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00:00we're very very lucky not to get a result out of that game indeed the player
00:04I was talking about Enzo Shifu hit the post with a great shot and off we go
00:10into the start of the game
00:16again that's a bit of an unknown quantity not quite sure how the Saudis
00:20will react to this
00:23they're after a point themselves but there's always a danger that if you try
00:31to play for that you're going to come a cropper Paul van Hemst
00:37Shifu was at the back not done by Frankie van der Elst Belgium now getting players
00:44forward van der Elst Shifu just let that pass underneath his foot
00:53I still rate him in this game though that's a bit of ball forward now
00:57they've gone right through they'll score
01:01Saudi Arabia have opened the scoring the goal by Ovaran with a Belgian defence nowhere
01:11well that has got to be one of the goals of the tournament without a shadow of a
01:15doubt he's gone past three or four players there as though they didn't exist look at
01:20him tight control shrugs off the challenge of Medved then he goes
01:24past De Wulff there and just has a little bit of luck here when he comes up
01:28against the final defender Schmitz just gets it past him stumbles a little as
01:33Albert comes across he hits it over the top of Albert and Prudhoe that is a
01:39magnificent goal sign them up Ray I know you're looking for players at the moment
01:43keep your eye on him I think we'll see this a few times look at him right the
01:48way from the halfway line one player two players and accomplished defenders as
01:53well and as Albert comes across he just locks it across the two of them well at
01:58this superb at this moment in time and that goal came at exactly five minutes and I
02:05can't tell you that if Saudi clinch this and well we don't know what's going to
02:11happen on the other game which is going on right at this time down south they
02:17could very well go to the top of the section I mean it's it's that open yes
02:22the thing is though it is there's a long long way to go and this would have
02:25livened the Belgians right up and we know the last time that the South is in
02:30this position they dropped off right away and tried to start wasting time with a
02:34long long time to go and actually encouraged the Dutch to come at them
02:43Schmidt's driving forward
02:47well I have to admit I did say to a Belgian friend before this game if we
02:52wanted a spectacle Saudi would have to score first and there that's how he did it
02:57Oberan
03:03Enzo Schifo
03:07and I gave him a bigger plug than his agent would and he hasn't really been in
03:10the game all that much so far there we are 20 minutes gone
03:15well they're closing down well now break there by Oberan again in he goes can he put it away
03:23tries it with the outside of that right foot that was Falata that time
03:28well that's twice in the last couple of minutes we've seen somebody try to pierce using pace going
03:37right through the middle Ray yes you can see me you actually wonder why he doesn't have a go with his
03:41left foot but tries with the outside of his right foot similar to the goal we saw the
03:45Swede score against Brazil last night
03:51trying to get as many players forward as he can Medved Schifo went towards the edge of the penalty area
03:58that was van der Elze walking the one two eventually this must be it no just touched away
04:06they cannot afford to make misses like that and that was Mark Wilmot's
04:14now the break and out comes Brudhomme and that's exactly what they're playing for Belgium pushing
04:24everybody forward and their great pace from midfield could really cause distress to this defense and that
04:30it was a terrible mess
04:35and it was a gunner as I've always been told Ray
04:50Schifo turned that round again
04:56so very close but the flag was up
05:00nicely inside there and he tried to chip it away to the left
05:09so they're enjoying this the crowd no doubt about that they've gone for the underdogs who are leading by one goal to nil
05:21and there's a great save
05:23I'll dare you that was curving
05:25might have been a little bit of embellishment Ray
05:30well it was a good save he might have added a little to it but it still wasn't an easy save for him
05:37it's looping from his own player there
05:39it's looping towards the top corner
05:41and he really it's a good save it really is okay the man on the line would have cleared it
05:48now De Wolf has come forward
05:50Schifo
05:52it's up there by
06:01it's up there by
06:01Gilles tries to go forward again
06:04Schifo
06:06just took that down
06:08and he immediately goes for the touch forward is that offside
06:11well well well
06:13I'm sorry I can't interpret that for you but um
06:23can Ray interpret that one?
