Football game France - FRG (1982)

The July 8th 1982, to the Stage Sánchez Pizjuán of Seville (Spain), in front of 70.000 spectators, the semi-final of the Football world cup of 1982 opposes the France to the FRG.

Traditional opposition of style between the tactical and physical rigor on the one hand and the technical and offensive play on the other hand, this match became one of the legendary meetings of the history of the World cup.

Reference mark

  • After one starts puffing competition (marked in particular by a defeat without call against the England with Bilbao), France is rise to power throughout the tournament. Qualified accuracy for the second hen phase, the Blue ones are left their hen then easily to three (victories against the Austria and the Northern Ireland) thus reaching their first world semi-final since 1958.
  • the performance of FRG east also grown louder and louder in this tournament. Beaten as of its first match by the Algeria with the general surprise, FRG started again itself by crushing the Chile, then qualified itself without glory for the second round at the conclusion of a not-match against the Austrian neighbor , the score of 1-0 in favor of FRG sufficient to qualify the two teams with the detriment of Algeria. To the second round, FRG left itself a very difficult group, obtaining no one against England, before beating and thus eliminating the Spain in residence. Against the Blue ones, Mannschaft leaves favorite.
  • This match promises the opposition of two styles almost diametrically opposite. Of a coast the German rigor is characterized by great physical qualities, very effective increase of balloons, mental with any test. Other French makes foresee an overflowing football of imagination, of spontaneousness. But it is not whereas about a promising team which does not believe yet sufficiently in her chances.

Break into leaf of the match

  • -: 3-3 (1-1)
  • July 8th 1982 - Stage Sánchez Pizjuán of Seville, in front of 70.000 spectators
  • Referee: Mr. Corver Netherlands
  • Goals: Platini (27 '), Treasure (93 '), Giresse (99 ') for France > Littbarski (18 '), Rumenigge (103 '), Fischer (108 ') for FRG

Composition of the teams

Team of France 50e, (Patrick Battiston - 22e selection

60e, Christian Lopez - 38e selection

National sport selector: Michel Hidalgo

After having tested various tactical installations since the beginning of the competition, Michel Hidalgo chooses the same diagram of play as that inaugurated at the time of the preceding match against Northern Ireland. He aligns a medium ground with very offensive vocation, in which one finds three players that one can describe as “leaders of play”, with Platini, Genghini and Giresse, to which untiring but also very technical Jean Tigana is added. The magic square was born. Actually, the animation of the play is especially entrusted to Platini and Giresse, Genghini evolving/moving with dimensions of Tigana in a role of relay runner medium.

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97e, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge - 74e, Horst Hrubesch -

An absence of size in team of West Germany to the kickoff, that of the attacker Rummenigge, wounded with the thigh and incompetent to hold his place.

Evolution of the score

  • FRG 1 - 0 France: Pierre Littbarski (18th) Balloon which slips by between the legs of Ettori after being pushed back by this last.
  • FRG 1 - 1 France: Michel Platini (27e s.p.), penalty (for lack of B. Förster which girdles Rocheteau in surface following a handing-over of the head of Platini)
  • FRG 1 - 2 France: Marius Treasure (93e), taken again of flown to 8 m in the axis of a blow frankly drawn by Giresse deviated by the mini German wall in extreme cases right from the penalty area.
  • FRG 1 - 3 France: Alain Giresse (99e), taken again to 18 m in the axis of a side master key of Six on the left.
  • FRG 2 - 3 France: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (103e), after two consecutive faults not whistled on the French attackers increase of the fast balloon: Rummenigge in front of Janvion and beats Ettori.
  • FRG 3 - 3 France: Klaus Fischer (108e) center of Littbarski, handing-over of the head of Hrubesch and turned over lifting of Fischer whom Ettori lobe and petrifies the French defenders.

Shootings with the goal

  • Alain Giresse 1-0
  • Manfred Kaltz 1-1
  • Manual Amoros 2-1
  • Paul Breitner 2-2
  • Dominique Rocheteau 3-2
  • Ulrich Stielike 3-2 (missed)
  • Didier Six 3-2 (missed)
  • Pierre Littbarski 3-3
  • Michel Platini 4-3
  • Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 4-4
  • Maxime Bossis 4-4 (missed)
  • Hrubesch Horst 4-5

Account of the match

First balanced period

As of the kickoff, the Germans put the pressure on timorés French, even complexed. The powerful rises of Paul Breitner, succeed the series of dribble of their intolerable winger of pocket Pierre Littbarski, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right. Author of a blow-franc which is crushed on the transverse bar of Jean-Luc Ettori (17th minute), Littbarski opens the mark logically a few moments later by taking again by far a balloon pushed back by Ettori who had left beforehand in the feet Klaus Fischer, launched by far by Breitner. 1-0 for Germany

By no means disturbed by the German opening of the score, the French react and start to raise their level of play. Playing more and more low, the Germans multiply the faults. A full frankly drawn blow centers by Giresse finds the head of Platini, who given on Rocheteau, which is coarsely retained by the size by Bernhardt Forster in the 16 meters. The referee, Mr Corver indicates without hesitating the point of penalty. Penalty that Michel Platini transforms of a powerful striking drawn with ground short-nap cloth as to his practice (27e). 1-1

Increasingly pressing, the French make the seat of the German penalty area, without arriving to truly worrying the German gatekeeper Harald Toni Schumacher, which, very aggressive, is distinguished by multiplying the faults on the French players.

