European Cup 1978-79
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The season 1978-79 of the European Cup football club tournament was won by English champions Nottingham Forest F.C. in the final against Malmö FF. Forest had defeated defending champions Liverpool F.C. in the first round.
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[edit] Preliminary round
| Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AS Monaco  |
3 - 2 |  Steaua Bucureşti |
3 - 0 | 0 - 2 |
[edit] First round
As luck would have it, Nottingham Forest’s first opponents in the European Cup turned out to be their fellow English club and reigning European champions Liverpool F.C.. Despite having finished seven points clear of Liverpool in winning the League Championship, Forest were still heavy underdogs, but they were to take their doubters by surprise in the first leg of the first round match at their City Ground stadium. Liverpool knew little about young Garry Birtles who started up front for Forest, but it was he who tapped home a Woodcock pass to give his side the lead after 26 minutes, and it was Birtles again who pounced on a mistake in the Liverpool defence during the final minutes of the game and crossed the ball to Woodcock who knocked the ball down to the onrushing Barrett to volley the ball home for a crucial 2-0 lead. Still Liverpool were favourites to go through, but the tie was now set up perfectly for Forest. With the defence keeping things tight at the back and with the midfield closing down Liverpools creative players, the European Cup holders could find no way through in the return game. The match finished 0-0 and Liverpool, after having beaten all comers in Europe for two seasons, found themselves knocked out by a fellow English team.
That was not the only surprise result of the 1st Round. Club Bruges, the team that Liverpool had beaten in the 1978 European Cup Final, had taken a 2-1 lead to Poland after their first leg game against Wisla Krakow. Despite going behind to a first half goal from Kmiecik, a van der Eycken strike ten minutes from time looked to have seen the Belgians through, but Lipka (82 minutes) and Krupinaki (89 minutes) subsequently scored for Wisla and ended any hopes Bruges had harboured of going one better than the previous year.
Many of Juventus’ Italian international stars had spent much of the summer in Argentina for the World Cup, and the Turin club were hampered by having to kick-off their European campaign before their league season had started, but it was still a surprise when they were eliminated at the first round stage by Glasgow Rangers. The Italians did win their home leg by 1-0, but in the return match in Glasgow, headed goals by Alex MacDonald and Gordon Smith were enough to see another of the tournaments favourites fall at the first hurdle.
| Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AEK Athens  |
7 - 5 |  FC Porto |
6 - 1 | 1 - 4 |
Nottingham Forest F.C.  |
2 - 0 | Liverpool F.C. |
2 - 0 | 0 - 0 |
Real Madrid  |
12 - 0 |  Progres Niedercorn |
5 - 0 | 7 - 0 |
Grasshopper-Club  |
13 - 3 |  Valletta FC |
8 - 0 | 5 - 3 |
Odense BK  |
3 - 4 |  Lokomotiv Sofia |
2 - 2 | 1 - 2 |
1. FC Köln  |
5 - 2 |  ÍA |
4 - 1 | 1 - 1 |
Juventus  |
1 - 2 |  Rangers F.C. |
1 - 0 | 0 - 2 |
Fenerbahçe SK  |
3 - 7 |  PSV Eindhoven |
2 - 1 | 1 - 6 |
KS Vllaznia  |
3 - 4 |  FK Austria Wien |
2 - 0 | 1 - 4 |
Linfield F.C.  |
0 - 1 |  Lillestrøm S.K. |
0 - 0 | 0 - 1 |
AC Omonia  |
2 - 2(a) |  Bohemians FC |
2 - 1 | 0 - 1 |
FK Partizan  |
2 - 2(p) |  1. FC Dynamo Dresden |
2 - 0 | 0 - 2 |
Zbrojovka Brno  |
4 - 2 |  Újpesti TE |
2 - 2 | 2 - 0 |
Club Brugge K.V. |
3 - 4 |  Wisła Kraków |
2 - 1 | 1 - 3 |
FC Haka  |
1 - 4 |  FC Dynamo Kyiv |
0 - 1 | 1 - 3 |
Malmö FF  |
1 - 0 | AS Monaco |
0 - 0 | 1 - 0 |
[edit] Second round
Those who expected normal service to be resumed in the second round were to be disappointed. Real Madrid were one of the few remaining big names left in the draw, having already put 12 goals past Progres Niedercorn, and they were expected to see off their next opponents Grasshopper-Club without too much difficulty. Juanito gave Real a 5th minute lead in Madrid, but Claudio Sulser, who had scored six goals against Valetta FC in round one, equalised on the hour. Even so, goals from Hernandez and Santillana sealed a 3-1 first leg lead. Sulser scored again for Grasshoppers after eight minutes of the second game, but Real looked to have done enough until the 88th minute when Sulser bagged his ninth goal in four games to send Real crashing out.
Also out in the second round were PSV Eindhoven who included several members of the Dutch squad that had just reached the World Cup Final. Up against Juventus conquerors Rangers they had managed a creditable 0-0 draw in Glasgow and were a goal up in the opening minute of the second leg. Although Rangers equalised just before the hour mark, PSV struck back just three minutes later to retake the lead. But a Kenny Watson shot deflected in by Derek Johnstone and a breakaway goal by Robert Russell gave Rangers yet another surprise victory and saw yet another of the favourites go out.
