Tuesday, September 27, 2011

TO UPDATE Division One 1978 1979 Manchester City Nottingham Forest

19th Round
23 December 1978
Maine Road,
London

Attendance 37012

  By the summer of 1978 Forest had won two major English competitions , gone close in another and several players who had previously been thought of as honest journeymen or has-beens were now household names with perhaps more to come. But where could the team go from here? Had too much been achieved too quickly? And how could this old club from a provincial city cope with the same demands again, plus the extra commitments from a resulting European campaign?  During the summer there was not really time to contemplate the future in too much detail. At the end of the previous campaign there had been many ceremonies to attend. The Forest staff, of course, was in huge demand. Brian Clough was named Manager of the Year and Kenny Burns the Football Writers' Footballer of the Year. Meanwhile the PFA had chosen Peter Shilton as their Player of the Year, while Tony Woodcock took the Young Player version from his peers. 

 There had been many celebrations in the city, too, and the folk of Nottingham were becoming bemused by the accolades given to their heroes. Everybody was trying to evaluate Clough's style and attitude. Did he just frighten and coerce people to play the kind of football he rightly knew would work or was it some unreal, unique vision he had of the game? He was certainly unorthodox. He would insist on great discipline, but gave the team time off on the whim of a moment. He told players they were awful one day and that they were world-beaters the next. Whatever it was, it had certainly worked so far. Interestingly, the traditional pre-season matches involved a much higher level of European competition. Clough was not worried about losing, he felt he could take care of player confidence, but the squad was very short on this level of experience, although the choice of AEK Athens was to prove a fascinating piece of foresight, or a spooky coincidence.

Certainly, by the time Forest faced Ipswich in the Charity Shield they appeared a finely tuned unit. They dominated the cup holders in a way no one would do for many seasons. The 5-0 victory suggested a flying start in the making, but strangely many league points were dropped as Forest's incisive attacking power was somewhat blunted. Perhaps the Reds had caught oppositions by surprise in that first season and their secret had now been discovered. The real test was to come in the European Cup. In another freak coincidence, Forest's first opponents were Liverpool. The Merseysiders had won the competition for the second time earlier that year with a victory over Club Bruges, and it was hoped that the two clubs might avoid each other until the final. It was not to be, and England's attempt to win the trophy for a third year would be halved after just one round. For many English neutrals it was a bittersweet experience. The Forest ideal was almost universally appreciated, but many felt that the country's best chance of European success had vanished with the passing of Liverpool. They had been double champions and even those in the know felt that Forest were just too inexperienced to go far. News of the World journalist, Reg Drury, wrote that the Garibaldis 'didn't have the know-how to win the European Cup', and it riled many at the City Ground, particularly secretary Ken Smales. Anyhow, all this had become irrelevant as Forest now had to face the challenge alone and, as usual, they would surprise everyone. Nottingham Forest, however, weren't 'good-time Charlies' and back in the domestic competitions there was the same drive and commitment as ever. In the league, the unbeaten run continued to extend to unheard-of proportions and yet another League Cup campaign was beginning to take shape with confident displays against Oldham Athletic and Oxford United. Nine goals in two games were enough to dismiss those early fears of a permanent scoring drought. The next challenge in Europe came from AEK Athens; a club Forest had already played in a pre-season friendly. The club had been extremely pleased to play host to the Greeks and their charismatic manager, the great Hungarian, Ferenc Puskas, but once on the pitch they showed no mercy and proceeded to put five goals past the AEK keeper. The Reds were in the quarter-finals and had a break in the winter months to concentrate on demands at home.

