People often overlook Gascoigne's brilliant run that wins the final free kick. Right at the end of extra-time, he's still charging forward with the ball. ... like NO-ONE does for England today. Football is a simple game ... if you let the players play it.
Italia 90 is always a tournament seen through rose-tinted glasses. England scraped through the group stages only beating a poor Egypt team 1-0, saved by a superb Platt volley in the last minute in the second round, nearly beaten by Cameroon in the quarter finals but saved again by two Lineker penalties, finally their best performance was in the semi finals against West Germany where they were beaten on penalties.
I walked into work that morning, Australia, and had everyone tell me how lucky England were to win it because the Belgians hit the post twice. I pointed out that England had the ball in the net twice and that was what wins the game. In the first half, not shown in these highlights, John Barnes put one in the Belgian net and was ruled for offside. A replay showed how badly wrong that decision was, but you know, England and refereeing decisions in World Cup Finals, wouldn't be one without the Ref screwing England over.
Feels a bit like the Euros now. A very talented England side playing well beneath their level and being lucky to get through again after a bang average group stage.
I don’t understand why this David Platt goal doesn’t get more coverage. It’s an amazing goal with the ball coming over his shoulder like that and timing the volley and placing it too. Remarkable skill.
Right now I am watching this goal because I looked for it, I saw that game and I never forget this extraordinary goal. For me one of the best I've seen.
It was a World Cup of great and iconic moments for England (although the performances were much more patchy than we remember). Nonetheless Platt’s goal was never going to outshine Gaza’s tears, those two missed penalties, or the look on Sir Bobby’s face when the dream was over. But yeah, fantastic goal. Platt was *the* England hero during a particularly bleak few years, when Lineker retired, Gazza was infrequently available (and then not always trusted), Shearer wasn’t ready, Waddle was (insanely) binned, Barnes ruined by injury, and Ian Wright just not international quality. The performances were dreary, the results poor, and the future depressing. But you always knew Platty was likely to pop up and tuck away a crucial goal when England needed it.
yes they were the better team . England played well in 2 games, the 0-0 draw in the group stages against the Netherlands, and the 1-1 draw in the semi"s against Germany, apart from that ,England were ordinary
Italia 90 and USA 94. Two magical World Cups. Subsequent tournaments never had that special feel to them. Maybe it's just nostalgia. I was 7 and 11 at the time, respectively.
1 minute from penalty's and this happened, the most traumatic end for me as a Belgium supporter..... literally put me out of breath for 5 minutes........and i hate David Platt since then.....😊
this euros reminds me of this tournament, england were crap in every game apart from the semi, saved by platts quality late goal here, as were by judes.
На этом чемпионате мира Англия должна была сатть чемпионом.Команда которая заслужила .Но не повезло.Немцы на голову ниже.Аргентина должна была играть в финале с Англией.
A truly unique goal of great class and difficulty. Timing extraordinaire. The look on Linekers' face says it all " did that just happen or am I dreaming?"
Last night's goal by Bellingham took me back to this Platt volley from 1990. I felt exactly the same way that night as I did last night. “Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting.” George Orwell
We had four players who could beat a man for skill with the ball at their feet, and two who could find space in the box to tuck away a half-chance. Graham Taylor, rest his soul, was a terrible choice for the next manager.
All three group games were absolute dross (actually, all six, as the other matches in the group which didn’t involve England were terrible too). England started to play a bit when the knock-out stages began. It suited us, even if both Belgium and Cameroon could have knocked us out with something to spare if the dice had landed just a little differently.
And my word, they were bitter. "We were the only side who played football" think that was Enzo Sciffo...forgive spelling. Another Belgian Golden Generation. Oops!
@@stephenreeds3632 How lucky were they in 1986 against Soviet Union with those two offside goals that Stevie Wonder would have flagged as off and the Barnes goal in this match was so onside, i could see it without my glasses..Yeah,i agree it was a sickening way to lose a match..
