The lead later grew to eight when Pierce made a jumper, then fired a lob pass that traveled about three-quarters of the court to a streaking Green.

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Allen hit a jumper, Norris Cole threw a half-court lob pass to Wade for an alley-oop dunk and Allen made a 3-pointer, giving Miami an 84-77 lead.

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But substitute Dimitar Berbatov extinguished any slim hopes of a Chelsea comeback with an exquisite lob from Nani's cute pass in the final minute to complete a successful afternoon for Sir Alex Ferguson's team.

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Mackie chased a Considine pass and brushed off the challenge of Grant Munro to attempt a lob over Esson but the effort trickled wide of the far post.

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The other came from the boot of centre-forward Kyle, who controlled a volleyed pass from Manuel Pascali and attempted to lob keeper Stuart Nelson from just inside the box, but the ball dropped just wide of the post.

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But they got off to the worst possible start when keeper Kasper Schmeichel raced out after a long pass from Madjid Bougherra only for Charlton striker Varney to beat him to it and lob the ball into the empty net from 20 yards.

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