Whilst this game and the euro 96 win over Holland were my best memories of England performing as they should.I think this game edges it as the best match as it had the best ever referee in all world football.. How I miss pierluigi collina, man never took any shit... top referee.
I was working a lot in Germany at the time. One of my German colleagues had a fantastic sense of humour - on the following Monday he said to me: 'there was a huge black man in a bright white shirt in a stadium with 10 million candle power lights: the only people in the whole stadium who couldn't see him were the German defence'.
God do I remember this game me and a mate went down Bournemouth for the weekend this game was on a Saturday we stayed in the b&b to watch this game before we went in to town and hit the clubs.....wat a wicked night that was we were on such a high because of this game they were the days. Oh yeah and we were watching it on tiny color TV didn't have the big flat screens that you get today
Yes I always thought between 96 and 2006 they shouve won something or at least got to a final, when you assess everything fairly we were amongst the top 3-4 nations talent wise and only ever lost on penalty shootouts, which exposed our physical preparation, mental preparation. The England phyche of the players meant they were more frightened of themselves than the opposition, which is usually what happened
Yes. Agreed. From America. Ok, born Lancashire. Apparently our young 23 year average age squad that did final four last world cup were better than England's best ever. Your lampards, Gerrard, beckhams, rooney's, the lot. Weird and sad. Who else thinks that in football it takes a bit of luck? And especially with the England national team, way too much pressure for the veterans.?
Incredie the quality of Beckhams Crossing with his left foot, totally bamboozled the green team, as they had trained for right foot cross's. One of the main reasons they were outclassed in this match
A truly great performance by England, in Germany's back yard too. I think when Jancker scored the Germans expected victory. Our team kept their cool and destroyed them from top to bottom. Brilliant goal from Gerrard, and Beckham was superb. Owen showed his great talent and Emile Heskey was terrific. Good save from David Seaman too. I don't think Sven Goran Eriksson could quite believe it. 5️⃣1️⃣🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Great British Gerrard goal just before half time! Gerald Asamoah, the first black man to pull on a German shirt! My, oh my, how times have changed! And not necessarily for the better!
Watching during the CoronaVirus isolation of March 2020, amazing game. Football's certainty evolved since then in terms of quality. Outstanding performance from Beckham to think he was carrying an injury into the game, didn't stop for the whole 90 minutes
Yep, likewise. Covid 19 has forced me to dredge through the You Tube vaults. Glad I watched this one though. Good overall performance. Not often we score 5 goals especially away!!
So hard being beaten in the own field by this large score... So in 2014 World Cup we brazilians have tasted this bitter taste after the match against Germany, and it was even worse: 1 × 7!😢
I think England played very well but honestly they got as far as they could in 2002, Brazil were too good..They beat Argentina and Denmark so they had a good tournament..
England at that time had a great team and could've gone all the way to the final. It was just unfortunate that they met the "best" team in the quarters.
Great performance if slightly messy from England, I feel our recent matches against Spain and Croatia were as good as this one, even the scoreline suggests differently. It was fun spotting all those now-famous/retired names, Heskey scored one of his rare goals etc. His celebration was pretty cool too. What are up with whose digital graphics e.g. the coats of arms on the pitch, the circle when a free kick is given? Not complaining about them, just curious why the BBC didn't appear to use them again.
I remember watching this match live on bbc one and i had doubts about the fact how easily england beat germany, it almost felt like as if the match was fixed but well done to the boys for making it one of the most historical wins ever.... 🏴🖐😁👎
What a save from Seaman on the 45 min mark when the game was in the balance shame history will try and white wash what a great servant David Seaman was for his country.
In the grand scheme of things this was not a good result. England rested on their laurels winning nothing of significance, while Germany revolutionised their production line of young players and coaches: walloping England in 2010 and then winning the world cup in 2014.
The Derby County flag just reminded me of just how good a striker Kevin Hector was! Has there been a more prolific goalscorer in English football? I would love to hear of him!
this match was actually dubbed as the Germany v Liverpool because all the 5 goals were scored by Liverpool players, and to think 7 nights before this game Liverpool beat Bayern Munich in the European super cup 3-2 so this was twice German players were humiliated by Liverpool players
51:53 Commercial for "Oddset", one of the gambling services provided at the time by Svenska spel, which is owned by the Swedish government. Another thing which could further deepen just how important the Swedish government considered this game to be is that Sweden actually played a game simultaneously to this, yet it was the England game which was televised on a channel deemed "public service", mandatory pay for all owners of a TV set within Sweden's borders. Those obligated to pay for England's game but not for Sweden's (or Denmark's for that matter) included people in territories which were given up to Sweden by the Danes in 1658. Although these regions were under Danish rule longer than they were under the Swedish that is often neglected in public debate. Personally I actually do support England and this game is sensational, but I think that the Swedish government should admit openly that we are part of NATO and thus that the cause of the British is also our cause. Cultural bonds should be respected and those who don't respect it should have their limbs cut off piece by piece.
