Abseits Guide to German Soccer

France - Germany 1:0


Match Number:	698
Date:		27.02.2001
Location:	Paris, France
Competition:	

FRANCE:
Barthez
Sagnol (60. Lizarazu), Desailly (77. Silvestre), Leboeuf, Candela
Petit, Vieira, Zidane (83. Makelele), Dugarry 
Wiltord (55. Pires), Anelka (60. Henry)  
 
GERMANY:
Kahn
Wörns, Jeremies, Linke
Rehmer (81. Frings), Hamann (46. Neuville), Ramelow, Ballack, Bode (90. 
Ziege)
Scholl, Jancker (67. Bierhoff)  
 
Attendance:   80,000 (sold out) 
Scoring:   1:0 Zidane (27.) 

Ref:   		Alfredo Trentalange (Italy) 
Yellow cards:	Scholl, Wörns

Despite the close scoreline, this was a crap German performance. The French totally dominated and only their usual goal scoring incompetance prevented them from annihilating the German squad. The World Champions had the DFB squad encircled, not that their opponents had any serious ideas about trying to make a game of it.

Abseits Guide to German Soccer