U.S.A. v Switzerland Group A 18-06-1994

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The first ever World Cup game played under a closed roof.

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00:00Stewart parks coming in from the far side a little bit ambitious but it's the

00:06old saying if you don't buy a ticket you don't win the raffle and John Hawks came

00:10in deep there and a good run by it will not yet again I think you know this is

00:13going to be made the game it's very important for Switzerland to get a goal

00:16I think in the first 45 minutes

00:30difficult job today for the front by himself you know he's gonna have to

00:34chase a lot of lost causes and if we've talked about the heat already it is

00:37going to be I think Roy Wigley is going to play a big part in the game today yes

00:41we've got to think in terms of substitutes and options open to the two managers

00:45here's Compton for Switzerland very much a 13-man game particularly in the heat

00:50out here that's clear already

00:54Aurel

00:56ball would run ahead of it by Bickle

01:01didn't catch that it was cleared by Coyman behind him

01:06yes a very well-worked corner but if you look so far in the World Cup it's a very

01:10popular corner where you get the man three yards and where you roll the ball he

01:13stops it it gives you better angle to get delivery in but that got blocked and the

01:17deliver was better from the mess of the corner

01:20here's Bickle, Aurel, Reggie, Bickle, in the middle Chapoussard

01:27but the cross is too long

01:34yes he had two going in two there

01:37good delivery could have been the opening goal by the Swiss

01:39but uh you know that's football

01:42he didn't get the cross where he wanted to put it

01:47yeah that's the ball have been working on all these last few months in training

01:51Dominique Kerr actually played them all on there I think the Swiss thought he was

01:55offside but I think if you look Dominique Kerr kept them onside

01:57I think he could have used the ball

01:58this time Lallis comes in behind Dooley and they force a third corner

02:02two good corners here that's the ones we've seen when we've been watching them training in the training camp

02:06you know they look

02:07in goes Lallis good header out by Hare

02:10Bickle for Switzerland

02:15carried that well

02:17oh now then onside good decision the player coming back wasn't interfering

02:23Stewart goes near post, Hark's cross

02:26well

02:33they forced Wijnaldi wide in the end Chris

02:36it was a good decision by the linesman but then again

02:39you know it's an old saying teams who are working on coming out quick to catch the

02:42the forward so-called lazy coming back in

02:45you know they are going to complain that he was offside there

02:48so it's a corner again to the USA

02:58Dooley and Lallis taking up their familiar positions

03:01Balboa is coming in as well

03:02oh it's a lower one and it's going to come all the way out to Michael Sauber

03:09good effort well blocked Caligiuri following up the left back two decent strikes there

03:15Suter leaves it

03:22Brady curls it in goes the header and Chapuisar can't reach it at the far post

03:27it runs but until great free kicks in great positions there he goes Thomas Dooley

03:34comes across a little bit late he's fell into the box but there's no way he can give a penalty for that

03:39no and I don't think it should have been a card either because Dooley was legitimately going for the ball there

03:43so it's a free kick to Switzerland in the similar position a bit closer to goal this time and

03:49Brady lines it up

03:50Tony Miola will have to be careful here to see round or through those defenders

03:55after what happened to Spain last night

03:57Brady

03:59goal

04:00goal for Switzerland

04:04George Brady the veteran

04:07the 36 year old opens the scoring in the Pontiac Silverdome

04:13and the hosts are a goal behind

04:15well he is the free kick specialist Chris and that was the moment to prove it

04:21that's right I think Tony Miola's positioning was a bit

04:24there it is

04:25if you look at Tony Miola he thinks he's going over the wall he's a very flat footed

04:29which in many times the goalkeeper is trying to anticipate where the ball is going

04:33I think he thought he's going over the wall

04:35he's seen his feet he's moved too quick over

04:37he plays a free kick and he deserves it from me he's been the best player in the park the first half

04:41absolutely right it was a another one in a long catalogue of masterful free kicks and shots he's had for Switzerland down the years

04:49he is a specialist and as you say he caught Tony Miola flat footed I did think when they lined that wall up

04:55frankly the goalkeeper was behind the wall I don't think he had a very good view or didn't give himself

04:59a very good view

05:00who steps back isn't he

05:02and is that Tab Ramos over there as well

05:10yes

05:11Rinalda

05:14it's Eric Rinalda for the states and it was a replica Miola will be relieved now

05:27it was a replica of the goal he conceded really

05:30a curl free kick and Pascalo is left shaking his head in despair

05:35Eric Rinalda who plays in Germany brings 77,000 people to life in the Silverdome

05:43Eric he's got fantastic skill and that was a fantastic execution of a dead ball

05:49he's went over the wall which was a bit harder than what Brecky did Brecky went round it

05:53but he's actually went over the wall and he couldn't put it closer to the top corner

05:58he's got pace right in the top corner that is a fantastic execution of a free kick

06:03in the last six minutes of the first half in the opening match in the group

06:09we see two spectacular goals from free kicks we're now playing stoppage time

06:15at the end of the first half it's United States of America one Switzerland one