You've got to be joking. The generation back then was more empty than now. Fed up with hearing about that 'golden generation'. We had fantastic players, but they achieved nothing in competition.
To date, the England national team has won 3 times against Germany in competitive events: 1. England 4-2 West Germany (World Cup 1966) 2. England 1-0 Germany (Euro 2000) 3. England 2-0 Germany (Euro 2020)
It was a brilliant performance from England, but they never built on it, so I for one can't look back on this with my affection. The defeat by England was a wake up for the Germany FA there changed their hierarchy, coaches from top to bottom etc, & since 2001, they got the a World title, few other finals, semi-finals & even their U-21's have won three U-21 European Championship since. After this victory we all said England would win the next world Cup instead England have gone backwards.
@@robertroberts2666 it still amazes me that Reid wasn't picked for this game. Why leave your best player out? Also, why wasn't Trevor Cherry England captain at the 2018 World Cup?
Being WM Quali makes it unimportant :( I love sometimes the "highlights" of the best World Cup Semi-Finale... 2014, Germany vs Brazil I remember a late 90's or early 2000's Champions League Finale, Bayern did lead 2:0 a few mins to go...against Manchester? I go away, come back a bit later, and its 3:2 for ManU... lol, I think Bayern made something like that themselfs too
Amazing England team. The only English player that is remotely near to this group of players in ability is Harry Kane. We need to sort ourselves out at the moment but it’s nice to come back and watch England boss Germany and actually win a good game.
Raheem sterling,tell me that's a joke mate he is shite,done fuck all for England goes missing /out of his depth whenever he comes up against the top sides, it is all very well turning up for the shite qualifying matches,he got lucky playing with great players at city.
I had forgotten about the National Anthems for this game. I don't think God Save The Queen has ever been sung this way before or since? The singer really did send her victorious... Wembley crowd should sing it this way today - could bring us a bit of luck (or at the least gives our fans another verse to sing)!
What a pity it wasn't another L F C player.. ie DIDI HAMMAN.. to score for the Germans.. What a bit if L F C trivia that would have been... BARMBY.. MACMANAMAN.. JUST A PITTY CARRA' DIDN'T GET A GAME..
Becks may have exceeded Bobby Moore's record for English caps but he wasn't half the player that Moore was! And he never lifted the Jules Rimet trophy either!
I was in DC and I had to tell my American brother in law that there was something going that afternoon and I had to go.... He got it a few years later when he got in to Football...
I'll beat that. I'm swedish and was in a bierstube in southern Germany (with my german girlfriend). Always a fan of english football and with team England coached by SGE, I was shouting......all alone LOL
@@markstevenson7577 Tyvm, but actually my gf had to take the brunt of it, explaining for a (thinning...) crowd of germans that I was the "dumme schweden", "stupid swede" ;) Hmm...I don't recall any sex that night though :P
So the best player in this era is ; David Seaman followed by Owen then Cole, Beckham, Neville. The rest were just adequate including that somewhat rated MU red-head mid-fielder.
"The Germans were so confident about automatic qualification that they'd booked international friendlies on the dates set for the play off matches" How did that work out lads? 😂😂
History Today (September 1) 1 September 2001: Germany 1-5 England (World Cup Qualification). England won a landslide victory over Germany 5-1 in Munich, Germany.
@@nicky29031977 No. It would have been a hollow win if we'd won the game but still not qualified. The finals in 2002 were separated enough in terms of time for our ultimate failure to win the cup not to devalue this result. It's still remembered as a great achievement, unlike e.g. our win against Germany at Euro 2000, which certainly was a hollow victory.
@@robicenco1 Anyway it was a qualifier and not a victory in the tournament proper itself. If they'd come up against each other in S Korea the Germans would have whip lashed the English. They only lost this game at home because they took it too lightly, especially knowing they could still qualify via the playoffs which they did by thrashing the Ukraine.
33:40 what a pass from Beckham. And is there an England striker these days who would take a chance on like that, on his weaker side? Even Harry Kane included I doubt it.
