Date: 21-06-2000
Stage: first round
Place: ARNHEM
Running time: 106 min.
Colour: PAL
Quality: excellent (7,5)
Commentary: italian
My rating: *
Notes: none
MATCH SUMMARY
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 18:00
Gelredome, Arnhem
Attendance: 21,000
Meteo: Partly cloudy, 20 °C
SLOVENIA
Mladen Dabanovič
Marinko Galič
Aleksander Knavs
Željko Milinovič
Aleš Ceh (captain)
Amir Karič
Džoni Novak
Miran Pavlin
Mladen Rudonja
Zlatko Zahovič
Ermin Šiljak
Coach: Srečko Katanec (SVN)
44′ Miran Pavlin
83′ ↓Marinko Galič ↑Milenko Ačimovič
86′ ↓Ermin Šiljak ↑Milan Osterc
NORWAY
Thomas Myhre
André Bergdølmo
Stig Inge Bjørnebye
Bjorn Otto Bragstad
Dan Eggen
Erik Mykland
Ståle Solbakken (captain)
John Carew
Tore André Flo
Steffen Iversen
Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Coach: Nils Johan Semb (NOR)
24′ Erik Mykland
59′ Ole Gunnar Solskjær
61′ ↓John Carew ↑Eirik Bakke
82′ ↓Eirik Bakke ↑Roar Strand
Referee: Graham Poll (ENG)
Goals:
none
Match overview
Needing victory to be sure of progress, both teams produced abundant effort but little end product. Norway’s four-man forward line peppered Slovenia early on, yet Zlatko Zahovič orchestrated spirited counters. A solitary point proved insufficient once news of Spain’s late Bruges comeback filtered through.
Trivia
At full-time Norway’s players celebrated, believing a draw was enough; jubilation turned to despair seconds later when Spain’s stoppage-time winner in Bruges eliminated Norway’s team from the competition.
