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With both countries having won both group games, this match will decide who finishes top of the group.
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00:00Inevitably there are star names missing, but French and Dutch understudies are star names too.
00:05Only Marcel Desailly would be assured of a place in the French first XI.
00:09But four others played in the World Cup final, including Patrick Vieira, Frank Leboeuf and Christian Caronboeuf, who appears to
00:17be Middlesbrough-Ban.
00:20Five members of the Dutch team earned their livings in Britain too, including Liverpool goalkeeper Sonder Westervelt, in for the
00:26injured Edwin van der Sar.
00:28Jepstam is fit to resume in a near full-strength line-up.
00:32Rangers' Arthur Newman makes his first appearance at the tournament because his club colleague Giovanni van Bronckhorst is suspended.
00:41Let's not forget that, but for missed penalties by Philippe Cocu and Ronald De Boer against Brazil in the Marseille
00:47semi, this would have been the World Cup final two years ago.
00:52It's the remaining hosts of Euro 2000 against the very instigators of the European Championships.
01:00Paul Bosvelt of Feyenoord up to Dennis Bergkamp of Arsenal.
01:06Bergkamp on over Mars against Vieira in the centre of the field.
01:10Lots of fascinating subplots.
01:12Here's Newman of Rangers.
01:14Now to Bolo Zender, Bergkamp.
01:24The final is just 11 days and 40 miles away in Rotterdam.
01:30And Hugh would wager many Euros against this being far away from the billing for the final.
01:36We're expecting to start on the right.
01:38He switches to the left where Overmars is playing.
01:41Both Stamm and De Boer are forward here.
01:45Bergkamp's free kick.
01:46Towards Philippe Cocu, saved by the leg of Bernard Lamar.
01:50Similar chance for Cocu.
01:51Desai was brave enough.
01:52Kluivert trying to rescue the chance.
01:55Might have done so for Zenden.
01:57This time it's Vieira who gets in the way.
02:02Cocu is three beyond the far post.
02:04I think that's something people don't really associate with Cocu,
02:07although he's an excellent player in the air.
02:09Good header.
02:10Ricochets up the keeper.
02:12And Vieira gave a second block to prevent another shot at goal.
02:15But that's, I don't know, it's more luck of my judgment.
02:18Give the keeper the benefit of the doubt there.
02:22Bergkamp's corner.
02:24And Lamar holds on.
02:2737 years of age now.
02:28Bernard Lamar, the oldest man ever to keep goal for France.
02:36Terrific clearance towards Sylvain Wiltour too.
02:38Saw him practice in that before the game.
02:40Hitting each flank.
02:46One to watch here, you know, is Dugarry.
02:48Right under the keeper.
02:49All the big guys in there.
02:50But Dugarry's very useful in there.
02:52Oh, Dugarry scored!
02:59France in front.
03:03He was standing right next to Sylvain Westerwald.
03:08And Dugarry just deflated it in.
03:11A lot of movement.
03:12But he's the one that's in front of the keeper.
03:14He's the steps of the keeper.
03:15Springs.
03:16People that are looking for the big guys.
03:18And he is a great springer.
03:19And proves that.
03:20I mean, Westerwald's a hell of a size.
03:22He's above him.
03:23He was late though, wasn't he, Ron?
03:24Got there second.
03:25Oh, he got there well second.
03:27That's for sure.
03:30Well, Christophe Dugarry in an unfamiliar position.
03:35He's supposed to go.
03:36Clive, I was thinking if it's a problem to keep it.
03:38But he's not springing up there.
03:39I didn't notice that Mark Overmars said how well he'd been playing.
03:44He should know.
03:46Back up.
03:48Over to Haddon Leberth.
03:49For Cliver.
03:51Well struck by Cliver.
03:52From a difficult angle.
03:54But too much spin on it there Patrick Bieri if anything.
04:03Miku missing out.
04:05Bergkapp early forward.
04:06Cliver is onside here.
04:07Brilliantly found by Dennis Bergkapp.
04:09Patrick Cliver.
04:10Goes for glory himself.
04:12And it was quite glorious.
04:15Fantastic finish from Patrick Cliver.
04:18We've had 14 minutes of play.
04:20It's 1-1.
04:21It's spellbinding stuff.
04:24Now was he offside?
04:25He might have a very real love.
04:27He might have a very real love.
04:29Oh no.
04:29No, no.
04:30Great decision from the Lions.
04:34And this is where he does well.
04:35He bides his time.
04:37He turns back in.
04:38He has got an option.
04:40Leberth doesn't quite get close enough.
