June 15th

Notably the Dignity Wins by England and Germany

Stade Velodrome, Marseille, welcomed a fine weather and one of the favourites in this tournament England meet North African Tunisia, as they exchanged true offensive mind from the first minute of the game.

Overwhelmed in a way by Tunisians' fast challenge, but then England tempted gradually into their own pace with the characeristic long-short
passing game after 25 minutes past, creating some good oppotunities to lead the game. Then, England's first goal came in just before the end of the first half. The skipper Alan Shearer pierced the Tunisian goal with a fine headder from the left corner kick by Graeme Le Saux.

In the second half, Tunisia's counter-attacking penetrated several times, but their lack of preciseness ruined those chances at all.

As rather sparing to 18 years old golden kid Michael Owen to taste the atmosphere of World Cup, England secured the first win when Paul Scholes hit a brilliant goal just before the end of the game.

Romania beat Colombia, in the same group match at Lyon, with young striker Adrian Ilie's goal. Meanwhile, the first game at Paris ended Germany comfortably seized a win against United States of America.

Scorers

[E] Shearer:43min., Scholes:89min.

Southgate

Adams

Canpbell

H.Trabelsi(Thabet:79min.)

Boukadida

S.Trabelsi(Capt.)

Clayton

Anderton

Batty

Ince

Le Saux

Scholes

Chihi

Ghodbane

Badra

Souayah(Baya:46min.)

Shearer(Capt.)

Sheringham(Owen:85min.)

Ben Slimane(Ben Younes:65min.)

Sellimi

Scorers

[R] Ilie:46min.(in the first half)

Ciobotariu

Gheorghe Popescu

Filipescu

Cabrera

Bermudez

Palacios

Santa

Petrescu

Gabriel Popescu(Stanga:68min.)

Galca

Munteanu

Hagi(Capt.)(Marinescu:76min.)

Serna

Lozano

Valderrama(Capt.)

Rincon

Moldovan(Niculescu:84min.)

Ilie

Asprilla(Preciado:84min.)

Aristizabal(Valencia:46min.)

Scorers

[G] Moller:8min., Klinsmann:64min.

Kohler

Thon

Worns

Burns(Hejduk:46min.)

Pope

Dooley(Capt.)

Regis

Reuter(Ziege:67min.)

Jeremies

Heinrich

Moller(Babbel:88min.)

Hassler(Hamann:49min.)

Deering(Ramos:69min.)

Maisonneuve

Stewart

Reyna

Jones

Klinsmann(Capt.)

Bierhoff

Wynalda(Wegerle:63min.)