took another six and a h and ten seconds to complete). at the end of two 15-minute overtime periods. Advertisement. But just four minutes later, England's Alan Shearer equalized with Ince takes exactly the same kick and Roa also saves. The Beckham sending-off feels as if it was another world altogether by now. St, Etienne, France 30th June, 1998. Kick-off (CEST): In keeping with barrack room hierarchies, Shearer would remain the spearhead. 765 vs. Argentina : Tuesday, 30 June 1998 World Cup 1998 Finals Second Phase Round of Sixteen, match eight Argentina 2 England 2 [2-2] ... result: Argentina 2 England 2: unused substitut es: 4-Hector Pineda, 6-Roberto Sensini (suspended), 12-German Burgos, 13-Pablo Paz, 15-Leonardo Astrada, 17-Pablo Cavellero, 18-Abel Balbo, 21-Marcelo Delgado. Batistuta WATCH MORE: The guy who's partied with Aguero, Mbappe and Neymar, The guy who's partied with Aguero, Mbappe and Neymar. From the early moments Argentina’s game is all depth and layers and short vertical passes, looking to find space between England’s more rigid lines. Cut to the England bench and Merson is standing up shouting: “Whata farkin goal!” The England players hug Owen tenderly, reverently, as though aware of their own status as guests in this moment. But this was also a fine England team: progressively managed, crammed with talent, beaten on the details; and playing, as ever, with the feeling of ghosts on the pitch. Players begin to adapt mid-game, to read the situation. With Beckham the paradox remains that he was a very good, consistent footballer, and above all a hardworking and diligent pro, albeit one whose celebrity would continually intrude from the sidelines. B. 35,500. Roa is also worrying. 1998 World Cup Finals, St, Etienne, France, 30th June, 1998, England 2 v Argentina 2, (Argentina win 4-3 on penalties), The electronic scoreboard shows the score after the penalty shoot-out (Photo by Bob Thomas Sports Photography via Getty Images), FRANCE - JUNE 30: WM FRANCE 98 ACHTELFINALE St.Etienne; ARGENTINIEN - ENGLAND 6:5 n.E. (Argentina win 4-3 on penalties). Simeone falls backwards. His four strikers were Alan Shearer, Michael Owen, Teddy Sheringham and Les Ferdinand, which meant Hoddle could afford to omit two of the Premier League’s joint top-scorers that season, Dion Dublin and Chris Sutton (Owen being the third). Paradoxically it is this period of possession, the white shirts shrinking back, that creates the outstanding moment of England’s World Cup. the second half and overtime to push the match to a penalty shootout. 8.00pm BST, Commentator::Brian MooreBrian Moore Owen finally gets the ball in a deep central area with 11 minutes left and is battered to the ground by Ayala. They have a weapon Argentina can’t contain. Zoom out and Owen in Saint-Étienne speaks to a domestic league in a state of voracious transformation, a nation entering its own plastic boom times, football poised to assail and overwhelm every other aspect of popular culture. Holland 2 vs. Argentina 1 in the 1998 World Cup Information about the 1/4 Finals game played in the 1998 Soccer World Cup between the National Teams of Argentina and Holland with details about goals, starters and reserves, substitutions, cards and more. Argentina vs England. In addition to Beckham's red card, referee Nielsen issued yellow cards But it is also there in the pattern of the game. Simeone comes off, injured and furious, but keeps popping back on in full kit during the breaks to scream at his teammates. With the score tied at 2-2, David Beckham was sent off for kicking Diego Simeone in retaliation. But then this was a World Cup stuffed full of brilliant footballers. time. But, of course, it wasn’t always like this. Owen has at times seemed a remote figure in the years since. The obvious answer is that Argentina play Owen well from here. Why didn’t they win this game? CNN/SI - Soccer World Cup 1998 Shearer had a good 25-yard free kick in the Ortega, meanwhile, is free to float and create, and England are holding on as we enter stoppage time. Argentina were without Fernando Redondo, discarded by Daniel Passarella partly under the “no long hair” rule (also banned: homosexuality and earrings). Back in the early days of the Covid-19 lockdown there was a tendency to talk, hopefully, about the many opportunities for self-improvement confinement would provide. Adams comes out to intercept but just goes sailing by like a steamship as Ortega slips the ball between his legs. England desperately need to shut down Ortega. The last second-round match featured the first penalty This isn’t just Peak Owen. And he’s off now, heading towards his own little vision of the sublime. Argentina are awarded a free‑kick. One suggestion was that people would start reading James Joyce’s Ulysses, the most brilliant, and brilliantly difficult, novel of the 20th century. (ARG - ENG) ACHTELFINALE; JUBEL TEAM ARG nach dem Erreichen des Viertelfinales (Photo by Lutz Bongarts/Bongarts/Getty Images), FRANCE - JUNE 30: WM FRANCE 98 St.Etienne; ARGENTINIEN - ENGLAND 6:5 n.E. No matter, though. Seaman’s hair has become a single majestically sculpted and sodden mass, the kind of hair it takes three hours in the stylist’s chair to attain. Verón’s kick is a work of art but Merson puts his away easily. But you can see it in Saint-Étienne. Then from nowhere Argentina have a penalty. Campbell heads Anderton’s corner into the net and runs off celebrating, unaware that Argentina are breaking downfield behind him, the goal having been ruled out – correctly – for Shearer’s foul on Roa. shootout of the tournament. Scholes spots the mistake and heads the ball cleverly in behind them. This kind of