European Football Championship 1996 / Group C

This article covers the Group C matches of the 1996 European Football Championship with all statistical details:

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	2	1	0	005-000	+5	07th
2.	Czech Republic	3	1	1	1	005: 600	−1	04th
3.	Italy	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	04th
4th	Russia	3	0	1	2	004: 800	−4	01
For positions 2 and 3, the direct comparison is decisive.

Germany - Czech Republic 2: 0 (2: 0)

Germany		Czech Republic		Lineup
	Sunday 9 June 1996 at 5:00 p.m. in Manchester ( Old Trafford ) Spectators: 37,300 Referee: David Elleray ( England )
	Andreas Köpke - Thomas Helmer , Matthias Sammer , Jürgen Kohler (14th Markus Babbel ) - Stefan Reuter , Dieter Eilts , Thomas Häßler , Christian Ziege - Andreas Möller - Fredi Bobič (65th Thomas Strunz ), Stefan Kuntz (83rd Oliver Bierhoff ) Trainer: Berti Vogts	Petr Kouba - Michal Horňák , Miroslav Kadlec , Jan Suchopárek - Radoslav Látal , Martin Frýdek (46. Patrik Berger ), Radek Bejbl , Jiri Nemec , Pavel Nedvěd - Karel Poborský (46. Radek Drulák ), Pavel Kuka Coach: Dušan Uhrin
	1-0 goat (26th) 2-0 Möller (32nd)
	Goat, Strunz, Möller, Babbel, Reuter, Häßler	Bejbl, Nedvěd, Kadlec, Drulák

Italy - Russia 2: 1 (1: 1)

Italy		Russia		Lineup
	Tuesday 11 June 1996 at 4:30 p.m. in Liverpool ( Anfield ) Spectators: 35,120 Referee: Leslie Mottram ( Scotland )
	Angelo Peruzzi - Alessandro Costacurta , Roberto Mussi , Luigi Apolloni , Paolo Maldini - Angelo Di Livio (61st Diego Fuser ), Demetrio Albertini , Roberto Di Matteo - Alessandro Del Piero (46th Roberto Donadoni ) - Pierluigi Casiraghi (79th Fabrizio Ravanelli ) , Gianfranco Zola Coach: Arrigo Sacchi	Stanislaw Tschertschessow - Viktor Onopko - Omari Tetradse , Yevgeny Buschmanow (46. Igor Janowski ), Yuri Kovtun - Andrei Kantschelskis , Ilya Zymbalar (71. Igor Dobrovolsky ), Valeri Karpin (64. Sergei Kiryakov ), Vladislav Radimow - Igor Kolywanow , Alexander Mostowoi Coach: Oleg Romanzew
	1: 0 Casiraghi (5th) 2: 1 Casiraghi (52nd)	1: 1 cymbal (21.)
	Albertini, Donadoni	Onopko, Kolyvanov, Kovtun

Czech Republic - Italy 2: 1 (2: 1)

Czech Republic		Italy		Lineup
	Friday 14 June 1996 at 7:30 p.m. in Liverpool ( Anfield ) Spectators: 37,320 Referee: Antonio Jesús López Nieto ( Spain )
	Petr Kouba - Michal Horňák , Miroslav Kadlec , Jan Suchopárek - Radoslav Látal (88. Vaclav Nemecek ), Radek Bejbl , Jiri Nemec , Pavel Nedvěd - Patrik Berger (64th Vladimír Šmicer ) - Karel Poborský , Pavel Kuka Coach: Dušan Uhrin	Angelo Peruzzi - Alessandro Costacurta , Roberto Mussi , Luigi Apolloni , Paolo Maldini - Diego Fuser , Dino Baggio (39th Amedeo Carboni ), Demetrio Albertini , Roberto Donadoni - Enrico Chiesa (78th Gianfranco Zola ), Fabrizio Ravanelli (58th Pierluigi Casiraghi ) Coach: Arrigo Sacchi
	1: 0 Nedvěd (5th) 2: 1 Bejbl (35th)	1: 1 Chiesa (15.)
	Suchopárek, Látal, Kuka, Kadlec (2nd, closed)	Fuser, Apolloni
		Apolloni (29.)

