Leeds United Ucl Semi Final

While there appears to be a feeling of optimism around leeds at the moment that has not been.

Leeds united ucl semi final. An early goal from billy bremner gave the hosts the perfect start and after juan asensi equalised in the second half allan clarke scored a 78th minute winner to send the leeds fans into raptures. As leicester prepare to take on atletico madrid in tuesday night s second leg with a champions league semi final at stake. Leeds united reached the champions league semi final in 2001 eventually being beaten by valencia. Days later a win over deportivo la coruña saw leeds reach the semi final of the champions league but their cup run finally came to an end against spanish giants valencia who beat leeds 3 0.

Precisely 100 seconds after the restart sanchez galloped into acres of space before unleashing a clinical left foot drive into the bottom right hand corner. Roy makaay had fired them to domestic glory and they had their sights set on a tasty european semi final after labelling leeds as the competition s weakest link. Domestically leeds were ending the season in good form but a 2 1 loss to arsenal would mean leeds ended the season finishing 4th. The club s debut in european competitions came in the 1965 66 season in the inter cities fairs cup which they competed in for three consecutive seasons before winning the trophy in the 1967 68 season.

Leeds united line up for a team photograph before the semi final of the european cup against barcelona. This is a list of matches leeds united football club have played in europe. The 2000 01 uefa champions league was the 46th season of the uefa champions league uefa s premier european club football tournament and the ninth since it was rebranded from the european champion clubs cup or european cup. But while valencia were showing minor cracks yawning holes in the leeds defence in the opening minutes of the second half allowed the home side to clinically book their place in the final.

The competition was won by bayern munich first title since 1976 who beat valencia 5 4 on penalties after a 1 1 draw after extra time.