UC Memories: 3 November 2005
By: Ian Rose | November 3rd, 2007Two years ago today, Middlesbrough beat Ukrainian side Dnipro 3-0 in the UEFA Cup group stages. This wasn’t a particularly memorable game in the history of the UEFA Cup, but it does highlight how quickly things can change in professional football. Two years ago, Middlesbrough were winning convincingly in Europe. They would end up winning their UEFA Cup group, a group that included AZ from the Netherlands, and would go all the way to the final, beating Stuttgart and AS Roma along the way.
Flash forward to today, just 730 days later, and things look significantly different at Riverside Stadium. Boro sit in 16th place in the Premier League, just 1 point out of relegation. The two scorers from the win over Dnipro are gone, Yakubu to Everton and Mark Viduka (who scored twice in the match) to Newcastle. The moral? Success in a second-tier competition like the UEFA Cup doesn’t always lead to bigger and better things. For every team like Sevilla, who turned back-to-back UEFA Cup titles into a so-far successful Champions League run, there’s a Middlesbrough, who have had nothing but trouble since.
Category: UEFA Cup Memories
Tags: 2005-06 UEFA Cup, AS Roma, AZ, Dnipro, Everton, Mark Viduka, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Sevilla, Stuttgart, UEFA Cup Memories, YakubuSubscribe
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Same question.
I suppose you have a database telling you that this match happened two years ago? Otherwise I bow down to your football memory.Posted from
Germany
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No database, but definitely not memory. It’s a big internet out there, and there’s records of just about every European match since ever.
Posted from
United States
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