goalkeeper is to be feared in a shootout. Kick-off Times; Kick-off times are converted to your local PC time. In spite of all of this history, it was not until the 1966 FIFA World Cup, held in and eventually won by England, that the rivalry picked up the sometimes bitter and fierce edge that it retains. This was just clever play. 9.00pm, Home > World Cups > 1998 > Results > Holland vs. Argentina. Relive the moment when Michael Owen scored an individual wonder goal to give England a 2-1 lead over Argentina at the 1998 World Cup. Game played in the . Referees - Watching it back without the brainswipe of empire-sad Angledribble flagwave (cod-Joyce translation: “without watching it as a fan”) two things are immediately clear. minute which Campbell deflected into a corner kick. England lost to Romania in the group stage but progressed thanks to a 2-0 defeat of Colombia. So how did that work out? Did it get any better than this? Later Argentina will play with two No 10s as Marcelo Gallardo comes on. Only a much easier one. History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. The ball breaks. For a few seconds the way Owen moved in that moment just sort of hangs there, like a glitch or a fluke. He takes the ball with a bravura flick of the heel, already on the move. but his weak shot from an angle on the right was easily covered by Batty directed his shot to the left side Freeze that frame for ever. Shearer makes a token effort to walk across Batistuta’s eyeline as he spots the kick, but the shot is low and hard enough to bounce in off Seaman’s hand. It’s 1-1 and for a moment the air looks too heavy to breathe. With 15 minutes gone Beckham takes the ball under pressure and plays an instant pass to Owen in the centre circle. Simeone annoys Ince, stamping across the area as Shearer waits to take the kick. England. We’re almost out of space. Ayala! twelve years, and so far, at 23 years and 59 days, the youngest. He tallied his fifth In the Fifa film Saint-Étienne looks beautiful as the teams walk out, a mix of lurid green and deep blue. Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman. But they will always be playing to their limits. F.A. Yearbook Scholes is trying to be three midfielders in one. We get a pan of the England bench as the game kicks off: teenage Rio Ferdinand, eager-looking Gareth Southgate, Paul Merson japing and laughing. (ARG - ENG) ACHTELFINALE; Schlussjubel ARG - v.lks. The decision is entirely correct. But he would spend the next 70 minutes wrestling with Chamot and Ayala, playing in their most comfortable spaces. Defender Thankfully we also have the online Fifa World Cup archive, Saint‑Étienne 1998, and England versus Argentina. : Marcelo GALLARDO, Trainer Alberto PASSARELLA und Diego SIMEONE - JUBEL - (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images), 1998 World Cup Finals, St, Etienne, France, 30th June, 1998, England 2 v Argentina 2, (Argentina win 4-3 on penalties), England 's coach Glenn Hoddle hugs Paul Ince after England were knocked out on penalties (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images), Copyright ©1994 - 2020 FIFA. Talent is being wasted in front of our eyes, overstretched by a confusion of roles. Ince and Batty is a stronger shield in exactly the place England are being hurt. quarterfinals with a 4-3 penalty shootout victory over England in England are 2-1 up. Simeone fouls Beckham, going through the back of him just over the halfway line. The headlines, the effigy-hanging, the idea of some debt to the nation to discharge: this was in itself the problem, the cultural baggage, a shared confusion exposed by a moment of error. Goalkeeper Carlos Roa stopped the final penalty shot taken by and Roa guessed correct, stopping the ball with both hands. Hoddle will have seen it. 1998 World Cup, 1/4 Finals. He smashes the ball past Carlos Roa and into the top corner, a nerveless, brilliant penalty kick. Ince has a wonderful half-hour of extra time, still running and dribbling and tackling. He has been accused of lacking a certain sense of wonder in his musings as a pundit. The 1998 FIFA World Cup, the sixteenth FIFA World Cup, was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. France 98 will be remembered by some as a waste of talent, an opportunity missed. This is a story of talent – England had a glut of it – and the way those small sporting variables, from elements of chance to mistakes magnified by pressure, end up framing the way the tale is told. He also has the Verón-style capacity to pass and keep the ball too, which he does, but not enough. individual effort from Michael Owen, who was set on his way from around When Owen does get the ball in space, around the half-hour, Chamot backs away just a little, keeping his body in line, forcing Owen to his left instead. Shearer and Owen up front. St, Etienne, France. Everyone is wide-eyed and glistening. He bombs forward, almost putting England 3-1 up, but screaming to himself as he watches his shot go wide. But then, the world was still new in 1998, the stage still there to be grabbed, footballers still pop star-ish figures; or indeed still capable of finding this a worthwhile pursuit. All rights reserved. You can watch a … They do something un-English. Moments after the restart Beckham is off the field and Saint-Étienne is providing another big fat note, another wormhole into the complete Joycean history of modern-day England football. Fourth official - Rune Pedersen, Norway. Beckham has simply been outsmarted by the 28-year-old captain of Argentina, a player who has been in Europe for six years at three different clubs, who is an absolute hard-nosed warrior of this kind of thing.