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00:00Belgium something like three to one they call it the citrus Bowl you could almost call it the orange Bowl
00:08A lot of passion from two sides who started really well here the Belgians have beaten Morocco in this stadium one to nil and the Dutch
00:16Disappointing in their first game to be fair, but they came from behind up in Washington to beat Saudi Arabia with a goal
00:23Right at the end from Gaston Taumont
00:26It came on as a sub that day but starts this one here now the Brazilians
00:31Checking with the officials the temperature we saw a gauge just before you came and join us
00:35It's just bang on 100 degrees here in the citrus Bowl
00:41The Wolf then
00:45This is Albert's big defender who missed the first game is a very aggressive guy
00:50Missed the first game from suspension. This is favor
00:55The Fraser who scored the goal against at Morocco
01:00Van der Elst
01:03Heading back again to the Wolf
01:06This is Schifo
01:08Moving more or less onto this right-hand side Schifo normally operates down the left. He's holding a good cross there
01:13And so near to an opening goal
01:18A terrific jump there by Weber
01:24But what a great boss from Schifo
01:26Up gets Weber
01:31And the Dutch free the game
01:33Well, that would have been a dream start with a magnificent run on the right-hand Joe Schifo
01:37Terrific ball gets his foot right round. He digs it out to the second post
01:41Weber well on top of Ronald Koeman
01:43Might play it short to
01:48Vim Yonk I suppose
01:50I still think he'll try and test the keeper, Brian. I think he'll go for a fast swinger
01:54Well, let's see what he does here now
01:56We know he's got quite a repertoire, Ronald Koeman
01:59We know they're well enough
02:01Threw it on damn well
02:02And the keeper will feel a lot better for that
02:05That could have done anyway
02:06Could he wants the deflection
02:07Once the ball was deflected that could have ricocheted straight into the net
02:13Now what will the Belgian, what will the Dutch come up with here?
02:16Koeman is around the place but
02:22The Belgians are not sure
02:23The Brazilian wants to get the wall back the required distance
02:26It's Koeman again
02:29Curling!
02:30Put back by Prudong, yet again
02:34Well, I mentioned a couple of minutes ago
02:36His pace might be suspect
02:39But he more than makes up with it with his free kicks
02:41He's had two excellent attempts with free kicks so far
02:49Weber, who's a six-footer
02:50The Belgian fans enjoyed that
02:55An orange balloon
02:57Punctured there by the wolf
03:01And a good save by De Hoy
03:06From Grun
03:12Talking about punctured, Brian
03:13I think he nearly punched the defence with that
03:14I think he's made a bit hard work of that De Hoy
03:16To Frank De Boer
03:20To Frank De Boer
03:21And now Rijkaert
03:24Talmant outside him
03:33De Boer again
03:34There's Rijkaert
03:36Good save back Riddell
03:38And banged away in the end by Emmers
03:40Well, that's three excellent saves that
03:45Prudong has made
03:47That's a lovely little slid-through ball from Ronald De Boer
03:50Gets his foot round it
03:51And as you say, another very good take
03:53Bit unfortunate there that maybe Brian Roy or Bergkamp
03:56Or somebody who wasn't following him for the parry
03:59Been at one end of the field, then at the other
04:01Shifo
04:03And Elst
04:06Shifo
04:07De Grazer
04:09Putting something together here
04:10And a shot by George Grun
04:17Two good movements in the game
04:18And both have nearly finished up with a goal-scoring chance for Belgium
04:21From Belgium who
04:22Good through ball
04:23Similar to the Rijkaert situation
04:25Except the ball stood up
04:26And he managed to get more on it
04:28But as you say
04:29Good save there from De Hoy
04:31So another corner this time to Belgium
04:37Mark Degrees are taking it
04:41Grun is very active again in there
04:43And it's Grun with a header
04:45And Albert nearly finishing it off
04:53Well the two guys have come up from the back
04:54Grun who got the first important header in
04:56And
04:58Philippe Albert
04:59Another Anderlecht defender
05:01I'm just wondering how brave he was here Albert
05:03I'm just wondering whether he had one eye
05:05And understandably so on Bouters on the line
05:08The Dutch left full backs done brilliant across there
05:11Frank de Boer to get across and block him out
05:13Now here's Bergkamp
05:14Now here's Bergkamp
05:15Bruns after him
05:16Still with Bergkamp
05:18Bringing right into it
05:19A chance for Holland here
05:26It's a super game though
05:27We're getting great opportunities at both ends
05:29Opportunities at both ends. We're getting incisive play, aren't we? I mean, Bergkamp here, hurdles, flex, runs above the ground and the lovely awareness as he touches it inside the full-back.
