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Wednesday, April 14, 1976 If there was only one, it would be this one. While the Greens secured a narrow victory in the first leg at Geoffroy-Guichard (1-0, goal by Larqué: • ASSE 1-0 PSV Eindhoven - Semi-final ... ), this C1 semi-final return leg promises to be as complicated as it is tense. The Dutch want to score quickly and take advantage of the atmosphere of their crowd to suffocate the Stéphanois. But here's the thing: facing them stands a man in blue, neither big nor impressive but who has decided that today, it won't happen. The Yugoslav Ivan Curkovic, goalkeeper of ASSE, will succeed in the match of his life at the Philipsstadion, disgusting one by one the immense attackers of PSV: Edström, Dalqvist, Van de Kerkhov, Lubse... Impassable, author of decisive saves from the first to the last minute, he keeps the Greens afloat at the end of a breathless match until the final whistle. 0-0, ASSE is in the final. And Eindhoven will remain the masterpiece of Curkovic. The Greens are in the final but this one will be fatal to them. In the previous round, Curkovic had already been heroic in the first leg in kyiv despite the 2-0 defeat: • Video As for the return match at Geoffroy-Guichard, it is an integral part of the legend of the Greens: • ASSE 3-0 (ap) Dynamo kyiv - Quarter of ... We will find PSV Eindhoven at the start of the following season, still in C1. Then in 1979 in C3, during a confrontation that will go down in history: • ASSE 6-0 PSV Eindhoven - Round of 16... The following year, the Greens' journey ended in Liverpool, at the end of a legendary match at Anfield: • Liverpool 3-1 ASSE - Quarter-final... Curkovic played at ASSE until 1980. His last title was the 1977 Coupe de France won in the final against Reims: • ASSE 2-1 Reims - Coupe de France Final... http://www.asse-stats.com/match-14-av... Images TF1 and INA