04:42And he's hit a strong shot that Lamar might get a touch on.
04:44But can't prevent.
04:46He's back in now.
04:47Fix his spot.
04:48You'll probably say Frank Leberth possibly should have closed him out a little bit more.
04:51Made a harder angle for him.
04:53But time he's run to perfection.
04:55And a great splitter.
04:56Great vision from Dennis Bergkamp.
04:58You know, some people still aren't quite sure about Patrick Cliver.
05:0123 years of age.
05:0343 caps.
05:0525 goals for his country.
05:07Do you know what I think it is with him, Clive?
05:09Every time you look at him.
05:11And he's only about 24 now, isn't he?
05:1323.
05:14Every time you look at him, you think he's got so much in his locker.
05:17He's big, powerful.
05:19Headed into Clive it.
05:20Leberth was there.
05:22On the lap.
05:24Bored again by Bosfeldt.
05:25Away again by Leberth.
05:26Only as far as Frodo's ended.
05:30Bergkamp's a lovely ball from Zendon.
05:33Bergkamp just away from Desai.
05:34Dennis Bergkamp didn't quite get hold of it.
05:37He was stretching back behind him to reach.
05:39The ball for the shot.
05:41Target through.
05:43He hasn't confirmed that this is his international farewell,
05:46but he's unlikely to want to fly out to the next World Cup finals.
05:52Zendon.
05:54Pulled back.
05:55Bergkamp!
05:56Oh, it's a football!
05:58Clive it's there!
05:59And Tamley into the arms of Bernardo Marwell.
06:02In fairness, Dennis Bergkamp didn't quite catch hold of that one either,
06:06but it nearly dropped in for him.
06:07This is brilliant, by the way, from Zendon.
06:09It was odds on he was going to cross it in front of the defender,
06:12but he's cut it back.
06:13He spotted them.
06:16Trezeguet to Vieira.
06:18Nothing controlled again from Wiltor.
06:21Brought by Davids.
06:30All quickly taken by Miku, and Westervelt was just off his line.
06:34And had to help it over the crossbow.
06:36Vision from Johan Miku.
06:41Oh, this is tremendous.
06:43Even the burst turned his back on it.
06:45Keeper scampering.
06:46You do feel he could have taken it comfortably, but...
06:49As a keeper, you've got to be dead spot on stake.
06:52He is in full stretch.
06:53He's probably culpable for the French goal.
06:55He didn't want to make another Arizona Vestival.
06:58This is the source of the French goal.
07:02Miku is cornered from the right-hand side.
07:04Dugary again is around the goalkeeper.
07:06I think he's excellently put Zendon in a position
07:07where he might be able to block the ball off a bit more.
07:11Headed away by Stam.
07:12Hit by Wiltor.
07:13Oh, undeflated in by Trezeguet.
07:15Who looks offside.
07:17The linesman points to the halfway line.
07:19The goal stands.
07:21France are back in front.
07:29Did Trezeguet get a touch to Wiltor's shot?
07:32Was Trezeguet offside?
07:33Answer's from Ron Atkinson.
07:35Ball skimmed over.
07:36It comes out here.
07:38Wiltor hits it.
07:39And for me, he looked offside.
07:41You can't tell from that this will give us a bit of view.
07:42Man on the line here.
07:43On the line, Davids has held his ground.
07:46He's starting to charge out now.
07:47He's never made it.
07:48Great decision.
07:49Good reaction.
07:52And a great game point of view as well.
07:54Great game situation now.
07:58The goal is David Trezeguet.
08:00It's his seventh and only his 19th international.
08:05Head guard, don't argue.
08:07It's you to blame.
08:17Nebuhr, Neumann, Apeliri, restored.
08:21Down base.
08:23Koku.
08:25Hossfeld.
08:28It'll be time for one last Dutch attack in this excellent half.
08:34That's it, that camp has been penalised.
08:54It's been an exhibition, an exhibition of arts and crafts.
08:59Football almost exclusively from the top draw.
09:02Top players, top quality, top flight.
09:05France ahead through Christophe Dugary.
09:08Holland level through Patrick Klyvert.
09:10The 1,000th goal that France have conceded in international football.
09:14But they soon had a reply through David Trezeguet.
09:17It's been a tonic to watch for those of you still ailing at home.
09:21A draw would be sufficient for France to win the group.
09:24And certainly a victory would send the Dutch across the Belgian border to Bruges
09:29for a quarterfinal against Spain.
09:35No change to the personnel.
09:37And I just hope there is no change to the entertainment level.
09:46Holland haven't beaten France since 1981.