+Lyndon Edwards Unless they're absolutely shit, any naturally right footed player would've taken that chance on with their left foot. It dropped nicely to volley and he didn't do anything I wouldn't expect a half decent player to do in that situation, even on his weaker side. It wasn't a chance that he had to score but to not attempt it would've been very worrying. It's left footers in general that are really disabled with their right foot and so reluctant to use it. If the chance was on the right side of the goal, it's highly likely that a left footed player would prefer to keep hold of the ball and try to get it onto their stronger foot with the risk of either losing the ball or just purely wasting the opportunity by not shooting when they had the chance. Another thing they'd do which can be just as bad is pass it backwards instead of taking the shot on. All this is based on watching many football games and easily noticing that so frequently with left-footers, they do it multiple times per game, make the wrong decision purely because they can't use both feet which is criminal for a footballer really.
RIP Sven... You and the lads gave us England supporters a night we will NEVER forget!
Whilst this game and the euro 96 win over Holland were my best memories of England performing as they should.I think this game edges it as the best match as it had the best ever referee in all world football..
How I miss pierluigi collina, man never took any shit... top referee.
I was working a lot in Germany at the time. One of my German colleagues had a fantastic sense of humour - on the following Monday he said to me: 'there was a huge black man in a bright white shirt in a stadium with 10 million candle power lights: the only people in the whole stadium who couldn't see him were the German defence'.
yeah but tell us the story by the guy with the great sense of humour
LOL LOL.
God do I remember this game me and a mate went down Bournemouth for the weekend this game was on a Saturday we stayed in the b&b to watch this game before we went in to town and hit the clubs.....wat a wicked night that was we were on such a high because of this game they were the days. Oh yeah and we were watching it on tiny color TV didn't have the big flat screens that you get today
What a group of players England had then compared to now. Terrible they never reached a major final.
Yes I always thought between 96 and 2006 they shouve won something or at least got to a final, when you assess everything fairly we were amongst the top 3-4 nations talent wise and only ever lost on penalty shootouts, which exposed our physical preparation, mental preparation. The England phyche of the players meant they were more frightened of themselves than the opposition, which is usually what happened
i s'pose even heskey was on form at the time...
Yes. Agreed. From America. Ok, born Lancashire.
Apparently our young 23 year average age squad that did final four last world cup were better than England's best ever. Your lampards, Gerrard, beckhams, rooney's, the lot.
Weird and sad.
Who else thinks that in football it takes a bit of luck?
And especially with the England national team, way too much pressure for the veterans.?
BB42 fifa seen to that how many times we were robbed is ridiculous😡
“Trifik groowup uv pliars”
Incredie the quality of Beckhams Crossing with his left foot, totally bamboozled the green team, as they had trained for right foot cross's. One of the main reasons they were outclassed in this match
For Owen's third goal, the ball just kind of "sails" into the net, the same as it did when he scored against Argentina in 1998. Very nice. :-)
Steven Gerrard magnificent in this game. Him, Beckham and Scholes a dream combination in midfield.
A truly great performance by England, in Germany's back yard too.
I think when Jancker scored the Germans expected victory.
Our team kept their cool and destroyed them from top to bottom.
Brilliant goal from Gerrard, and Beckham was superb.
Owen showed his great talent and Emile Heskey was terrific.
Good save from David Seaman too.
I don't think Sven Goran Eriksson could quite believe it.
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Great British Gerrard goal just before half time!
Gerald Asamoah, the first black man to pull on a German shirt!
My, oh my, how times have changed! And not necessarily for the better!
Im fairly sure West Germany had a black striker, the son of an American GI, who played once or twice in the early 70s.
I used to watch this every week growing up.. literally every week 😂 a dvd came free with a copy of the The Sun😂😂
Watching during the CoronaVirus isolation of March 2020, amazing game. Football's certainty evolved since then in terms of quality. Outstanding performance from Beckham to think he was carrying an injury into the game, didn't stop for the whole 90 minutes
Yep, likewise. Covid 19 has forced me to dredge through the You Tube vaults. Glad I watched this one though. Good overall performance. Not often we score 5 goals especially away!!
Remember this clearly. We had just beaten Northallerton 3-0 in the FA Cup, and stopped off at Skipton to watch this in the Castle Inn. Great night
15:30 1-0
21:30 1-1
57:40 1-2
1:03:00 1-3
1:21:00 1-4
1:28:30 1-5
it was a 90 min game?
Can watch this over and over!!
