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00:00Holland in all orange today. Prepare to kick off playing from left to right.
00:07Soviet Union, who won the first European Championship in 1960.
00:11Holland, who've never won it, but have been to two World Cup finals and been beaten.
00:16Will it be third time lucky on the big occasion for the Dutch?
00:23You may well be used to their line-up by now. That's Van Tiegelen playing at left back.
00:28And of course the goalkeeper, Van Broeckelen, well known to all supporters of Nottingham Forest.
00:33Here's Barry Van Alen.
00:37Soviets have started with Protasov up front being marked, I think, by Rijkaard at the moment.
00:44And Belenov may well be picked up by Erwin Koeman.
00:52Or by Van Tiegelen.
00:57And Alenikov, as we suggested, has slipped into the back for the Soviets.
01:02And indeed just turns the ball back there to his goalkeeper.
01:05So that's the way the teams have started.
01:11Khidija Chulin, the Soviet sweeper.
01:17Litavchenko.
01:20Free kick given.
01:28I think the referee had a word there with Marko Van Basten, possibly about descent.
01:33This is Vasily Rats, maybe not retreating 10 yards on the free kick.
01:41Demyanenko on the far side, filling in for Besanov.
01:57There's Rijkaard marking Protasov.
01:59Wouters.
02:01Van Alen.
02:03Number 7, Gerald Vandenberg, gave it away to Litavchenko.
02:08And he's got a powerful shot, the number 8, as we've seen already in this championship.
02:13That's a goal kick.
02:17He's causing Holland a bit of concern.
02:28Litavchenko.
02:29Oh, it's Protasov who's through.
02:39And the Dutch certainly rattled.
02:47Well, it...
02:51...needed all Van Broekelen's experience there.
02:57Very Van Alen.
02:59Vandenberg.
03:02Rats.
03:04And the long ball this time searches out Belenov.
03:07Up against Van Tiegelen.
03:09Corner to the Soviets.
03:12Protasov is limping after the last challenge.
03:15That's a good long ball for Belenov.
03:19The others making strides to join him.
03:20Protasov's in the centre.
03:21Litavchenko to his right.
03:22Belenov's gone again.
03:25And that was a good effort by Litavchenko.
03:28Number 8.
03:31As I said, Belenov's got the ball.
03:34He's got the ball.
03:36He's got the ball.
03:38He's got the ball.
03:40He's got the ball.
03:41He's got the ball.
03:42He's got the ball.
03:43As I say, he scored against Italy.
03:46And Van Broekelen there had to be alert.
03:49Perhaps that's the moment that's going to bring the game to life.
03:52Hullit.
03:55Van Basten.
03:56Oh, Hullit was going to go again and Alenikov chopped him down.
04:05Well, it may, in some people's eyes, have been a yellow card offence.
04:09I don't think the French referee's going to apply that.
04:11But what will happen is that the Dutch have a free kick.
04:16Very much in Ronald Koeman territory.
04:25Desaieff is well aware of that and it may be that Hullit's having a look at this as well.
04:35So about 25 yards out, as you can see.
04:38Yellow card's been shown there.
04:39Somebody in the wall for descent, presumably, on the Soviet side.
04:54Which is denoted even further.
05:02Still Koeman and Hullit wait.
05:10Van Basten.
05:16And Hullit curls it.
05:17And well tipped over by Desaieff.
05:22Corner to Holland.
05:33Now Rijkaard is on the near post.
05:36And Hullit flicks on, or tries to.
05:39Van Basten still at the far post, waiting now.
05:42Gets a touch.
05:43Hullit's there!
05:44Yes!
05:45Holland 1-0.
05:46Rudy Hullit.
05:50Reiners-Meikle smiles.
05:52And Holland take the lead.
05:57Look at those celebrations.
05:58And the man who we said will surely get a goal sometime in this tournament.
06:02Ruud Hullit.
06:03Has done it on the big day.
06:06The free kick, the corner was curled in first.
06:09Then there was a return cross.
06:11Van Basten's the man who heads it back in.
06:13The marking is shocking.
06:14Neither of them picked up.
06:16And Desaieff beaten by the power of the header.
06:1933 minutes gone.
06:20The Netherlands 1, Soviet Union 0.