In December, the team passed two amazing landmarks. Firstly, they had gone 12 months without being defeated in the league. A week later, they completed 42 league matches without losing. At the end of the month Forest had to go back to Anfield for the league encounter. This time it was just one match too far and Liverpool regained some degree of personal pride by taking the game 2-0. However, it had been an amazing period of success. Forest had also gone 32 away games without defeat and also 40 games in all competitions without losing. All the figures are impressive but not merely as statistics. They are all probably unrepeatable performances, achieved by a side which just didn't know how to give up or accept being second best. Nor did they crumble on ending that run, for although a second league game was lost to an improving Arsenal side, there had been a great victory at Goodison over Everton in the League Cup, where Kenny Burns tore a cartilage muscle. Even with Kenny absent in the next round, the Reds dismissed Brighton to reach yet another semi-final.

January was also exciting. Villa were dismissed 3-2 in the FA Cup, quickly followed by that Arsenal defeat, then the emerging Watford side, full of potential talent such as John Barnes, Nigel Callaghan and Luther Blissett was beaten as Forest fought their way to a second successive League Cup final. A few weeks later Arsenal, who were becoming a bit of a bogey side, put the Garibaldis out of the FA Cup with yet another single-goal defeat, leaving Forest with only three trophies to chase. Liverpool were dominating the League, although Clough's side were trying to keep up the pressure. So Forest saw Europe as a necessity to continue the big-time momentum. To help achieve this ultimate dream, Clough finally landed the signature of another player he greatly admired. Trevor Francis had long been a household name since his days as a teenager with Birmingham City. He had become an England international and was obviously going to be expensive. The fee was to be an historic one million pounds. Clough refused to pay that figure and there was much haggling, including a reputed offer of £999,999, to satisfy all requirements. Nobody is quite sure of the exact figure, but it would eventually be worth it, although Francis was cup-tied for most of the season...

Monday, September 26, 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Campeonato Carioca 1981: Flamengo América RJ


 Maracanã (Rio de Janeiro);;
Juiz: Angelo Antônio Ferrari (MG);
Público: 29 530;

Flamengo: Raul, Leandro, Figueiredo,
Mozer e Júnior; Andrade, Adilio e Zico;
Tita, Nunes e Baroninho (Edson).
Técnico: Paulo César Carpegiani

America: Ernani, Zé Paulo, Osmar, Heraldoe Valmir: João Luis, Marcelo e Manuel
(Carlos Alberto); Jurandir, Moreno
(Porto Real) e Alvimar. Técnico: Marinho Peres

Friday, September 23, 2011

World Cup Qualifying 1990: Brasil Venezuela

Data (Date): 20-08-1989
Competição (Competition): 
Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo (World Cup Qualifying)
Local (Place): Estádio do Morumbi
Cidade (City): São Paulo (Brasil/brazil)
Árbitro (Referee): Ernesto Filippi (Uruguai/Uruguay)

Brasil: Taffarel, Jorginho, Mauro Galvão, Ricardo Rocha,
Ricardo Gomes,Dunga (Alemão), Valdo (Tita), Branco,
Bebeto, Silas, Careca. Técnico (Coach): Sebastião Lazaroni

Venezuela: Baena, Pacheco, Acosta, Paz, Torres, Rivas -
Cavallo, Carrero, Maldonado - Areazza (Tarazona),
Gallardo (Febles). Técnico (Coach): Carlos Horacio Moreno

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Friendly 1999: Brasil Argentina



Data (Date): 07-09-1999
Competição (Competition): amistoso (friendly)
Local (Place): Estádio do Beira-Rio
Cidade (City): Porto Alegre (Brasil/Brazil)
Árbitro (Referee): Oscar Ruiz (Colômbia/Colombia)

Brasil: Dida, Cafu, Antônio Carlos, Scheidt,
Roberto Carlos, Vampeta (Marcos Assunção),
Émerson, Zé Roberto (Juninho Pernambucano),
Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaúcho (Élber)
Técnico (Coach): Vanderlei Luxemburgo

Argentina: Bonano, Vivas (Hussaín), Ayala,
Samuel - Zanetti, Verón (Schelotto), Redondo
(Simeone), Sorín, Ortega - Crespo (Cláudio Lopez),
Kili González (Gallardo).Técnico (Coach): Marcelo Bielsa