06:21and what Brecky could do for Switzerland

06:23and what Brecky could do for Switzerland Winalda could match for America

06:31talked about it for a long long time and they would in America now

06:34because it's been scored by a United States player Eric Winalda

06:39to cancel out the one earlier from Brecky for Switzerland

06:42and at half time in the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit

06:46it's the United States of America one Switzerland one

06:50and the shape of the ball the pace the positions

06:54it's almost a it's almost a perfect free kick isn't it

06:57yeah unstoppable this shows it beautifully

06:59initially I thought it was a long way out but as I say a perfect free kick

07:03there's nothing the goalkeeper can do about that

07:05so there was a tremendous noise after this and it will have lifted the host nation

07:10it was a perfect time to score you know a minute or so after Switzerland scored

07:15and it brings them right back in the game because when Switzerland scored

07:18I thought there was only going to be one winner

07:23it's going to be the little one again that you mentioned before

07:25look change the angle with the stepping on the ball

07:28Chapuisar on the far side

07:32very strange jumping up in the centre

07:34oh and Suter just needed to get a good contact on that

07:38great ball in from Compton

07:40and Switzerland quite happy to gain a few yards there

07:43is there going to be a substitution now?

07:45looks like it from where we're sitting

07:47yeah I think Roy Wegley is coming on John

07:50the referee hasn't seen him yet this is Suter for Switzerland on the ball

07:53the Americans are anxious to attract the referee's attention

08:02Roy Wegley of Coventry City and one of several other English clubs of course

08:06but in the meantime a little bit of an argument between Tony Miola and the referee

08:10which has to be sorted out

08:12it's probably asking if he wants to start a movie with him

08:17and er, this is Harkes

08:21oh that was given away by Wijnaldi in midfield

08:24and the Swiss are getting a lot of possession here

08:26that's forward by Sforza

08:27but they still can't get Chapuisar free

08:29useful ball in, Dooley was up there

08:33Chapuisar

08:35Chapuisar

08:37out again to Suter

08:39what a good outlet he is on the left there Alan Suter

08:41he's always available for the ball played wide

08:43Chapuisar makes a forward run now

08:45goes into the box

08:48yeah erm

08:49John Hawks did very well

08:50the unfortunate with the cross

08:51to Orell

08:52well

08:59he looked right there

09:00and the Americans have suddenly got a chance

09:03well

09:04where was the right flank of the Swiss defence?

09:08er, it was a great bit of play

09:11er, oh

09:12Alan Suter just didn't curl the shot

09:15but he scored from there many, many times

09:18well, he did everything fantastic

09:20he erm

09:21you know

09:22he's went past two or three players

09:23very

09:26Vise who's just come on

09:27got a couple of touches there

09:28here he is again

09:29plays in Switzerland

09:30home base man

09:37we talked about the players taking water

09:39with er

09:40permission of the referee

09:41there's er

09:42someone of a life-saving lady

09:44come up with some water for the commentators

09:46er

09:47from across the world here

09:50and many of them are gasping for it

09:51here's her to get

09:54well now then

09:55Alex Lalas

09:56coming in behind

09:57Neska Subiat

09:58free kick to Switzerland

10:02I don't think it's shooting distance

10:03so I know

10:04I can keep calm about this runner

10:05but

10:06then again there goes the big

10:07centre back here

10:08he's going up

10:09he's very dangerous at set pieces

10:11yes

10:12yes

10:13and Subiat who's just come on

10:14is also quite handy in there now

10:15he's standing in front of Chapuisar

10:16Alain Suterre to cut it in with his left foot

10:18and away by Lalas

10:19it's a big trust in Subiat' in the middle

10:20still Chapuisar

10:21and Oral comes in

10:29oh what a good chance for the number eight

10:31By Lalas, it's a bit trusting, Stubiak's in the middle, still Chapuisar, and Oral comes in, oh, what a good chance for the number eight.

10:41Great bit of skill by Chapuisar, I thought the Americans thought it was offside, but I think it was Lalas played him on, or Balbal played him on.

10:48Great bit of skill, faint across it, onto his right foot, which is his weakest, it was a little bit driven quite hard across the box.

10:55There it is, great bit of skill.

10:56He keeps calm, picks him out, and he'll be disappointed, he hasn't hit the target.

11:03Actually, the number 14 was the player offside, Chris, there, on the near side of the goal.

11:07Now, that's an interesting one, because the line's... John Harkes, that's his shot that was deflected.

11:14That would have been interesting to see where that was going, John, he caught it well, it was definitely going on target.

11:19John Harkes, who, of course, scored at Wembley, for Sheffield, went for the ball at the near post, and one of them gets it.

11:24They look a bit nervous now, the Americans, they see it.

11:28Tense moment in the last minute here, in Detroit.

11:32Suter, who just wanted a touch on the man running in, didn't they?

11:36Look at this, Miola has kicked the ball two-thirds of the way down the pitch, but Cody Jones can't get across.

11:42Three kicks they're getting in.

11:44Finally, it ends as it was at half-time.

11:47The two free-kick goals.

11:50And the opening game in Group A, the historic game, played indoors, ends all square.

11:59The United States of America won, Switzerland won.

12:02The United States won.

12:03The United States won.

U.S.A. v Switzerland Group A 18-06-1994

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