- 1976 European Cup Final
The 1976 European Cup Final was a football match held at the
Hampden Park ,Glasgow , onMay 12 ,1976 , that sawFC Bayern Munich ofGermany defeatAS Saint-Étienne ofFrance 1 - 0.Match Summary
The match took place in
Hampden Park , whereAS Saint-Étienne defeatedRangers F.C. during the competition. "Les Verts" were playing againstFC Bayern Munich , a team that was hoping to win the trophy for the 3rd year in a row.The game began with
Gerd Müller finding the back of the net, but his effort was disallowed by the referee for offside.AS Saint-Étienne were more and more confident butFranz Roth was keeping an eye onJean-Michel Larqué , the team captain. In the 37th minute Hoeneß shot but it did not worryIvan Ćurković , thegoalkeeper .AS Saint-Étienne had plenty of chances to score though, at the 34th minute Dominique Bathenay's shot hit the crossbar, with Bayern's keeperSepp Maier beaten. Five minutes later,Jacques Santini connected with a cross fromChristian Sarramagna , but shot went just wide of the goalpost. After the final,French people calledHampden Park 's goalsposts "les poteaux carrés", which means square goalposts. This bad luck had influence onAS Saint-Étienne 's players, andFC Bayern Munich would have been satisfied that they were still on terms at the break.After the start of the 2nd half,
FC Bayern Munich were more confident. At the 57th minute,Oswaldo Piazza tackledGerd Müller , and the referee gave a free-kick to the German team.Franz Beckenbauer shifted Roth, who scored. After this goal, "les Verts" tried everything.Robert Herbin chose to substituteChristian Sarramagna forDominique Rocheteau but this was unsuccessful. At the end of the match,AS Saint-Étienne 's players were crying, because they felt that they had been unlucky, but their supporters (at least 25,000 in Glasgow, plus 20,000 supportive and sympathetic Scots) were congratulating them, and their return inFrance was heroic, even though they were defeated.Match Details
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date =May 12 ,1976
team1 = flagicon|GERFC Bayern Munich
score = 1 – 0
team2 =AS Saint-Étienne flagicon|FRA
goals1 = Roth goal|57
goals2 =
stadium =Hampden Park ,Glasgow
attendance = 54,864
referee =Károly Palotai flagicon|Hungary|1957ee also
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European Cup 1975-76 External links
* [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/history/Season=1975/intro.html 1975-76 season at UEFA website]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/ec/ecomp.html European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]
* [http://www.equipe.fr/Football/ASSE_197076.html Summary of the final below in French]
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