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Belgium 3-0 Portugal - September 06, 1989 / World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 1990

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World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 1990 - Group 7

Stade du Heysel - Bruxelles - Belgium

September 06, 1989

28 250

Belgium

3 - 0

Portugal

Jan Ceulemans

56'

Marc Van der Linden

59'

Marc Van der Linden

69'

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56' - Goal Jan Ceulemans56

59' - Goal Marc Van der Linden59

61' - Substitution Vítor Paneirais substituted by Rui Aguas

69' - Goal Marc Van der Linden69

85' - Substitution Marc Van der Lindenis substituted by Luc Nilis85

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Belgium

3 - 0

Portugal

Belgium Portugal

Team line-ups

Belgium

Preud'homme

Michel Preud'homme

Belgium

B.date24/01/1959

Age30 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Demol

Stéphane Demol

Belgium

B.date11/03/1966

Age23 years

H1m88

positionSweeper

De Wolf

Michel De Wolf

Belgium

B.date19/01/1958

Age31 years

H1m71

positionLeft central defender

Grün

Georges Grün

Belgium

B.date25/01/1962

Age27 years

H1m84

positionCentral defender

Gerets

Eric Gerets

Belgium

B.date18/05/1954

Age35 years

H1m77

positionRight full-back

Van der Elst

Franky Van der Elst

Belgium

B.date30/04/1961

Age28 years

H1m84

positionDefensive Midfielder

Emmers

Marc Emmers

Belgium

B.date25/02/1966

Age23 years

H1m80

positionRight Defensive Midfielder

Degryse

Marc Degryse

Belgium

B.date04/09/1965

Age24 years

H1m72

positionPlaymaker

Ceulemans56

Jan Ceulemans

Belgium

B.date28/02/1957

Age32 years

H1m88

positionOffensive Midfielder

Versavel

Bruno Versavel

Belgium

B.date27/08/1967

Age22 years

H1m78

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Van der Linden596985

Marc Van der Linden

Belgium

B.date04/02/1964

Age25 years

H1m77

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Michel Preud'homme		30	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stéphane Demol		23	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michel De Wolf		31	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Georges Grün		27	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Eric Gerets		35	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Franky Van der Elst		28	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Marc Emmers		23	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Marc Degryse		24	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jan Ceulemans	56	32	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bruno Versavel		22	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Marc Van der Linden	596985	25	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Portugal

Silvino

Portugal

B.date05/03/1959

Age30 years

H1m82

positionGoalkeeper

Sobrinho

Luis Sobrinho

Portugal

B.date05/05/1961

Age28 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Brito

Carlos Brito

Portugal

B.date21/09/1963

Age25 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

Venâncio

Portugal

B.date21/11/1963

Age25 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Veloso

António Veloso

Portugal

B.date31/01/1957

Age32 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Pinto

João Pinto

Portugal

B.date21/11/1961

Age27 years

H1m72

positionRight full-back

André

Portugal

B.date24/12/1957

Age31 years

H1m71

positionDefensive Midfielder

Barros

Rui Barros

Portugal

B.date24/11/1965

Age23 years

H1m60

positionRight Midfielder

Xavier

Carlos Xavier

Portugal

B.date26/01/1962

Age27 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

Vítor Paneira61

Vítor Paneira

Portugal

B.date16/02/1966

Age23 years

H1m77

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Futre

Paulo Futre

Portugal

B.date28/02/1966

Age23 years

H1m75

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Silvino		30	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Luis Sobrinho		28	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Carlos Brito		25	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Venâncio		25	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	António Veloso		32	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	João Pinto		27	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	André		31	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Rui Barros		23	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Carlos Xavier		27	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Vítor Paneira	61	23	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paulo Futre		23	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Luc Nilis	85	22	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Rui Aguas	61	29	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Bruno Versavel

Danny Boffin

OUT

Michel Preud'homme

Gilbert Bodart

OUT

Eric Gerets

Jean-Marie Houben

OUT

Marc Emmers

Nico Broeckaert

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Paulo Futre

Jaime Magalhães

OUT

Luis Sobrinho

Miguel

OUT

Rui Barros

Rui Aguas

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Walter Meeuws

Success rate in this team:

100 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

31 %

Meeuws vs Portugal

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 06, 1989

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Referee

Aleksey Spirin

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Belgium1 match	General total	Portugal1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Belgium1 match	Season total	Portugal1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 06, 1989					Latest figure on September 06, 1989

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Key figures

The last time Marc Van der Linden scored at least 2 goals during the same game in his professional career with Belgium , it was on the 01/06/1989 (avec Belgium vs Luxembourg )

Portugal keeps its 3 matches with at least one goal conceded away from home in World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone running (since 28/03/1973). It's a record streak. The first of history