06:23Hullit, the world's most expensive player,
06:25scores the opening goal in the European Championship final.
06:28And indirectly, a result of Soviet cynicism,
06:31because the chop on him by Alenikov really led to that attack.
06:36Mikhailochenko, and now there's some cynicism from the Dutch.
06:46Well, they do say that when you score a goal,
06:49that's when you're vulnerable.
06:50And Demyanenko has broken away on the right.
06:52That's when you're vulnerable.
06:53And Demyanenko has broken away on the right.
06:57And that was Protasov.
06:59This is Gottsmanov.
07:01Hullit now in defense.
07:06Still Gottsmanov.
07:12Free kick.
07:14Goal!
07:20Mikhailochenko and Protasov waiting to come in here.
07:26Belenov is further back.
07:27That was his little header.
07:39Jimmy Hill made the point before the kick-off
07:41that it was a suggestion that there was a lack of height in the Soviet defense.
07:45Hullit chopped again.
07:48And that's going to be another yellow card.
07:51Litavchenko, I think, there.
07:58Litavchenko on Hullit.
08:06Litavchenko and Protasov wait.
08:10Mikhailochenko is up with Hullit.
08:13Back in again by Ratz.
08:14Mikhailochenko.
08:16Alenikov's in there, too.
08:18All very crowded.
08:19Here's Demyanenko.
08:28And Koeman having to work very hard.
08:30Mikhailochenko!
08:31Chance for the save.
08:32Belenov!
08:33Oh, he's missed it!
08:35Would you believe it?
08:36One of the best finishers in the game.
08:40Lobanovsky will be peeved about that.
08:43The man he brought back in today, Igor Belenov,
08:45had a chance here made by Mikhailochenko's turn, really.
08:50And he swung far too high.
08:54Has now played a part, anyway, in the goal which
08:58Holland scored against Soviet Union in the first half here.
09:01And, of course, he got the winner against West Germany as well.
09:04And the referee brings the first half here in the Olympic Stadium in Munich to a close.
09:10The score is 1-0 to Holland.
09:12Ruud Hullit, the unmistakable captain, gave them the lead.
09:17And the rest of the first half, something of a stop-start affair, really.
09:22And three bookings to the Soviet Union and one to Holland.
09:26So, let's go back for the time being to
09:29with the news that the Dutch have got the edge in this final.
09:36So, here we go for the second half of this final.
09:39A very rich championship, this.
09:41Not talking so much about the football quality,
09:43but about the gate receipts, because the eight competing countries
09:46have shared over £8 million from this exercise in West Germany.
09:50Today's two finalists getting 16% each of that.
09:54So, for the Dutch and for the Soviets,
09:56about £1.3 million in income for their football federation.
10:01And even England, who went out at that depressingly early stage,
10:06are supposed to have collected something in the region of
10:08three quarters of a million pounds.
10:11So, it's big business here.
10:13But the real prize, the Henri Delaney Cup,
10:17he was the founder of the European Championship
10:19way back in 1916.
10:21He was the founder of the European Championship
10:23way back in 1960.
10:25He's still standing on the podium, waiting to be won.
10:30Soviets were the very first winners.
10:43Van Tiegelen for Holland.
10:51Van Tiegelen for Holland.
11:01Possibly rather more so at times than Desaieff
11:04on that particular sort of ball.
11:10Litvchenko.
11:13Zavarov.
11:15Curled it wide.
11:17What a beautiful attempt that was from Zavarov.
11:19What a beautiful attempt that was from Zavarov.
11:20He's got lovely feet and that was just a foot over the bar
11:24He's got lovely feet and that was just a foot over the bar
11:25and the point at which he aimed it.
11:26and the point at which he aimed it.
11:27The score by which they lost to the Soviets
11:29in the first meeting a fortnight ago.
11:34Can you tune in?
11:36Oh, Van Tiegelen.
11:37It was a mistake by Zavarov initially.
11:39Van Tiegelen's got support here from Arnold Mürren.
11:42Van Basten's on the far side of the penalty area now
11:45to volley it.
11:46Oh, I say, what a goal!
11:49That's a beauty.
11:51Even Meekels can't believe it.
11:54How can you stop Marco Van Basten?
11:59What a belting goal in a final.