09:54It's an Arnold Muren goal.
09:56Past the delightfully named French goalkeeper Dominic Brozzi
09:59in a World Cup qualifier in Rotterdam.
10:02He's tried six times without success in the intervening 19 years.
10:10Terrific control again this time from Miku.
10:13Try to float it into Trezeguet away by Stamp.
10:17Here is...
10:21Desailly.
10:23No flag here.
10:25Dugary.
10:26He'll finish it himself fully.
10:28Saved by the leg as Saul de Vestevelle.
10:30Almost an embarrassment of options there for Christophe Dugary.
10:35I think he was embarrassed to find himself onside.
10:38I think that was the first one.
10:40He certainly had Trezeguet up alongside him when the keeper went to ground.
10:44He could have just nudged a little side ball off to him.
10:46But...
10:47OK, he's on the goal.
10:48He's having a great, a decent game himself.
10:50I suppose you couldn't blame him for trying to take the chance.
10:55Berkamp.
10:56In towards Kleiver.
10:57He's managed to nudge it past Leberp who did enough.
11:01Kleiver looks inquisitively.
11:02This was the offside shot.
11:04He's got it dead right again, you know.
11:06Dead right.
11:07Turned his run to perfection.
11:09Might have been a handball there, to be fair.
11:11Might have dragged it around with his hand.
11:12The defender just nudged it.
11:17Davids riding the tackle from Patrick Vieira.
11:19Easier said than done.
11:20Vieira caught up with him at the expense of a Holland free kick.
11:23Can you imagine those two going head-to-head
11:26if it was all square with about ten minutes left in a final?
11:29Could have been shrapnel and fireworks and all sorts coming out.
11:33Fracteboer hits it.
11:34Oh!
11:37Stunning shot from Fracteboer.
11:41Hard level.
11:43Le Mar didn't even know it had happened.
11:47And we've just had a firework.
11:49They're lining.
11:49They're complacent.
11:51Well, Marks of Fracteboer.
11:52Great strike.
11:53Hasn't waited for the wall to get set up.
11:55And there's a one-man wall in Spierre.
11:57And he's put enough cuts on that.
11:59And that's a quick thing.
12:00We saw one quick thing in free kick in the first round from McCou.
12:03Nearly going.
12:04We've just seen a terrific piece of thinking.
12:07And a terrific execution.
12:12Well, borrow one of your favourite phrases, Ron.
12:15He was in the wide-away club.
12:17And France was fast asleep.
12:18Oh, yeah, they were actually.
12:21How slow.
12:21You know, I would have to think if there was really an amount on the match,
12:25there'd be more urgency in getting that wall up.
12:27But you can't take that away from Devoer.
12:28That was magnificent.
12:33But even if they had a big centre, I'm not sure anybody would have stopped it.
12:37He was hit with such venom.
12:42But Norway's failure to beat Slovenia left Yugoslavia in second place.
12:46So they are the two quarter-finalists to emerge today.
12:48We know that Holland and France are quarter-finalists, but in what order?
13:00It's just a procession of goals and excitement and entertainment.
13:06But a joy to behold, particularly now for Holland.
13:10I think here you see Christian Carambeau's inexperience of playing full-back.
13:15Frank Liberte may or should have possibly got a header on it.
13:18Send us, reads the script, cuts in field.
13:21Tucks it away on his least favourite foot, his right side.
13:23But I think a lot of that is that Carambeau isn't really a natural defender.
13:27He's allowed the lad to run off him.
13:30But he's still got plenty of do and he's tucked it away well.
13:35And if you think, or if we're thinking it means nothing,
13:37you should have seen Desailles' reaction after that goal.
13:41He went absolutely furious.
13:43And I think he's given Leberth a little bit of a rocket now.
13:47And as a comment, they replaced Patrick Clyver.
13:53Mind you, on in his place, Roy Mackay,
13:58who scored 22 goals in Deportivo La Coruña's championship success.
14:04Desailles.
14:08Miku is really impressed.
14:11Zhokhev.
14:13Out to Wiltor, he's onside this time.
14:16Sylvain Wiltor.
14:17Got his shot away, it's almost deflected by Zhokhev arriving late in the day.
14:24I was impressed with Wiltor when we saw him play for Bordeaux against United.
14:28Zhokhev.
14:31Vieira takes over.
14:32Lovely angle on the pass.
14:33On by Miku.
14:34No question of offside.
14:36David Trezeguet.
14:37Running free for France.
14:38Trezeguet.
14:39Saved by Westervelt.
14:41Nice to make himself big enough.