Friday, September 16, 2011

Italian Super Cup 1990 Napoli Juventus

Date:  September 01, 1990 
Spectators: about 70.000 
Venue: Stadio San Paolo
Naples, Italy 
Referee: Longhi (Roma)

Napoli (coach A.Bigon): G.Galli, C.Ferrara,
Francini, Crippa (80` Rizzardi), Baroni,
Corradini, De Napoli, Alemao, Maradona,
Careca, Silenzi (70` Mauro).
Juventus (coach L.Maifredi): Tacconi, Napoli,
De Agostini, Gallia,Bonetti (46` De Marchi),
Julio Cesar,  Haessler (46` Fortunato),
Marocchi, R.Baggio, Schillaci, Casiraghi.

Goals: 8`Silenzi, 20`Careca, 38`R.Baggio,
42`Crippa, 44`Silenzi, 71`Careca.



 

Monday, September 12, 2011

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

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Monday, September 5, 2011

TO UPDATE Queen Park Rangers Huddersfield Town Division Two 1967 1968

Day 39
20 april 1968
Loftus Road,
London


  If "1967" has become synonymous with QPR's Wembley Victory (and the Third Division Championship!) 1968 was in some ways even more beyond belief.  Back in 1967-1969, it was promotion for the top two teams; and no playoffs! And it was goal aggregate (goals for divided by goals agains( rather than goal difference that determined a position in same number of points) And then almost as a note in passing, 1967-1968 was also the season which saw Alan Wilks score a record five goals for QPR in their 5-1 League Cup victory over Oxford. Managed by Alec Stock and Bill Dodgin...Captained by Mike Keen...Inspired by Rodney Marsh and Roger and Ian Morgan... The Players: In 1967-1968: Mark Lazarus started with QPR and moved on to Crystal Palace. Formre England Goalkeeper, Ron Springett had returned to QPR in a swop, in which his brother Peter Springett moved to Sheffield Wednesday. Alan Harris joined QPR. Rodney Marsh missed the start of the season with a broken foot, but ended the season as top goalscorer with 14 goals. Near the transfer deadline, Frank Clarke joined QPR from Shrewsbury (after QPR failed to sign John O'Rourke) Les Allen, Frank Clarke, Dave Clement, Alan Harris, Tony Hazell, Ron Hunt, Mike Keen, Bobby Keetch, Mick Leach, Rodney Marsh, Ian Morga, Roger Morgan, Keith Sanderson Also: Mark Lazarus, Bobby Finch, Backup goalie, Mike Kelly, Frank Sibley, Ian Watson, Alan Wilks (qprreport.blogspot.com)

TO UPDATE Division One 1976 1977 Liverpool Aston Villa

30 October 1976
Anfield Road,
Liverpool


  Liverpool made their traditional close season swoop into the transfer market in August 1976, signing the England international, David Johnson from Ipswich for £200,000. The Liverpool-born Johnson had been on Everton's books for three years before joining Ipswich but his transfer to Liverpool confused many as they totted up the number of strikers already at Anfield. But there was sense to the signing. Unknown to the general public, Kevin Keegan had approached the club expressing his interest in playing abroad and Real Madrid had already made a tempting offer for his services. A deal was struck: if Keegan remained for one more year while the club attempted to win the European Cup, his request to leave would be granted. Johnson had, in fact, been purchased to provide extra firing power when Keegan left and Toshack moved on.
The foray into Europe began at Anfield where the Reds took on the Irish champions, Crusaders. It was the first time they had met an Irish League club in a European tournament and Liverpool schemed and sweated to break down their tight, well-organised defence. In the end it took a Phil Neal penalty and a John Toshack goal to make the scoreline look reasonably respectable and over in Belfast Liverpool fared better hammering five goals past the part-timers. The next round saw Liverpool breaking new frontiers again as they journeyed to the Black Sea to meet the Turkish champions, Trabzonspor. Weary after their long journey and with a bumpy pitch and poor quality match ball to add to their problems, the Reds struggled to find their rhythm. They conceded a hotly-disputed penalty but held on to keep the score down to a single goal.
Over the years the club had studied and smartly learned the lessons of European travel. In the mid-sixties they would fly out by schedule plane a few days beforehand, returning the day after the match but now they flew out by charter the day before the game and returned immediately. This itinerary reduced boredom to a minimum, avoided diet problems and kept the players fresh for the continuing League programme. Shankly and Paisley had also instilled into them a discipline of never retaliating when provoked by continental teams. 

