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    The only info I have is that the quarter finals are two legs,
    home and away.

    ...and Scotland play Germany sometime in March.

    Dave

    
    The quarter-finals for Barcelona 1992 were drawn in December. Here are 
    the matches.
    
    Holland	    -   Sweden
    Germany 	    -   Scotland
    Denmark	    -   Poland
    Czechoslovakia  -   Italy
    
    It's a two legged affair, the winners qualify for the Olympics in
    Barcelona. Is's also a under-21 Euro copetition, and the winner of
    Holland/Sweden meets the winner of Germany/Scotland in the semi.
    
    The first leg for Sweden is in Utrecht on the 11 march 1992, the second 
    leg in Sweden two weeks later. It's a bit confusing, Scotland qualify
    for the Olympics. Shouldn't it be Great Britain?
    
    Mats

    
    Mats,
    
    If I've got it right Germany is already qualified for Barcelona 92.
    This might be due to the fact that Scotland won't be represented as
    an own country since there will be a Great Britain team. 
          
    G�nter

	I don't think anyones mentioned it yet..

	Quarter Final (1st Leg)
	-----------------------

	Germany 1 Scotland 1


	Creaney scored for Scotland.

	Thats all I know about it!

According to CEEFAX Scotland scored 1st in about the 25th minute, with the
Germans equalizing 7 minutes later.

From then on it was nearly all Germany, with a constant bombardment on the 
Scottish goal, but the keeper earning his keep, and getting the MoM award.
(Greavsie would turn in his grave, if he were dead of course :-) )

A great result for the Scots, let's hope they can do the business at home.

When's the return leg??

Al

    
    Sweden plays Holland in Utrecht tonight, kickoff 19.30. The Swedish
    team contains only domestic players, so it will be a tough game. The
    game is live on TV4, a scaninavian channel on the Tele-X satellite.
    Keep an eye on Jonas Axeldahl, a striker from Malm� FF. He has scored
    some goals in the last U-21 games.
    
    A 1-1 draw suits me perfect.
    
    Mats

Holland 2  Sweden 1

Roest      ??
Taument


T_

    I saw a bit of the Germany Scotland game, the young Scottish keeper was
    excellent indeed. 

		Holland		-	Sweden

		   2			  1

		23' Rob Roest		25' Christer Fursth
		53' Gaston Taument


The game started in a low tempo with both teams trying to get a grip on each
other. With Holland playing very offensively 3-4-3 and Sweden playing 4-4-2, 
Holland begun to dominate the game, but didn't get any hot chances. after 23 
minutes, Max Huiberts played a good ball to Gaston Taument who was knocked down
from behind by Joakim Bj�rklund, and the Welch referee pointed at the penalty 
spot. Rob Roest took the penalty well and put the ball in the left corner. 
Two minutes later, Christer Fursth finally got rid of his defender Ulrich 
van Gobbel and scored from a beautiful pass from Jesper Jansson. After 30 
minutes, Jonas Axeldahl shot from close range and Johnny R�dlund nearly put
the rebound in the net. Five minutes from half-time, Taument had shot in the
bar.

The second half was not so good as the first. Three mistakes from the Swedish 
defense left Taument alone with Jan Ekholm in the Swedish goal, and the dutch
striker finished perfectly. Holland dominated the second half, but failed to 
score.

Holland didn't play that well but, deserved to win. You could clearly see that
the Swedish team just has begun their season. Fursth and van Gobbel had a hard
fight during the whole game, but there was a friendly atmosphere over it. 
Taumnet was Man of the Match in my opinion, i won't be surprised if he is in the
dutch team this summer. Fursth had a good game, so had Jesper Jansson. Magnus
Johansson was a disaster on the right defense, many of Hollands chanses came 
from the left wing. Jonas Axeldahl was a dissapointment, and he was substituded
early in the second half.

Second leg is in V�xj� on the 25;th this month. We will have Thomas Brolin from
Parma in the team then. Another good promising striker is Pascal Simson from 
AIK. Hes injured right now, but perhaps he can play in the second leg. The 
Swedish coach Nisse Andersson was pleased with the result, a 1-0 win at home 
will takes us to Barcelona, he said.

Mats

    
    First leg results;
    
    Holland	    -   Sweden		2 - 1
    Germany 	    -   Scotland        1 - 1
    Denmark	    -   Poland          5 - 0
    Czechoslovakia  -   Italy           1 - 2
    
    Mats
    

Where is everybody?

