Super-sub Goater nips in to put dent in United’s Premiership hopes

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Trailing to Ruud van Nistelrooy’s first-half opener and with neither Robbie Fowler nor Nicolas Anelka making much of an impact, Keegan threw on Goater and Ali Benarbia for the final frenzied five minutes.

The outcome was devastating. With his first touch Benarbia delivered an astute free-kick which Shaun Wright-Phillips chipped into the box where Goater, scorer of two in City’s 3-1 triumph over the same opposition in November, steered his header past Roy Carroll.