Italy beats Australia.

[ITALIA]

Italy won. Yay.

Thoughts on the game? It's a huge dichotomy as to the penalty given. I'd give Italy the benefit of the doubt in the game since they had better statistics overall (bar possession, but is understandable due to Italy being a man down), the red card on Materazzi was too harsh though.

10. TOTTI Francesco (95+' PEN)

- That's all that counts.

 

[VinSVT]

Italy won. Yay.

Thoughts on the game? It's a huge dichotomy as to the penalty given. I'd give Italy the benefit of the doubt in the game since they had better statistics overall (bar possession, but is understandable due to Italy being a man down), the red card on Materazzi was too harsh though.

10. TOTTI Francesco (95+' PEN)

- That's all that counts.

I didn't wake in time for it. Thats another game I picked right though... I should of bet on all of these games!

 

[Hylo]

Very harsh on Australia to go out to a last minute penalty but Italy's class and experience showed through overall.

 

[peach]

I think the Austrialians gave italy a good game. They were up against a really good team.

 

[Payton]

Tough call but hard to argue with... wasn't all that controversial I think

hard for it to be a no-call that isolated in the penalty area

 

[nilpashah]

very good match though

 

[Mark]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo. What was the final score?

 

[socrates]

Last seconds of added-on time...thats f***ing harsh.

 

[MisterX]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo. What was the final score?

1 : 0. Italy scored in the last minute of the match

 

[theNOTO]

Quite an ending and quite a game.

 

[kyleirwin]

I usally never watch soccer, but I caught a clip of the game winning "GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL"... that was crazy... that guy sure did have some expirence with those balls.

 

[activeweb]

Forza Azzurri!!!

 

[Peter]

I couldn't believe it when I was watching it.

 

[Nathan]

The italian soccer team should seriously consider acting when they finish their soccer careers.....

 

[Payton]

Didn't you guys see the adidas commercial where the whole team practices diving? hehe

 

[Payton]

Heh, found it, not an adidas ad tho

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZwhFTDM-XcI&search=ROBBEN

 

[Nathan]

Yeah well all that training paid off. There was plenty of that in the match

 

[donn]

One of the best endings I've seen.

 

[a.titus1]

Inexperienced Australian defender + experience Italian = pk.

That was a helluva dive, but the defender put himself in that position. Idiotic to go to the ground in that instance. Socceroos (best name ever) should have buried italy much early. They waited until the last 10 minutes to go to 2 strikers and push the match.

 

[Dave]

The game was a load of crap, Australia should won, we played better the whole way through, and then they got that shoddy penalty kick.