WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : FACTS AND FIGURES
GROUP A at Rose Bowl
United States: 2
Colombia: 1
SCORING SUMMARY
Colombia: 0 1--1
United States: 1 1--2
First half scoring--1. U.S., own goal (Colombia’s Escobar), 35th minute.
Second half scoring--2. U.S., Stewart 1, 52nd minute; 3. Colombia, Valencia 2, 90th.
Shots on goal--Colombia 22 (Gaviria 7, Rincon 5, Valenciano 5, Valencia 2, Alvarez, Perez, Valderrama). U.S.: 14 (Ramos 3, Stewart 3, Balboa 3, Wynalda 2, Dooley, Lalas, Harkes).
Fouls--Colombia: 14 (Alvarez 4, Herrera 2, Valenciano 2, Perea, Gaviria, Valderrama, Rincon, De Avila, Asprilla). U.S.: 7 (Dooley 3, Balboa, Lalas, Stewart, Wegerle).
Times Fouled--Colombia: 7 (Valderrama 3, Herrera, Alvarez, De Avila, Valencia). U.S.: 14 (Harkes 4, Ramos 3, Dooley 2, Balboa 2, Stewart 2, Lalas).
Offsides--Colombia: 4 (Valderrama, De Avila, Valenciano, Valencia). U.S.: 3 (Wynalda 2, Lalas).
Yellow Cards--Colombia: De Avila 24th minute. United States: Lalas 49th minute.
Red Cards--None.
Referee--Fabio Baldas, Italy. Linesmen--El-Jilali Rharib, Morocco; Domenico Ramicone, Italy.
Attendance--93,194.
LINEUPS
Colombia--Oscar Cordoba, Andres Escobar, Luis Fernando Herrera, Herman Gaviria, Carlos Valderrama, Leonel Alvarez, Luis Carlos Perea, Freddy Rincon, Wilson Perez, Anthony de Avila (Ivan Rene Valenciano, substitute, 46th minute), Faustino Asprilla (Adolfo Valencia, 46th minute).
U.S.--Tony Meola, Fernando Clavijo, Marcelo Balboa, Paul Caligiuri, Alexi Lalas, Tab Ramos, John Harkes, Thomas Dooley, Mike Sorber, Eric Wynalda (Roy Wegerle, 62nd minute), Ernie Stewart (Cobi Jones, 67th minute).
GROUP A at Silverdome, Pontiac, Mich.
Switzerland: 4
Romania: 1
SCORING SUMMARY
Switzerland:1 3--4
Romania: 1 0--1
First-half scoring--1. Switzerland, Sutter 1, 16th minute; 2. Romania, Hagi 2, 36th minute.
Second-half scoring--3. Switzerland, Chapuisat 1, 53rd minute; 4. Switzerland, Knup 1, 66th minute; 5. Switzerland, Bregy 2, 72nd minute.
Shots on goal--Switzerland: 13 (Sutter 6, Bregy 4, Chapuisat 2, Knup). Romania: 15 (Hagi 6, Petrescu, 3, Raducioiu 2, Belodedici, Popescu, Lupescu, Dumitrescu).
Fouls--Switzerland: 6 (Sutter 2, Quentin, Sforza, Knup, Chapuisiat). Romania: 12 (Prodan 2, Mihali 2, Lupescu 2, Petrescu, Belodedici, Popescu, Dumitrescu, Panduru, Vladoiu).
Times Fouled--Switzerland: 12 (Bregy 3, Sutter 2, Ohrel 2, Chapuisat 2, Herr, Knup, Bickel). Romania: 6 (Hagi 2, Petrescu, Mihali, Munteanu, Dumitrescu).
Offsides--Switzerland: 4 (Knup 2, Sutter, Chapuisat). Romania: 11 (Raducioiu 4, Petrescu 3, Dumitrescu 3, Mihali).
Yellow Cards--Switzerland: None. Romania: Mihali 33rd minute, Lupescu 41st minute, Belodedici 48th minute.
Red Cards--Romania: Vladoiu 73rd minute.
Referee--Neji Jouini, Tunisia. Linesmen--Abdel-Magid Hassan, Egypt, Mohammed Fanaei, Iran.
Attendance--61,428.
LINEUPS
Switzerland--Marco Pascolo, Marc Hottiger, Yvan Quentin, Dominique Herr, Alain Geiger, Georges Bregy, Alain Sutter (Thomas Bickel, substitute, 71st minute), Christophe Ohrel (Patrick Sylvestre, 83rd minute), Ciriaco Sforza, Adrian Knup, Stephane Chapuisat.
Romania--Bogdan Stelea, Dan Petrescu, Daniel Prodan, Miodrag Belodedici, Gheorghe Mihali, Ionut Lupescu (Basarab Panduru, 85th minute), Gheorghe Popescu, Dorinel Munteanu, Florin Raducioiu, Gheorghe Hagi, Ilie Dumitrescu (Ion Vladoiu, 73rd).
GOALS AND ASSISTS
Through Wednesday’s Games
Player, Country Games G A P Hagi, Romania 2 2 2 6 Batistuta, Argentina 1 3 0 6 Goikoetxea, Spain 2 2 1 5 Valencia, Colombia 2 2 0 4 Klinsmann, Germany 2 2 0 4 Raducioiu, Romania 2 2 0 4 Bregy, Switzerland 2 2 0 4 Hong Myung Bo, South Korea 1 1 1 3 Yekini, Nigeria 1 1 1 3 Amokachi, Nigeria 1 1 1 3 Salinas, Spain 2 1 0 2 Hassler, Germany 2 0 2 2 Seo Jung Won, South Korea 1 1 0 2 Degryse, Belgium 1 1 0 2 Rekdal, Norway 1 1 0 2 Omam-Biyick, Cameroon 1 1 0 2 Embe, Cameroon 1 1 0 2 Ljung, Sweden 1 1 0 2 Dahlin, Sweden 1 1 0 2 Rai, Brazil 1 1 0 2 Romario, Brazil 1 1 0 2 Jonk, Netherlands 1 1 0 2 Taument, Netherlands 1 1 0 2 Amin, Saudi Arabia 1 1 0 2 Caminero, Spain 2 0 2 2 Maradona, Argentina 1 1 0 2 Wynalda, U.S. 2 1 0 2 Houghton, Ireland 1 1 0 2 George, Nigeria 1 0 2 2 Amunike, Nigeria 1 1 0 2 Chapuisat, Switzerland 2 1 0 2 Knup, Switzerland 2 1 0 2 Sutter, Switzerland 2 1 0 2 Stewart, U.S. 2 1 0 2 Redondo, Argentina 1 0 1 1 Simeone, Argentina 1 0 1 1 Chamot, Argentina 1 0 1 1 Larsson, Sweden 1 0 1 1 Fjortoft, Norway 1 0 1 1 Ferrer, Spain 2 0 1 1 Lee Young Jin, South Korea 1 0 1 1 Bebeto, Brazil 1 0 1 1 Foe, Cameroon 1 0 1 1 Bahanag Song, Cameroon 1 0 1 1 Sforza, Switerland 2 0 1 1 Nilis, Belgium 1 0 1 1 Perez, Colombia 2 0 1 1 Al Bishi, Saudi Arabia 1 0 1 1 Harkes, U.S. 2 0 1 1 Ramos, U.S. 2 0 1 1 Thern, Sweden 1 0 1 1
KEY: G--goals. A--assists. P--points.
