Republic of Ireland v Romania Round of 16 25-06-1990
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00:00The Brazilian referee, Jose Blight, checks his watch.
00:06And this second phase match will be generally enjoyed with Romania,
00:10in yellow shirts and blue shorts, attacking from left to right,
00:13either in the first-choice strip, green shirts or white shorts.
00:17Already conceding a free kick.
00:19George Parji, the star man, from Romania's side, will take the first half.
00:25The star man, Rafa Tusiuk, goes absent, suspended.
00:30And it's famous, the first ball played up to him.
00:34Shidi now on the left.
00:39The ball will be taken by Steve Strauton, like all the defenders,
00:42he's played in all Ireland's matches so far.
00:45The ball will be back onto him.
00:50Still being a bit uncomfortable.
00:53He attacks down the right with a lovely little ball,
00:55and gets it back again.
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00:57Parji's cross-court.
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01:22To select his man with ease and finds...
01:35To his right, and Townsend knew that,
01:37trying to find the gap between the goalkeeper and the post.
01:40Always prepared to run at defenders, this number 8.
01:43It's really dangerous.
01:44Parji on the left.
01:49A lovely little play back.
01:51Some difficulty.
01:53Shot at the end of the third.
01:55Parji on the side of the net.
02:02That's brilliant Lincoln, mate.
02:10Well, that's clever.
02:18I bet that's been worked out in training.
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10:34Another play by Houghton, McGrath.
10:39He's done well.
10:40This is Morris, he's still in there.
10:43Houghton!
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11:10This will put satire to score a goal.
11:15Mcgrath's headers have fortunately got right underneath it.
11:26That'll be one ball width.
11:27Not a good ball.
11:34Very tense time now as Quinn wins the header and finds Houghton,
11:39But that, in fact, is the final whistle of a group that have not yet entered the target goal.
11:43It's 0-0 in Genoa at the end of 90 minutes.
11:46We'll have half an hour's extra time.
11:48Stay with us for all the action, right after the break.
11:56...between the stats.
11:59So, no goals after one and a half hours' play here in Genoa.
12:04And they're playing for the right to beat Italy or Uruguay in Rome.
12:08In the qualifiers of the World Cup.
12:12It's been a reasonably even match, with Ireland creating the better of the chances,
12:17Romania having quite a bit of possession and forcing the best out of this man,
12:21Pat Ponner, on at least two occasions.
12:23But I would say that if either side had deserved to win over the 90 minutes, it was certainly Ireland.
12:27It's a new ball game now, and fatigue, as much as anything, will come into play.
12:32Who's the strongest, as well as who's the best?
12:35...the first ever back-header.
12:38But the free-kick was given before the ball dropped, and it's been given to Ray.
12:48Is this the position, I wonder, for Kevin Sheedy's special?
12:51He's not unleashed his best free-kicks as yet in the game.
12:55This gives Thornton three.
12:57He'll also be there in a moment.
12:58He's back!
13:01He's back!
13:03He's back!
13:13And that's the number 13.
13:15That's Thornton number 3.
13:18That's Thornton, it is, who takes it?
13:20Oh!
13:21And he's got it.
13:22And he's got it.
13:26And it was nicely followed by the 21-year-old Liverpool fielder.
13:32It was not a good idea.
13:33He might perhaps have not been able to...
13:37Helped out to the Tardy.
13:40Climbed on the left flank.
13:45Newpool are substituted.
13:50Harji, the danger man.
13:53Go, go, go!
13:54Go, go!
13:56Nice little reverse ball, and it goes back to Harji.
13:58And there's danger here.
13:59Harji's found a good position to shoot.
14:03And he just got it.
14:04Go, go, go, go!
14:08Supreme player.
14:09I think he's brought the very best out of the English goalkeeper.
14:12Go!
14:13And it takes the ball short of the corner and finds Harji again.
14:17And oh, there's danger.
14:18And he lands it.
14:19And it's a good lead.
14:21A bit optimistic there.