06:26well it certainly looks an offside position but if it's not then it's another terrible miss there by
06:31Medved looking for the run by Van der Elst
06:38there he is again can he let fly he's got a reluctance to do so
06:43doesn't score all that many goals and you could see it there Ray
06:47yeah disappointing there because you know if you remember the dutch they actually scored decoising goal by having a shot from some 30 yards
06:55Wim Jonk scoring there
06:56now away they go again look at the flatness of this defence
07:00he's going to turn around the side and let fly there's a ricochet
07:04oh and look at Prudhomme
07:06blasting his defence
07:08well right on the stroke of our time was it of Prudhomme
07:12every right to have a go at his defence there because we've talked about the Belgian discipline
07:17throughout this first half
07:18they lost it totally then they just left like one against one at the back there
07:22and really the Belgians were very very lucky they didn't pay a higher price than that
07:27I am amazed that their organisational abilities as the halftime whistle has just gone as we watched that replay
07:36are such that you would have thought they would have had that contingency
07:39although they were pushing forward Ray
07:41they would be able to play for the the quick Saudi break
07:46second half Belgium
07:47trailing by one goal to nil
07:49they played very coolly
07:51they are a logical team lot of hard work in midfield but they haven't put it together in front of goal
07:57consequently
07:58they face perhaps not an uphill struggle
08:00but they'll be gradually trying to wear this team down
08:05that was Frankie van der Else to Schmitz
08:09now this is the player we were discussing
08:11and that's some more direct ball into the box but
08:14a little too far
08:16and you wonder what the coach Paul van Hemst
08:19who's a great goalscorer himself has been
08:22pumping into his players at halftime
08:27just to keep on going
08:30I have a feeling that Belgium will break through but
08:33you always feel that this team are capable of breaking again quickly from midfield
08:37little chip to the outside
08:48and there's Jack Charlton
08:55corner kick
09:05that's a way over
09:07beautifully touched down there
09:09by Aldea
09:11and I think he gets protection from the referee
09:15now
09:16twice where he's gone to that side
09:19spectacularly
09:21well you have and again this is an excellent save
09:24it really is because
09:25it's a flick on there at the near post
09:27it can only be six yards out
09:28there we see it
09:30it's arrowing into that top left hand corner
09:32he manages to get both hands to it
09:34knocks it away
09:35and then the
09:37certainly the free kick here is given to Schifo
09:39as he goes the overhead kick
09:40predictable there
09:41we've played
09:42almost 15 minutes of the second half
09:45Belgium are still trailing by one goal to nil
09:47we're listening to Archbishop first with Ray Clements
09:50of Sport
09:51covering this game between Belgium and Saudi
09:56Belgium after this one point
09:58and Madani gets his head to it
10:01could put it away
10:02no
10:05so close
10:08and Nielish as I said is finding it desperately hard to score a goal at this level
10:13he's only once scored for his country
10:16it's difficult to see how
10:19the Belgians keep missing these guilted chances
10:22it's not a
10:23it's not just a case of them
10:24missing them
10:25they're not even hitting the target with them
10:27and this again
10:28is a golden opportunity
10:29does everything right
10:30good first touch
10:31swivels on the ball
10:33and somehow
10:34just misses the target
10:35away from the ball
10:37and onto the floor
10:38and I think therefore the referee
10:40was correcting that
10:41here we'll see it
10:42see his arm across him
10:43pushing away with his left arm
10:44using his body
10:45and then
10:46retrieving the ball
10:47so I think to be fair
10:48that the use of the left arm there is
10:50is what the referee's given the free kick for
10:52and an indication of the way they're going
10:55that Schieffer was playing almost at right back there
10:57headed away by Albert
10:59there's a shot at Prudhomme
11:03well I did say he had to be very alert
11:05he's not been in the action all that much
11:07that goes down as a solid save
11:09well it does and that goes down to show
11:11how experienced he is
11:13that he's experienced enough that at this level
11:15he can be out of the game for long long periods
11:17and still able to pull off the important saves
11:19when they matter
11:20and he's had a run of 34 games from 1986 in that goal
11:26little deflection
11:32what an agony there for the goalkeeper
11:37watch this, this is a wicked one
11:39it's exactly the same area that Vim Jonk scored from him
11:42this time there's a slight deflection
11:44Aldier's going one way
11:45and thankfully there wasn't enough pace on it for him to go past him
11:48now they flood forward again
11:51and that last line of defence is looking
11:55not so much fragile but slightly put out
11:58that the Saudis are attacking them so quickly
12:09try to bustle them away and that'll be a free kick
12:11and I think we might have a rather longer pause and Shifo
12:20given a yellow card
12:24De Wolff
12:25this very deliberate calculated way forward by the Belgians
12:38and there's a good header
12:39Weber
12:45the big fellow got up very well there
12:47top scorers I said last three seasons and
12:50he used to put them in for a high-duke split like that as well
12:56he used to put them in for a high-duke split like that as well
13:00well
13:02De Wolff
13:04now eight minutes left
13:05that tantalizing
13:08that tantalizing
13:10ball again which simply didn't reach now
13:13Jibrin
13:14look at the pace Schmitz had better watch this could be the winner
