- Title: GREECE: SPAIN BEATS GREECE 3-2 IN A PRELIMINARY ROUND OF THE WORLD SOCCER CUP
- Date: 18th January 1973
- Summary: 1. GV PAN Crowd at stadium 0.14 2. MV PAN Greece kick off (right to left) & play midfield 0.27 3. GV Crowd 0.29 4. LV Spain takes corner & miss goal 0.37 5. GV PAN Spain score first goal (No 11 heads in) 0.43 6. GV Crowd 0.48 7. GV Spain kick off 2nd half, play in midfield 1.04 8. GV ZOOM OUT Crowd 1.05 9. GV Greece misses goal 1.15 10. GV PAN Greece score (No. 7) 1-1 1.25 11. LV PAN Greece attacks but falls 1.33 12. GV Crowd 1.34 13. GV PAN Spain score (No. 12) 2-1 1.39 14. GV PAN Spain score again (No.11) 2.00 Initials SGM/0001 SGM/??? SPORT - SOCCER Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 2nd February 1973 12:00
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- Location: Athens, Greece
- Country: Greece
- Reuters ID: LVAAPYM74OTAGVZAZA5VR60ONJGT
- Story Text: Spain boosted their World Soccer Cup chances yesterday (17 Jan) with a three..two win over Greece in a preliminary round game at Athens.
Valdes scored two goals and Claramunt scored one for Spain, while for Greece the goals came from Koudas and Domazos. The win puts Spain level on points with the third member of the World Cup Group Seven, Yugoslavia, at the top.
Spain and Greece will meet again in a return match.
SYNOPSIS: World Cup soccer...and in Athens, Greece meets Spain in a preliminary-round match. The game is one of a series in Group Seven which has three entrants.. the two teams playing here, and Yugoslavia. At the start it's Greece to kick-off playing from right to left.
From the beginning there was little to choose between the two sides, but when Spain got into top gear only poor finishing prevented them scoring.. however persistence paid off and Voldes used his head to beat keeper Constantinou.
Half time must have come as a welcome breather for both sides who were piling on the pressure. From the turn-around it was Spain to kick off, and play switched from end to end during a spirited few minutes with forwards from both teams missing opportunities to score.
The crowd of 25 thousand fund plenty to roar about during the match, but the home supporters had some disappointing moments.
However, in the 59th minute they had something to cheer as Koud??? whipped a shot past Spain's Iribar to level the score. The cheers turned sour again a few moments later as Greece missed another chance.
In the 71st minute Claramunt gathered a pass from Valdes and rammed it home to put Spain ahead by 2 goals to one.... only to have Dozmazos level the score again 10 minutes later. But Spain kept up the pressure and Valdes clinched their victory in the 85th minute when he prodded in a shot during a goalmouth melee, to make the final tally 3-2 to Spain.
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