England Football Online
  Page Last Updated 15 August 2015

CCCP

 

 
609 vs. Israel
610
611 vs. Scotland

Wednesday, 26 March 1986
International Friendly Match

USSR 0 England 1 [0-0]
 

 

Match Summary
USSR Squad
England Squad

Dinamo Stadion, Didube-Chugureti, Tbilisi, Georgia
Attendance:
62,000;
Kick-off: 8.00pm local, tbc BST
Live on ITV (UK) -
Commentator: Martin Tyler and David Pleat

England - Chris Waddle (67)
 
Results 1985-1990

? kicked-off. ? minutes (? & ?).

 

Match Summary

Officials

USSR

Type

England

Referee (-) - Velitchko Tzonchev
x (-).

Linesmen - tbc

  Goal Attempts  
  Attempts on Target  
  Hit Bar/Post  
  Corner Kicks Won  
  Offside Calls Against  
  Fouls Conceded  
  Possession  

USSR Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking;
EFO ranking

ELO rating 1st to 2nd
Colours: Made by Adidas - Red v-necked jerseys with white collar/cuffs and Adidas trim, CCCP emblazoned across the front, white shorts with red Adidas trim, red socks with white Adidas trim.
Capt: Rinat Dasaev Manager: Eduard Malofeyev
USSR Lineup
1 Dasaev, Rinat F.   13 June 1957 G     ᵍᵃ
2 Bezsonov, Volodymyr V., off 57th min.   5 March 1958        
3 Chivadze, Aleksandre G.   8 April 1955        
4 Demyanenko, Anatoliy V.   19 February 1959        
5 Bubnov, Aleksandr V.   10 October 1955        
6 Kuznetsov, Oleh V.   22 March 1963
in Magdeburg, East Germany
       
7 Gotsmanov, Sergey A.   27 March 1959        
8 Zavarov, Oleksandr A.   26 April 1961        
9 Aleinikov, Sergei Y.   7 November 1961        
10 Kondratiev, Georgi P.   7 January 1960        
11 Rodionov, Sergei Y., off 57th min.   3 September 1962        
USSR Substitutes
  Lytovchenko, Hennadiy V., on 57th min. for Bezsonov   11 September 1963        
  Blokhin, Oleh V., on 57th min. for Rodionov   5 November 1952        

unused substitutes:

-
 
- -

Averages:

Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 

England Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking;
EFO ranking

ELO rating 3rd
Colours: The 1984 Umbro home uniform - White v-necked jersey with shadow pin-stripes, blue collar/cuffs with white/red trim and thin blue stripe along shoulder, blue shorts, with white seams with blue/red trim, white socks with blue Umbro diamond trim.
Capt: Ray Wilkins, eighth captaincy Manager: Robert W. Robson, 53 (18 February 1933), appointed 7 July 1982,
41st match, W 21 - D 11 - L 9 - F 74 - A 23.
England Lineup
1 Shilton, Peter L. 36 18 September 1949 G Southampton FC 78 49ᵍᵃ
gk most apps
2 Anderson, Vivian A. 29 29 July 1956 RB Arsenal FC 20 1
3 Sansom, Kenneth G. 27 26 September 1958 LB Arsenal FC 62 1
4 Hoddle, Glenn 28 27 October 1957 M Tottenham Hotspur FC 30 7
5 Wright, Mark 22 1 August 1963 CD Southampton FC 13 0
6 Butcher, Terence I. 27 28 December 1958
in Alexandra Park, Singapore
CD Ipswich Town FC 37 2
7 Cowans, Gordon S., off 52nd min. 27 27 October 1958 M AS Bari, Italy 9 2
8 Wilkins, Raymond C. 29 14 September 1956 M Milan AC, Italy 77 3
9 Beardsley, Peter A. 25 18 January 1961 CF Newcastle United FC 3 0
10 Lineker, Gary W. 25 30 November 1960 CF Everton FC 12 6
11 Waddle, Christopher R., off 75th min. 25 14 December 1960 CM Tottenham Hotspur FC 13 2
England Substitutes
996 16 Hodge, Steven B., on 52nd min. for Cowans 23
152 days
25 October 1962 M Aston Villa FC 1 0
15 Steven, Trevor M., on 75th min. for Waddle 22 21 September 1963 M Everton FC 9 6 3
3

unused substitutes:

12-Terry Fenwick, 13-Chris Woods, 14-Gary Stevens.

substitute notes:

Steve Hodge is the 39th England player to make his debut as a substitute.
Manager Bobby Robson played for England against USSR in May and June 1958.
 
- -

Averages:

Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 

    Match Report by Mike Payne

 

    Match Report by Norman Giller

The Russians missed a first-half penalty and were beaten for the first time in eighteen matches by a classic sixty-seventh strike by Chris Waddle. It was a goal created in Newcastle, with Peter Beardsley chasing a long ball to the corner by his fellow Geordie Waddle, who raced in to the middle to meet the return pass at the far post and hammer it into the net. Steve Hodge came on for the first of his twenty-four caps. Reporters who had been pouring oil on Bobby Robson suddenly started wondering aloud if he had started to put together a team capable of winning the World Cup.

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports
Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller
, Football Author

____________________

CG