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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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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Diamond tried to usher the ball back to Howard with his chest but the defender did not get enough on the pass, allowing Rooney to nip in and lob the ball into the net.

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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 midfielder latched on to Billy Mehmet's lofted pass and, as Smith rushed off his line, Dorman's deft lob cleared the former Rangers stopper and bounced into the net.

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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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