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Up-to-the-Second Score: Ireland 1, Spain 1 -- Fulltime AET (Spain wins 3-2 on penalties) MATCH REPORT
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MENDIETA SCORES FOR SPAIN. Spain wins 3-2 on penalties and advances to a quarterfinal against either Italy or South Korea. Ireland is eliminated. |
FINNAN SCORES FOR IRELAND. 2-2 |
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VALERON MISSES FOR SPAIN. 1-2 |
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KILBANE MISSES FOR IRELAND. 1-2 |
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JUANFRAN MISSES FOR SPAIN. 1-2 |
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CONNOLLY MISSES FOR IRELAND. 1-2 |
BARAJA SCORES FOR SPAIN. 1-2 |
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HOLLAND MISSES FOR IRELAND. 1-1 |
HIERRO SCORES FOR SPAIN. 1-1 |
KEANE SCORES FOR IRELAND. 1-0 |
| Penalty Shootout |
120' - The final whistle. Ireland draws 1-1 with Spain. The match will be settled by a penalty shootout, with five kicks each and then sudden-death kicks if required.
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119' - Duff runs into the box, beating Mendieta but his cross is well read by Helguera. |
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118' - Puyol takes his time to deliver a long throw into the Irish box, but no danger for the Irish.
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116' - Another Spanish freekick within crossing range. But Mendieta fails to clear the first Irish defender. |
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114' - Spain keeps the pressure on with another corner, headed clear by Cunningham.
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113' - Finnan concedes a Spanish freekick for pulling near goalline. It's crossed dangerously and a mass of players jump for the ball but an Irish head clears. |
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111' - Ireland breaks forward quickly, Connolly running straight at the Spanish defense and firing a low shot inches wide of the left post.
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111' - Baraja drives a low shot, forcing a good save from Given. |
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109' - Spain wins a freekick on right edge of Irish box. Hierro tries to bend a shot around the wall but hits the Irish defenders.
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107' - Quinn flicks on for Keane to volley but it's wide of the right post. |
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106' - Keane's shot deflected over for a corner. Casillas makesa good punch to clear it.
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105' - Ireland kicks off. A penalty shootout is 15 minutes away unless either side can break the deadlock. |
| Extra Time -- Second Period |
105' - Referee Frisk ends the first 15 minutes of extra time.
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103' - Ireland is dominating play in midfield. Duff clips a deep cross for Keane to shoot but it's well blocked. |
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101' - Puyol concedes a freekick for obstruction wide on left. Kilbane tries to catch out Casillas with an early shot but he drives over the bar.
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98' - A long ball into the box bounces up for Kilbane to hit with a high volley. But he can't get over it and his weak shot is collected by Casillas. |
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97' - Keane and Kilbane combine to win a corner on left. Breen heads the deep cross back across goal and Spain clears.
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95' - Nice play by Duff on the right gets the ball forward to the Spanish box but Connolly can't work a shooting chance. |
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93' - Mendieta wins a corner for Spain but it's comfortably cleared by Ireland.
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90' - Spain kicks off extra time. The next goal wins. |
| Extra Time |
90 +4' - Keane's late penalty for Ireland sends the game into golden goal extra time.
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90 +2' - Ireland is finishing the 90 minutes stronger, with Connolly firing a shot over the bar. |
90' - GOAL TO IRELAND! Keane drives the ball hard into the left corner.
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89' - PENALTY TO IRELAND! Hierro booked for pulling Quinn's shirt in the box. Keane to take... |
87' - Baraja booked for time-wasting, kicking the ball away at an Irish freekick.
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84' - Keane runs on to a flick on from Quinn but his flick at the high-bouncing ball is blocked by a charging Casillas. Both players are hurt as they collide. |
80' - Luque replaces Raul for Spain. Connolly comes on in place of Harte for Ireland.
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79' - Duff sends Casillas sprawling at full stretch to his left with a low drive from the edge of the box. The keeper still can't reach it but it shaves the outside of the post on its way out for a goalkick. |
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77' - Harte lines up an Irish freekick from 30 yards, but Keane tries to head it on and deflects it over the bar.
