1.   Early in the second half, Gilberto Silva took off on a romp down the left side, eluding his first defender and centering the ball.

2.   Fadiga attempted to center the ball to Diop, who was steaming into the box, but it deflected slightly off the foot of French captain Marcel Desailly.

3.   So Wolff instead centered the ball to McBride, sprinting into the box.

4.   The ball was centered in front of the goal, where Mike Burns, a second-half replacement, had to keep an eye on two players.

5.   Hubner centered the ball from the right side.

6.   Lewis centered the ball to Landon Donovan, who whirled and tapped the ball to McBride.

7.   Stuart Ripley repeatedly centered the ball from the right wing and David Batty from midfield, but the defense frustrated the Blackburn forwards.

8.   With wide-open play down both flanks, France strikers were centering the ball often and kept Azerbaijan goalie Elkhan Gasanov busy at the start.