June 14th 2002 (3:30pm)                         Shizuoka, Shizuoka Stadium ECOPA

     BELGIUM - RUSSIA             3-2 (1-0)

      Goals              6'54   1-0   Johan Walem (free-kick)
                        51'48   1-1   Vladimir Bestschastnykh (assist – Dimitri Sichev)
                        77'38   2-1   Wesley Sonck (assist – Johan Walem)
                        81'47   3-1   Marc Wilmots (assist – Bart Goor)
                        87'59   3-2   Dimitri Sichev (assist – Aleksandr Kersiakov)


      Referee           Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)   7,5
      Linesmen          Philip Sharp (England)
                        Komaleeswaran Sankar (India)
      4th official      Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

      Yellow cards      11'09   Andriy Solomatin (foul on Marc Wilmots)
                        13'50   Aleksei Smertin
                        38'07   Yves Vanderhaeghe (foul on Dimitri Khokhlov)
                        63'46   Dimitri Aleinichev (timewasting)
                        84'14   Dimitri Sennikov (foul on Glen De Boeck)

      Attendance        46,640

      Playtime          First half     46'04
                        Second half    48'58
                        Total          95'02

      Quality           6  
      Intensity         5,5
      Excitement        8  



      BELGIUM (formation 4-4-2)           CLUB                     AGE   CAPS   Pts
       1 Geert De Vlieger                 Willem II                 31     26   6,5
      15 Jacky Peeters                    AA Gent                   32     14   5,5
      16 Daniël Van Buyten                Olympique Marseille       24      8   6  
       3 Glen De Boeck             (-92)  Anderlecht                30     34   6  
       5 Nico Van Kerckhoven              Schalke 04                31     40   6  
      22 Mbo Mpenza                (-70)  Excelsior Mouscroun       25     27   6  
      18 Yves Vanderhaeghe                Anderlecht                32     31   6  
      10 Johan Walem                      Standard Luik             30     34   7,5
       8 Bart Goor                        Hertha BSC                29     39   5,5
      11 Gert Verheyen             (-78)  Club Brugge               31     47   5  
       7 Marc Wilmots (c)                 Schalke 04                33     67   5,5

      Substitutes
       9 Wesley Sonck              (+70)  RC Genk                   24     13   7  
       6 Timmy Simons              (+78)  Club Brugge               25     14   -  
       4 Eric Van Meir             (+92)  Standard Luik             34     33   -  

      Coach: Robert Waseige                                            Average  6,04



      RUSSIA (formation 4-5-1)            CLUB                     AGE   CAPS   Pts
       1 Ruslan Nigmatullin               Verona                    27     23   6  
       5 Andriy Solomatin                 Lokomotiv Moscow          26      8   6  
       3 Yuri Nikiforov            (-43)  PSV Eindhoven             31     59   4,5
       7 Viktor Onopko (c)                Real Oviedo               32    100   5,5
       2 Yuri Kovtun                      Spartak Moscow            32     47   5  
       8 Valeri Karpin             (-83)  Celta Vigo                33     72   5,5
      21 Dimitri Khokhlov                 Real Sociedad             26     42   6  
       4 Aleksei Smertin           (-34)  Girondins Bordeaux        27     27   6  
       9 Yegor Titov                      Spartak Moscow            26     33   6  
      15 Dimitri Alenichev                Porto                     29     45   6,5
      11 Vladimir Bestschastnykh          Spartak Moscow            28     67   5  

      Substitutes
      22 Dimitri Sichev            (+34)  Spartak Moscow            18      6   7,5
      18 Dimitri Sennikov          (+43)  Lokomotiv Moscow          25      5   5  
      16 Aleksandr Kersiakov       (+83)  Zenith Saint Petersburg   19      4   -  

      Coach: Oleg Romantsev                                            Average  5,73



* Numbers in blue are points set by us after
  performance in the match (0=worst, 10=best).