DAY FIVE
Thursday 17th
June 1982
GROUP TWO,
Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo. (17:15)
AUSTRIA (1) 1 (Schachner 21)
CHILE (0) 0
Austria: Koncilia; Krauss, Degeorgi (Baumeister), Pezzey,
Obermayer; Weber (Jurtin), Hattenberger, Prohaska, Hintermaier; Schachner,
Krankl
Chile: Osben; Garrido, Bigorra, Figueroa, Valenzuela; Dubo,
Bonvallet, Moscoso (Gamboa), Neira (Rojas); Caszely, Yanez
After the drama of
yesterday, this day was quite tame.
Austria and Chile met in Oviedo and Walter Schachner’s goal in the 21st
minute decided the game. Krauss, the
right-back, crossed from the right wing and Schachner headed the Austrians in
front. Chile hadn’t won a group match
since they hosted the event in 1962, but they fought back and earned a penalty
when Caszely beat the offside trap but was brought down by Pezzey. He stepped up confidently to take the kick
but put it wide. Chile had plenty of
chances to equalise, but as the game wore on Austria just missed a host of
chances themselves, with Schachner and Krankl guilty.
GROUP FOUR,
Estadio Jose Zorrilla, Valladolid. (17:15)
CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1) 1 (Panenka pen 21)
KUWAIT (0) 1 (Al-Dakheel 58)
Czechoslovakia: Hruska; Fiala, Barmos, Kukucka, Jurkemic; Panenka,
Berger, Vizek; Kriz (Bicovsky), Janecka (Petrzela), Nehoda
Kuwait: Al-Tarabulsi; N. Mubarak, Al-Mubarak, Mayouf, M. Mubarak;
Al-Houti, Al-Buloushi, Al-Anbari, Karam (Marzouq); Sultan, Al-Dakheel
In England’s group Kuwait
played their first ever World Cup finals match.
Czechoslovakia, who’d qualified from Wales group, were the
opponents. After a bright start from
Kuwait, Vizek was obstructed in the area and who else but Antonin Panenka took
the spot-kick and put the Czechs 1-0 up.
Kuwait took until the hour to get back on level terms. They’d shown a willingness to shoot from
anywhere and this was well demonstrated when Faisal Al-Dakheel fired the equaliser
in from 30 yards. At 1-1 Kuwait just
kept pushing for the winner as the Czechs became increasingly desperate. But it ended 1-1 and Kuwait had done much to
garner support of the locals, a result which suited both England and France.
GROUP FIVE,
Estadio La Romareda, Zaragoza. (21:00)
NORTHERN IRELAND (0) 0
YUGOSLAVIA (0) 0
N.Ireland: Jennings; J. Nicholl, C. Nicholl, McClelland, Donaghy;
M. O’Neill, McCreery, McIlroy; Hamilton, Armstrong, Whiteside
Yugoslavia: Pantelic; Gudelj, Stojkovic, Jovanovic, Zajec;
Petrovic, Hrstic, Sljivo; Vujovic, Susic, Surjak
Northern Ireland, making
only their 2nd ever appearance at a finals, after 1958, were up
against Yugoslavia who missed the tournament in 1978, but set a record 9-0 winning
score in 1974. Billy Bingham selected
Norman Whiteside who broke Pele’s record as the youngest player to make an
appearance in a World Cup finals match.
He was 17 years and 41 days old.
Nearly everything the
Yugoslavs did went through current Bosnian manager, Susic, but Pat Jennings in the
Irish goal was in fine form. Armstrong
and Hamilton both went close for the Irish but neither side could convert their
chances and now both games in this group had been drawn, which was great news
for Honduras and Northern Ireland.
Watching the clip of the Austria v Chile match, it looks like the penalty kick taken by Caszely didn't have the ball sitting on the penalty spot. If he had scored, would the goal have still counted? On lighter note, a couple of awesome perm hairstyles in the Austrian team (DeGeorgi & Schachner).
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