Finland defeats Austria with stunning comeback

October 14th, 2008 | By: j | 2 Comments »

Entering the match with a 2-1 aggregate advantage, Austria’s hopes to advance to the U21 Euro Championships were dashed with a stunning comeback by Finland. Sturm Graz’s Marco Stankovic gave Austria the lead at the twenty-six minute mark. Looking like they were headed towards the U21 Euro’s, disaster struck as Jussi Vasaran, who plays his club Football in Tapiola Finland for FC Honka scored twice, first with nine minutes remaining and then as time expired to level the aggregate. After scoreless extra-time, the match went to penalties with Finland triumphing 4-2.

Austria
Robert Olejnik,Andreas Dober (Daniel Beichler 91′ et),Mario Sonnleitner,Harun Erbek (Andreas Schicker 105′et),Niklas Hoheneder,Mario Reiter,Julian Baumgartlinger,Florian Klein,Christoph Saurer (Michael Madl 75′),Veli Kavlak,Marco Stankovic
Substitutes not used: Andreas Lukse,,Daniel Sikorski,Haris Bukva,,Michael Stanislaw,

Finland
Tomi Maanoja,Jukka Raitala,Jonas Portin,Tuomo Turunen,Joni Aho,Kasper Hämäläinen,Mehmet Hetemaj (Jussi Vasaran 51′),Tim Sparv,Juha Hakola,Mika Ojala (Timo Furuholm 46′),Jarno Parikka (Aleksandr Kokko 75′)
Substitutes not used:Anssi Jaakkola,Ville Jalasto,Nicholas Otaru,Pyry Kärkkäinen



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Username By Jan | October 15th, 2008 at 7:14 am
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I particularly love Finnish football and I can’t wait for Finland to qualify for major tournaments – I was clearly happy with the result yesterday although I felt sorry that Austria had to go. Unfortunately also Switzerland had to bow out of the competition.

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Username By j | October 15th, 2008 at 8:08 am
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Jan – I agree with you and I think I gave that away with linking to the club site. I wish we had someone representing the senior club as they have a great match today against Russia

thanks for dropping by -

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