Group A (Riyadh) [Feb 16] Nigeria 2-1 Saudi Arabia [Adepoju 52, Ohenhen 87; Al Suraiti 16] [Feb 17] Portugal 1-0 Czechoslovakia [Alves 88] [Feb 19] Czechoslovakia 1-0 Saudi Arabia [Látal 52] [Feb 20] Portugal 1-0 Nigeria [Joao Pinto 79] [Feb 22] Saudi Arabia 3-0 Portugal [Al Harbi 52, Al Romaihi 56, Al Debaikhi 83] Nigeria 1-1 Czechoslovakia [Nwosu 72; Látal 14] 1.PORTUGAL 3 2 0 1 2- 3 4 2.NIGERIA 3 1 1 1 3- 3 3 3.Czechoslovakia 3 1 1 1 2- 2 3 4.Saudi Arabia 3 1 0 2 4- 3 2 Group B (Dammam) [Feb 16] Costa Rica 1-0 Colombia [González 88] Soviet Union 3-1 Syria [Tedeev 29, Salenko 49, 83; Sibai] [Feb 19] Soviet Union 1-0 Costa Rica [Matveev 84] [Feb 20] Colombia 2-0 Syria [Muñoz 42, Osorio 85] [Feb 22] Costa Rica 1-3 Syria [Brenes 80; Helou 16, 45, Afash 30] Colombia 1-3 Soviet Union [Muñoz 5; Timoshenko 25, Salenko 29, 32] 1.SOVIET UNION 3 3 0 0 7- 2 6 2.COLOMBIA 3 1 0 2 3- 4 2 3.Syria 3 1 0 2 4- 6 2 4.Costa Rica 3 1 0 2 2- 4 2 Group C (Jeddah) [Feb 17] Brazil 2-0 East Germany [Marcelo Henrique 35, França 68] USA 1-1 Mali [Nfaly 42; Snow 11] [Feb 19] Brazil 5-0 Mali [Cássio 50, Bismarck 53, 83, Sonny Anderson 66, 80] [Feb 20] East Germany 0-2 USA [Dayak 47, Snow 87p] [Feb 22] Brazil 3-1 USA [Bismarck 39, Marcelo Henrique 44, Sonny Anderson 55; Dayak 10] East Germany 3-0 Mali [Prausse 28, Fuchs 46, Jahnig 55] 1.BRAZIL 3 3 0 0 10- 1 6 2.USA 3 1 1 1 4- 4 3 3.East Germany 3 1 0 2 3- 4 2 4.Mali 3 0 1 2 1- 9 1 Group D (Taif) [Feb 17] Iraq 1-0 Norway [Saddam 66] Spain 2-1 Argentina [Moisés 26, Villabona 58p; Simeone 12] [Feb 19] Argentina 2-0 Norway [Biazotti 5, Ubaldi 89] [Feb 20] Spain 0-2 Iraq [Kareem 41, Shabib 51] [Feb 22] Norway 4-2 Spain [Drillestad 43, Johansen 47, Bohinen 58, Mellemstrand 90; Pinilla 46, 49] Iraq 1-0 Argentina [Swadi 67p] 1.IRAQ 3 3 0 0 4- 0 6 2.ARGENTINA 3 1 0 2 3- 3 2 3.Norway 3 1 0 2 4- 5 2 4.Spain 3 1 0 2 4- 7 2 QUARTER-FINALS [Feb 25] Riyadh Portugal 1-0 Colombia [Jorge Couto 40] Dammam Nigeria 4-4 Soviet Union [aet] [Kiriakov 30, 58, Tedeev 45, Salenko 46; Chenhen 61, 75, Elijah 83, Ugbade 84] Nigeria won 5-3 on penalties Taif USA 2-1 Iraq [Henderson 17, Brose 56; Kareem 35] Jeddah Brazil 1-0 Argentina [Marcelo Henrique 15] SEMI-FINALS [Feb 28] Riyadh Portugal 1-0 Brazil [Amaral 68] Jeddah Nigeria 2-1 USA [Adepoju 47, 93; Snow 52p] MATCH FOR THIRD PLACE Riyadh [Mar 3] Brazil 2-0 USA [França 65, Leonardo 69] FINAL Riyadh, March 3, 1989. Portugal 2-0 Nigeria [Abel Silva 44, Jorge Couto 76] Portugal: Bizarro, Valido, Abel Silva, Paulo Madeira, Morgado, Helio, Toze', Filipe, Jorge Couto, Amaral (Paulo Alves), Joao Pinto (Folha). Referee: Schmidhuber (West Germany). Attendance: 70,000.
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