Anyway For those who didn't hear the news from last night...

Result from Aberdeen:

	Scotland 4 Germany 3 (Agg. 5-4)


Scotland go through to the Semi-Finals, beating the favourites. 
Anyone see the game?

Apparently Germany were 3-1 up after 60 minutes!


Dave

    Didn't see the game owing to the SF bloody A causing their usuale fuss
    over the screening of Televised games.
    
    Craig Brown praised the efforts of the forwards - Creaney and Jackson
    in paricular.
    
    Anyone want to bet that less people go to the full international
    tonight than went to th U-21's last night :-)
    
    Mark
    

    
    Not that I want to, but in defence of the S.F.A. I believe they
    actually offered the rights to game to the T.V. companies for 20,000
    but there were no takers. I think BSkyB had cameras there and will show 
    highlights at some point.
    
    
    
    
    Steep.

    
    		Sweden		- 	Holland
    
    		  1			   0
    
    		75' Pascal Simson
    
    This was not a very good game. Sweden played a little better than 14
    days ago, and Holland play far too defensivly. One of the great
    difference in the Swedish team was Thomas Brolin, who lifted up the
    whole midfield.
    
    Pascal Simson has been injured during the winter and he came in as a
    substitute after 70 minutes. The goal was a beauty. Simson won a battle
    in the air in the mid circle, ran down to the penalty area, headed the
    ball to Brolin who dribbled two defenders and passed the ball to Simson
    who putted it in the net.
    
    Concidering the fact that Holland is in mid-season, and that the Swedish
    season hasnt started yet, the Swedish team made a marvelous perfomance
    in theese two legs. Now it only can get better.
    
    Mats  

    
    Second leg results;
    
    Sweden     - Holland	   1 - 0   (Sweden threw 2 - 2 on agg.)
    Scotland   - Germany           4 - 3   (Scotland threw 5 - 4 on agg.)
    Poland     - Denmark           1 - 1   (Denmark threw 6 - 1 on agg.)
    Italy      - Czechoslovakia    2 - 0   (Italy threw 4 - 1 on agg.)
    
    Semifinals;
    
    Sweden	-	Scotland
    Denmark	-	Italy
    
    Mats

	When are the semi-finals?

    
    Result from last thursday (no one interested in Great Britain???)
    
    Denmark 	-	Italy		0 - 1
    
    Don't know when the second leg is.
    
    The first leg between Scotland and Sweden is in Aberdeen April 20th.
    Second leg in Sweden (�rebro) one week later.
    
    Mats

     Re. -1
    
      I think you will find that the first leg of the Scotland v. Sweden
      Semi final is on Tuesday 21st of April at Pitodrie, with the return
      leg a week later.

Is the final in Sweden?

Mr. Optimistic

    
    I've been reading Swedish papers about the semi against Scotland, but
    it's all silent. Apparently there's no game tonight, does anybody know
    when and where?
    
    Mats

    The game is at Pittodrie 7:30 K.O. 
    One of the Scottish Papers says that there is live Scottish football at
    7:00. Skysport channel.

    
    
    
    Scotland  0    Sweden 0
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Peter

    
    Danmark Italy 0 1
    Italy Danmark 2 0
    
    Italy finalist
       
    
    

    
    Last night result;
    
    	Sweden	    -    Scotland
    
	  1   		    0
    
    75' Johnny R�dlund
    
    I didn't see the game, but the reports says that Scotland had the most
    of the game but failed to score. The Scots was wery unhappy after the
    game.
    
    Sweden  -  Italy in the final, anyone knows when and where??
    
    Mats

    
    First leg result of the championchip final;
    
    Italy	-   Sweden
    
      2		      0
    
    Sweden played for 0-0 and nearly made it, both Italian goals came late
    in the second half. Second leg in V�xj� in Sweden next wednesday June
    3rd. It will be difficult fot us to turn this around. The swedish team
    had no pro's due to Euro-92 preparations.
    
    Mats

    
    Second leg result of the championship final;
    
    Sweden      -   Italy
    
      1 	      0
    
    Italy European champions, 2-1 on agg.
    
    A well deserved championship title for Italy. They controlled most of
    the game last night, and Sweden wasn't near an equalizing goal. I must
    say that Sweden have made a marvelous performance reaching the final
    with mostly amateur players. Surely a good reserve capital for the
    future.
    
    Mats