Conference trucks::football;1

    Yesterday Portugal won the game against Finland. Final score was 1 for
    Portugal and 0 for Finland. This was the first game for the qualifying
    with the new trainer Carlos Queiroz. The team production was not the
    best, but it seems some good work is being done to improve things. I
    personally believe that Queiroz will make this team as sucessful as he
    did with other younger teams he has coached in the last years
    (Worldchampions and European Champions). Futre was at his best and the
    qualifying is still possible. 
    
    Regards,
    
    RUI
    

    Portugal 1:0 Finland
    
    I believe this result places Portugal at the top of the table, for now,
    anyway....
    
    JC

    ....and Cecar Brito scored the only goal after 22 minutes. This puts
    the pressure on Holland, who got a lucky draw last night agaist Poland
    (Bergkamp scored the equalizer in the last minute).

    Portugal and Holland are dead even. They each have 2 games left, with
    the BIG one against each other in Holland. They also each play Greece.
    

    
    Finland		Greece
    
       1		  1
    
    50' Ukkonen		74' Tsalouchidis
    
    

last night Holland played Portugal at home (Rotterdam) and won 1-0 by a goal
from Barcelona player Witschge. Holland are now virtual in Sweden only needing
a point against the Greece in December and they could even loose 'cause the
goal diff is much better. 

Sweden here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

T_

	
    >> 		...Holland are now virtual in Sweden only needing a point
    >> 		against the Greece in December and they could even loose 
    >>		'cause the goal diff is much better.
    
    >> 		Sweden here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Well, don't be too sure. A win for Greece against Portugal means a
    direct group-final, and if that one ends up in a draw, it depends on
    how many goals Greece manage to score against Malta. It can be a very
    nervous chrismas time for all you dutch supporters... 
    
    Holland		7  5  1  1	15 -  2	   11
    ---------------------------------------------
    Portugal		7  4  1  2	10 -  4	    9
    Greece		5  3  1  1	10 -  5     7
    Finland		8  1  4  3	 5 -  8     6
    Malta		7  0  1  6	 1 - 22	    1

    Remaining games;

    20-nov-1991		Portugal	- Greece
    04-dec-1991		Greece		- Holland
    22-dec-1991		Malta		- Greece
    
    Mats

    Does anybody know the result of the Portugal - Greece match???
    
    An anxious Dutch supporter.

    It's nice to live at the Cote d'azur but.... you miss the football. So
    could anybody tell the score between Portugal and Greece?
    
    A Dutch guy in France,
    
    Wout

Rep on last two

Portugal 1  Greece 0

Good to see that there are still Dutchmen around in this conference!

T_

    Does that mean that Greece have blown it? Shame....

    yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssss
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Holland qualified for Sweden, unless the lose very big against Greece,
    
    
    
    Sweden here we come, ole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    

rep last 2

Holland only needs a draw against Greece and that would set us up for
Sweden, so let's say it's 90% sure that we go!

I saw parts of the game last night as it was broadcasted life on RTL-4,
the Greece looked very poor and Portugal dominated the game, watching
the game you would figure that Portugal was the side needing the points
to qualify and not Greece.

T_

    Why do we need a draw against Greece
    
    Rob
    

  <<< Note 29.14 by BONNET::ZIJL "I think I can, I think I can,.....,I did" >>>
                             -< draw???????????? >-

>>    Why do we need a draw against Greece
    
>>    Rob
  
"cause we have only one game to play and the Greece have two, if they beat us
they need to win the last match by large numbers and something simulair
happened in the early 80's, when Spain got something of a 13-0 win and 
qualified on goal-difference, so we need the point.

T_  

    You're right, I didn't think about that, just like Dutch coach Rijvers
    when Spain were playing Malta and he was playing cards (13 -1)

    
    Let's just for fun (?) say that greece will do the impossible and beat
    Holland by 4-0. The standings will be
    
    Holland	8   5   1   2	15 - 6	  11
    Greece	7   4   1   2   14 - 6     9
    
    A 1-0 win for Greece against Malta and they are threw (4-0 home vs. 2-0
    in Holland). 
    
    A win for Greece by an odd goal (f.ex. 1-0) and it looks like this;
    
    Holland	8   5   1   2   15 - 3    11
    Greece      7   4   1   2   11 - 6     9
    
    Greece then needs to beat Malta by a margin of 8 goals. As said,
    remember Spain-Malta...
    
    Don't worry, we wan't you here in Sweden next summer!!! To see such
    good players like Van Basten, Gullit, Rijkards and Koeman in the same
    team, is top-football to me. So just put in that little extra effort on
    4 December, and you all can buy your chrismas present in peace and
    quiet, and put that Dutch-Swedish parleur on your wishinglist.
    
    Mats

    Thanks for the positive update Mats,
    
    Rob

    Does anyone (any frenchman) know if the match between Greece and
    Holland will be transmitted on television, or is there maybe a resume
    later in the evening,
    
    Thanks,
    
    Rob

    addition to 19:
    
    I mean of course Fench television

    
    Greece 0  Holland 2
    
              Bergkamp
              Blind
    
    Sweden here we come!
    
    T_

    Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa........!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    At last, we're sure of going to Sweden. Thanks for the information
    Ton, it was really the first thing I looked at coming into the office.
    Let's defend the title!!!!!!
    
    How was the game by the way???
    
    Rob

Rob,

When I came home at six the second half just started, we were already leading
1-0 by a goal from Dennis Bergkamp in 40th minute. Holland controlled the game
but Greece had a few small changes, but with only few minutes to go a Dutch
attack started at the own goal, five Dutch players touched the ball and it 
was in the Greece net, a falling header by Danny Blind. I later saw the first
half and I must admit it looked very shaky, specailly the defence.

Ruud Gullit didn't play, he was on the pitch during the warming up but the
ankle injury started playing up again and he decided not to play leaving
Rinus Michels very p*ssed.

T_

    Holland meet Germany, former USSR (CIS) and Scotland in Sweden. Rather
    a tough group, but there is an advantage. If we make it to the semi
    finals, and with such a side as ours this is possible, we won't meet
    Germany there.
    
    Rob