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Soviet Union v Netherlands Final 25-06-1988
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00:00
Holland in all orange today. Prepare to kick off playing from left to right.
00:07
Soviet Union, who won the first European Championship in 1960.
00:11
Holland, who've never won it, but have been to two World Cup finals and been beaten.
00:16
Will it be third time lucky on the big occasion for the Dutch?
00:23
You may well be used to their line-up by now. That's Van Tiegelen playing at left back.
00:28
And of course the goalkeeper, Van Broeckelen, well known to all supporters of Nottingham Forest.
00:33
Here's Barry Van Alen.
00:37
Soviets have started with Protasov up front being marked, I think, by Rijkaard at the moment.
00:44
And Belenov may well be picked up by Erwin Koeman.
00:52
Or by Van Tiegelen.
00:57
And Alenikov, as we suggested, has slipped into the back for the Soviets.
01:02
And indeed just turns the ball back there to his goalkeeper.
01:05
So that's the way the teams have started.
01:11
Khidija Chulin, the Soviet sweeper.
01:17
Litavchenko.
01:20
Free kick given.
01:28
I think the referee had a word there with Marko Van Basten, possibly about descent.
01:33
This is Vasily Rats, maybe not retreating 10 yards on the free kick.
01:41
Demyanenko on the far side, filling in for Besanov.
01:57
There's Rijkaard marking Protasov.
01:59
Wouters.
02:01
Van Alen.
02:03
Number 7, Gerald Vandenberg, gave it away to Litavchenko.
02:08
And he's got a powerful shot, the number 8, as we've seen already in this championship.
02:13
That's a goal kick.
02:17
He's causing Holland a bit of concern.
02:28
Litavchenko.
02:29
Oh, it's Protasov who's through.
02:39
And the Dutch certainly rattled.
02:47
Well, it...
02:51
...needed all Van Broekelen's experience there.
02:57
Very Van Alen.
02:59
Vandenberg.
03:02
Rats.
03:04
And the long ball this time searches out Belenov.
03:07
Up against Van Tiegelen.
03:09
Corner to the Soviets.
03:12
Protasov is limping after the last challenge.
03:15
That's a good long ball for Belenov.
03:19
The others making strides to join him.
03:20
Protasov's in the centre.
03:21
Litavchenko to his right.
03:22
Belenov's gone again.
03:25
And that was a good effort by Litavchenko.
03:28
Number 8.
03:31
As I said, Belenov's got the ball.
03:34
He's got the ball.
03:36
He's got the ball.
03:38
He's got the ball.
03:40
He's got the ball.
03:41
He's got the ball.
03:42
He's got the ball.
03:43
As I say, he scored against Italy.
03:46
And Van Broekelen there had to be alert.
03:49
Perhaps that's the moment that's going to bring the game to life.
03:52
Hullit.
03:55
Van Basten.
03:56
Oh, Hullit was going to go again and Alenikov chopped him down.
04:05
Well, it may, in some people's eyes, have been a yellow card offence.
04:09
I don't think the French referee's going to apply that.
04:11
But what will happen is that the Dutch have a free kick.
04:16
Very much in Ronald Koeman territory.
04:25
Desaieff is well aware of that and it may be that Hullit's having a look at this as well.
04:35
So about 25 yards out, as you can see.
04:38
Yellow card's been shown there.
04:39
Somebody in the wall for descent, presumably, on the Soviet side.
04:54
Which is denoted even further.
05:02
Still Koeman and Hullit wait.
05:10
Van Basten.
05:16
And Hullit curls it.
05:17
And well tipped over by Desaieff.
05:22
Corner to Holland.
05:33
Now Rijkaard is on the near post.
05:36
And Hullit flicks on, or tries to.
05:39
Van Basten still at the far post, waiting now.
05:42
Gets a touch.
05:43
Hullit's there!
05:44
Yes!
05:45
Holland 1-0.
05:46
Rudy Hullit.
05:50
Reiners-Meikle smiles.
05:52
And Holland take the lead.
05:57
Look at those celebrations.
05:58
And the man who we said will surely get a goal sometime in this tournament.
06:02
Ruud Hullit.
06:03
Has done it on the big day.
06:06
The free kick, the corner was curled in first.
06:09
Then there was a return cross.
06:11
Van Basten's the man who heads it back in.
06:13
The marking is shocking.
06:14
Neither of them picked up.
06:16
And Desaieff beaten by the power of the header.
06:19
33 minutes gone.
06:20
The Netherlands 1, Soviet Union 0.
06:23
Hullit, the world's most expensive player,
06:25
scores the opening goal in the European Championship final.
