I can say what I please.Pace_T said:piss off
GO ITALY!!!!!!!!!!
If Italy win, I hope they feel shallow and emply as they have won through being bigger princesses than three year old girls and superior divers than chinese olmpians.
I can say what I please.Pace_T said:piss off
GO ITALY!!!!!!!!!!
As someone mentioned, you really have no idea. Apart from the fact that we totally dominated in attack in the second half, so your wrong, there was a VERY good chance we would have beaten Italy in extra time. Why my intellectually challenged friend? Australia was playing for extra time.... you may have noted if you paid any attention : Our first changes were made with only 10mins left on the clock, while the Italians made their changes well before this, and then on top of this we still had one man fresh on the bench to come, no doubt it would have been Kennedy, who had a profound impact in all games he played when coming off the bench. And not mention that Australia was beginning to get a name for being a very fit side. So in light of all of this, you are an idiot.You must be kidding, Australia couldn't even get near the Italian goals when Italy was a man down, whereas Italy was constanly hanging around the Aussie goals, if by some act of god Australia beat Italy by dragging the game into 120 and fluking the penalties (the only way Aus could possibly even begin to hope to win the Italy game)
woah... *agrees with brogan*brogan77 said:Meh, everyone get off Italy's back.
They're there.
They played well.
Deal with it.
You see the thing is I spent a great deal of my life (half) in Europe, I've seen world cup standard teams play, and I can tell you that there was little realistic chance Australia was going to win that match, and while I generally support Australia, I'm not going to spew crap like "we were wronged" becuase the fact is, Italy had a far superior team and were technically speaking, playing much better on the night. For example - a 10 man italy team managed 7 shots on target, as opposed to 11 man Australia's 4 - and the Australian ones were kicks pretty much any keeper in the cup couldve easily saved.Schoolies_2004 said:As someone mentioned, you really have no idea. Apart from the fact that we totally dominated in attack in the second half, so your wrong, there was a VERY good chance we would have beaten Italy in extra time. Why my intellectually challenged friend? Australia was playing for extra time.... you may have noted if you paid any attention : Our first changes were made with only 10mins left on the clock, while the Italians made their changes well before this, and then on top of this we still had one man fresh on the bench to come, no doubt it would have been Kennedy, who had a profound impact in all games he played when coming off the bench. And not mention that Australia was beginning to get a name for being a very fit side. So in light of all of this, you are an idiot.
pfft, who scored and what is his position dumb ass, on their last sub their brought back their striker. Fuck your more stupid then an inbred.bshoc said:So the Italians didnt need their strikers to put in a goal? Thanks for adding to my case. Self-ownage your specialty?
Potentially, unlikely though with that defence and with Shevy and Voronin up the front._dhj_ said:I think we would have beaten Ukraine though
Yeah, Ronaldo will definitely be crying again tomorrow morning...bazookajoe said:France ftw, just wanna see Ronaldo cry again
Ever heard of tactics? Extra-time isn't uncertain. It may have been in the golden-goal WC years, however, having an extra 30 minutes is a great tactic. Australia knew that Italy was going to play a tough defense, and move players back especially since they only had 10 men. Guus knew that Italy had exhausted their subs. Guus knew that Italy was completely tired and started making errors around their own box.bshoc said:You say that Australia was playing for extra time, well any team who plays for something as uncertain as extra time deserves to lose, especially against a 10 man team. But just for a second lets pretend Australia got into extra time, and plodded along with the same zero goal scoring abilities and scramble defence until the penalties, thats assuming that the Australian managed not to trip over themselves like Neill, what then? Ownage in the penalties, Buffon is arguably one of the best keepers in the cup and Shcwarzer is nothing special, certainly not a good chance to stop the kind of kicking we saw the Italians do against Germany, I believe Totti provided the preview of the potential Aus-Italy pen shootout.
actually totti has been played as a forward this world cup.bshoc said:Well retard it was Totti, and he plays midfield. You may have to go to wikipedia to confirm that since it seems you know jack shit about the game.
Italy's forwards are Del Piero, Luca Toni, Gilardino, Iaquinta and Inzaghi.stazi said:actually totti has been played as a forward this world cup.
I agree with everything you say there...but there is not really much point in crying over spilt milk. We can't change what happened and can only congratulate Italy for making it to the final. Grosso dived, and I hate him for this...but he is not the only one. Thierry Henry took a dive against Spain that led to a decisive France goal. This was uncharacteristic of him, but it was still cheating.stazi said:Ever heard of tactics? Extra-time isn't uncertain. It may have been in the golden-goal WC years, however, having an extra 30 minutes is a great tactic. Australia knew that Italy was going to play a tough defense, and move players back especially since they only had 10 men. Guus knew that Italy had exhausted their subs. Guus knew that Italy was completely tired and started making errors around their own box.
Also, italy has historically been shocking at penalty shootouts. Have they ever even won one at world cup level? Next, schwarzer is excellent in penalties at international and league level.
Sure, we can still debate if we'd have won, even though I'm arguing we would have won in extra time considering how italy was slowly falling apart, but really the game should not have finished then with a penalty.
In your book "falling apart" means that a 10 man Italy team can still pull off twice as much concerted shots at the goals than Australia?Sure, we can still debate if we'd have won, even though I'm arguing we would have won in extra time considering how italy was slowly falling apart, but really the game should not have finished then with a penalty.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/international?id=10293&league=fifa.world&cc=3436bshoc said:Italy's forwards are Del Piero, Luca Toni, Gilardino, Iaquinta and Inzaghi.
No, falling apart means they stop being able to keep up with some players. They start passing back to their own goalie very dangerously, etc.bshoc said:In your book "falling apart" means that a 10 man Italy team can still pull off twice as much concerted shots at the goals than Australia?
Totti plays in "hole" just behind the out and out striker - he's neither a striker nor a midfielder.bshoc said:Well retard it was Totti, and he plays midfield. You may have to go to wikipedia to confirm that since it seems you know jack shit about the game.
Funnily enough, some people can play different positions. Neill plays a wing back for club, but played centre back for Australia.bshoc said:Italy's forwards are Del Piero, Luca Toni, Gilardino, Iaquinta and Inzaghi.