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England National Football Team Match No. 688

Sweden 2 England 1 [0-1]

Wednesday, 17 June 1992

Match Summary and Report

 

Match Summary

Status: European Championship1992 Final Tournament Group 1 match, Game Five/Six.
Venue: Råsunda Fotbollstadion, Solna kommun, Stockholms län, capacity 37,285.
Attendance: 30,126
Goals: England - David Platt, 3rd min.
Sweden - Jan Eriksson, 51st min.
Sweden - Tomas Brolin, 82nd min.
Cautions: England - Tony Daley, 10th min.
Sweden - Patrik Andersson, 43rd min.
Sweden - Stefan Schwarz, 69th min.
Sweden - Joachim Bj
örklund, 70th min.
England - Neil Webb, 81st min.
Expulsions: None.
Officials: Referee - José Rosa dos Santos, Portugal.
Linesmen - Valdemar Aguiar Pinto Lopes & Antonio Guedes Gomes de Carvalho, Portugal.
Fourth official - Jorge E. Monteiro Coroado, Portugal.
Conditions: Kickoff 8:15 p.m. local time, 7:15 p.m. BST.
Miscellany: -
Statistics:

Type

Sweden

England

Goal Attempts - -
Attempts on Target - -
Hit Bar/Post - -
Corner Kicks Won - -
Offside Calls Against - -
Fouls Conceded - -
Time of Possession - -
Statistics:

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Sweden Team

Ranking: No FIFA ranking system established; 14th in Elo world ranking before this match and 11th after this match.
Colours: Yellow shirts with 3 broad stripes down left shoulder, blue shorts with 3 broad stripes up right side, yellow stockings; made by adidas.
Coach: Tommy Svensson, 47, appointed 1991.
Captain: Jonas Thern

Sweden Lineup

Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
1-Ravelli, Thomas 13-Aug-1959 32 G IFK Göteborg 91 0 1981-1997
2-Nilsson, N. Roland 27-Nov-1963 28 D Sheffield Wednesday FC, England 46 1 1986-2000
3-Eriksson, Jan 24-Aug-1967 24 D IFK Nörrkoping - - -
4-Andersson, Patrik 18-Aug-1971 20 D Malmö FF 7 0 1992-2002
5-Björklund, Joachim 15-Mar-1971 21 D SK Brann Bergen, Norway - 0 1991-2000
6-Schwarz, Stefan 18-Apr-1969 23 M Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Portugal - - 1989-2001
7-Ingesson, Klas 20-Aug-1968 23 M Yellow Red Koninklijke
VC Mechelen, Belgium
- - 1989-1998
17-Dahlin, Martin N. 16-Apr-1968 24 F VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach, Germany - - 1991-2000
9-Thern, Jonas 20-Mar-1967 25 M Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Portugal - - 1987-1997
10-Limpár, Anders E., sub off 46th min. 24-Sep-1965 26 M Arsenal FC, England - - 1987-1996
11-Brolin, Tomas 29-Nov-1969 22 F AC Parma, Italy - - 1990-1995

Sweden Substitutes

Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
20-Ekström, Jonny, sub on 46th min. for Limpar 05-Mar-1965 27 F IFK Göteborg - - 1986-1995
Formation:

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Substitutes
Not Used:
8-Stefan Rehn, 12-Lars Eriksson, 13-Mikael Nilsson, 14-Magnus Erlingmark, 15-Jan Jansson, 16-Kennet Andersson, 18-Roger Ljung, 19-Joakim Nilsson.

England Team

Ranking: No FIFA ranking system established; 3rd in Elo world ranking before this match and 5th after this match.
Colours: White shirts with navy blue trim, navy blue shorts with white & red trim, white stockings with navy blue tops. - The 1990 "home" Umbro uniform.
Coach: Graham Taylor, 47, appointed 23 July 1990,
24th match, W 13 - D 9 - L 2 - F 34 - A 17.
Captain: Gary Lineker, 18th captaincy.