06:28
And indirectly, a result of Soviet cynicism,
06:31
because the chop on him by Alenikov really led to that attack.
06:36
Mikhailochenko, and now there's some cynicism from the Dutch.
06:46
Well, they do say that when you score a goal,
06:49
that's when you're vulnerable.
06:50
And Demyanenko has broken away on the right.
06:52
That's when you're vulnerable.
06:53
And Demyanenko has broken away on the right.
06:57
And that was Protasov.
06:59
This is Gottsmanov.
07:01
Hullit now in defense.
07:06
Still Gottsmanov.
07:12
Free kick.
07:14
Goal!
07:20
Mikhailochenko and Protasov waiting to come in here.
07:26
Belenov is further back.
07:27
That was his little header.
07:39
Jimmy Hill made the point before the kick-off
07:41
that it was a suggestion that there was a lack of height in the Soviet defense.
07:45
Hullit chopped again.
07:48
And that's going to be another yellow card.
07:51
Litavchenko, I think, there.
07:58
Litavchenko on Hullit.
08:06
Litavchenko and Protasov wait.
08:10
Mikhailochenko is up with Hullit.
08:13
Back in again by Ratz.
08:14
Mikhailochenko.
08:16
Alenikov's in there, too.
08:18
All very crowded.
08:19
Here's Demyanenko.
08:28
And Koeman having to work very hard.
08:30
Mikhailochenko!
08:31
Chance for the save.
08:32
Belenov!
08:33
Oh, he's missed it!
08:35
Would you believe it?
08:36
One of the best finishers in the game.
08:40
Lobanovsky will be peeved about that.
08:43
The man he brought back in today, Igor Belenov,
08:45
had a chance here made by Mikhailochenko's turn, really.
08:50
And he swung far too high.
08:54
Has now played a part, anyway, in the goal which
08:58
Holland scored against Soviet Union in the first half here.
09:01
And, of course, he got the winner against West Germany as well.
09:04
And the referee brings the first half here in the Olympic Stadium in Munich to a close.
09:10
The score is 1-0 to Holland.
09:12
Ruud Hullit, the unmistakable captain, gave them the lead.
09:17
And the rest of the first half, something of a stop-start affair, really.
09:22
And three bookings to the Soviet Union and one to Holland.
09:26
So, let's go back for the time being to
09:29
with the news that the Dutch have got the edge in this final.
09:36
So, here we go for the second half of this final.
09:39
A very rich championship, this.
09:41
Not talking so much about the football quality,
09:43
but about the gate receipts, because the eight competing countries
09:46
have shared over £8 million from this exercise in West Germany.
09:50
Today's two finalists getting 16% each of that.
09:54
So, for the Dutch and for the Soviets,
09:56
about £1.3 million in income for their football federation.
10:01
And even England, who went out at that depressingly early stage,
10:06
are supposed to have collected something in the region of
10:08
three quarters of a million pounds.
10:11
So, it's big business here.
10:13
But the real prize, the Henri Delaney Cup,
10:17
he was the founder of the European Championship
10:19
way back in 1916.
10:21
He was the founder of the European Championship
10:23
way back in 1960.
10:25
He's still standing on the podium, waiting to be won.
10:30
Soviets were the very first winners.
10:43
Van Tiegelen for Holland.
10:51
Van Tiegelen for Holland.
11:01
Possibly rather more so at times than Desaieff
11:04
on that particular sort of ball.
11:10
Litvchenko.
11:13
Zavarov.
11:15
Curled it wide.
11:17
What a beautiful attempt that was from Zavarov.
11:19
What a beautiful attempt that was from Zavarov.
11:20
He's got lovely feet and that was just a foot over the bar
11:24
He's got lovely feet and that was just a foot over the bar
11:25
and the point at which he aimed it.
11:26
and the point at which he aimed it.
11:27
The score by which they lost to the Soviets
11:29
in the first meeting a fortnight ago.
11:34
Can you tune in?
11:36
Oh, Van Tiegelen.
11:37
It was a mistake by Zavarov initially.
11:39
Van Tiegelen's got support here from Arnold Mürren.
11:42
Van Basten's on the far side of the penalty area now
11:45
to volley it.
11:46
Oh, I say, what a goal!
11:49
That's a beauty.
11:51
Even Meekels can't believe it.
11:54
How can you stop Marco Van Basten?
11:59
What a belting goal in a final.
12:04
Absolutely spectacular.
12:07
He can't believe it either.
12:10
Arnold Mürren chipped it far post.
12:13
He knew where it was going.
12:14
Mürren, but Van Basten, look at the angle.
12:17
You just, you don't know how he got that in
12:19
with that sort of power from there.