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76' - Spain is happy to keep possession until Holland brings down Mendieta for a freekick. |
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71' - Albelda replaces Morientes for Spain. Given is forced to kick away inside his six-yard box from Raul's shot.
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69' - Cunningham swings a freekick into the Spanish box from the left but it's cleared by Baraja. |
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68' - Raul put the ball in the net with a nice finish on the turn from the edge of the box but the linesman's flag is up for offside.
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67' - Mendieta's first contribution is a dangerous cross from left but Mendieta is just short of getting his head to it. |
64' - Mendieta is on for de Pedro.
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62' - Casillas dives to the left to block Harte's kick. He hit it well but too close to the keeper. Cunningham is first to rebound but he shoots wide. |
61' - PENALTY TO IRELAND! Juanfran brings down the dangerous Duff in the box and collects a booking. Harte steps up...
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61' - Duff beats his man to send a dangerous cross to the back post, but Hierro reads the danger and heads clear. |
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59' - Another Spanish corner off Finnan. Spain elects to keep possession, playing it back towards midfield.
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57' - Cunningham concedes a corner. Hierro gets away from marker Quinn but he can't keep his header down. |
54' - Big center forward Quinn comes on for Kelly.
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53' - Ireland, pressed forward by Duff and Keane, is enjoying plenty of possession around the Spanish box but without making a clean cut chance. |
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49' - Casillas advances a long way from his goal to catch a deep cross but the teenage keeper collides with Puyol, dropping the ball for Kilbane who fires a shot at goal. But Hierro is covering the goal and clears off the line.
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49' - Staunton, hurt earlier in the game, makes way for Cunningham. |
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46' - Raul, creating problems for the Irish defense, sends Morientes in with a back heel. Morientes drives a hard shot from the edge of the box but it's solidly blocked by the advancing Given.
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45' - Spain kicks off second half. |
| Second Half |
45 +2' - The Swedish referee brings the half to a close. Spain leads Ireland, 1-0, on Morientes' header.
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42' - Holland opens up the Spanish defense with a lobbed pass towards Keane. But the ball bounces too high for Keane to control and he hurriedly flicks it high over the bar as the Spanish defense advances to close down the chance. |
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41' - Staunton tries to flick a header back to Given but there's too much pace on it and it goes out for a corner. Well cleared by Kilbane.
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37' - Deep cross from right by Kelly expertly headed away by Puyol underneath the far post to deny the charging Kilbane a header on goal. |
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34' - Hierro's back header fails to find Casillas and goes out for a corner. Ireland takes short and Hierro concedes a second corner as Duff runs into box. This time it's taken deep and cleared by Spain from Kelly's header back into the area.
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32' - Duff breaks down left and cuts a cross towards near post but it's cut out by Helguera. |
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30' - Holland makes a diving header to deny Morientes a shooting chance on a deep cross from de Pedro. Ireland gets it clear but Spain is starting to get the upper hand with its crisp passing.
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23' - A lapse in the Irish defense is pounced on by Spain. Morientes and Raul combine to send in Luis Enrique to finish but the Barca man is just offside and it won't count. |
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18' - Finnan and de Pedro are warned to cool it by referee Frisk after squaring up to another.
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16' - Ireland continues to press forward, dominating possession. Keane tries a shot from way outside the box but he scuffs his kick and it bobbles wide along the ground. |
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14' - Duff sets up Kinsella to shoot from edge of box but he drives the ball high over the bar.
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8' - GOAL TO SPAIN! Puyol swings in a cross from right and Morientes jumps to flash a 10-yard header across Given into the bottom left corner. |
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5' - Duff causes problems for Spain down the right, winning a corner. But it's taken short and Spain clears. A bright start by Ireland though.
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2' - Keane cuts inside Puyol after a nice move down Irish and curls a shot to the far post but it drifts wide. |
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1' - Early word from referee Frisk for Puyol following
foul on Kilbane.
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1' - Ireland kicks off in Suwon. A quarterfinal against South Korea or Italy awaits the winner.
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Kickoff at 7:30 a.m. EDT; 11:30 a.m. GMT. Winner goes
to the quarterfinals; loser goes home. Spain in red,
Ireland in white. (All references to "right" and "left"
are from the perspective of the attacking team, unless
otherwise noted.)
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