05:38This is one of those where Brian Roy, it's neither a shot nor a cross.
05:44And Balex to Rijkaard.
05:50Really running at Horkermans here.
05:54Oh, and picking up. Bergkamp, well!
05:57Pass to the goal again.
06:01Well, the astonishing thing is with 32 minutes gone, you've still got a goal-nil-nil situation here.
06:08I mean, it could at the moment be something like 2-2, 3-3 even.
06:12It could be 5-0 to Holland, actually, or 5-2, I mean.
06:15Kifo now to Emmers.
06:19About nine minutes to the first half left.
06:22Weber.
06:23He's done well here. He's done really well.
06:27De Grazer, they could be in here.
06:29They are!
06:30He's Shifo!
06:31The flag is off!
06:32The flag is off!
06:36Definitely, Brian.
06:37Definitely.
06:38I mean, he's been unselfish.
06:40There you see the worst at Coombe.
06:41He cannot defend.
06:42Why didn't De Grazer have a shot himself?
06:44Yeah, but I mean, you don't realize that in that situation.
06:46In fact, Shifo may even have been offside in the earlier part of the movement.
06:50But he's certainly offside there.
06:52As my first thought as he got played across, he's standing in an offside position.
06:55De Wolf again right up there.
07:02And plays a nice ball in for De Grazer.
07:09Van der Elst.
07:11Shifo.
07:13Weber's waiting.
07:16Still with Shifo.
07:17Could be a problem here.
07:19De Grazer could be getting in there.
07:21Emma's playing it in and plays it too high for Weber.
07:25And the Dutch breathe again as Rijkaard takes it clear.
07:33Certainly when you see Shifo in that sort of area by the byline
07:37and he can pull it back the way he did,
07:40you felt the Dutch were in real danger there.
07:43Oh, it's brilliant piece of work by the Belgian number 10.
07:47The encouraging thing was how he wanted to attack people.
07:51And sometimes players in that situation take the easy option
07:53and they've got a good situation here.
07:55Van der Elst to De Grazer.
07:57Weber's gone on ahead of him.
07:58Here's De Grazer.
07:59He's found a way right through.
08:00Can he finish it off?
08:01It's saved by De Hoij.
08:06What a turn of speed there by Mark De Grazer.
08:10A 28-year-old who scored Belgium's goal against Morocco.
08:13He really went into overdrive there.
08:15A lovely flick with the outside of the boot.
08:17And De Hoij equal to it.
08:21Terrific skills here.
08:22Great pace.
08:23A lovely flick.
08:24And good keeping.
08:25Great keeping.
08:27So that's a first-class example of what I'm saying, Brian.
08:29He's had plenty of good ball as Roy.
08:31And he's just been, he's taking the easy option and just laid it off.
08:34And that suits the Belgians.
08:36Bergkamp now.
08:39What?
08:40Just wide of Prudhomme's goal.
08:43Just for a moment I thought that was in there.
08:45Bergkamp complaining to the Brazilian referee that his shirt was tucked here.
08:49Yes.
08:50Yes.
08:51By Shifo.
08:52Good referee now, Brian.
08:53Because if that goes in the back of the net.
08:54Dennis Bergkamp's not going to turn around to say to the referee.
08:56Correct.
08:57He's pulled my shirt.
08:58That is excellent refereeing.
08:59And, you know, it's very, very unlucky.
09:01Some good positive play from Bergkamp.
09:03That's somebody's best.
09:04That little position just off the front.
09:06Picking it up and going to play.
09:08Here's Shifo.
09:11The half-time whistle.
09:12And as Ron was saying, you can't separate the two sides.
09:15Plenty of chances.
09:17But the half-time situation here in the Citrus Bowl in Orlando.
09:20It's Belgium-0, Holland-0.
09:24I don't wish I was anybody.
09:25Really, I've got myself in the problem.
09:27Just trying to sort the lads out with water.
09:30So what are you going to do now?
09:31Obviously, you'll have to take my word for it too.
09:33I don't even know.
09:34I don't even know, Jerry, what you've said is true.
09:36All I know is that I've got told that I've been banned from the touchline for some reason.
09:39And nobody tell me what.
09:42But I'm sure I will get a fax or something from somebody.
09:47Well, that's Jack Charlton's reaction.
09:49We can now return to the Citrus Bowl, as you can see.
