des Champions 2001/2002

Olympiacos

0 - 2

Man United

Best historical scorers against Olympiacos

	Andy Cole	1 goal	2001 - 2001
	David Beckham	1 goal	2001 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 10/10/2001. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Man United

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Players with most games played vs Olympiacos

Gary Neville	1 match	2001 - 2001
Roy Keane	1 match	2001 - 2001
Andy Cole	1 match	2001 - 2001
Paul Scholes	1 match	2001 - 2001
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer	1 match	2001 - 2001
Fabien Barthez	1 match	2001 - 2001

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Players with most games played vs Man United

Athanasios Kostoulas	1 match	2001 - 2001
Stylianos Giannakopoulos	1 match	2001 - 2001
Predrag Djordjevic	1 match	2001 - 2001
Giovanni	1 match	2001 - 2001
Peter Ofori-Quaye	1 match	2001 - 2001
Christos Patsatzoglou	1 match	2001 - 2001