13:19Prudhomme comes oh he's missed it
13:22and that would have buried Belgium
13:25Falata getting the glorious chance to make sure that they would win this section
13:30well it's a fantastic opportunity you can see he's going to try and lift the ball over Prudhomme
13:36you can see Prudhomme coming out there's the
13:39well he tries is the little lob but just has too much pace on it
13:42and as we know with these balls it just flies over the top
13:45and just as you were talking there they were watching that replay
13:49in came Weber almost getting a final touch there and that would have saved them
13:54and a rueful shake of his head
13:56an extraordinary finish to this game
13:58I now make it here it comes
14:02and look at that he really he should have buried that as well
14:05well is that five or is it six golden opportunities to box
14:12you're joining us Saudi holding on to a one goal lead which he got in the fifth minute
14:17through Ouran
14:19and we now got seven minutes left of this game
14:22it's a cross in there Weber again
14:24still no goal and still one nil
14:28anyway here it's a straight case if Saudi hold on to this they'll play the Republic
14:45run on the right
14:57that's the substitute Aldoussari can he bury it
15:01just away by Prudhomme still there
15:04north the line by De Wulf
15:06they're hanging on by their fingertips and they come forward again Belgium
15:14an amazing ending to the game
15:17Weber lays it back oh it's too precise
15:23and our five minutes remaining can Belgium save themselves
15:26Ray
15:29well that's incredible now we'll see about the Saudis have had two golden opportunities as well now to wrap this game
15:35we've missed them both
15:37up they go down towards Weber there's a shot and he's underneath it and it's simply
15:42not their day
15:44well let's look at this for an opportunity I mean Prudhomme does well blocks the first one
15:48and there's another opportunity for him he must score surely
15:52well his first touch takes the ball too far away from him
15:55and he hits the keeper again I mean it's it's incredible
15:58they've been incredible chances they've had
16:00well I've seen a beaten side come up and pick themselves up but Belgium look beaten at the moment and that is a kind of luck that they've had as well
16:08now the throw
16:11now the throw
16:15Emmers
16:17and it goes and there goes
16:20the final whistle that
16:22is a very famous Saudi victory
16:25that is perhaps the most famous victory
16:29in their history here
16:31at the World Cup
16:33or is it
16:37no I beg
16:38I beg
16:39it looked like the final whistle all the Saudi players leapt up and down
16:44and some of them actually ran towards the bench they thought it was the final whistle
16:52and that has been preempted
16:55it's not far off
16:58look at that time
17:00on the right hand corner
17:01and I think they're signalling
17:05that this game should be at an end now
17:08in it goes and back to the goalkeeper
17:11a loud roar from the crowd
17:22and all eyes on the referee it looked as if he had stopped that game now
17:26in it goes into the box again
17:27out of the box again
17:29high up in the air
17:32can he get it through
17:33and Albert comes through
17:34and the ball ticks
17:36that awkward little bounce
17:38that was
17:40Stallings in fact who came forward and now
17:43back it goes to Smith
17:48an inordinate amount of time going on here for stoppage time
17:51and agonisingly for Saudi they thought the game was finished a minute ago
18:00Schipo has run himself out
18:03Van der Elst
18:05easy ball for the defence
18:11and this time
18:13I just paused to make sure
18:15that is it
18:16and that certainly is the famous victory
18:20they have stepped up a notch and stepped up successfully
18:26and Saudi will now play
18:29the Republic of Ireland
18:31down there in Orlando
18:33Tremendous celebrations going on
18:37Tremendous celebrations going on
18:39Tremendous celebrations going on
18:45A disheartened
18:47and disillusioned Belgian side coming off
18:51Well they've every right to be haven't they
18:53I mean they've
18:55they haven't played as well as they can play Belgium
18:56but they've created enough opportunities to win two games
18:58never mind the game
19:00this afternoon
19:02but full credit to the Saudis because
19:04they've battled on
19:05they've shown battling qualities
19:07a lot of people will say they didn't really have
19:09technically they've been superb at times
19:11they've broken away
19:13they've themselves have had two or three golden opportunities
19:16to increase their lead from one
19:18the keeper there LDR
19:20he made a couple of vital saves at important times
19:23and all in all
19:25okay they have had to defend for probably 70% of the game
19:27but sometimes you have to do that to win games
19:30and they've done it well
19:32they've had that little bit of luck that you need
19:34to go with when you're defending that amount of the time
19:37but having said that it really is a result
19:40I'm sure that Jack Charlton is quite pleased with
19:42but he also will realise
19:44that it is not going to be an easy game for the Irish
19:46when they come here against the Saudis
19:48and I just wonder now with the King being here
19:51whether there will be a Rolls-Royce each for them now
19:53Well I think they deserve that
19:54and I don't think it will bump the budget all that much
19:58and we'll start to give that up
19:59and we'll get some extra and more
20:01great
20:02and we'll do that
20:03we'll get that much
20:05and we'll get that back to later
20:06and we'll get that back at the end
20:07and we'll get that back after we've got the time
20:08and the draw back up
20:09and we'll get some comments
20:11make sure that he's got to make the spot
20:12and we'll get that back
20:13take on as much
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