31.  Liverpool will be without German defender Markus Babbel for the next four weeks because of illness.

32.  Newcomers include Brazilian Andre Cruz, French international Ba, Dutch striker Patrick Kluivert and German defender Christian Ziege.

33.  Soviet tank forces sweep around Poznan and Thorn in Poland, isolating the German defenders while heading for the Vistula River.

34.  Since then, it has signed German international defender Christian Worns, Brazilian forward Adailton and French international goalkeeper Bernard Lama in its bid to recapture the title.

35.  Spurs captain Teddy Sheringham and German defender Christian Ziege were shown yellow cards for protesting to referee David Elleray.

36.  Ten minutes into second half, German international defender Carsten Ramelow stretched his leg to block a dangerous shot by Pavel Nedved.

37.  The Washington Freedom signed German defender Steffi Jones and Chinese midfielder Pu Wei on Wednesday.

38.  Thomas Linke made a halfhearted attempt to block Rivaldo, turning sideways as the Brazilian took the shot with no German defender trying to follow Ronaldo.

39.  Uncharacteristic blunders by Koepke and then Sammer gave the ball to the Croatians and Aljosa Asanovic slipped a pass between two German defenders through to Vlaovic.

40.  Uncharacteristic blunders by Koepke and then Sammer gave the ball to the Croatians and Aljosa Asanovic slipped a pass between two German defenders through to Goran Vlaovic.