Date: 16-06-1996
Stage: first round
Place: MANCHESTER
Running time: 104 min.
Colour: PAL
Quality: HD 1080 50fps (9,5)
Commentary: MULTI : english/italian/ spanish/german/russian/french
My rating: ***
Notes: Sammer,Hassler,Moeller,Klinsmann, Kanchelskis,Kolyvanov,Mostovoi
MATCH SUMMARY
Sunday, 16 June 1996, 16:00
Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance: 50,760
Meteo: Partly cloudy, mild, 18 °C
GERMANY
Andreas Köpke
Markus Babbel
Thomas Helmer
Stefan Reuter
Dieter Eilts
Thomas Häßler
Andreas Möller
Matthias Sammer
Christian Ziege
Oliver Bierhoff
Jürgen Klinsmann (c)
Coach: Berti Vogts (GER)
16′ Markus Babbel
31′ Oliver Bierhoff
66′ ↓Thomas Häßler ↑Steffen Freund
84′ ↓Oliver Bierhoff ↑Stefan Kuntz
87′ ↓Andreas Möller ↑Thomas Strunz
RUSSIA
Dmitri Kharin
Yuri Kovtun
Youri Nikiforov
Viktor Onopko (c)
Omari Tetradze
Andrei Kanchelskis
Dmitri Khokhlov
Aleksandr Mostovoi
Vladislav Radimov
Ilia Tsymbalar
Igor Kolyvanov
Coach: Oleg Romantsev (RUS)
12′ Andrei Kanchelskis
30′ Viktor Onopko
71′ Yuri Kovtun
46′ ↓Vladislav Radimov ↑Valery Karpin
66′ ↓Dmitri Khokhlov ↑Igor Simutenkov
Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (DEN)
Goals:
56′ Matthias Sammer GER
77′ Jürgen Klinsmann GER
90′ Jürgen Klinsmann GER
Match overview
Russia matched Germany’s tempo until the break, but Sammer’s close-range strike broke the resistance. Kovtun’s red card opened space for the holders; Klinsmann punished it with a sublime curling effort and a late tap-in, sealing a second straight win and virtually ensuring a quarter-final berth.
Trivia
Klinsmann’s brace took him level with Jürgen Klinsmann’s 1992 tally as Germany’s top Euro scorer, while Sammer’s opener underlined the libero’s eventual Player-of-the-Tournament award. Russia, by contrast, collected a red card in consecutive Euro finals for the first time.