14:42Didn't really matter which part of his body he stopped it with.
14:45There was enough of his body in the way.
14:46He didn't go down.
14:47That's a good cross run by the strikers.
14:49I think that Wiltor is possibly offside.
14:52He's picked the other option.
14:53But he's running him off.
14:54He's running him off.
14:56Conquered in Paris.
15:01Zhokhev.
15:04In towards Trezeguet.
15:06Turned away as far as Pires didn't really get hold of it.
15:08Westervelt did.
15:15Van Vos.
15:20Stirring run by Van Vos.
15:22Caronberg just ran across him.
15:23Oh, he's running him out there as well.
15:25He's running him out.
15:26I think the ref must have thought this is it time.
15:28It won't make any difference.
15:34Victory for Holland.
15:37Maybe a moral victory for the final.
15:42Certainly a victory that was all about top class international football.
15:49And all that's good about top class international football.
15:52Superb atmosphere.
15:54Superbly contested.
15:55A game that was full of goals.
15:57But so much more.
15:59Holland had twice to come from behind.
16:02Before taking the lead.
16:03With a critical goal from Bolo's end.
16:05And just before the arm arm.
16:08It could be a taste of things to come.
16:11If it is in terms of results.
16:13Holland will be happy.
16:15If it is in terms of quality.
16:17We'll all be happy.
16:18Fantastic night.
16:19Holland have won it.
16:21By three goals to two.
16:25Sure was a football match.
16:26In the other match in this group.
16:28The Czech Republic beat Denmark by two goals to nil.
16:30But that was rather irrelevant.
16:32So Holland win this group.
16:34And they will go through now to play Yugoslavia in the next round.
16:39And France will take on Spain.
16:40Our next live match here on ITV is the Italy-Romania match on Saturday evening at 7.30.
16:46Well, I would think you'd be very pleased with that, Ru.
16:49I said already that he went up one gear.
16:51Stepped up one gear.
16:52And a great goal by Frank de Boer, by the way.
16:56Good vision.
16:57Just took it a little bit earlier than everyone expected it.
17:00Hit it perfectly, didn't it?
17:01Oh, yeah.
17:02But look how it curves, look.
17:04It's incredible.
17:05But like I said in the ITV program, I said the ball is not made for the goalkeeper.
17:11It's to go in, you know, to the net.
17:13And I think it's a great shot.
17:16Great vision.
17:17Great game.
17:17I enjoyed it fully.
17:19I think the point has been made here and there that the ball is rather different this time, isn't it?
17:23That, you know, it's quite difficult to control.
17:25But they're proving that, you know, the best players can deal with it very adequately.
17:28The best players can play with anything.
17:30And I think this has been a promotion for football in general.
17:34But both the fans as well, I think.
17:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:36Both have.
17:37I think the French on the end also were happy with the result.
17:39They played a good game.
17:41I think that their players also showed today that they are capable of doing some great stuff.
17:45And overall, everybody's pleased today.
17:48What did you think of it all, John?
17:49I think even the French at the final whistle didn't seem to bother the fact that they'd lost tonight.
17:55A bit of pride, maybe.
17:57But it's a toss-up between whether or not they want Spain or Yugoslavia in the quarterfinal.
18:02I don't think they're particularly bothered in that respect.
18:04Of course, they will say, the French, they're playing their second team out there.
18:06Well, it was their reserve side after all.
18:08I know the Dutch made one or two changes.
18:10But it's not just England that gives away 2-1 leads, eh?
18:15The winning goal for all the wonderful quality football we saw.
18:18Well, there was some quality about this, but it was direct, wasn't it, to say the least?
18:21Well, it's gone from goalkeeper to straight to Zeman.
18:25I think Karambu got caught a little bit there, fast asleep.
18:29Probably didn't expect it to travel this far.
18:33Didn't get a touch here.
18:35Both Kluivert and Le Boeuf have missed it.
18:38Zeman's nipped in on the back.
18:39And he's, again, he showed he's not just one-footed either.
18:42It was a pretty accurate kick-out, though, by Westerveld, to be fair, wasn't it?
18:45It wasn't just a lob-up in the air, was it?
18:47I saw as the game wore on, Westerveld was receiving back passes, clipping it out to the full-backs.
18:51I mean, even the goalkeeper's got a great touch on the football as well, you know.
18:54But in general, it was a marvellous, marvellous game to show everybody in the world how to play, well, in
19:00Europe, how to play football.
19:02Every time there wasn't one free kick that was launched into the opponent's box,
19:06as soon as it was a free kick, it was hand-on, pass it.
19:08All right, just...
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