FIFA World Youth Championship Malaysia 1997

First stage

Ghana - China PR

1:1 (0:1)

Match	Date	Time	Venue / Stadium	Attendance
17	19 June 1997	17:30	Alor Setar / Darulaman	5000

Match Officials

Referee Leon PADRO BORJA (MEX)	Assistant Referee 1 Ganesan MINIAM (SIN)
	Assistant Referee 2 Arnaldo PINTO (BRA)

Goals scored

LI Jinyu (CHN) 43',
Stephen APPIAH (GHA) 74'

Ghana

Line-up

[16]
Michael ABU (GK)
[2]
Joseph ANSAH (C)
[4]
Kofi AMPONSAH (-67')
[5]
Christian GYAN
[6]
Baba SULE
[8]
Stephen APPIAH
[9]
Peter OFORI QUAYE
[10]
Bashiru GAMBO
[11]
Mohamed MOUKTAR (-9')
[14]
Joe SAM (-55')
[15]
Odartey LAWSON

Substitute(s)

[1]
Osei Oscar ASAMOAH
[3]
Fuseini ADAMS (+67')
[7]
Dini KAMARA
[12]
Abdulai AL HASSAN (+9')
[13]
Abdul Karim AHMED
[17]
Awudu ISSAKA (+55')
[18]
Richard ACKON

Coach

Francis OTI-AKENTENG (GHA)

China PR

Line-up

[1]
LI Leilei (GK)
[2]
LI Weifeng
[3]
HAO Wei
[4]
ZHENG Yi
[5]
LI Tie (-22')
[9]
LI Jinyu
[10]
SUI Dongliang
[11]
ZHANG Xiaorui (-79')
[13]
WANG Peng
[15]
ZHANG Ran (C)
[16]
ZHENG Bin (-57')

Substitute(s)

[6]
TAO Wei
[7]
HUANG Yong (+79')
[8]
LIU Lin
[12]
CHANG Weiwei (+22')
[14]
YAO Li
[17]
SUN Zhi (+57')
[18]
LI Jian

Coach

ZHU Guanghu (CHN)

Cautions

Abdulai AL HASSAN (GHA) 28'
, LI Weifeng (CHN) 46'
, Stephen APPIAH (GHA) 58'
, Bashiru GAMBO (GHA) 72'

Expulsions

a.e.t.:	After extra time	(C):	Captain	PSO:	Penalty Shoot-out
GK:	Goalkeeper	N:	Not eligible to play	I:	Injured
Y:	Yellow cards	Pos:	Positions	A:	Absent
D:	Defender	M:	Midfielder	Min:	Minutes played
GF:	Goals for	GA:	Goals against	PK:	Penalty Kicks
FC:	Fouls Committed	FS:	Fouls Suffered	R:	Direct Expulsions
F:	Forward	SG/S:	Shots on Goal/Shots	Y: 2Y=R:	Yellow cards Expulsions due to Second Caution