Liverpool began their League challenge in sparkling form, losing only two of their first sixteen games and by September had already climbed to the top of the table. There were fine wins against Everton at Anfield by three goals to one and a five-goal hammering of Leicester but then shortly before Christmas, Liverpool were astonishingly thrashed by five goals to one at Aston Villa. It was the first time any team had put more than four goals past the Liverpool defence since Ajax. To that date Liverpool had only conceded more than three League goals on seven occasions since their return to the First Division in 1962. The week after their humiliation at Villa Park, Liverpool lost at West Ham by two goals to nil and the prophets of doom began to write the team's obituary. But they bounced back the following week to end 1976 by beating Stoke City 4-0. The Football League Cup was soon brushed aside when they lost their replay at the Hawthorns after drawing one goal each with West Bromwich at Anfield. But the FA Cup was a far more serious proposition. In their opening game, Liverpool faced Third Division Crystal Palace but could only draw 0 - 0 at Anfield and it began to look as if this competition might be short-lived as well. Down at Selhurst Park, however, in front of a near record crowd of 43,000 Liverpool dismissed the South Londoners by three goals to two and drew Division Two's Carlisle for the fourth round. They proved to be easier opposition going down 3-0 at Anfield. There were further lower division opponents when Oldham came out of the famous bag for the fifth round but they too went out by three goals to one. 

 The quarter-finals brought Middlesbrough to Anfield with Fairclough and Keegan combining to dismiss them 2-0 but if the draw had been lucky until then, it turned against them in the semi-final when all Merseyside had hoped they would avoid Everton. So, the eighty-year long prospect of an all-Merseyside final disappeared yet again and instead the two lined up against each other at Maine Road in a semi-final for the fourth time. Like most of their previous cup encounters it was a gruelling contest. The first game ended two goals apiece with local players McDermott and Jimmy Case saving their blushes and they returned to Manchester four days later to recommence battle. This time Liverpool's superiority shone through as they hit three goals past their rivals and the Reds were through to their sixth FA Cup final. The League Championship was wrapped up at Anfield on 14 May, 1977 a week before the FA Cup final as Liverpool clinched the one point they needed against West Ham in a goalless draw. Just over 55,000 saluted Liverpool's tenth championship with more than 10,000 locked out an hour before kick-off. Their final run-in had been remarkable with not one game lost since 22 January until the title had been secured. They had gone sixteen games without defeat to win the championship by one point from Manchester City. Keegan lead the goalscoring list with twelve League goals, followed by Toshack with ten. In all, thirteen Liverpool players had contributed goals during the season, showing the depth of goalscoring strength throughout the team. With the League trophy safely secured and with two finals impending, Liverpool glimpsed the beckoning vision of an astonishing treble.

