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Italy 1-0 Norway - June 27, 1998 / World Cup 1998

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World Cup 1998 - Round of 16

Stade Vélodrome - Marseilles - France

June 27, 1998

55 000

Italy

1 - 0

Norway

Assist by Luigi Di Biagio (right foot) Christian Vieri

18'

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13' - Substitution Öyvind Leonhardsenis substituted by Roar Strand

18' - Goal Christian Vieri18

38' - Substitution Roar Strandis substituted by Stale Solbakken

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63' - Substitution Francesco Morierois substituted by Angelo Di Livio63

72' - Substitution Demetrio Albertiniis substituted by Gianluca Pessotto72

73' - Substitution Haavard Flois substituted by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

77' - Substitution Alessandro Del Pierois substituted by Enrico Chiesa77

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Team line-ups

Italy

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10Del Piero77

Alessandro Del Piero

Italy

B.date09/11/1974

Age23 years

H1m73

positionVersatile Forward

21Vieri18

Christian Vieri

Italy

B.date12/07/1973

Age24 years

H1m87

positionStriker

3Maldini

Paolo Maldini

Italy

B.date26/06/1968

Age30 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

14Di Biagio

Luigi Di Biagio

Italy

B.date03/06/1971

Age27 years

H1m75

positionDefensive Midfielder

9Albertini72

Demetrio Albertini

Italy

B.date23/08/1971

Age26 years

H1m77

positionCentre Midfield

11Baggio

Dino Baggio

Italy

B.date24/07/1971

Age26 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

17Moriero63

Francesco Moriero

Italy

B.date31/03/1969

Age29 years

H1m77

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

4Cannavaro

Fabio Cannavaro

Italy

B.date13/09/1973

Age24 years

H1m75

positionCentral defender

2Bergomi

Giuseppe Bergomi

Italy

B.date22/12/1963

Age34 years

H1m84

positionRight central defender

5Costacurta

Alessandro Costacurta

Italy

B.date24/04/1966

Age32 years

H1m78

positionRight central defender

12Pagliuca

Gianluca Pagliuca

Italy

B.date18/12/1966

Age31 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Gianluca Pagliuca		31	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Alessandro Costacurta		32	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	M	Paolo Maldini		30	92	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Giuseppe Bergomi		34	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Fabio Cannavaro		24	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Dino Baggio		26	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Luigi Di Biagio		27	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Demetrio Albertini	72	26	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Francesco Moriero	63	29	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Alessandro Del Piero	77	23	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	F	Christian Vieri	18	24	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Norway

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9T. A. Flo

Tore André Flo

Norway

B.date15/06/1973

Age25 years

H1m93

positionStriker

21Riseth

Vidar Riseth

Norway

B.date21/04/1972

Age26 years

H1m88

positionDefender

7Mykland

Erik Mykland

Norway

B.date21/07/1971

Age26 years

H1m72

positionRight Midfielder

10Rekdal

Kjetil Rekdal

Norway

B.date06/11/1968

Age29 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

8Leonhardsen13

Öyvind Leonhardsen

Norway

B.date17/08/1970

Age27 years

positionMidfield

17Haavard Flo73

Haavard Flo

Norway

B.date04/04/1970

Age28 years

H1m87

positionMidfield

5Bjørnebye

Stig Inge Bjørnebye

Norway

B.date11/12/1969

Age28 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

3Johnsen

Ronny Johnsen

Norway

B.date10/06/1969

Age29 years

H1m90

positionCentral defender

15Eggen

Dan Eggen

Norway

B.date13/01/1970

Age28 years

H1m92

positionCentral defender

4Berg

Henning Berg

Norway

B.date01/09/1969

Age28 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

1Grodas

Frode Grodas

Norway

B.date24/10/1964

Age33 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Frode Grodas		33	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Kjetil Rekdal		29	61	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Henning Berg		28	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Vidar Riseth		26	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Dan Eggen		28	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Ronny Johnsen		29	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Stig Inge Bjørnebye		28	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Öyvind Leonhardsen	13	27	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Haavard Flo	73	28	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Erik Mykland		26	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Tore André Flo		25	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
7	D	Gianluca Pessotto	72	27	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Angelo Di Livio	63	31	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	F	Enrico Chiesa	77	27	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
22	D	Roar Strand	1338	28	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Stale Solbakken	38	30	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	F	Ole Gunnar Solskjaer	73	25	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Giuseppe Bergomi

Alessandro Nesta

OUT

Demetrio Albertini

Gianluca Pessotto

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Erik Mykland

Roar Strand

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Cesare Maldini

Success rate in this team:

53 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

34 %

Maldini vs Norway

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on June 27, 1998

Maldini vs Olsen

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on June 27, 1998

Manager

Age

Match num

Egil Olsen

Success rate in this team:

52 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

51 %

Olsen vs Italy

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on June 27, 1998

Olsen vs Maldini

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 27, 1998

Referee

Bernd Heynemann

1 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Italy2 matches	General total	Norway1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Italy1 match	Season total	Norway1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on June 27, 1998					Latest figure on June 27, 1998

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Key figures

Italy keeps its 3 consecutive wins running (since 17/06/1998).