12:22
That will go down as one of the great goals
12:25
of a championship final.
12:28
Possibly of all time.
12:30
Just look at that.
12:32
2-0 to Holland.
12:37
Bobanowski's now
12:39
going to have to presumably use a substitute at some point
12:42
to try and get the Soviets back into the match.
12:45
They've got a striker on the bench,
12:46
Victor Pasulko, who scored against England.
12:49
May well be he will get used at some stage.
12:54
Holland leading by two goals to nil
12:56
and the stadium still
12:58
buzzing
12:59
with the
13:00
sheer effrontery of that volley by Van Basten.
13:13
Free kick.
13:14
Van Tiegelen
13:15
running out Zavarov.
13:21
But Tarasov
13:23
is now
13:25
going to have to carry an awful lot of responsibility up there.
13:27
The Soviets will be looking to him to try to
13:30
achieve something comparable to get a goal,
13:32
to get them back in the match.
13:34
Mika Kovacic
13:36
is going to have to
13:37
achieve something comparable to get a goal,
13:39
to get them back in the match.
13:41
Mika Kovacic is in there as well.
13:50
All the slice and hull it's defending
13:52
and there's a chance at the post
13:53
and Mika Kovacic couldn't get the rebound in.
13:56
Belenov was unlucky.
13:57
He hit the post
13:59
and the rebound favoured the Dutch.
14:03
Danger here for Holland.
14:06
Oh, look at the way they're defending.
14:08
Protasov's in there
14:11
and you really couldn't...
14:13
Van Broekelen
14:15
Penalty!
14:16
The goalkeeper has given away a penalty
14:18
which just illustrated the panic the Dutch were going through.
14:22
Quite why he had to do that there I've no idea.
14:24
He argues it wasn't a penalty.
14:26
The player concerned is Gotsmanov
14:29
but
14:30
suddenly Van Broekelen
14:32
left his position
14:33
and bundled an opponent down.
14:35
They'll argue about it the Dutch
14:36
as they did about the German penalty the other night.
14:38
Jimmy, a quick view on that?
14:40
Well, it was the point that Terry made before.
14:42
There was no need for that to happen.
14:44
If we can see...
14:45
Oh, this is the bit. The ball hits the post,
14:46
beats
14:47
Mihaly Tchenkov at the end of it
14:50
and we shan't see that
14:51
but the
14:52
the attacker was running away from the keeper.
14:55
The ball was going out of danger.
14:56
There was really no point in him going for that there.
14:59
It was suicidal.
15:00
You could say he was going for the ball
15:02
but there was no point for a goalkeeper
15:03
leaving himself in that position.
15:05
That was a rush of blood to the head
15:07
which could bring the Soviets back into the game.
15:12
Looks as though Belenov has the ball.
15:14
The man who hit the post a moment ago
15:16
and caused all that confusion
15:17
but there were two Dutch players there
15:19
whose defensive clearances would have
15:21
with all great respect
15:22
wouldn't have graced a Sunday league team.
15:24
And then they were slicing the ball
15:25
back into their own penalty area.
15:27
And in the end the goalkeeper caught the plague
15:29
and gave away a penalty.
15:30
It was a very untidy period for the Dutch.
15:33
And Belenov
15:34
has a chance here
15:35
to put the Soviet Union back into this final.
15:43
Oh he's saved it after all that!
15:46
Goodness me.
15:48
He's some character this fella.
15:50
And Belenov hangs his head.
15:51
That's real sadness for him.
15:56
And the referee
15:57
has awarded another free kick to the Soviet Union
15:59
and this period of the game
16:00
is quite unpredictable.
16:03
You still have a feeling
16:04
that the Soviets are going to score.
16:07
But their best chance was the penalty.
16:09
And Hans van Broekelen
16:10
the man whose penalty save
16:12
earned the European Cup for PSV Eindhoven
16:14
has made a save there from the spot
16:16
from Belenov
16:17
that may play a part in winning
16:19
the European Championship 2 for his country.
16:21
If Belenov had scored there
16:23
and got it back to 2-1
16:24
Lobanovsky's team
16:25
had a real chance.
16:30
This is Rijkaard.
16:36
Oh nicely done.
16:37
Vandenberg.
16:39
Haven't seen too much of him
16:40
but here's Erwin Koeman!
16:43
Well he wasn't offside
16:44
at least there was no flag.
16:46
So it could have been 3-0 there.
16:49
Vandenberg with the cross.
16:51
The flag stays down.
16:53
Erwin Koeman
16:54
gets underneath the ball.
16:59
Well you said at half time Jimmy
17:01
let's hope a lot happens in the second half.