You say that, in the next round Cameroon outplayed us and we were looking like going out until two Lineker dives. 😂The semi-final with Germany was pretty even, but we stunk this WC out almost as hard as we're stinking the current Euros, but not quite, haha. TBF, in terms of entertainment, it was one of the poorest WC there's been.
i think the Cameron game was one of the most absorbing contests ive ever seen...Belguim were a class outfit...and Germany match..shown that England side could match arguably the best team in the world all the way..i think they were even with the Germans with shots on target at the end..they was nothing fake abouyt that 1990 England team or squad..but Bobby Robson never understood how to play Waddle and Barnes together..
That can't be true. The titleless Harry Maguire reached WC semi n euro final. Surely Maguire with his superb leaderships ability n innovative no look defending skills are better than this group of England players.
England were awful in the first round. The Holland game was slightly better but in truth both England and Holland were pretty uninspiring. Then lucky to get past Belgium and Cameroon, and because the pattern is always that England go out to the first top previous winner of the World Cup team they face, they managed to get to the semis, a very unusual occurrence. Then a good, spirited performance against Germany, the reason that makes England fans think England were great as a whole in that WC but they weren’t.
This was an excellent match - both teams going for it - but a bit of Gazza & Platty magic setting up a winner for us.... Barnesy was unlucky having a goal chalked off for offside.
Imagine him on todays carpet pitches against the current poor crop of defenders in the world game...who also arnt allowed to tackle these days...he & Gazza would be unstoppable
The WC90 England under dear uncle Sir Bobby and the Euro96 squad under Venables were very exciting to watch. They could have made it to the finals for those 2 squads. They had magic and grit.
they were humiliated by cameroon in the quarter finals.and lost to italy 3-1 in the 3rd place game. if it wasn’t for scandalous refereeing they would of been out and should been out vs cameroon
They were always political. What do you think Mussolini was doing, openly interfering in the 1934 tournament and conspiring to do whatever he could to (successfully) help Italy win the World Cup? I think we can file it under ‘politics’.
Shilton era bravissimo , vecchio ma tra i migliori portieri del mondo...peccato per quella mega papera contro italia merda...ma tanto quella era una partita segnata l'italia doveva vincerla RUBANDO ma vincerla
I was 11 years old and stayed up a bit later with my mom and dad to watch it and it went even later because of the extra time and then that beautiful Platt volley, what a goal.. Great world cup campaign by us Italia 1990 was ❤
Belgian commentator : "I like you Mr Mikkelsen but that's not good. Gascoyne is going to put his heart and strenght, no, it's a lob ball, volley and... 2' of silence It's unfair, it's terrible Ladies and Gentlemen, goal of Platt. Belgium played so well, they didn't deserve to lose. What to say, it's football, you got to score..." That silence was the finest way to describe Belgium football world in that very moment.
@@hywodnsu I'm talking about the football quality of a team, I'm not talking about success and trophies. Many times they don't go concurrently Take It easy.
If this match had gone to penalties Belgium would have won. They had the best goalkeeper in the world. Shilton should not have been playing in this world cup,he was to old. But sadly Seaman was injured.
Seaman was only narrowly third choice. Chris Woods was understudy and there was precisely zero clamour in 1990 for Seaman to even be second choice, still less dislodge Shilton (who I agree was over the hill). In 18 games since Euro 88, Shilton had conceded just seven goals. Sticking with Shilton was a rationale decision, albeit Graham Taylor’s efforts to convince him not to retire were… misplaced.
@@kailashpatel1706 For someone who played for England for nearly a decade, and went to four tournaments, Chris Woods is almost entirely forgotten today. Kinda wild, but seems like he's had a good coaching career and he comes across as an OK guy.
England have been technically superior for most of those 30 years though, Belgium spent decades in the doldrums. Even now with Belgium's recent renaissance, there's not much between them.
Incomplete highlights .. Belgium wasted more chances to score .. Jan Ceulemans hit the upright later in the match and Belgium was the better side in this match .. Unfortunately .. if you fail to score .. all your brilliant attempts on goal mean nothing .. and football will always be as illogical as it used to be .. actually this Belgian team was far better than the one that reached the semi finals in Mexico 1986 .. but yet they failed to reach the quarter finals in Italy 1990 ..
