From: atena@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Arturo Tena-Colunga)
Subject: Denmark performance in the olympics...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:48:14 GMT


      In article "Re: denmark vs ghana" rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper 
Lauridsen) writes :
  

>halvard@trd.sdata.no (Halvard Halvorsen) writes:
>
>
>>from the glimpses we had on norwegian TV last night it looked like 
>>Ghana should have taken this one. lots of great chances with players
>>being alone with the danish goalkeeper. it looked like ghana had some
>>really fast players - denmark had a shot in the bar (deflected free kick).
>>i hope Ghana go through - they played some very attractive soccer in this one 
>>ahh - and the danish goalie was excellent - specially in one on one situations.
>
>The match was so that Denmark had many attacks while Ghana had fewer but more
>dangerous attacks. So in a 3 minute highlights show Ghana would look a lot
>better than Denmark. Again in this match Denmark had some good chances in
>the start of the halves - after 5 minutes Molnar had a very big chance,
>but instead of shooting direct on goal (goalkeeper would have been chance
>less) he decided to shoot in an angle of 45 degrees and thus hitting a
>white shirt instead.


      Is it just my impression or is Jesper watching the Denmark games
with a special-colored glasses? :-> I mean, I have read the reports of
many other posters in different newsgroups about the games of Denmark,
and I don't know how, but according to Jesper, Denmark played better 
(but looked other way to the REST of fans :->  :->  ) Patriotic bias 
maybe?  :-> 

>Ghana proved themselves to be much better than Mexico and really shouldn't
>have any problems advancing. 

      Mexico proveed to be a better side than Denmark in their game 
according to other reports (well, not Jesper's :-> ). In any case,  
Roger Rios has already pass the report of the Mexico vs Ghana game
and the score was :

            Mexico      1  Ghana  1
            Rotllan 30'    Ayeu 83'

      As a matter of fact, the game seemed to be entertaining as
Mexico saved one Ghana's opoortunity in the goal line BUT Ghana 
was saved twice by the posts :-(  ;-(  Mexicans missed other scoring
opportunities. The Mexican goal was a beauty while *our golie* cost
us the game as he made a lousy mistake again! |-\  Mexico looked 
better than Ghana, who were close to be eliminated. Instead, we were
eliminated thanks to the great performance of the all-mighty Danish
team that lost against Australia :

      Australia 3    Denamark 0

      Well, I am sure Denmark was the better side again, but you know,
somehow Australia cheated so they could win... :->

>Denmark was playing better than against Mexico
>and should be able to send Australia back home.

      Well...    :->


      Final Standings  :

               G W T L  GF GA  P 
     Ghana     3 1-2-0  4  2   4    
     Australia 3 1-1-1  5  4   3
     Mexico    3 0-3-0  3  3   3
     Denmark   3 0-2-4  1  4   2

     Although it hurts to see Mexico eliminated by a lousy mistake of
our golie Guadarrama, I want to congratulate both the Aussies and 
the Ghanans for their effort. They deserved to advance by taking 
advantages of the opportunities they got. Mexico just didn't have 
a consistent golie (Bernal is back home :-(  ), and lacked an incisive
forward, as Luis Garcia, now property of Atletico de Madrid was never 
called, and Pedro Pineda was injured by the "fair" play of the Danish
team...

      The Mexican team played well during the tournament, being trailing
only in the game against Australia where they played well also. Being
this the same team that lost against the USA in the preolimpic, and
having Mexico their best under-23 players out of the team (Luis Garcia,
Bernal, Suarez, Castillo, Cordoba, etc), I can only feel optimistic 
for the chances of Mexico to qualify for the 1994 WC. 

      And for all those europeans that used to look down Concacaf teams,
just watch the performance of the USA and Mexico. Although neither team
advanced, both teams were very close, played good football and left a good
impression, -despite of not having their best players in the team- 
(Mexico).

>Jesper Lauridsen      | Bramming Boldklub - eh ...
>rorschak@daimi.aau.dk |
>      Glasgow Rangers - AC Milan - FC Barcelona


      Cheers!


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