00:02Two nations making their World Cup debut in a finals match.
00:07Reggae boys from the Sunshine Isle of Jamaica against Croatia.
00:14Here's Davos Suker on the left.
00:16Oh, and...
00:17Well, that was an opportunity.
00:19The first real chance for Croatia.
00:21And it's Mario Stanic of Parma who had the diving header.
00:33Krozeneczki.
00:35Jamaicans back in numbers.
00:37And the shot comes in.
00:38And Warren Barrett had to be fully alert there as it came in from, well, fully 25 yards.
00:46Slavin Bilic, the man to hit it.
00:49And, well, it might just have taken Warren Barrett a little bit by surprise, but he kept it out.
00:55Here's one for Paul Hall to chase.
01:09Slavin Bilic there ahead of Robbie Earle at the back post.
01:13And it's another corner.
01:19Robbie Earle with the header.
01:22Off the line.
01:28And I think it was Dario Simic who was on the line and had to stretch high.
01:34It was Simic and right man at the right time.
01:40Let's see what they can do this time, but there's a push, I think, in the six-yard box, yes.
01:55Here's a Sanovic, now Krozeneczki.
02:00Against Frank Sinclair.
02:02That's a nice ball from Krozeneczki.
02:07And it's been guided out for corner by Ian Goodison.
02:12So can the Croatians be more effective with their corners than the Jamaicans were?
02:17Krozeneczki takes it short.
02:20Oh, it gets the post.
02:21Must be, and it is.
02:23It's the opener for Croatia.
02:25And it's Mario Stanic who's got it.
02:29And it's taken 26 minutes for the Croatians to break through.
02:33And Mario Stanic has scored Croatia's first ever goal in a World Cup Finals.
02:42The shot against the top of the bar, in fact, was from Igor Stimac.
02:48And it fell perfectly for Mario Stanic of Parma.
02:57Juggled it a little, but there was no missing it from there.
03:08This time it's a long ball from Suker.
03:10The touch on the edge of the area from Ian Goodison.
03:13It's only taken it to Stanic.
03:15It's one of me at Soldo against the bar again.
03:18But this time it's fallen to a yellow shirt.
03:26And that doesn't threaten Warren Barrett's goal.
03:30That's the strike from this one of me at Soldo.
03:44And a simic.
03:46This is danger again for Jamaica.
03:50Oh, good save.
03:52Good save from Warren Barrett.
03:54From Davos Suker.
03:56He hit it well.
03:58But a competent save from Warren Barrett, the Jamaican captain.
04:02Barrett comes again and punches this time.
04:17Jamaican's still one goal down.
04:22There's Burton.
04:24Cool call now.
04:26Now then.
04:27Oh, it's in!
04:28And Jamaica have equalised.
04:31And it's Robbie Ohr who's got the goal.
04:34It was touch and go whether he'd play in this World Cup Finals because of his broken toe.
04:40But he's fit.
04:42And he has scored Jamaica's first ever World Cup Finals goal.
04:47And it's put the Jamaican's back on level terms.
04:51And now look at the party in the stands in Lowe's.
04:57Oh yes.
04:58He got some power behind that.
05:04Pinpoint.
05:06And that was a quality finish.
05:10Next.
05:19It's going to fall for Krosinetsky.
05:22Yarny again.
05:26Robbie Earl, the goal scorer with the blocking sliding challenge.
05:31Krosinetsky gives the ball away.
05:35Here's Simic.
05:37Simic has ridden two challengers.
05:39And Stanich on the edge of the area goes down.
05:42No free kick.
05:45Masanovic.
05:48Not far away.
05:50Masanovic holds his head.
05:53It's had a bit of bend and a bit of swerve on it.
05:56Warren Barrett
05:59was left flailing really.
06:01He felt it was worth a dive.
06:03But I think always just curling away wide.
06:11There's a Sanovic again.
06:16He's found Stanich.
