1998 FIFA World Cup France ™ Preliminaries
Play-off
Italy - Russia
1:0 (0:0)
Match | Date | Venue / Stadium | Time | Attendance |
| 4 | 15 November 1997 | Naples / NAPLES | 01:00 | 0 |
- Pierluigi CASIRAGHI (ITA) 53'
Goals scored
Italy
- Angelo PERUZZI
- Ciro FERRARA
- Paolo MALDINI
- Dino BAGGIO
- Fabio CANNAVARO
- Alessandro COSTACURTA
- Gianluca PESSOTTO (-77')
- Demetrio ALBERTINI
- Pierluigi CASIRAGHI
- Roberto DI MATTEO
- Fabrizio RAVANELLI (-77')
Line-up
- Gianluigi BUFFON
- Alessandro NESTA (+77')
- Diego FUSER
- Antonio CONTE
- Enrico CHIESA
- Alessandro DEL PIERO (+77')
- Gianfranco ZOLA
Substitute(s)
Russia
- Sergei OVCHINIKOV
- Vladislav RADIMOV (-67')
- Yuri NIKIFOROV
- Dmitri POPOV
- Igor YANOVSKI (-60')
- Yuri KOVTUN
- Viktor ONOPKO
- Dmitry ALENICHEV
- Sergei YURAN (-79')
- Igor KOLYVANOV
- Dmitry KHOKHLOV
Line-up
- Stanislav CHERCHESOV
- Igor CHUGAINOV
- Andrei TIKHONOV
- Igor SIMUTENKOV (+60')
- Vladimir BESCHASTNYKH (+79')
- Sergei SEMAK (+67')
- Andrei SOLOMATIN
Substitute(s)
- Yuri KOVTUN (RUS) 69'
- , Pierluigi CASIRAGHI (ITA) 71'
- , Viktor ONOPKO (RUS) 72'
- , Dmitry ALENICHEV (RUS) 72'
- , Alessandro NESTA (ITA) 79'
- , Yuri NIKIFOROV (RUS) 86'
Cautions
Sent off
Match Officials
Referee Serge MUHMENTHALER (SUI) | |
| a.e.t.: | After extra time | (C): | Captain | PSO: | Penalty Shoot-out |
| GK: | Goalkeeper | N: | Not eligible to play | I: | Injured |
| Y: | Misses next match if booked | Pos: | Positions | A: | Absent |
| DF: | Defender | MF: | Midfielder | MinP: | Minutes played |
| GF: | Goals for | GA: | Goals against | PK (PG/PS): | Penalty Kicks (Goals/Shots) |
| FC: | Fouls Committed | FS: | Fouls Suffered | R: | Red Cards |
| FW: | Forward | SOG/S: | Shots on Target | Y: 2YC: | Yellow cards Second yellow card and red card |