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England National Football Team Match No. 449

Wednesday, 25 November 1970

England 3 East Germany 1 [2-1]

Match Summary and Report

Francis Lee skirts sprawling East German keeper Jürgen  Croy as he prepares to fire home England's first goal.

 

Match Summary
Status: Friendly match.
Venue: Empire Stadium, Wembley, London, England, capacity 100,000.
Attendance: 93,000.
Goals: England - Francis Lee, 12 mins.
England - Martin Peters, 21 mins.
East Germany - Eberhard Vogel, 27 mins.
England - Allan Clarke, 63 mins.
Cautions: Apparently none.
Expulsions: None.
Officials: Referee - Rudolf Scheurer, Switzerland.
Linesmen - Not known.
Match observer - Not known.
Conditions: Not known.
Statistics: Not known.

England
Ranking:

No official ranking system established; placed 3rd in the Elo system world ranking before this match and 2nd after it; eliminated in the quarterfinals of the World Cup 1970 final tournament in México, ranking 8th; finished 3rd at the European Championship 1968 final tournament in Italy.

Colours: White shirts, navy blue shorts, white stockings.
Lineup: Player Age Pos Club App G Career
1-Shilton, Peter L. 21 G

Leicester City FC

 1 1GA 1970-90 - 125/___ GA
2-Hughes, Emlyn W. 23 RB Liverpool FC 7 0 1969-80 - 62/1
3-Cooper, Terence 26 LB Leeds United AFC 13 0 1969-74 - 20/0
4-Mullery, Alan P. 29 M Tottenham Hotspur  FC 32 1 1964-71 - 35/1
5-Sadler, David 24 CD Manchester United FC 4 0 1967-70 - 4/0
6-Moore, Robert F. C. 30 CD West Ham United FC 85 2 1962-73 - 108/2
7-Lee, Francis H. 26 F Manchester City FC 18 7 1968-72 - 27/10
8-Ball, Alan J. 25 M Everton FC 46 7 1965-75 - 72/8
9-Hurst, Geoffrey C. 28 F West Ham United FC 42 21 1966-72 - 49/24
10-Clarke, Allan J. 24 F Leeds United AFC 2 2 1970-75 - 19/10
11-Peters, Martin S. 29 M Tottenham Hotspur FC 43 16 1966-74 - 67/20
Substitutes: None.
Substitutes
Not Used:		 Not known.
Captain: Bobby Moore, 67th of 90 captaincies.
Coach: Alf Ramsey, appointed 25 October 1962 effective 1 May 1963, but taking charge beginning with the match of 27 February 1963, before the appointment became formally effective,  84th match, W 53 - D 19 - L 12 - F 175 - A  79.
Formation: 4-3-3:
Peter Shilton -
Emlyn Hughes, David Sadler, Bobby Moore, Terry Cooper
Alan Ball, Alan Mullery, Martin Peters -
Francis Lee, Allan Clarke, Geoff Hurst.

East Germany
Ranking:

No official ranking system established;  placed  6th in the Elo system world ranking both before and after this match; failed to qualify for the World Cup 1970 final tournament  in Mèxico; failed to qualify for the European Championship 1968 final tournament in Italy.
Colours: Blue shirts with white trim;, white shorts, blue stockings.
Lineup: Player Age Pos Club App G Career
Croy, Jürgen 24 G

BSG Motor/Sachsenring Zwickau

 18 - 1967-81 - 94/__ GA
Rock, Peter 28 D FC Carl Zeiss Jena 10 1 1967-71 - 11/1
Kurbjuweit, Lothar 20 D FC Carl  Zeiss Jena 6 0 1970-81 - 66/4
Sammer, Klaus 27 D SG Dynamo Dresden 3 0 1970-73 - 17/0
Ganzera, Frank 23 D SG Dynamo Dresden 4 0 1969-73 - 13/0
Strempel, Michael, sub off 79 mins. 26 M FC Carl Zeiss Jena 6 1 1970-71 - 15/1
Stein, Helmut 28 M FC Carl Zeiss Jena 13 1 1962--73 - 22/3
Irmscher, Harald 24 M FC Carl Zeiss Jena 19 3 1966-74 - 41/4
Kreische, Hans-Jürgen 23 M SG Dynamo Dresden 14 11 1968-75 - 50/25
Ducke, Peter 29 F FC Carl Zeiss Jena 31 13 1960-75 - 68/15
Vogel, Eberhard 27 F FC Carl Zeiss Jena 35 14 1962-76 - 74/25
Substitutes: Player Age Pos Club App G Career
Frenzel, Henning, sub on 79 mins. for Strempel 28 M

SC Lokomotiv Leipzig

 44 16 1961-74 - 56/19
Substitutes
Not Used:		 Not known.
Captain: Peter Ducke, 2nd of 2 captaincies.
Coach: Georg Buschner, 44, born 26 December 1925, appointed coach 1 July 1970, 5th match, W 4 - D 0 - L 1 - F 17 - A 3. 
Career:  Served until 20 October 1981, P 101 - W 53 - D 27 - L 21 - F ___ - A ___.
Formation: 1-3-4-2  sweeper system:
Jürgen Croy -
Peter Rock -
Lothar Kurbjuweit, Klaus Sammer, Frank Ganzera -
Michael Strempel/Henning Frenzel, Helmut Stein, Harald Irmscher, Hans-Jürgen Kreische -
Peter Ducke, Eberhard Vogel.

Match Report

 

Allan Clarke puts in England's third goal after latching on to Francis Lee's pass.

[Match report to come.]

 

Source Notes

   

Consistent with the practice prevailing until the end of the 20th century, the Deutscher Fußball-Verband, the football association of the German Democratic Republic, popularly known as East Germany, recognised Olympic Games qualifying and final tournament matches played by its senior side against the senior sides of other nations as constituting official internationals.  But in 1999, FIFA, in consultation with the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), retroactively removed official status from all  Olympic Games matches played since 1950.  We have questioned this retroactive desanctification of matches elsewhere.  Our team and player records, like those of most reputable sources, reflect matches deemed official under the accepted practice of the time at which they were played.

Bowler, Dave, "Winning Isn’t Everything ...": A Biography of Sir Alf Ramsey, p. 266 (Victor Gollancz, Cassell Group, London, 1998)

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Deutscher Fußball-Bund,  DDR-Fußball

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Olenev, Maxim, DDR National Team coaches (1952-1990) ((Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Archive 15 July 1999)

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Rollin, Jack, Rothmans Book of Football Records, p. 296 (Headline Book Publishing, London, 1998)

This Is Wembley website, Match 113, England v. East Germany (downloaded 2 October 2000)

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