You know you've had a bad day at the office when Lord Emile Heskey scores against you
And it was a tap in 😂
Ww have had great players for many decades whats been missing is that certain manager and consistincy.
Great to see just a pity the video couldn't be rendered/uploaded at a higher res. 240p??
It started out good for us but England had a great team. Deserved win for sure.
So hard being beaten in the own field by this large score... So in 2014 World Cup we brazilians have tasted this bitter taste after the match against Germany, and it was even worse: 1 × 7!😢
£150 black market prices. That would be the cheapest ticket today.
I Had This on VHS 📼 ⚽️🇩🇪🏴
Scholes Gerrard..should never have broken that partnership up!
Needed some inspiration with 2 days to go before Russia 2018, so I ended up here. Come on you Lions!!!
I think England played very well but honestly they got as far as they could in 2002, Brazil were too good..They beat Argentina and Denmark so they had a good tournament..
England at that time had a great team and could've gone all the way to the final. It was just unfortunate that they met the "best" team in the quarters.
You mean Brasil
a potentially great team who played shit and won nothing for decades. i was never impressed by that bullshit
Not a fan of any domestic teams but there were a few in this England team that would walk into a vest anywhere
The only time that team reached its potential!😭
The passion in mottys voice!!! Go on lad!
Great performance if slightly messy from England, I feel our recent matches against Spain and Croatia were as good as this one, even the scoreline suggests differently. It was fun spotting all those now-famous/retired names, Heskey scored one of his rare goals etc. His celebration was pretty cool too.
What are up with whose digital graphics e.g. the coats of arms on the pitch, the circle when a free kick is given? Not complaining about them, just curious why the BBC didn't appear to use them again.
I remember watching this match live on bbc one and i had doubts about the fact how easily england beat germany, it almost felt like as if the match was fixed but well done to the boys for making it one of the most historical wins ever.... 🏴🖐😁👎
a fitting tribute to the late great john Motson . god bless motty
The Best antidepressant on earth when you feel down unless you are German of course , works for me everytime
It works for me too. And I´m German! German football from 1998-2004 was so bad, it was funny. The notorious Rumpelfußball era🥲
@@Abnsdllnnlosnfd Thanks mate you have great sense of humour
Rip John Motson
And after that we almost lost at home to Greece. Eng in a nutshell.
Owen, Gerrard, Owen, Owen, Hesky, All Liverpool players at that time.
All three Owens? lol
Poor recording great match.
Thanks for upload.
What a save from Seaman on the 45 min mark when the game was in the balance shame history will try and white wash what a great servant David Seaman was for his country.
Seaman might be right behind churchill in history .
seaman imo was one of the top 5 best keepers for england
@@joecook5689 TWAT
@@raidenwaranes1898 you're a twat
@@raidenwaranes1898 just might think Joe Cook is having a laugh
In the grand scheme of things this was not a good result. England rested on their laurels winning nothing of significance, while Germany revolutionised their production line of young players and coaches: walloping England in 2010 and then winning the world cup in 2014.
Now England have done the same
@array s I mean brought through youth
RIP Motty, John Motson
The Derby County flag just reminded me of just how good a striker Kevin Hector was! Has there been a more prolific goalscorer in English football? I would love to hear of him!
Dixie Dean... Jimmy Greaves.
Ray Crawford... Brian Clough
Apart from Deans, Clough, Crawford and Greaves that is! You have to admit that he was some striker though!
Even your most ardent Notts Forest fans cannot, surely, deny Kevin Hector his place amongst England's greatest goal getters?
A truly unsung English hero along with Leeds Allan "Sniffer" Clarke!
this match was actually dubbed as the Germany v Liverpool because all the 5 goals were scored by Liverpool players, and to think 7 nights before this game Liverpool beat Bayern Munich in the European super cup 3-2 so this was twice German players were humiliated by Liverpool players
Liverpool the Celtic of England 🇬🇧
Ref Collina aka Pinhead. Surely the scariest dude on planet earth at the time.
I was watching drunk in a pub in Majorca. Great memories
I remember that game as well and my childhood favourite footballer Michael Owen scored a hat trick!!!