Dynamo Kyiv were another big name to go out before the quarter-final stage. Dynamo were drawn against the Swedish champions Malmö FF who were coached by a 32 year old Englishman named Bob Houghton. Houghton had achieved little success as a manager in his home country, but had proved very effective in Sweden as he built his team around a strong muscular defence, a ruthless offside trap and a long ball style. One goal had been enough to beat AS Monaco in the first round, and a 2-0 win over the Soviet champions after a goalless draw in Kiev saw them into the last eight.
| Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEK Athens |
2 - 7 | Nottingham Forest F.C. |
1 - 2 | 1 - 5 |
| Real Madrid |
3 - 3(a) | Grasshopper-Club |
3 - 1 | 0 - 2 |
| Lokomotiv Sofia |
0 - 5 | 1. FC Köln |
0 - 1 | 0 - 4 |
| Rangers F.C. |
3 - 2 | PSV Eindhoven |
0 - 0 | 3 - 2 |
| FK Austria Wien |
4 - 1 | Lillestrøm S.K. |
4 - 1 | 0 - 0 |
| Bohemians FC |
0 - 6 | 1. FC Dynamo Dresden |
0 - 0 | 0 - 6 |
| Zbrojovka Brno |
3 - 3(a) | Wisła Kraków |
2 - 2 | 1 - 1 |
| FC Dynamo Kyiv |
0 - 2 | Malmö FF |
0 - 0 | 0 - 2 |
[edit] Quarter finals
And so the competition contained not one former winner or runner-up in the quarter-finals - in fact only Rangers had even reached a European Cup semi-final and that had been nearly twenty years earlier. The two favourites were now Nottingham Forest who had beaten AEK Athens - managed by European Cup legend Ferenc Puskas - by a 7-2 aggregate score, and German champions Cologne who had scored five unanswered goals against CSKA Sofia.
Having already disposed of Juventus and PSV Eindhoven, Rangers were once again handed a tough draw when they were paired with the Germans in the quarter-finals. Coached by Hennes Weisweiler and featuring top German marksman Dieter Muller, Cologne beat Rangers 1-0 at home with yet another Muller goal, and it was Muller again who struck early in the second half in Glasgow to send the Germans into the semi-finals, despite a late McLean consolation goal.
Nottingham Forest received a shock when Claudio Sulser gave Grasshoppers Zurich an early lead in the first leg at the City Ground. Although Birtles and Robertson goals had put Forest 2-1 up as the game drew to a close, the Swiss side were still in with a strong chance, but a goal from Gemmill on 87 minutes and a Lloyd header two minutes later gave Forest a commanding lead to take to Switzerland where a 1-1 draw gave them a comfortable aggregate win.
Malmo’s impressive run looked to be coming to an end as, after losing 2-1 away to Wisla Krakow, they went a further goal behind after 58 minutes in Sweden, but four goals in the final 25 minutes, including an Anders Ljungberg hat-trick, transformed the tie. Malmo were joined in the semi-finals by Austria Vienna who had shown their European pedigree by reaching the Cup Winners Cup Final a year earlier. The Austrians had beaten Dynamo Dresden 3-1 in their quarter-final first leg and, despite conceding a first half penalty goal in East Gremany, had held on for a famous victory.
| Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nottingham Forest F.C. |
5 - 2 | Grasshopper-Club |
4 - 1 | 1 - 1 |
| 1. FC Köln |
2 - 1 | Rangers F.C. |
1 - 0 | 1 - 1 |
| FK Austria Wien |
3 - 2 | 1. FC Dynamo Dresden |
3 - 1 | 0 - 1 |
| Wisła Kraków |
3 - 5 | Malmö FF |
2 - 1 | 1 - 4 |
[edit] Semifinals
In the semi-finals, however, Austria Vienna could not break down the Malmo defence. Over the course of two games they were unable to score a single goal and the tie was decided by a solitary Tommy Hansson header after 47 minutes of the second leg in Sweden, so provoking wild celebrations as Sweden had a club in a European final for the first time ever.
There was plenty more drama in the other semi-final as the two favourites met to see who would reach the final. Nottingham Forest were without two key defenders in Viv Anderson and Kenny Burns, and it showed as first a shot from the Belgian Roger Van Gool that went into the net off the post, and then a Dieter Muller tap in gave Cologne - themselves missing midfielder Heinz Flohe - an early 2-0 lead in Nottingham. But the English side came back with characteristic vigour and were 3-2 up with nearly half an hour of the first leg still to play. A shot from Bowyer and headers from Birtles and Robertson had brought the home crowd to life and turned the match full circle. But there was one twist remaining in the game as Cologne’s Japanese substitute Yasuhiko Okudera came on to score a late equaliser with a 25 yard shot that surprisingly sneaked under the body of Forest’s England international goalkeeper Peter Shilton and put the German side right back into the driving seat.
The second leg produced a classic European away performance from Brian Clough’s team. With his two defenders back in the side they kept the Cologne attack, and Dieter Muller in particular, at bay, and they scored after 65 minutes from a corner as Ian Bowyer latched onto a Larry Lloyd flick to nod home the winner.
| Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nottingham Forest F.C. |
4 - 3 | 1. FC Köln |
3 - 3 | 1 - 0 |
| FK Austria Wien |
0 - 1 | Malmö FF |
0 - 0 | 0 - 1 |
[edit] Final
| Team #1 | Res. | Team #2 |
|---|---|---|
| Nottingham Forest F.C. |
1 - 0 | Malmö FF |
Olympiastadion, Munich
May 30, 1979
Attendance: 57 000 spectators
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
Scorer: 45' Trevor Francis 1-0
Nottingham Forest (trainer Brian Clough):
Peter Shilton; Viv Anderson, Larry Lloyd, Kenny Burns, Frank Clark; Trevor Francis, John McGovern (c), Ian Bowyer, John Robertson; Tony Woodcock, Garry Birtles
Malmö FF (trainer Robert Houghton):
Jan Möller; Roy Andersson, Kent Jönsson, Magnus Andersson, Ingemar Erlandsson; Staffan Tapper (36' Claes Malmberg), Anders Ljungberg, Robert Prytz, Jan Ove Kinnvall; Tommy Hansson (83' Tommy Andersson), Tore Cervin
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