England Lineup

Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
1-Woods, Christopher C. E. 14-Nov-1959 32 G Sheffield Wednesday FC 34 0 1985-1993
19-Batty, David 02-Dec-1968 23 M Leeds United AFC 10 0 1991-1999
3-Pearce, Stuart 24-Apr-1962 30 D Nottingham Forest FC 50 2 1987-1999
4-Keown, Martin R. 24-Jul-1966 25 D Everton FC 9 1 1992-2002
5-Walker, Desmond S. 26-Nov-1965 26 D Nottingham Forest FC 47 0 1988-1993
12-Palmer, Carlton L. 05-Dec-1965 26 M Sheffield Wednesday FC 7 0 1992-1993
7-Platt, David A. 10-Jun-1966 26 M AS Bari, Italy 32 11 1989-1996
15-Webb, Neil J. 30-Jul-1963 28 M Manchester United FC 26 4 1987-1992
18-Daley, Anthony M. 18-Oct-1967 24 F Aston Villa FC 7 0 1991-1992
10-Lineker, Gary W., sub off 64th min. 30-Nov-1960 31 F Tottenham Hotspur FC 80 48 1984-1992
11-Sinton, Andrew, sub off 79th min. 19-Mar-1966 26 M Queens Park Rangers FC 6 0 1991-1993

England Substitutes

Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
17-Smith, Alan M., sub on 64th min. for Lineker 21-Nov-1962 29 F Arsenal FC 13 2 1988-1992
16-Merson, Paul, sub on 79th min. for Sinton 20-Mar-1968 24 F Arsenal FC 7 1 1991-1998
Formation:

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Substitutes
Not Used:
2-Keith Curle, 8-Trevor Steven, 9-Nigel Clough, 13-Nigel Martyn, 14-Tony Dorigo, 20-Alan Shearer.

Match Report

 

England knew they had to win their final game against the host country, Sweden, in Stockholm to be sure of a place in the semi-finals.  In pursuit of that victory the manager Graham Taylor again made changes introducing Tony Daley, Aston Villa's speedy winger, into his attack and Manchester United's Neil Webb into midfield in the hope of producing a better supply to his strikers.  It was a sound enough intent against the Swedes, who had drawn with France 1-1 and defeated Denmark 1-0 in their earlier matches.

England could not have begun more encouragingly, taking the lead in only the fourth minute of the match with David Platt against the scorer.  Platt, whose move from Bari to Juventus for over £6m had been finalised while he was in Sweden, had been England's only scorer in the four previous internationals, perhaps a pointer to the major problem the side encountered in Sweden.  However, he was there to finish a move that had been begun by Webb, with David Batty heading the ball on and Gary Lineker providing the centre.

The goal stunned the Swedes and it was England's opportunity to take advantage; but once again the second goal that would surely have finished the Swedes didn't come.  There was a wonderful chance in the 34th minute when Daley was freed down the right flank by Platt.  It seemed all he had to do was roll the ball into Lineker's path, but yet again the final ball was a poor one.  The chances came, Daley wasting a header and Andy Sinton shooting wide, but at half-time England still held that slenderest of advantages.  The fears were confirmed in the second half when the Swedes came out a transformed side.

Jan Eriksson, who had been a Tottenham trialist earlier in the year, headed his second goal of the tournament, almost a replica of his first against France.  It was now the Swedes who gained in strength and they used that physical edge to overwhelm England,  A winner threatened, and when it came it was a fine sweeping move between Martin Dahlin and Tomas Brolin with Parma's Brolin supplying the final touch.  There was no coming back for England who seemed mentally and physically drained.  The Swedes, who are fed a weekly diet of English soccer, had beaten the country they learned from at their own game. - The F.A. England Year 1992-93, Stanley Paul & Co Ltd, London, 1992, pages 22 & 23.

England's European championship challenge ended with a depressing defeat by Sweden, who were allowed back into the game after David Platt had scored an early goal. Tony Daley missed two opportunities to make the game safe before Sweden gradually took control following the half-time substitution of Anders Limpar by the veteran Johnny Ekstrom and a change of tactics that had England's defenders completely bewildered. Jan Eriksson headed an equaliser in the fifty-first minute, and as England struggled to contain the suddenly buoyant Swedes Graham Taylor made the controversial decision to call off skipper Gary Lineker for Alan Smith. Lineker had fired his final shots for England after eighty caps and still a goal short of Bobby Charlton's all-time record. England, needing a win to book a place in the semi-finals, were being exposed to the perils of panic, and it was the Swedes who  conjured the goal that mattered seven minutes from the end when the gifted Tomas Brolin exchanged passes with Dahlin before firing in the winner. The media roof now fell in on Graham Taylor, who was depicted on the back page of The Sun newspaper as a Turnip head – and ever since he has been haunted by the nickname. 'Taylor the Turnip.' In the weeks following England's exit stories emerged that revealed a huge split between Taylor and his skipper Lineker had been damaging the team spirit during the European championships. - Norman Giller

 

Source Notes

 

The Official Teamsheet was used in determining the line-ups and Officials details.
www.fussballdaten.de was used to determine birthdates.

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