14:22What a player he looks like.
14:23Very much so.
14:24I mean, that's the end of a good bit of interplay.
14:29Anyway, Milan back in possession.
14:34Good play by Townsend.
14:35Oh, and it's a lovely little ball as well for Schiedi.
14:38And still Schiedi.
14:39Great run by Schiedi.
14:40He's still got it.
14:41Quentin Cascarino in the middle.
14:43Hampton!
14:45Oh, dear, dear.
14:47Could it be one of those days?
14:49The luck of the Irish.
14:50As they never go for all fours.
14:52They might not be playing well.
14:54But it's great to go for that.
14:55Great persistence here by Schiedi.
14:57The magic of what's going on.
14:59Just manages to get across and be free.
15:02And that was a bit unlucky.
15:03He's got a lot back there.
15:04That's a sweet ball.
15:05Anything else, it's a goal.
15:07If he wasn't another three or four inches bigger, he could have got over the top of it.
15:11Here's a guy who should be fresh.
15:13Substitute Timofte.
15:14Right on to Vitario.
15:16And on again to the other substitute, Lupu.
15:19And there's danger here.
15:20And also Hargi arriving in the middle.
15:23Cross.
15:24Almost on to Dick Bonner.
15:26He went down the left.
15:27He took a deflection.
15:29Could have really fooled everybody.
15:32Yeah, I think Morris is asking for a goal kick here.
15:34But it looked very much as if he did make a good deflection.
15:36He did.
15:37He's done well for his side there.
15:38He's defended that situation very well.
15:40Hargi was arriving on the near post in a dangerous position.
15:44To Romania.
15:46Taken short.
15:49Back to the danger man Hargi again.
15:56Still out there having taken the corner.
15:58Lupu.
16:06Romania go all the way back into their own half.
16:09Vitario stands whistling and doing.
16:11But they're not doing that from a negative point of view there.
16:13The Romanian side.
16:14There's no way forward for them.
16:15And they're not going to give the ball away.
16:18Timoftei looking strong in possession here.
16:20And he's got Ballent in the middle.
16:22Just close.
16:25Oh dear.
16:27It really is a story of near misses.
16:28Andoni this time.
16:30And when you think of all the near misses at the other end.
16:33With Cascarino and Quinn and Schiedi.
16:36What a man.
16:38So the referee will be blowing his whistle at any moment.
16:44And indeed he has done so.
16:46So the teams will change ends.
16:48And the deadlock remains unbroken at nil-nil.
16:52The drink has been tossed onto the field.
16:54Strictly speaking I don't think you're supposed to do this.
16:56I think you're supposed to change straight round.
16:58But the trainers from both teams are racing on to give the players a drink.
17:02One of the Irish players has rolled down his socks.
17:05Townsend.
17:06Because he's so hot.
17:07You're not supposed to do that according to these stupid new FIFA regulations.
17:10The referee has shown common sense.
17:11Or has he?
17:12Well he's told Townsend to roll them up.
17:14Why FIFA have bothered about such petty things as whether players have shin pads or stockings rolled up is beyond me.
17:21It puts the referee in an invidious position though doesn't it?
17:23Because the eyes of the world are on it.
17:25The FIFA officials are on it.
17:26He knows he's got a set of instructions he's got to sort of abide by.
17:31I can only imagine some of those Tijanarians who sit in committees and make these rules have never played football.
17:38Yeah but they sit in there with their shungards on now.
17:41And their socks rolled up now.
17:43No doubt.
17:46And you never see them with their shirts outside.
17:49Well they know where to get a gin and tonic one or two I think.
17:51But will they know how punishing it is to play in 90 degree heat?
17:58It is open to debate.
17:59Anyway that's another topic for another day.
18:050-0 here in January.
18:07The start of the second period of extra time.
18:10The place in the quarter finals is the prize.
18:13Will it be Ireland for the first time ever?
18:15Or Romania for the first time ever?
18:17Rotario for the Romanians in possession.