12:04Absolutely spectacular.
12:07He can't believe it either.
12:10Arnold Mürren chipped it far post.
12:13He knew where it was going.
12:14Mürren, but Van Basten, look at the angle.
12:17You just, you don't know how he got that in
12:19with that sort of power from there.
12:22That will go down as one of the great goals
12:25of a championship final.
12:28Possibly of all time.
12:30Just look at that.
12:322-0 to Holland.
12:37Bobanowski's now
12:39going to have to presumably use a substitute at some point
12:42to try and get the Soviets back into the match.
12:45They've got a striker on the bench,
12:46Victor Pasulko, who scored against England.
12:49May well be he will get used at some stage.
12:54Holland leading by two goals to nil
12:56and the stadium still
12:58buzzing
12:59with the
13:00sheer effrontery of that volley by Van Basten.
13:13Free kick.
13:14Van Tiegelen
13:15running out Zavarov.
13:21But Tarasov
13:23is now
13:25going to have to carry an awful lot of responsibility up there.
13:27The Soviets will be looking to him to try to
13:30achieve something comparable to get a goal,
13:32to get them back in the match.
13:34Mika Kovacic
13:36is going to have to
13:37achieve something comparable to get a goal,
13:39to get them back in the match.
13:41Mika Kovacic is in there as well.
13:50All the slice and hull it's defending
13:52and there's a chance at the post
13:53and Mika Kovacic couldn't get the rebound in.
13:56Belenov was unlucky.
13:57He hit the post
13:59and the rebound favoured the Dutch.
14:03Danger here for Holland.
14:06Oh, look at the way they're defending.
14:08Protasov's in there
14:11and you really couldn't...
14:13Van Broekelen
14:15Penalty!
14:16The goalkeeper has given away a penalty
14:18which just illustrated the panic the Dutch were going through.
14:22Quite why he had to do that there I've no idea.
14:24He argues it wasn't a penalty.
14:26The player concerned is Gotsmanov
14:29but
14:30suddenly Van Broekelen
14:32left his position
14:33and bundled an opponent down.
14:35They'll argue about it the Dutch
14:36as they did about the German penalty the other night.
14:38Jimmy, a quick view on that?
14:40Well, it was the point that Terry made before.
14:42There was no need for that to happen.
14:44If we can see...
14:45Oh, this is the bit. The ball hits the post,
14:46beats
14:47Mihaly Tchenkov at the end of it
14:50and we shan't see that
14:51but the
14:52the attacker was running away from the keeper.
14:55The ball was going out of danger.
14:56There was really no point in him going for that there.
14:59It was suicidal.
15:00You could say he was going for the ball
15:02but there was no point for a goalkeeper
15:03leaving himself in that position.
15:05That was a rush of blood to the head
15:07which could bring the Soviets back into the game.
15:12Looks as though Belenov has the ball.
15:14The man who hit the post a moment ago
15:16and caused all that confusion
15:17but there were two Dutch players there
15:19whose defensive clearances would have
15:21with all great respect
15:22wouldn't have graced a Sunday league team.
15:24And then they were slicing the ball
15:25back into their own penalty area.
15:27And in the end the goalkeeper caught the plague
15:29and gave away a penalty.
15:30It was a very untidy period for the Dutch.
15:33And Belenov
15:34has a chance here
15:35to put the Soviet Union back into this final.
15:43Oh he's saved it after all that!
15:46Goodness me.
15:48He's some character this fella.
15:50And Belenov hangs his head.
15:51That's real sadness for him.
15:56And the referee
15:57has awarded another free kick to the Soviet Union
15:59and this period of the game
16:00is quite unpredictable.
16:03You still have a feeling
16:04that the Soviets are going to score.
16:07But their best chance was the penalty.
16:09And Hans van Broekelen
16:10the man whose penalty save
16:12earned the European Cup for PSV Eindhoven
16:14has made a save there from the spot
16:16from Belenov
16:17that may play a part in winning
16:19the European Championship 2 for his country.
16:21If Belenov had scored there
16:23and got it back to 2-1
16:24Lobanovsky's team
16:25had a real chance.
16:30This is Rijkaard.
16:36Oh nicely done.
16:37Vandenberg.