Belgium keeps its 9 consecutive matches without a loss in World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone running (since 27/03/1985). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 10/11/1976 (8 matches)

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VBelgium 3-0 Hungary26/03/1988

LBelgium 1-2 Brazil12/10/1988

VBelgium 1-0 Switzerland19/10/1988

VBelgium 2-1 Czechoslovakia29/04/1989

VBelgium 1-0 Yugoslavia27/05/1989

VBelgium 3-0 Denmark23/08/1989

Overall

DPortugal 1-1 Belgium15/02/1989

VBelgium 2-1 Czechoslovakia29/04/1989

VBelgium 1-0 Yugoslavia27/05/1989

VLuxembourg 0-5 Belgium01/06/1989

VCanada 0-2 Belgium08/06/1989

VBelgium 3-0 Denmark23/08/1989

Current form

Away

VSweden 0-1 Portugal23/09/1987

LItaly 3-0 Portugal05/12/1987

VMalta 0-1 Portugal20/12/1987

DSweden 0-0 Portugal12/10/1988

VGreece 1-2 Portugal25/01/1989

LBrazil 4-0 Portugal08/06/1989

Overall

VGreece 1-2 Portugal25/01/1989

DPortugal 1-1 Belgium15/02/1989

VPortugal 6-0 Angola29/03/1989

VPortugal 3-1 Switzerland26/04/1989

LBrazil 4-0 Portugal08/06/1989

DPortugal 0-0 Romania31/08/1989

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	4	5
Unbeaten streak	4	8
Drawless streak	8	5
Scoring streak	16	6
Invincibility streak	2	4

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	1	2
Drawless streak	2	0
Goalless streak	1	2
Conceding streak	2	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

5	Number of games (Competition total)	3
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
3	Victories (Competition total)	2
2	Victories (Home / Away)	0
2	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

9	Goals scored (Competition total)	5
3	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
2	Goals conceded (Competition total)	2
1	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1.8	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.67
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0.4	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.67
0.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	1
1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
3	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
1-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Marc Van der Linden	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Vítor Paneira
Marc Degryse	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Marc Van der Linden	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Marc Van der Linden	5 goals during the last 3 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 2 matches	Vítor Paneira

Historical head to head

Home

5 matches

3 v

1 d

1 l

8 gf

3 ga

Away

7 matches

1 v

4 d

2 l

8 gf

9 ga

Total

12 matches

4 v

5 d

3 l

16 gf

12 ga

Historical head to head

Home

7 matches

2 v

4 d

1 l

9 gf

8 ga

Away

5 matches

1 v

1 d

3 l

3 gf

8 ga

Total

12 matches

3 v

5 d

4 l

12 gf

16 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	February 17, 1971
Home	3 - 0	February 17, 1971

Largest victory

Overall	1 - 0	February 04, 1987
Away	2 - 1	May 03, 1964

Latest head to head

February 15, 1989 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 1990

Portugal

1 - 1

Belgium

February 04, 1987 - Rencontres amicales 1987

Portugal

1 - 0

Belgium

October 17, 1979 - Eliminatoires Euro 1980

Belgium

2 - 0

Portugal

October 11, 1978 - Eliminatoires Euro 1980

Portugal

1 - 1

Belgium

November 21, 1971 - Eliminatoires Euro 1972

Portugal

1 - 1

Belgium

Best historical scorers against Portugal

Raoul Lambert	3 goals	1971 - 1971
Jacques Stockman	1 goal	1962 - 1962
Michel Vanderbauwhede	1 goal	1930 - 1930
Joseph van Beeck	1 goal	1931 - 1931
Marc Van der Linden	1 goal	1989 - 1989
Joseph Givard	1 goal	1951 - 1951

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/06/1930. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Belgium

Armando Martins	2 goals	1930 - 1931
Eusebio	2 goals	1962 - 1964
Jose Augusto	1 goal	1964 - 1964
Fernando Peres	1 goal	1971 - 1971
Marcolina Vitor Silva	1 goal	1931 - 1931
Frasco	1 goal	1987 - 1987

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/06/1930. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Portugal

Jan Ceulemans	4 matches	1978 - 1989
Eric Gerets	4 matches	1978 - 1989
Paul van Himst	4 matches	1962 - 1971
Léon Semmeling	3 matches	1964 - 1971
Joseph Mermans	2 matches	1951 - 1954
Bernard Voorhoof	2 matches	1930 - 1931

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/06/1930. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Belgium

Eusebio	4 matches	1962 - 1971
Humberto Coelho	4 matches	1971 - 1979
António Simões	3 matches	1964 - 1971
Nené	3 matches	1971 - 1979
José Torres	2 matches	1964 - 1971
Adelino Nunes	2 matches	1987 - 1989