18:21Zemblov's the way to go but he comes out to the left to find Klein.
18:29Hadji.
18:30Clipped in dangerously.
18:33Ballant.
18:34Chases David in play.
18:39Nice good defending though by David O'Leary.
18:42I just hope he hasn't overdone it there as they grapple to possession.
18:55That yellow card.
18:58Midway through the second period of extra time.
19:01In other words we've got about seven and a half minutes remaining here in January.
19:05Mbrene coming in here.
19:06Oh the shot is almost in slow motion by Queen.
19:11Mbrene trying to tell the defenders in front of him what he should have done.
19:14What they should have done.
19:15Yes I think you can have that problem.
19:17That's a great leap from Cascarino.
19:18But there's the big lad.
19:20Tired legs.
19:21Who's shown the yellow card.
19:22Two players from each side now have been booked.
19:25Or Anonito as they call it over here.
19:29McCarthy with the free kick for Ireland.
19:31It's a good looking one as well.
19:32Cascarino climbing Hashidi.
19:35The rule of Ireland expected again for a moment.
19:39That's right.
19:40I mean Cascarino's just won two very useful headers from set players.
19:43Just can't fall right.
19:45That's not a bad strike.
19:46It just didn't fall right for Kevin.
19:53And there it is.
19:54The final whistle.
19:55So we will see penalties between both teams to decide the outcome of this match.
20:03And watching of course in the stadium.
20:08That will be Ian St John.
20:22Demotion goes over to the commentary box.
20:24This thing's going to test your mental arithmetic to the...
20:27I can't even say it.
20:28I don't know why I'm doing it.
20:29I've got 1% in the maths exam a few years ago.
20:31I'm not best equipped to cope with this one.
20:33So I'll get the old money beads out and start counting.
20:39The referee has to carefully note the name of each player of course
20:42and keep a check on the number table.
20:44Bonner faces the first penalty.
20:47Cardi takes it for Romania.
20:49This is the first penalty.
20:51Cardi takes it for Romania.
20:58First blood to Romania.
21:01Cardi the scorer.
21:03You would have backed him with your mortgage as well.
21:09Cracked in on the guess the right way.
21:11That wasn't enough.
21:12Kevin Sheedy will take Ireland's first kick.
21:16I've got a theory about this in shootouts.
21:18I always instruct my goalkeepers to stand still.
21:20In a shootout, stand still.
21:22Five penalties against you.
21:23Two will go very, very close to us
21:25if you keep standing in the centre of these goals.
21:27If you save two, that's enough.
21:30Kevin Sheedy versus Zulian Long,
21:32captain of Romania.
21:49I would think there could be no greater feeling of relief
21:52than to hold a football until it dispatched your penalty.
21:58There's the one I'm talking about.
21:59Straight down the throat.
22:00The keeper, to be fair, doesn't set himself alone.
22:04You watch him.
22:05He's doing all sorts of dancing and wobbling.
22:08I think Pat Bonner's just got to stand still.
22:10Stay there.
22:11Let one hit him in the face if he likes.
22:13Now, I wonder whether this is a bit of psychology here
22:16because the next Romanian penalty taker
22:18is showing a marked reluctance to come forward.
22:20Which leaves Bonner pacing up and down nervously
22:22like an expectant father on the goal line.
22:25The referee has had to actually whistle to call him forward.
22:27It's Snoopy with the substitute.
22:29I suppose it's all about psychology as much as anything in this situation, isn't it?
22:33I suppose there's a fair bit of information.
22:35You know, we're in the heat of the game.
22:36I don't know if it's obvious, but maybe,
22:38maybe the Romanian manager hasn't had time to form his list.
22:43He's got two subs on him.
22:44How does he include them?
22:46Somebody said jokingly,
22:47Pat, Jack Charlton didn't even realise he would go to penalties.
22:49I wonder if either of them had their list.
22:52Lupu against Bonner.
22:57Well, that's calm, if you like.
22:58He side-footed it in.
23:00I don't know whether it was nervousness or confidence.