World Cup Qualifying 1985: Brasil Paraguay


Data (Date): 23-06-1985
Competição (Competition): Eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo (World Cup Qualifying)
Local (Place): Estádio do Maracanã
Cidade (City): Rio de Janeiro (Brasil/Brazil)
Árbitro (Referee): J. Martinez Bazan (Uruguai/Uruguay)

 Dimanche 23 juin 1985. Maracanà. Brésil-Paraguay. Éliminatoires du Mundial mexicain. Quatrième minute de jeu. Zico récupère le ballon au centre du terrain. Aussitôt, l'attaque brésilienne se déploie. Eder à gauche. Casagrande au centre. Renato a droite. C'est cette dernière option que Zico choisit. Et là, tout va très vite. Alors que l'ailier lancé dans le trou essaye de s'emparer de la balle, il croise soudain sur son passage un énergumène dératé qui fonce sur lui vers le centre du terrain. Personne ne l'a vu arriver. Sa destination : Zico. Stupeur dudit. Des autres joueurs. Stupeur de l'arbitre. Stupeur du public. Et voilà le supporter qui s'arrête devant l'idole. S'agenouille. Se prosterne. Et lui baise les pieds avec dévotion. Alors, la seconde d'étonne-ment passée, Maracanà jubile, applaudit, ovationne. Puis siffle les cerbères de service raccompagnant vers les escaliers du vestiaire le supporter messager de son adoration. Maracanà est heureux. Zico, le carioca de Flamengo, Zico, le symbole de l'art du football brésilien, Zicozinho, l'enfant chéri, est de retour. Et quel retour. Fanfare et trompettes. Avec un cri du cœur : Brésil je t'aime, je ne te quitterai plus jamais. Brésil je t'aime. Ton football. Ta vie. Tu es mon pays. Zico est de nouveau heureux. Et il l'a fait savoir. Balle au pied. Micro au poing. Lui aussi avait la « saudade », la nostalgie. Deux ans qu'il était parti, laissant derrière lui comme une grande sensation de vide dans le cœur des foules et du peuple...

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Champions League 1998/1999 Semi-final 1st Leg Dynamo Kyiv Bayern Munich

Date: 07 april 1999
Place: Olimpic Stadium ( NSC Оlimpiyskiy )
City: Kyiv, Ukraine
Attendance: 82.000 spectators
Referee: K.Milton Nielsen (Denmark)


Goals: 16` Shevchenko, 43` Shevchenko, 45` Tarnat , 50` Kosovsky,72` Effenberg,89` Jancker.

Carsten Jancker scored in the 90th minute to give Bayern Munich a 3-3 draw with Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday in the first leg of the European Champions Cup semifinal.
Bayern rallied from a 3-1 deficit, with Stefan Effenberg drawing the German side within one on a free kick in the 78th minute. He shot from near the left of Dynamo's penalty area, with the ball swerving past the wall into the left side of the goal. 
Dynamo striker Andrii Shevchenko opened the scoring in the 15th minute after Valiantsin Bialkevich's pass from near the center of the field went through the defense. Shevchenko beat goalkeeper Oliver Kahnfired with a shot into the left orner of the goal. Shevchenko helped give Dynamo a 2-0 lead in the 43th minute, sending a free kick from the left corner of the penalty area flying to the lower left corner of the net to midfielder Kakha Kaladze for a header. 
Bayern, which began to attack methodically following Dynamo's first goal had several scoring opportunities an finally managed to break through in the 45th minute. 
Michael Tarnat scored on a free kick from the right side, directng the ball past Dynamo's tiny defensive wall and Ukrainian goalkeeper Olexander Shovkovsky. 
Dynamo took a 3-1 lead in the 50th minute. Vitaly Kossovskyi dribbled past defenders near the left side of Bayern's penalty area, regained possession after a pass attempt ricocheted off Bayern's Samuel Kuffour, and scored from close range. 
Tension escalated after the Germans' second goal, with both teams resorting to rough play. In one episode, Dynamo's Oleksandr Khatskevich encountered an opponent's boot that left a bleeding rip on his face. 
 Dynamo continued to press, and Bayern defender Lothar Matthaus saved his team in the 85th minute, heading the ball off the line. 
But as the Ukrainian team was losing one scoring opportunity after another, Jancker equalized in the 9th minute after getting a pass in Dynamo's penalty area and firing it home. Three defenders surrounded the Bayern striker, but were unable to stop him. 
Dynamo coach Valery Lobanovsky reproached his team after the game for mistakes in defense and the lost scoring opportunities, but said the Ukrainian team was far from giving up hope of making it into the Champions Cup final for the first time in its history. 
"Everything will be decided in the second game," Lobanovsky said.

