From: dvlkhh@cs.umu.se
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: WC qualifier: France-Austria
Date: 15 Oct 1992 19:37:43 -0500
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    WC 1994 Qualifier, European Group 6:
    Played the 14th of October 1992
    At Parc des Princes, Paris

         FRANCE              2         AUSTRIA             0 :-) :-)
           Jean-Pierre Papin '3
           Eric Cantona '76
         Att.: 39186

         Referee: Vadim Zjuk (Russia)
                                     
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    FRANCE:

                   	Martini(1)

			Sauzee(5) 
              Boli(4)		   Casoni(6)

Sassus(2)	        Deschamps(7)		Durand(3)

	      Fournier(8)            Gravelaine(10)
              (Gnako '60)             (Vahirua '75)

              Papin(9)		    Cantona(11)


                        Polster(9)

(Pfeifenberger '77)
Stoeger(11)             Artner(8)           Herzog(10)

                                          (Ogris '45)
Feiersinger(2)          Baur(6)           Schinkels(7)

              Streiter(3)          Wazinger(4)
                        Zsak(5)

                        Wohlfahrt(1)

    AUSTRIA:

    As you see, Gerard Houillier had picked an offensive squad for this
match. Alain Roche should have played libero, but got injured on training,
Tuesday and Franck Sauzee had to play the unnormal position. Caen striker
Xavier Gravelaine got his first cap along with Jean-Luc Sassus of Paris-Saint-
Germain. Eric Cantona who have played well with Leeds, agreed to play for the
National Team again and that was indeed positive. Since Karel got 10 correct
in the Austrian Line-up, I suppose Happel had his best team on the pitch. :-)
    Les Bleus stormed forward from start and created a chance with Eric
Cantona in the first minute. The next attack saw the first goal, Xavier 
Gravelaine gave the ball to Canto who gave Jean-Pierre Papin one of these balls
that allows him to show his world class, 1-0 :-) France had two goals 
disallowed later in the half. 
The first, another through ball from Cantona to Papin, but the Milan star
used his hand according to the referee. The second called-off goal came after
a nice move by Eric Cantona, and Didier Deschamps put it home, the linesman
said that Canto's ball had passed the line before it went in :-(
    Wohlfahrt saved excellently on a freekick from Franck Sauzee and 
the visitors didn't show any class at all, the score should have been
3-0, at least at the break. After the interval, France wasn't really as
sharp, even if they had another freekick saved by the keeper and a string
of more attacks. Polster had a few breakaways, but the French defence was
never really tested. Ziad's friend Jerry Gnako substituted a bleak Laurent
Fournier and later on, Xavier Gravelaine was substituted after a good debut
by Pascal Vahirua. It was Jerome Gnako who set up the second goal, he gave
Pascal Vahirua the ball and the Auxerrois hit a lovely touch to Cantona
who drove home the second. The Russian referee made it again, give away a cheap
penalty on a foul on Papin by Wohlfahrt, don't know if it should have been or
not. (Remember that this same Zjuk _gave_ Sweden a penalty against Finland one
month ago). It was really a lousy penalty taken by Papin, it was actually 
awful, I don't want to remember where it ended up :-( 
    Overall, France was clearly the better side and should have scored more
than just twice, a 4-0 score-line would have reflected the game. Gravelaine,
Cantona, Papin looked sharper than earlier this season and this was actually
the first victory for Les Bleus in this year of 1992! Hopefully more victories
to come when France take on the Finns the 14th of November. Hopefully, the
players got back some the lost self-confidence and will run riot then :-)
    Sweden are running the group with Bulgaria a close second, France are the
third contender. Israel is the dark horse, have still to play their first game.


    U-21 Qualifier:

         FRANCE              6         AUSTRIA             1 :-) :-)
           Ouedec '8-p.k.                '44-o.g.
           Pedros '12
           Nouma '33
           CHRISTOPHE DUGARRY '41
           CHRISTOPHE DUGARRY '55
           Vairelles '77
         Att.: 2500

    YES! It's true, our own Christophe Dugarry got two, hope he does the same
at Geoffroy-Guichard on Saturday! Two Nantes players, Nicolas Ouedec and
Reynald Pedros got the two first and Pascal Nouma and Denis Vairelles
completed the scoring.

Kent...
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| Kent Hedlundh             | Les Girondins pour une place Europeene en 1993! |
| Dept. of Computer Science | France and Sweden for the WC'94!                |
| University of Umea        | All the best for my friends teams!              |
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