Date: 22-06-1998
Stage: first round
Place: MONTPELLIER
Running time: 114 min.
Colour: PAL
Quality: HD 1080 50fps (9,5)
Commentary: MULTI : english/spanish/italian
My rating: **
Notes: Valderrama,Rincon
MATCH SUMMARY
Monday, 22 June 1998, 17:30
Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier
Attendance: 29,800
Meteo: Partly cloudy, 26 °C
COLOMBIA
Faryd Mondragón
Jorge Hernán Bermúdez
Wilmer Cabrera
Everth Palacios
José Fernando Santa
Harold Lozano
Freddy Rincón
Mauricio Serna
Carlos Valderrama (c)
Antony de Ávila
Adolfo Valencia
Coach: Hernán Darío Gómez (COL)
19′ José Fernando Santa
56′ ↓Adolfo Valencia ↑Leider Preciado
56′ ↓Freddy Rincón ↑Víctor Aristizábal
61′ ↓Mauricio Serna ↑Jorge Bolaño
TUNISIA
Chokri El Ouaer
José Clayton
Ferid Chouchane
Sami Trabelsi (c)
Tarek Thabet
Zoubier Beya
Riadh Bouazizi
Sirajeddine Chihi
Skander Souayah
Mehdi Ben Slimane
Adel Sellimi
Coach: Henrik Kasperczak (TUN)
17′ Riadh Bouazizi
86′ José Clayton
67′ ↓Adel Sellimi ↑Imed Ben Younes
73′ ↓Zoubier Beya ↑Fayçal Ben Ahmed
76′ ↓Tarek Thabet ↑Kaies Ghodhbane
Referee: Bernd Heynemann (GER)
Goals:
83′ Leider Preciado COL
Match overview
A tense encounter was settled late when substitute Preciado slid home Valderrama’s inch-perfect pass. Colombia’s defence, marshalled by Mondragón, repelled Tunisia’s sporadic breaks, keeping hopes of qualification alive going into the final group fixtures.
Trivia
Carlos Valderrama completed the full 90 minutes despite a swollen ankle, recording 93 passes-more than any other player that day according to FIFA’s technical report.