23:07Jack Charlton wasn't even looking.
23:09He couldn't bring himself to look.
23:13That's a good penalty.
23:14You accept that.
23:15You accept that.
23:16The first one went close to him.
23:18Certainly, Sheedy's penalty went close to the Romanian.
23:21Or where the Romanian keeper started.
23:25Charlton will look now as Ray Houghton
23:28as the next nerve-tingling John.
23:38Two successes each from the penalty spot.
23:41The fans salute Houghton,
23:42and he salutes them.
23:46Oh dear, the nervous tension
23:48that must be going on on that bench.
23:52I bet that Jack Houghton could get a fight on that.
23:56So he could do with a pint of Guinness as well.
23:58When you think of it, this could be the
24:00the culmination of what?
24:02Two years' hard work.
24:03All the hopes, all the dreams.
24:05All you can believe more than that
24:07when you think how long Jack Charlton
24:09has been planning for this moment.
24:11For Ireland to have made it to the World Cup Finals.
24:13Now facing this agonizing penalty shootout
24:17to decide who goes into the quarterfinals.
24:21Real drama.
24:22The two-time hero's back at home
24:24as Antonio takes the poor penalty for Romania
24:27and finds the net.
24:30They lead 3-2.
24:33They lead 3-2.
24:35Now on penalties
24:37with the third Irish penalty
24:39still to come, of course.
24:44They've all been well dispatched, Ron, haven't they?
24:47Yes, I thought the first two gave the keeper a chance
24:49if he'd held his position,
24:50but since then they've been well slotted.
24:54I think it could be Townsend.
24:56Indeed it is.
24:57It can be Townsend.
25:00Well, not so many years ago
25:02he was playing non-league football
25:04at Welling in Kent.
25:07He could hardly have dreamed of finding a moment like this.
25:10Jack Charlton, for all his experience in the game,
25:12could never have faced anything quite as tense as this.
25:16Andy Townsend
25:17with the responsibility of drawing Ireland level
25:20with their third penalty kick.
25:25Yes!
25:29Yes!
25:38You can just feel the relief oozing out.
25:443-3 on penalties.
25:46Two each per side
25:48for the compulsory five
25:51before we go sudden death.
25:53This is where the fun starts now, I guess, with the Irish side
25:56I think now that we'll have players taking penalties
25:58that aren't natural spot kickers.
26:00I mean, I would guess the lads that will have taken them
26:02obviously Shoeby takes plenty of help, he's taken them,
26:04Townsend's taken them for Norwich,
26:06but now they're getting into the likes of possibly Paul McGrath.
26:10Anybody that's really got the buckling up.
26:13But we'll have the buckling to face this one
26:15from Lupescu.
26:17This to make it 4-3 to Romania.
26:21Farmer crosses himself and calls
26:23for a greater power to help him.
26:26He wasn't smiling on him then,
26:28although he was mighty close to getting there.
26:33Yes, I'd just be interested to say
26:35I think that's another one that if he'd have held his ground
26:37he may have got closer to.
26:40That's a good one, that's a good one.
26:44I thought that was closer to the centre of course.
26:47It must be like Russian roulette this
26:49for the penalty takers, the keepers I suppose
26:51when there's not quite so much pressure.
26:52Nobody actually expects them to make saves
26:54and you're a hero if you do.
26:55It's 4-3 to Romania.
26:57Tony Cascarino of Aston Villa
26:59will try and beat this man, Lung,
27:01the Romanian keeper,
27:03to make it 4-4.
27:07Lung!
27:09Cascarino has hit the back of the net.
27:11It is 4-4.
27:13He knows Lung is a Norwegian,
27:15so he knows that may have been the one.
27:17I think the difference probably went in the ground
27:19back of the net further from the ball
27:21but it doesn't matter, it's there.
27:24I mean, to be fair, he was moving,
27:26jumping about like that man on the line.
27:28It must have been Cascarino.