09:51And rejoin your commentators for Belgium versus Holland.
09:53It's Ron Atkinson.
09:54But first, here's Brian Moore.
09:56Thank you, Matthew.
09:57A reporter with Jack was Gary Neubon, known by Jack as Jerry all the time.
10:02There's a good shot.
10:03A good header.
10:04By Vouters.
10:05Over the top.
10:09It's a lovely ball chipped in there by Von.
10:17And look at that.
10:18Midfield player.
10:19Perfect sample of midfield running from the deep.
10:23A long ball towards Weber.
10:25Cut out by Runnix.
10:27Looks like Reichardt.
10:29And now Koeman.
10:32Hit long.
10:33And there's a great ball.
10:34And knocked over the top there by Vitska.
10:41Great break by Vitska as well.
10:43But what a ball that's played for him.
10:45Oh, a tremendous ball.
10:46Tremendous positive run.
10:47Touch a suggestion, you know, off-side on it.
10:50But he's certainly got off the back of the defender there.
10:53And full marks to the keeper.
10:54That's good goalkeeping.
10:55That's unrecognized goalkeeping.
10:57He's done enough to put Vitska under a lot of pressure.
11:00Keeper holds his ground.
11:01Stays on the line.
11:02Vitska has time to take a touch and slot it.
11:07Absolutely.
11:08You said England, Scotland beforehand.
11:09Things like that.
11:10That's what it's about.
11:13And with those arrangements, you can never be sure.
11:15Somebody might do something daft in the last couple of minutes.
11:18A goal comes and here's...
11:20A great save again by Prudhoe.
11:28Well, even the man, Bergkamp,
11:30applauds a superb piece of goalkeeping again by the 35-year-old Michel Guerdon.
11:36I mean, this has got everything.
11:37What a great ball from Koeman and stuff.
11:39There is Bergkamp.
11:40He's done everything right.
11:41And yet he's been thwarted by another phenomenal save.
11:43Not much of him, but there's a lovely crossfield ball.
11:45Picking out Weber.
11:46And away goes Bergkamp.
11:47At least I think it was Young's ball.
11:48Still with Bergkamp.
11:49And just wide from Vitska.
11:50How much longer can this game stay at 0-0?
11:55Just gets stuck under his foot.
11:56There he is.
11:57Lovely run, lovely touch.
11:58Awareness just jabs it.
11:59But he just gets stuck a little bit under Vitska's foot.
12:00But even as he slotted it, I thought that was just inside the post.
12:05One minute, we're looking at one end of the field and then we'll look at that.
12:26Smits.
12:28He's played nicely. De Graes has played well in a very unspectacular role up front.
12:37He's done really well. Spitz getting in very well and knocked back in the end.
12:41Some good quick thinking by De Hoi because that ball had come back from a defender
12:44and it might just have been construed as a back pass by the referee.
12:48And he was really quick-witted and alive to it.
12:52Wouldn't pick it up in other words. Schifo.
12:58Cross coming in from Emmers.
13:01Oh, Weber missed his chance. De Graes with the shot over the top.
13:05So chances continue to fall at both ends.
13:08That's a good block there for Frankie De Boa.
13:10He's made a great stop there.
13:13Just look at this, Brian. How he throws himself across the strike here.
13:18That's a goal, you know. Just enough.
13:21When you talk about great defending, that's great defending.
13:26De Graes with the corner.
13:29Grun is in there.
13:30Loaded it nicely towards Grun, he knocks it on.
13:34And it's in the back of the net from Albert.
13:35The big defender, who's done a good job at the back, suddenly turns up at the other end of the field with a surprise goal.
13:52Only his fourth for his country.
13:55And Belgium are ahead.
14:00Bouters on the line. Could do nothing about it.
14:03Yeah, it's the one-two that nearly works in the first half.
14:06I think Grun has got his head on most of the crosses.
14:08Most of the corners. He's got the touch-out and Albert just instinctively has hit it off his left side.
14:14Not very agile, defending on the line by doubters.
14:17But he had to come. There had to be a goal at one end of the field.
14:22Nothing was sure.
14:23Coming up to 21 minutes of the second half.
14:31The breakthrough at last.
14:32Maybe the better chances of this game have fallen Holland's way.
14:35And it's Belgium who've drawn first blood.
14:40York, dispossessed.
14:43Imperiously there by Schifo.
14:49Stalins.
14:50De Waal.
14:53Smits.
14:54Knocked it forward and does it well.
14:57Now Stalins.
14:58And Waver's on the far side.