Kiews Trainer Lobanowski entschied sich für seine Sicherheitsvariante, brachte den defensiver orientierten Chatskewitsch statt Jaschkin für die rechte Mittelfeldseite. Kollege Hitzfeld nahm gegenüber dem 2:2 von Dortmund vier personelle Änderungen vor.


Für Linke, Helmer, Fink und Basler kamen Babbel, Matthäus, Jeremies und Salihamidzic. Diese vier Änderungen veränderten das taktische Grundgefüge nicht.

Die Bayern versuchten zu Beginn, mit langen Ballpassagen das Spiel zu beruhigen. Die beiden Halbstürmer Scholl und Salihamidzic wechselten häufig die Seiten. Dennoch war in der Spitze zuwenig Bewegung, um entscheidend nach vorne kommen zu können.

In diesem Bereich arbeitete Kiew wesentlich effektiver. Schon nach einer Viertelstunde erzielte Schewtschenko nach einem steilen Paß von Belkjewitsch aus dem zentralen Mittelfeld heraus an Babbel vorbei überlegt die Führung. Der Stürmer, der bereits in den Viertelfinalbegegnungen gegen Real Madrid alle drei Treffer erzielt hatte, bewies erneut seine Klasse und erhöhte damit seine Gesamtausbeute im diesjährigen Wettbewerb der Champions League auf sieben.
Doch er war sich auch nicht zu schade, defensiv auszuhelfen. Der Topstar Dynamos komplettierte bei Bedarf, im Wechsel mit Rebrow, das Mittelfeld zu einer Fünferreihe. Umgekehrt stellte es die Ukrainer auch nicht vor taktische Probleme, aus dem 4-4-2 heraus blitzschnell auf 4-3-3 umzuschalten, indem sich Gussin oder Belkjewitsch blitzschnell nach vorne bewegten. Immer wieder verbreitete Kiew mit präzisen Pässen in die Spitze höchste Gefahr.
Dies lag auch daran, daß es im Bayern-Mittelfeld an Kompaktheit zwischen den Außen Strunz und Tarnat sowie dem zentralen Dreierblock Scholl/Effenberg/Jeremies mangelte. Dies führte einerseits dazu, das der Paßgeber nicht entscheidend gestört wurde und in Übernahmesituationen in der Spitze verwundbare Schnittstellen offenlagen.
Schewtschenkos achter Treffer in der Champions League war etwas glücklich. Sein Freistoß aus halbrechter Position wurde in der Mitte von allen verfehlt. Der Gegenschlag von Tarnat aus gut 30 Metern ließ wieder Hoffnung aufflackern. Diese wurde jedoch erst einmal schnell wieder erstickt, als ein Querschläger Kuffours Kossowski genau vor die Füße flog.
Bis zur 60. Minute verpaßten die wesentlich kreativeren, raffinierteren und mannschaftstaktisch flexibleren Ukrainer bei mehreren guten Einschußmöglichkeiten, die Führung zu erhöhen. Danach wandelte sich das Bild. Matthäus gab das Signal, lebte vor, wie man sich gegen eine drohende hohe Niederlage stemmte. So gewannen das Bayen-Spiel an Druck, Kiew wurde weit in die eigene Hälfte zurückgedrängt. Doch es fehlte an Ideen, um wirklich Gefahr zu entwickeln. So traf Effenberg wiederum per direktem Freistoß zum Anschluß. Und, oh Wunder, Jancker traf sogar noch zum 3:3!
Aus Kiew berichten Karl-Heinz Heimann und Karlheinz Wild