Italy keeps its 3 matches with only one goal conceded at most running (since 17/06/1998).

Italy keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a loss vs Norway surterrainneutre in World Cup running (since 05/06/1938). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 32 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Neutral ground

DGermany 0-0 Italy19/06/1996

LEngland 2-0 Italy04/06/1997

DBrazil 3-3 Italy08/06/1997

DItaly 2-2 Chile11/06/1998

VItaly 3-0 Cameroon17/06/1998

VAustria 1-2 Italy23/06/1998

Overall

VItaly 3-0 Slovakia28/01/1998

VItaly 3-1 Paraguay22/04/1998

LSweden 1-0 Italy02/06/1998

DItaly 2-2 Chile11/06/1998

VItaly 3-0 Cameroon17/06/1998

VAustria 1-2 Italy23/06/1998

Current form

Neutral ground

VNorway 7-0 Estonia06/02/1995

LSouth Korea 1-0 Norway18/01/1997

VNorway 3-0 New Zealand22/01/1997

DMorocco 2-2 Norway10/06/1998

DScotland 1-1 Norway16/06/1998

VNorway 2-1 Brazil23/06/1998

Overall

VDenmark 0-2 Norway22/04/1998

VNorway 5-2 Mexico20/05/1998

VNorway 6-0 Saudi Arabia27/05/1998

DMorocco 2-2 Norway10/06/1998

DScotland 1-1 Norway16/06/1998

VNorway 2-1 Brazil23/06/1998

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	2	2
Unbeaten streak	4	3
Drawless streak	2	2
Scoring streak	4	3
Conceding streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	4	17
Drawless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	4	8
Conceding streak	3	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

3	Number of games (Competition total)	3
2	Victories (Competition total)	1
1	Draws (Competition total)	2
0	Losses (Competition total)	0

Goals

7	Goals scored (Competition total)	5
3	Goals conceded (Competition total)	4
2.33	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.67
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.33

Betting aid

3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	3

Bookings

5	Yellow cards (Competition total)	4
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0

Key players

Christian Vieri	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Dan Eggen
Christian Vieri	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Dan Eggen
Roberto Baggio	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Kjetil Rekdal
Roberto Baggio	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Kjetil Rekdal
Roberto Baggio	2 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Vidar Riseth
Roberto Baggio	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Vidar Riseth
Christian Vieri	4 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Tore André Flo

Historical head to head

Home

3 matches

1 v

1 d

1 l

4 gf

4 ga

Away

3 matches

1 v

1 d

1 l

4 gf

3 ga

Neutral ground

4 matches

4 v

0 d

0 l

7 gf

3 ga

Total

10 matches

6 v

2 d

2 l

15 gf

10 ga

Historical head to head

Home

3 matches

1 v

1 d

1 l

3 gf

4 ga

Away

3 matches

1 v

1 d

1 l

4 gf

4 ga

Neutral ground

4 matches

0 v

0 d

4 l

3 gf

7 ga

Total

10 matches

2 v

2 d

6 l

10 gf

15 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 1	May 27, 1937
Neutral ground	1 - 0	June 23, 1994

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 1	June 05, 1991
Neutral ground	No success yet

Latest head to head

June 23, 1994 - Coupe du Monde 1994

Italy

1 - 0

Norway

November 13, 1991 - Eliminatoires Euro 1992

Italy

1 - 1

Norway

June 05, 1991 - Eliminatoires Euro 1992

Norway

2 - 1

Italy

October 19, 1988 - Rencontres amicales 1988

Italy

2 - 1

Norway

May 28, 1987 - Rencontres amicales 1987

Norway

0 - 0

Italy

Best historical scorers against Norway

Silvio Piola	3 goals	1937 - 1938
Ruggiero Rizzitelli	1 goal	1991 - 1991
Alessandro Altobelli	1 goal	1985 - 1985
Giuseppe Giannini	1 goal	1988 - 1988
Enrico Sardi	1 goal	1920 - 1920
Annibale Frossi	1 goal	1936 - 1936

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/08/1920. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Italy

Arne Brustad	2 goals	1936 - 1938
Tore André Dahlum	1 goal	1991 - 1991
William Danielsen	1 goal	1937 - 1937
Lars Bohinen	1 goal	1991 - 1991
Mini Jakobsen	1 goal	1991 - 1991
Arne Andersen	1 goal	1920 - 1920

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/08/1920. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Norway

Giuseppe Bergomi	4 matches	1985 - 1991
Fernando De Napoli	4 matches	1987 - 1991
Gianluca Vialli	4 matches	1987 - 1991
Franco Baresi	4 matches	1988 - 1994
Riccardo Ferri	4 matches	1987 - 1991
Paolo Maldini	4 matches	1988 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/08/1920. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Italy

Nils Eriksen	3 matches	1936 - 1938
Erik Thorstvedt	3 matches	1991 - 1994
Rolf Holmberg	3 matches	1936 - 1938
Mini Jakobsen	3 matches	1991 - 1994
Reidar Kvammen	3 matches	1936 - 1938
Rune Bratseth	3 matches	1991 - 1994