15:00There's a chance for Waver here.
15:01Yeah.
15:02Ooh.
15:03Well, that could have put the game right out of sight, couldn't it?
15:09I mean, this is a lovely ball off the outside of the foot from Stalins.
15:12Right into the space between the keeper and the striker.
15:14Stands up a little bit, but he's good enough for that.
15:17He's under no real pressure from the defender.
15:19He's good enough to have stayed through.
15:22Schifo.
15:25Dutch now being forced to chase the game as Albert, the goal scorer, comes forward.
15:30He's really got a taste for it.
15:33Well, he was waiting in the middle there.
15:36Oh, what a glorious opportunity lost there by Lorenzo Stalins.
15:44Well, they went a goal up.
15:46They could now be three up.
15:48I mean, look at this.
15:48It's under no pressure.
15:50The Dutch have virtually said, well, that's two nothing.
15:52We're down.
15:52Down that other end.
15:54Schifo was buzzing around the referee to tell him, let's have a look again.
15:58Don't lose any question.
15:59The ball has hit him in the hand.
16:00But it's not as if he's gone to try and handle it.
16:03He's actually gone to try and...
16:04The ball stands off here.
16:05They're both going in there.
16:06And he's actually gone to try and get a foot to it.
16:09A great save by Prudhomme.
16:13The director showing us that replay again.
16:17But it was another excellent piece of work.
16:20Koeman shot.
16:21And we know how...
16:23Drun...
16:24Schifo.
16:29Van der Elst de Grazer.
16:32Schmitz.
16:33Oh.
16:34He's lost it.
16:35Overmars coming through.
16:36Overmars with a chance of work.
16:37Camping the middle.
16:40And Prudhomme again saves it.
16:42And Roy is in there.
16:43And Schmitz in the end gets it away.
16:47What a Poland got to do to score.
16:48That was absolutely amazing again.
16:54Overmars causing all the problems for them.
16:57Measures his pass.
16:58And he just doesn't get to Bergkamp.
17:01And Bergkamp just failing to get his head to that one.
17:04The corner for Holland.
17:05They can't complain about shortage of incidents in this game, can we?
17:09Everything's out.
17:10I can't recall when I've seen a side have so many chances and never score.
17:15And now De Boer.
17:16A white shirt of Holland.
17:17And they're streaming forward.
17:19This has got to be the last chance for them.
17:23Overmars.
17:24Will he try a long range shot?
17:26Oh.
17:27A tick against the crossbar.
17:28Bergkamp is in there too.
17:30Well, I think that's a penalty.
17:32Bergkamp said it was handled when he out the...
17:34Not given.
17:35He can't argue again, he's in trouble.
17:38I would bet my life this is a penalty.
17:40He's had the shot.
17:40There was a terrific bit of goalkeeping here.
17:42He flexed onto the bar.
17:43Watch the defender now.
17:44I think he...
17:45Yeah, it's hard to say there, Ron.
17:48I still think that's a penalty.
17:49My first reaction, okay, with Sinti again, I think the defender's got a hand on that.
17:53Actually, the Dutch didn't complain that much about it.
17:56Bergkamp made a little gesture, but no more.
17:59But it made you be one of just a frustration.
18:01If you get the referees shown, though, you can't...
18:02You just can't say a word to him.
18:04But I'll tell you something else.
18:05Frudon has been an absolute hero today for the Belgians.
18:08Magnificent.
18:08Is that six?
18:09Six excellent saves.
18:13Here's to Wolff.
18:18And Els.
18:19Koeman.
18:39Koeman.
18:40As we said before, it's a last chance now.
18:45Alex is right up.
18:48Roy.
18:49Will there be a little bit of sparkle right at the end from him?
18:52The cross coming in towards Bergkamp.
18:54Schifo looking to turn away from the attentions of Yonk.
18:58In fact, Yonk has fouled the Belgian, and so it's a free kick.
19:06The Wolff will take it, but perhaps not too quickly.
19:12Two and a half minutes of time added on.
19:15Albert's goal separating the two sides.
19:17One says, you have to fancy Belgium to go a long way in this tournament.
19:28They've got a nice balance of youth and experience.
19:31They play it around well.
19:32And they've won here against their old enemy from Holland with Philippe Albert's goal in the second half.
19:45Great heroes right through this Belgian side, but none more so than their goalkeeper, Michel Prudhomme, who brought off some fantastic saves.
19:51And so Belgium going to the second phase.
19:54They're winners here in Orlando by one goal to nil.
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