06:20And Stanich has been bundled to the ground by...
06:23I think it's Frank Sinclair.
06:25Yeah, Frank Sinclair.
06:27And, well, theatrical stuff again from Stanich.
06:30But this could be dangerous.
06:32Krosinetsky's gone over there.
06:33Yarny, I'm sure, will be involved as well.
06:36It is Yarny who's gone to collect the ball.
06:38It's a one-all.
06:44And...
06:47Yarny and Krosinetsky discuss
06:50how they'll take this.
06:52The two-man Jamaican wall.
06:53Referee Vito Mel Pereira
06:55wants to make sure they're ten yards away.
06:58Krosinetsky.
06:59Good stuff.
07:00Here it comes!
07:01And Krosinetsky has scored
07:03from way out on the left.
07:07How did that find the top right-hand corner?
07:10I'm not sure that Krosinetsky knows.
07:14Warren Barrett
07:15stands with his hands on his hips.
07:18But Krosinetsky...
07:21I'm sure it was a cross.
07:23And it's swerved and dipped.
07:25It might just have taken a touch
07:27from the head of an Andy Lowe.
07:30But it was heading in.
07:32In fact, it's his arm
07:33that's made contact with the ball.
07:36But a free goal.
07:38Robert Krosinetsky.
07:39And Kroasia back in front.
07:51So now Jamaica have got to come
07:52from behind again.
07:53Paul holds cross.
07:54Oh, that's just wide of the right post.
07:57Dion Burton.
08:00And he knows
08:00that that was an opportunity
08:03to bring Jamaica Lowe again.
08:05He was onside.
08:06The glancing header.
08:08Oh, and it almost clips the post.
08:14He went for precision.
08:17He went for precision.
08:34It needs something for Jamaica.
08:36Maybe the big occasion
08:39has taken rather more out of them
08:42than we thought it might.
08:46And here come the Croatians.
08:48They're making spaces now.
08:50Here's Stanic.
08:51His cross to the back post.
08:52Davos Suka.
08:53This could be a chance.
08:54It's deflected.
08:55And it's in.
08:58Davos Suka
08:59of Real Madrid.
09:01He needed a bit of help.
09:03But he's hit the back of the net.
09:05One of the stars of Euro 96.
09:08Will he rekindle his career
09:10here at France 98?
09:13And it's left the Jamaicans
09:15just about down and out.
09:17Davos Suka has got the goal.
09:20Here it is.
09:21It takes a touch off Ricky Gardner.
09:23The back of Ricky Gardner's right leg.
09:27And that's enough to send it
09:29agonizingly bouncing
09:31and spinning over the top
09:32of Warren Barrett.
09:35Across from Stanic.
09:38Suka might have hit it earlier.
09:41Delayed.
09:42And then the deflection.
09:46And, well, is there any way back
09:48for Jamaica from here?
09:53Oh, Suka was close.
09:55Oh, and a good save
09:56from Barrett from Beauban.
10:01Well, he's got something to the ball.
10:04The Jamaican captain.
10:08Suka missed his strike.
10:10And then Beauban.
10:13And, well, as a goalkeeper,
10:15you use all parts of your body.
10:18And that's what Warren Barrett did.
10:30There it is.
10:32The full-time whistling longs.
10:35The first match ever
10:37in a World Cup Finals
10:38for both Croatia
10:40and Jamaica.
10:41And the Croatians
10:42have come out
10:44very much on top.
10:45But there was that moment
10:47just before halftime
10:48when the whole of Jamaica
10:50were able to sing
10:52and dance and celebrate
10:53because Robbie Earle
10:54equalized on the stroke
10:55of halftime.
10:56It was always going to be
10:57a night to remember
10:58in Lens.
11:00The Jamaicans will remember it.
11:03But the Croatians
11:04are the ones
11:05to take the three points.
11:06for the blowers.
11:08The Croatians
11:09to take the air
11:09You can see
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