Second period: the aggression of Schumacher

Of return of the cloakrooms, French takes the things in hands marking a goal by Dominique Rocheteau, refused for a litigious off-side. Then they undergo a large disappointment with the exit on wound of Bernard Genghini, touched with ankle following a contact with the libero German Stielike. Evolving/moving in the middle of ground, Genghini is replaced by Patrick Battiston, back side of nature, but replaced for the circumstance in the medium. This re-entry of Battiston is not far from being decisive. As of its entry concerned, it is characterized by a remote striking. Then, a few minutes launched later, perfectly by a luminous opening of Michel Platini, Battiston is presented only vis-a-vis the German guard Harald Schumacher, left to its meeting. The lobed shooting of Battiston misses little the framework, but Schumacher continues its race, and comes to strike Battiston with a rare violence. Lying unconscious on the lawn, Battiston is evacuated out of the ground on a stretcher accompanied by his/her friend Michel Platini. During this time the referee Mr. Corver is satisfied to order a handing-over concerned in favor of the German team making itself partly responsible for one of the greatest injustices of the history of the World cup.

The French, revolted, still raise tone their level of play, dominating outrageusement a team of Germany, increasingly feverish while the public of the stage Sanchez Pizjuan, which hoots Schumacher with each one of its interventions, takes makes and causes for the offensive football of the Blue ones. They then will carry out a second half-time of any beauty sweeping the doubts that one could have in their connection. But often awkward in the 16 meters, the French attackers are unable to concretize their many occasions and to take the ascending one in the display board.

The last minute of the prescribed time is marked by the violent remote striking of side French Manuel Amoros who is crushed on the transverse bar of Schumacher. But in the stops of play, the Germans remember to the good memory of all by a cross shooting which obliges Ettori to carry out a spectacular parade in two times.

Prolongations

The prolongation begins perfectly for France. In position of center-forward, the French hitchkiker Marius Trésor begins again of stolen a frankly excentré blow and gives the advantage to Blue (93e). Always also offensive, the Blue ones continue to break by waves on German defense. With the 99e minute, been useful in withdrawal by Didier Six, Alain Giresse strips a striking of the limit of surface. The ball strikes the post before returning in the German cage. The image of joy of Giresse running the drunk of happiness a such désarticulé puppet will remain forever fixed like one great moment of French football. To 3-1, the Blue ones seem to open the road towards the first final of their history, but only four minutes after the goal of Giresse, whereas the Blue ones always continue to camp in the 16 German meters, a first fault of Forster on Giresse not whistled then a second on Platini, makes it possible to the German players to counter-attack: the German attacker Rummenigge, just sunken concerned, reduced the score (103e) by taking again of a reverse of the left foot a center in front of the goal. The re-entry concerned of Rummenigge poses obviously a true problem with Blue, incompetents to adapt their organization to the offensive reinforcement of the Germans. The match changes heart suddenly. From now on, in fact the German offensives multiply while the French appear overflowed. Confirmation as of starts second period of the prolongations when Fischer, dissociated in the French penalty area, tears off the equalization of superb turned over lifting (108e). The end of the prolongation turns to the martyrdom for the Blue ones, but the score does not change any more. For the first time of the history of the Football world cup, a match will be played shootings with the goal.

The outcome

Giress, which openly turns the back on Schumacher before springing, is the first player to be drawn… and to mark. The captain Manfred Kaltz answers him. Amoros machônne its chewing gum, takes two steps of dash and with an exceptional cold blood finds the attic window of Schumacher. It is then with the turn of the Breitner veteran not to tremble. Rocheteau registers the third French shooting, before Stielike does not fail vis-a-vis Ettori. German is then broken down and recroqueville on him even. The realizer of Spanish television is still fixed on Stielike, in tears in the arms of Littbarski, when Six fails in its turn. Six collapses in the same way that Stielieke did it. While registering its shooting, Littbarski thus gives the two teams to equality. After Platini and Rummenigge, it is with the turn of Maxime Bossis to spring. Its striking, pushed back by Schumacher, offers a match point to Germany, match point that Horst Hrubesch is given the responsability to transform into victory, sending Mannschaft finally

A few days later, the French incline 3-2 against the Poland for the 3rd place while the Germans are dominated 3-1 by the Italy.

Quotations

“No film in the world, no part could transmit as many contradictory currents, as many emotions as the lost semi-final of Seville. ” Michel Platini

“Seville is separately. Me, I definitively arrange it in the imaginary museum of football. In fifty years, the children will be still given some to heart joy. They will be hustled in front of the images, in order to observe what a defeat can have of imposing when the battle field is with the height. In a certain way, Seville is not even any more one missed appointment. It is a combat solidified in the history of the sport. ”
Pierre-Louis Basse extracts from his book Seville 82

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