17:03
There's so much now to look back on.
17:04
Belenov's penalty miss
17:05
just being one of a series of incidents
17:07
which have almost just for a few minutes
17:10
overshadowed the reaction
17:11
to the amazing goal by Van Basten.
17:13
So there's plenty to discuss later.
17:16
For the moment
17:17
it's Holland on the attack
17:18
and it's that same man again
17:20
inside to Murin.
17:22
Erwin Koeman.
17:23
Van Basten.
17:24
Oh what a backheel!
17:25
Didn't quite find Murin.
17:26
Wouters!
17:27
Oh deflection!
17:29
Off his own player I think.
17:32
The referee says corner.
17:33
Oh it must have been a Soviet.
17:34
I don't think it was.
17:37
Well we shall see from this.
17:41
Well I thought that was Arnold Murin.
17:44
Anyway the referee said it wasn't.
17:47
Well if Erwin Koeman had put that header in
17:49
it was 3-0 and all over.
17:51
But on the other hand
17:52
you could say if Belenov had scored from the penalty
17:54
here comes Van Broekel in again.
17:56
It would have been 2-1.
18:00
And very tight again.
18:04
Van Basten's header to Hullet.
18:06
A break on for Holland.
18:07
Hullet.
18:08
Van Basten.
18:09
Oh the backheel to find Jan Wouters.
18:16
Well it was Wouters' shot
18:17
but a lovely little backheel again from Van Basten.
18:19
That seems to be one of his tricks Jimmy this.
18:21
They have the space and they're using it well.
18:24
Knew a man was running in from behind there.
18:26
It's an awkward ball actually
18:28
to curl in from that angle
18:29
but it was beautifully carved out.
18:32
Holland with a two goal lead.
18:40
Alenikov.
18:54
Litvchenko.
18:56
This is Pasulko the substitute.
18:59
Litvchenko.
19:01
Good drive and Van Broekel
19:03
and oh and Demyanenko misses the chance.
19:06
He could have kicked it into the net
19:08
or squared it to Mikhailichenko
19:10
and he didn't either.
19:12
It wasn't an easy chance
19:14
even for an international.
19:16
Not the best goalkeeping there
19:18
letting that run out.
19:19
He beat it away and he had to come in
19:21
and hit it first time.
19:22
Two minutes
19:24
here in Munich
19:25
and that crossfield ball from Hullit
19:27
has found Gerald Vandenberg.
19:31
And he's away.
19:32
Van Basten's coming towards the near post.
19:34
Hullit and Rijkaard's up on the far side.
19:36
Number 17
19:38
and Dasaev blocks with his legs.
19:45
So a corner to Holland
19:48
as Frank Rijkaard leaves.
19:50
Another very favourable impression here
19:52
both as a defender
19:54
and as an all-purpose player really.
19:56
Keeper came to meet him.
19:59
As we enter stoppage time
20:01
Kivija Cilin forward for the Soviet Union.
20:05
Here's Arnold Nuren.
20:06
What a great day it's been for him
20:08
and many people in England will be pleased about that.
20:12
And there it is.
20:13
Holland are the champions of Europe.
20:16
Rijkaard's team lift for their country
20:19
their first major trophy
20:21
and Igor Belenov has a pained expression
20:24
because he missed the penalty
20:26
that could have changed the game in the second half
20:28
but the story now is a Dutch celebration.
20:32
Hullit racing across to the coach.
20:34
The supporters waving their flags.
20:36
They're lifting Rijkaard's shoulder high.
20:40
So, Ruud Hullit
20:42
this popular figure
20:46
the most expensive footballer in the world currently
20:51
goes forward to meet
20:54
the European champion.
20:57
And he does it.
20:59
And he does it.
21:01
And he does it.
21:03
And he does it.
21:05
And he does it.
21:06
And he does it.
21:07
And he does it.
21:08
And he does it.
21:10
And he does it.
21:12
And he does it.
21:14
And he does it.
21:16
And he does it.
21:18
And he does it.
21:20
And he does it.
21:22
And he does it.
21:24
And he does it.
21:26
And he does it.
21:28
And he does it.
21:30
And he does it.
21:32
And he does it.
21:34
And he does it.
21:35
There is a gold medal for every member of the winning squad
21:38
not just the team.
21:40
But it's that piece of silverware there
21:42
the Henri de Lorny Trophy
21:44
that means so much to this progressive football country.
21:47
The Dutch have given so much to our game
21:49
certainly in the 70s
21:51
have now done something in the 80s
21:53
that even that team of Cruyff never managed
21:55
to lift one of the major prizes in world football.
1988 European Championships
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