Wger 1 bra 3 Motm - garrincha Eng 3 per 0 Motm- johnny haynes Swe 3 Hung 2 Motm- liedholm Ital 1 arg 1 Motm- sivori
Matchday 1: G1: G1: ENG vs PER. 2-0 Goals: Taylor MOTM: Taylor G2: HUN vs SWE 2-2 Goals: Puskas, Selmonsson, Skoglund, Albert. MOTM: Lennart Skoglund G2: ARG vs ITA 2-1 Goals: Costa, Sivori, Sivori MOTM: Sivori
Matchday 1: Group 1: ENG 2-2 PER Goals: Edwards, Finney, Seminario 2g MotM: Seminario Group 2: ARG 3-1 ITA Goals: Sívori 2g, Angelillo, Ghiggia MotM: Sívori I can't vote in my own matches (Bra-WGer and Hun-Swe)
Matchday 1 votes: England 4 (Edwards 37, Finney 52, Douglas 65, Taylor 80) Peru 2 (Terry 43, Joya 73) MOTM: Edwards Brazil 4 (Mazzola 22, Pele 35 & 58, Didi 84) W.Germany 2 (Seeler 61, Rahn 89) MOTM: Didi Argentina 3 (Sivori 33, Angelillo 76, Corbatta 81) Italy 3 (Pascutti 23, Da Costa 58, Schiaffino 70) MOTM: Boniperti
W.GER vs BRA 0-2 Goals: Juskowiak (og), Pelé. MoM: Pelé ENG 3-1 PER Goals: Edwards, Haynes, Finney; Joya. MoM: Edwards SWE vs HUN 1-1 Goals: Gren; Puskás. MoM: Hamrin ARG 2-1 ITA Goals: Angelillo x2; Schiaffino. MoM: Angelillo
Peru 4-1 England (17-05-59) To be honest, I'd believe that Peru team couldn't only face that England team, but surpass it. They had a very typical style of South American skill that could wreak havoc against an English team not so used to facing that type of rivals. In that friendly match media report that between Joya, Seminario, Terry and Loayza ran over Wright at ground level. I also think they were very solid in defense.
Brazil 2-1 Germany Pepe x2 (Brazil) MOTM: Didi (Brazil) Sweden 3-2 Hungary Hamrin x2, Liedholm (Sweden) Puskás x2 (Hungary) MOTM: Gustavsson (Sweden)
Matchday 1: G1: W.GER 1-2 BRA (Seeler; Pele, Mazzola) MOTM: Garrincha G1: ENG 2-1 PER (Taylor, Haynes; Joya) MOTM: Edwards G2: HUN 2-2 SWE (Puskas, Czibor; Hamrin, Liedholm) MOTM: Liedholm G2: ARG 1-1 ITA (Angelillo; Da Costa) MOTM: Boniperti
I guess on the flip side England had won against Brazil at Wembley in 1956 for example (and in West Germany the same year), and Sweden has a cooler climate and is in Europe, but yeah as you can see I did feel like Peru might be able to score vs England (and I had it as a 1-1 draw at half-time). I guess I could put forwards the Hungary-Sweden games of 1955 (2 years before the consideration period though, more in the magyar prime period albeit without Florian Albert of course, with no Liedholm and Gren or Skoglund and not on the stage of a home World Cup - the actual World Cup game was 2-1 to Sweden of course, but without Puskas and Czibor, or Kocsis who perhaps I could have played....but let's say he is honing his post-1956 fitness levels in training ready for the next game!) Sweden - Hungary, May 11, 1955 - International Friendlies - Match sheet | Transfermarkt Hungary - Sweden, Nov 13, 1955 - International Friendlies - Match sheet | Transfermarkt
MATCHDAY 1: Group 1 Group 2 Goalscorers: 2 goals - Pelé, Puskas 1 goal - Mazzola, Rahn, Edwards, Taylor, Finey, Joya, Hamrin, Angelillo, Sívori, Schiaffino Best players: 6 stars - Sívori, Edwards 5 stars - Didi, Garrincha, Liedholm, Boniperti 4 stars - Pelé, Taylor, Haynes, Seminario, Skoglund, Gustavsson, Hamrin, Angelillo
The Hungarians and French have kindly decided to announce their line-ups for Matchday 2, so that fans and TV stations (who can prepare diagrams/captions pre-match) will know in plenty of time who is playing for them (i.e I'm announcing them just in case after I log off today the other guys all get their line-ups decided too!).... Following posts will reveal them....
Hungary will field a line-up of squad numbers 1-11 for this game with Spain (if the Spaniards want to wear red then Hungary will probably play in white, but provisionally they are set to wear their classic red kit again). So Sandor Kocsis makes his debut, hoping to add to his tally of goals from 1954, and Berendi comes in to play the role of the more defensively-minded half back, expecting potentially more forward players in the Spanish line-up (and Sweden having scored 2 goals also). The other change is that Bozsik hands the captain's armband now to his long-time friend Puskas.
round 2 wger 0 peru 1 motm - joya goal - juan joya bra 3 fra 2 motm - garrincha goals - pele (2) and garrincha for brazil - piantonni and fontaine for france hung 1 spa 2 motm - kubala goals - czibor and kubala(2) swe 3 ital 0 motm - gunnar green goals - skoglund and liedholm(2) Liedholm goalscorer 4 goals(2 against hungary and 2 against italy)