16:39Haven't seen too much of him
16:40but here's Erwin Koeman!
16:43Well he wasn't offside
16:44at least there was no flag.
16:46So it could have been 3-0 there.
16:49Vandenberg with the cross.
16:51The flag stays down.
16:53Erwin Koeman
16:54gets underneath the ball.
16:59Well you said at half time Jimmy
17:01let's hope a lot happens in the second half.
17:03There's so much now to look back on.
17:04Belenov's penalty miss
17:05just being one of a series of incidents
17:07which have almost just for a few minutes
17:10overshadowed the reaction
17:11to the amazing goal by Van Basten.
17:13So there's plenty to discuss later.
17:16For the moment
17:17it's Holland on the attack
17:18and it's that same man again
17:20inside to Murin.
17:22Erwin Koeman.
17:23Van Basten.
17:24Oh what a backheel!
17:25Didn't quite find Murin.
17:26Wouters!
17:27Oh deflection!
17:29Off his own player I think.
17:32The referee says corner.
17:33Oh it must have been a Soviet.
17:34I don't think it was.
17:37Well we shall see from this.
17:41Well I thought that was Arnold Murin.
17:44Anyway the referee said it wasn't.
17:47Well if Erwin Koeman had put that header in
17:49it was 3-0 and all over.
17:51But on the other hand
17:52you could say if Belenov had scored from the penalty
17:54here comes Van Broekel in again.
17:56It would have been 2-1.
18:00And very tight again.
18:04Van Basten's header to Hullet.
18:06A break on for Holland.
18:07Hullet.
18:08Van Basten.
18:09Oh the backheel to find Jan Wouters.
18:16Well it was Wouters' shot
18:17but a lovely little backheel again from Van Basten.
18:19That seems to be one of his tricks Jimmy this.
18:21They have the space and they're using it well.
18:24Knew a man was running in from behind there.
18:26It's an awkward ball actually
18:28to curl in from that angle
18:29but it was beautifully carved out.
18:32Holland with a two goal lead.
18:40Alenikov.
18:54Litvchenko.
18:56This is Pasulko the substitute.
18:59Litvchenko.
19:01Good drive and Van Broekel
19:03and oh and Demyanenko misses the chance.
19:06He could have kicked it into the net
19:08or squared it to Mikhailichenko
19:10and he didn't either.
19:12It wasn't an easy chance
19:14even for an international.
19:16Not the best goalkeeping there
19:18letting that run out.
19:19He beat it away and he had to come in
19:21and hit it first time.
19:22Two minutes
19:24here in Munich
19:25and that crossfield ball from Hullit
19:27has found Gerald Vandenberg.
19:31And he's away.
19:32Van Basten's coming towards the near post.
19:34Hullit and Rijkaard's up on the far side.
19:36Number 17
19:38and Dasaev blocks with his legs.
19:45So a corner to Holland
19:48as Frank Rijkaard leaves.
19:50Another very favourable impression here
19:52both as a defender
19:54and as an all-purpose player really.
19:56Keeper came to meet him.
19:59As we enter stoppage time
20:01Kivija Cilin forward for the Soviet Union.
20:05Here's Arnold Nuren.
20:06What a great day it's been for him
20:08and many people in England will be pleased about that.
20:12And there it is.
20:13Holland are the champions of Europe.
20:16Rijkaard's team lift for their country
20:19their first major trophy
20:21and Igor Belenov has a pained expression
20:24because he missed the penalty
20:26that could have changed the game in the second half
20:28but the story now is a Dutch celebration.
20:32Hullit racing across to the coach.
20:34The supporters waving their flags.
20:36They're lifting Rijkaard's shoulder high.
20:40So, Ruud Hullit
20:42this popular figure
20:46the most expensive footballer in the world currently
20:51goes forward to meet
20:54the European champion.
20:57And he does it.
20:59And he does it.
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21:34And he does it.
21:35There is a gold medal for every member of the winning squad
21:38not just the team.
21:40But it's that piece of silverware there
21:42the Henri de Lorny Trophy
21:44that means so much to this progressive football country.
21:47The Dutch have given so much to our game
21:49certainly in the 70s
21:51have now done something in the 80s
21:53that even that team of Cruyff never managed
21:55to lift one of the major prizes in world football.