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Match No. 602 vs. Mexico Match No. 604 vs. U.S.A. Match Results

 

England National Football Team Match No. 603

England 3 West Germany 0 [1-0]

Wednesday, 12 June 1985

Match Summary and Report

 

Match Summary
Status: Azteca 2000 Tournament match.
Venue: Estadio Azteca, México City, México, capacity 110,574.
Attendance: 8,000.
Goals: England - Bryan Robson, 34 mins.
England - Kerry Dixon, 54 mins.
England - Kerry Dixon, 67 mins.
Cautions: None.
Expulsions: None.
Officials: Referee - J. Leanza, México.
Linesmen - Not known.
Conditions: Kickoff 2 p.m.; extreme heat and smog, altitude 7,350 feet.
Statistics: Not known.

England
Ranking:

No official ranking system established.  Eliminated in second group phase at World Cup 1982 final tournament; failed to qualify for 1984 European Championship final tournament.

Colours: Red shirts, white shorts with red and blue trim on sides, red stockings.
Lineup: Player Age Pos Club App G Career
1-Shilton, Peter L. 35 G

Southampton FC

 72 0 125/0 1970-1990
2-Stevens, M. Gary 22 RB Everton FC 2 0 46/0 1985-1992
3-Sansom, Kenneth G. 26 LB Arsenal FC 55 1 86/1 1979-1988
4-Hoddle, Glenn 27 M Tottenham Hotspur FC 24 6 53/8 1979-1988
5-Wright, Mark 21 CD Southampton FC 8 0 45/1 1984-1996
6-Butcher, Terence I. 26 CD Ipswich Town FC 34 2 77/3 1980-1990
7-Robson, Bryan, sub off ___ min. 28 M Manchester United FC 46 15 90/26 1980-1991
8-Reid, Peter 28 M Everton FC 2 0 13/0 1985-1988
9-Dixon, Kerry M. 23 F Chelsea FC 2 2 8/4 1985-1986
10-Lineker, Gary W., sub off ___ min. 24 F Leicester City FC 6 1 80/48 1984-1992
11-Waddle, Christopher R. 24 M Newcastle United FC 7 0 62/6 1985-1991
Substitutes: Player Age Pos Club App G Career
Bracewell, Paul W., sub on ___ min. for Robson 22 M

Everton FC

 1 0 3/0 1985
Barnes, John C. B., sub on ___ min. for Lineker 21 F Watford FC 22 3 79/11 1983-1995
Substitutes
Not Used:		 Not known.
Captain: Bryan Robson, 22nd of 63 captaincies.
Coach: Robert W. Robson, ___ match.
Formation: 4-4-2:
Shilton -
Stevens, Butcher, Sansom, Wright -
Hoddle, Robson [Bracewell], Waddle, Reid -
Lineker [Barnes], Dixon.

West Germany
Ranking:

No official ranking system established.  Runners-up at World Cup 1982 final tournament; eliminated in group stage of European Championship 1984 final tournament.
Colours: White shirts with black trim, black shorts, white stockings with three black stripes at top.
Lineup: Player Age Pos Club App G Career
1-Schumacher, Harald 31 G

1. FC Köln

 60 0 76/0 1979-1986
2-Berthold, Thomas 20 D Eintracht Frankfurt 6 1 62/1 1985-1994
3-Herget, Matthias 29 D SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen 13 1 39/4 1983-1988
4-Jakobs, Ditmar 31 D Hamburger SV 9 1 20/1 1980-1986
5-Augenthaler, Klaus 27 D FC Bayern München 5 0 27/0 1983-1990
6-Brehme, Andreas 24 D 1. FC Kaiserslautern 15 1 86/8 1984-1994
7-Matthäus, Lothar 24 M FC Bayern München 34 1 150/23 1980-2000
8-Magath, Felix, sub off 60 mins. 22 M Hamburger SV 32 3 43/3 1977-1986
9-Rahn, Uwe 23 M Vfl Borussia Mönchengladbach 6 4 14/5 1984-1987
10-Littbarski, Pierre, sub off 73 mins. 25 F 1. FC Köln 34 12 73/18 1981-1990
11-Mill, Frank 26 F Vfl Borussia Mönchengladbach 6 0 17/0 1982-1990
Substitutes: Player Age Pos Club App G Career
Thon, Olaf, sub on 60 mins. for Magath 19 M

FC Schalke 04

 6 0 52/3 1984-1998
Waas, Herbert, sub on 73 mins. for Littbarski 21 F TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen 6 0 11/1 1983-1988
Substitutes
Not Used:		 Not known.
Captain: Harald Schumacher, 4th of 11 captaincies.  Schumacher also took the captain's armband in three matches in which starting captain Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was replaced by a substitute.
Coach: Franz Beckenbauer, 
Formation: 5-3-2 with full use of overlapping fullbacks [3-5-2]:
Schumacher -
Berthold, Herget, Jakobs, Augenthaler, Brehme -
Matthäus, Magath [Thon], U. Rahn -
Littbarski [Waas], Mill.

Match Report

 

[To come.]

For once heat and altitude worked in England's favour.  The West German squad arrived in México City only two days before their meeting with England and had insufficient time to acclimatize to the 8,000-foot altitude and temperatures approaching 100° F accompanied by severe smog.  England, on the other hand, had arrived more than a week before and had two matches at Azteca stadium against Italy and México under their belt already.

Shilton made the only penalty kick save of his career, against Andreas Brehme, who got his revenge at the World Cup in 1990.

 

Source Notes

 

[To come.]

Both Mike Payne, in England: The Complete Post-War Record, p. 263 (1993), and the Deutscher Fussball-Bund [German football association] website have the attendance at England's match with West Germany as 8,000, but Ron Hockings & Keir Radnedge, in Nations of Europe, vol. 1, p. 198 (1993), put it at 10,000.