51:53 Commercial for "Oddset", one of the gambling services provided at the time by Svenska spel, which is owned by the Swedish government. Another thing which could further deepen just how important the Swedish government considered this game to be is that Sweden actually played a game simultaneously to this, yet it was the England game which was televised on a channel deemed "public service", mandatory pay for all owners of a TV set within Sweden's borders. Those obligated to pay for England's game but not for Sweden's (or Denmark's for that matter) included people in territories which were given up to Sweden by the Danes in 1658. Although these regions were under Danish rule longer than they were under the Swedish that is often neglected in public debate. Personally I actually do support England and this game is sensational, but I think that the Swedish government should admit openly that we are part of NATO and thus that the cause of the British is also our cause. Cultural bonds should be respected and those who don't respect it should have their limbs cut off piece by piece.
Ok
David Beckham! The role model for today's blank generation!
Tattooed freak.
You've got to be joking. The generation back then was more empty than now. Fed up with hearing about that 'golden generation'. We had fantastic players, but they achieved nothing in competition.
BB42 agreed. we did nothing in that era ! Actually this was a typical crap performance, 7 breaks 6 goals !
To date, the England national team has won 3 times against Germany in competitive events:
1. England 4-2 West Germany (World Cup 1966)
2. England 1-0 Germany (Euro 2000)
3. England 2-0 Germany (Euro 2020)
uno de los mejores partidos que he visto
saludos desde Talca, Chile
Like Motty says, I remember exactly where I was watching this again...
heskey s role in limiting Harmann is key
Great
It was a brilliant performance from England, but they never built on it, so I for one can't look back on this with my affection.
The defeat by England was a wake up for the Germany FA there changed their hierarchy, coaches from top to bottom etc, & since 2001, they got the a World title, few other finals, semi-finals & even their U-21's have won three U-21 European Championship since.
After this victory we all said England would win the next world Cup instead England have gone backwards.
I hope the Iceland defeat is our equivalent
Rodi Voller is Ian Rush's twins.
Good match to watch.!
Great performance just thought peter Reid should of played instead of gerard just my opinion
No argument with that! Peter Reid was one of the best English midfielders of the time!
@@robertroberts2666 it still amazes me that Reid wasn't picked for this game. Why leave your best player out?
Also, why wasn't Trevor Cherry England captain at the 2018 World Cup?
Lucky enough to be there,all the great ones,Aggie’s in Sapporo,Germany in Charleroi
Argies
Khan, Wörns ... a right khan of wörns!
Being WM Quali makes it unimportant :( I love sometimes the "highlights" of the best World Cup Semi-Finale... 2014, Germany vs Brazil
I remember a late 90's or early 2000's Champions League Finale, Bayern did lead 2:0 a few mins to go...against Manchester? I go away, come back a bit later, and its 3:2 for ManU... lol, I think Bayern made something like that themselfs too
I would have liked to watch this fixture but knowing the score before watching.....why?
Amazing England team. The only English player that is remotely near to this group of players in ability is Harry Kane. We need to sort ourselves out at the moment but it’s nice to come back and watch England boss Germany and actually win a good game.
What of Rahem Sterling?
Raheem sterling,tell me that's a joke mate he is shite,done fuck all for England goes missing /out of his depth whenever he comes up against the top sides, it is all very well turning up for the shite qualifying matches,he got lucky playing with great players at city.
Germany had Rudi Voeller in charge then, and now after a 1-4 defeat to Japan have reappointed Voeller as interim boss
Heskey, he’s got the skills to pay the bills
Top day this, watched it in a heaving pub, then the Selector live for afters.
I had forgotten about the National Anthems for this game. I don't think God Save The Queen has ever been sung this way before or since? The singer really did send her victorious... Wembley crowd should sing it this way today - could bring us a bit of luck (or at the least gives our fans another verse to sing)!
Germany’s green kit let them down before a ball was kicked
60mins ''seaman's coming out
A week and a half later the towers came down. This was the end of the world.
Que paso con ese michael owen era un fenonemo ... a partir del 2004 se apago totalmente siendo todavia joven parecia otro
Las lesiones le jugaron en contra.
Germany were so much better after Asamoah came on after half time. 😋
Really? I mean really? They sucked n this game.
@@wednesdayk.7156 I say that tongue in cheek!
Looking back, this really was not a very strong Germany team... 👀
As Barry Davies would ask "Where were the Germans? But frankly, who cares?"
What a pity it wasn't another L F C player.. ie DIDI HAMMAN.. to score for the Germans.. What a bit if L F C trivia that would have been... BARMBY.. MACMANAMAN.. JUST A PITTY CARRA' DIDN'T GET A GAME..
The fifa anthem playing in the background
Becks may have exceeded Bobby Moore's record for English caps but he wasn't half the player that Moore was! And he never lifted the Jules Rimet trophy either!
Do I hear an Amen?