Germany - Russia 3: 0 (0: 0)

Germany		Russia		Lineup
	Sunday June 16, 1996 at 3:00 p.m. in Manchester ( Old Trafford ) Spectators: 50,760 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen ( Denmark )
	Andreas Köpke - Markus Babbel , Matthias Sammer , Thomas Helmer - Stefan Reuter , Thomas Häßler (67th Steffen Freund ), Dieter Eilts , Christian Ziege - Andreas Möller (87th Thomas Strunz ) - Jürgen Klinsmann , Oliver Bierhoff (85th Stefan Kuntz ) Trainer: Berti Vogts	Dmitri Charin - Viktor Onopko - Omari Tetradze , Yuri Nikiforov , Yuri Kovtun - Andrei Kantschelskis , Ilja Zymbalar , Dmitri Khokhlov (66th Igor Simutenkow ), Vladislav Radimov (46th Valeri Karpin ) - Alexander Mostovoi , Igor Kolyvanov. Coach: Oleg Romanzew
	1: 0 Sammer (56th) 2: 0 Klinsmann (77th) 3: 0 Klinsmann (90th)
	Babbel (2nd, blocked), Bierhoff	Kantschelskis, Onopko (2nd, blocked)
		Yuri Kovtun (71.)

Italy - Germany 0-0

Italy		Germany		Lineup
	Wednesday 19 June 1996 at 7:30 p.m. in Manchester ( Old Trafford ) Spectators: 53,740 Referee: Guy Goethals ( Belgium )
	Angelo Peruzzi - Alessandro Costacurta , Roberto Mussi , Paolo Maldini , Amedeo Carboni (76th Moreno Torricelli ) - Diego Fuser (81st Angelo Di Livio ), Demetrio Albertini , Roberto Di Matteo (67th Enrico Chiesa ), Roberto Donadoni - Pierluigi Casiraghi , Gianfranco Zola Coach: Arrigo Sacchi	Andreas Köpke - Steffen Freund , Matthias Sammer , Thomas Helmer - Thomas Strunz , Thomas Häßler , Dieter Eilts , Christian Ziege - Andreas Möller (89th Marco Bode ) - Jürgen Klinsmann , Fredi Bobič Trainer: Berti Vogts
	Casiraghi	Strunz
		Strunz (60th)
	Köpke saves a penalty from Zola (9.)

Czech Republic - Russia 3: 3 (2: 0)

Czech Republic		Russia		Lineup
	Wednesday 19 June 1996 at 7:30 p.m. in Liverpool ( Anfield ) Spectators: 21,128 Referee: Anders Frisk ( Sweden )
	Petr Kouba - Michal Horňák , Luboš Kubík , Jan Suchopárek - Radoslav Látal , Radek Bejbl , Jiří Němec , Pavel Nedvěd - Patrik Berger (89th Václav Němeček ) - Karel Poborský , Pavel Kuka (69th Vladimír Duke ) Coach: Šmicanš Vladimír Duba	Stanislaw Tschertschessow - Omari Tetradse , Sergei Gorlukowitsch , Yuri Nikiforov , Igor Janowski - Valeri Karpin , Vladislav Radimow , Dmitry Khokhlov , Ilya Zymbalar (68. Igor Shalimov ) - Igor Kolywanow (46. Vladimir Bestschastnych ), Igor Simutenkow (46. Alexander Mostowoi ) Coach: Oleg Romanzew
	1: 0 Suchopárek (5th) 2: 0 Kuka (19th) 3: 3 Šmicer (88th)	2: 1 Mostovoi (49th) 2: 2 Tetradze (54th) 2: 3 Bestschastnych (85th)
	Nedvěd (2nd, blocked), Němec	Nikiforov, Radimow, Zymbalar, Janowski