27:30He's done that with a couple of them,
27:31he's nearly come out to tackle the kicker.
27:344-4.
27:38This bit, well I'm shaking with tension here
27:40because I don't know what the players must be like down there.
27:43The funny little thing is I'm looking in the centre
27:45where all the players have to stay.
27:47Certainly the Romanians have gone to the ocean.
27:49It's a nervous thing.
27:50They're actually whacking their heads up.
27:52Maybe those have already taken, I'm not sure.
27:54Certainly Lupu was having a good old laugh about something.
27:57I've heard of condemned men laughing on the way to the gallows
28:00and it must feel like that for some of these players.
28:02It must feel like you're on your way to the gallows.
28:07Right.
28:08Bonner in action again.
28:11One of the Romanian substitutes.
28:13The second substitute in fact elected to take a penalty.
28:15This time Daniel Timofti
28:18will take their fifth
28:20and final kick of the first five that each side must have.
28:27Bonner remains still, unlike his opposite number one.
28:33He's saved!
28:41Seems a celebrational man
28:44but it's not over yet.
28:46Bonner is the hero.
28:48And Jack John knows
28:50that in the next 30 seconds
28:52Ireland could be in the World Cup quarter-finals.
28:57If this penalty goes in
28:59not this one, because we know that didn't.
29:01Brilliantly saved.
29:03Great save.
29:04Didn't look as if he believed in himself there, Timofti.
29:07And what a story this could be
29:09because the man entrusted with a penalty
29:11that could get Ireland through to the World Cup quarter-finals
29:14is one of the longest serving players
29:16and a man who's had disagreements with his manager
29:18David O'Leary.
29:21All the disagreements will be forgotten
29:24if he beats this goalkeeper now.
29:27What a moment.
29:28I just hope he doesn't go for a placement.
29:30I hope he just puts the back of the thing down
29:32and whacks it as hard as he can.
29:35People are on the edge of their seats here in Genoa.
29:38Heaven knows what it's like back in Ireland.
29:47It defies belief.
29:50It really defies belief.
29:54Ireland, who have never qualified for the World Cup finals
29:58before this year
30:01have a date in Rome
30:03in the quarter-finals
30:05maybe with the host nation Italy.
30:07They won't care who they play.
30:10Incredible.
30:13And they left it to the very, very, very last kick
30:18to win their place.
30:22Well, you will not be able to move around Genoa tonight
30:28for joyous Irishmen.
30:31They have come here to support their team
30:34and to celebrate their victory.
30:37They have come here to support their team.
30:40They have done it with great good humour
30:42and perfect behaviour.
30:45And they deserve the celebrations they'll get tonight.
30:48The Republic of Ireland
30:50are into the quarter-finals of the World Cup
30:52and the old chap, David O'Leary, got them there.
30:57I knew that technique.
31:01But what a fabulous occasion that's going to be on Saturday
31:04for these people.
31:06These fans are very much the best.
31:08Certainly, they are part of the great Brazilian fans
31:11whenever they have beaten the World Cups.
31:13And they're going to make it a fiesta in Rome on Saturday
31:17and they deserve it.
31:18O'Leary deserves his part for the save from Timothy.
31:23O'Leary made sure that the dream came true.
31:27So, after 90 minutes, we'll have a goal.
31:30After half an hour's extra time, we'll have a goal.
31:33Finality shoot-out ending the Republic of Ireland 5, Romania 4.
31:38There'll be Irish jigs all over the world tonight.
31:43And Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
31:46for the first time ever.
31:48We're all going to pause for a much-needed breath.
32:04Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
32:08for the first time ever.
32:10We're all going to pause for a much-needed breath.
32:13Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
32:16for the first time ever.
32:18Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
32:22for the first time ever.
32:24Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
32:28for the first time ever.
32:30Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
32:33for the first time ever.
32:35Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
32:39for the first time ever.
32:41Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
32:45for the first time ever.
32:47Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
32:51for the first time ever.
32:53Ireland are in the quarter-finals of the World Cup
32:57for the first time ever.