You're right, Beckham must kick himself daily that he never lifted the Jules Rimet trophy... 👀
I was in DC and I had to tell my American brother in law that there was something going that afternoon and I had to go.... He got it a few years later when he got in to Football...
On holiday in Golden Sands (Bulgaria) & outnumbered by the Germans 20/1 ....... What a night this was
I'll beat that. I'm swedish and was in a bierstube in southern Germany (with my german girlfriend). Always a fan of english football and with team England coached by SGE, I was shouting......all alone LOL
@@bennywallin5252 Hats off to you Benny that must've taken some guts to do that lol
@@markstevenson7577 Tyvm, but actually my gf had to take the brunt of it, explaining for a (thinning...) crowd of germans that I was the "dumme schweden", "stupid swede" ;) Hmm...I don't recall any sex that night though :P
So the best player in this era is ; David Seaman followed by Owen then Cole, Beckham, Neville. The rest were just adequate including that somewhat rated MU red-head mid-fielder.
Motty several times commenting that Germany are all over the place. Hence their anthem: “Deutschland,, Deutschland überalles”
I remember having this on video 👍
67.53 in: Could be the best ever win. Certainly in modern times for England over Germany. Certainly since the war.
Back when internet went through string and two paper cups
I’ve always wondered before half time going in 2-1 up was Collina going to blow up
1:31:15 brilliant from Gerrard 🤣🤣🤣
I am jeff
nice reffing from peter garret
"The Germans were so confident about automatic qualification that they'd booked international friendlies on the dates set for the play off matches"
How did that work out lads? 😂😂
1-0 Carsten Jancker (6 min)
1-1 Michael Owen (12 min)
1-2 Steven Gerrard (45+4 min)
1-3 Michael Owen (48 min)
1-4 Michael Owen (66 min)
1-5 Emile Heskey (74 min)
History Today (September 1)
1 September 2001: Germany 1-5 England (World Cup Qualification). England won a landslide victory over Germany 5-1 in Munich, Germany.
1 September 2001: Germany 1-5 England (World Cup Qualifiers). England won a landslide victory over Germany 5-1 in Munich, Germany.
A beautiful day 😍
I was there 😀⚽️
The shit Vogts-11.
Creepy times.
Liverpool 5 Germany 1 😁
ENGLAND 5, GERMANY 1. MICHAEL OWEN IS NUMBER ONE ♫
We were gonna win the world cup again lol.
In your dreams.
بريطانيا لديها عقده مزمنه في كرة القدم
I don't know why people make so much fuss about this game. In the end England only got to the quarter finals while Germany got to the final.
Oh come on, it was a famous win. Yes we didn't win the world cup but you can't blame us for enjoying this. Everyone thought Germany would spank us!
@@robicenco1 Still....it was a hollow victory overall!
Let them cheer up for a while.
@@nicky29031977 No. It would have been a hollow win if we'd won the game but still not qualified. The finals in 2002 were separated enough in terms of time for our ultimate failure to win the cup not to devalue this result. It's still remembered as a great achievement, unlike e.g. our win against Germany at Euro 2000, which certainly was a hollow victory.
@@robicenco1 Anyway it was a qualifier and not a victory in the tournament proper itself. If they'd come up against each other in S Korea the Germans would have whip lashed the English. They only lost this game at home because they took it too lightly, especially knowing they could still qualify via the playoffs which they did by thrashing the Ukraine.
33:40 what a pass from Beckham. And is there an England striker these days who would take a chance on like that, on his weaker side? Even Harry Kane included I doubt it.
+Lyndon Edwards
Unless they're absolutely shit, any naturally right footed player would've taken that chance on with their left foot. It dropped nicely to volley and he didn't do anything I wouldn't expect a half decent player to do in that situation, even on his weaker side. It wasn't a chance that he had to score but to not attempt it would've been very worrying. It's left footers in general that are really disabled with their right foot and so reluctant to use it. If the chance was on the right side of the goal, it's highly likely that a left footed player would prefer to keep hold of the ball and try to get it onto their stronger foot with the risk of either losing the ball or just purely wasting the opportunity by not shooting when they had the chance. Another thing they'd do which can be just as bad is pass it backwards instead of taking the shot on. All this is based on watching many football games and easily noticing that so frequently with left-footers, they do it multiple times per game, make the wrong decision purely because they can't use both feet which is criminal for a footballer really.
+Lyndon Edwards
But yeah great pass from Beckham, but pretty expected as well. It was what he was best at (along with his free-kicks).