Wasn't the 22nd June supposed to bring bad luck to the Spanish? Well, this time it didn't and Italy is out. Bloody penalties, here we go again like in 1990, 1994 and 1998.
The match was very tense and tactical. Italy didn't play that well, apart in defence, but Spain was not spectacular either. What I am pissed off about is Luca Toni, how can we possibly win a match with a striker like that? I still believe Inzaghi could have saved the day, but all in all, Italy wasn't at its best and losing on penalties doesn't bring us shame. We bowed out fighting but not inspiring.
The thing that pisses me off the most, more than Luca Toni, was listening to the Spanish supporters, camouflaged as BBC commentators. Alan Shearer was the most annoying of them all, kept talking about how Italy was not trying to win the match, how Italy was boring, how Italy was lucky and so on, but I would like to remind to Mr Shearer that Italy without knowing how to play has won 4 World Cups and none of them with the help of a dodgy Russian linesman.
Can't wait for Alan Shearer to become a football manager and put into practice all his wisdom. I hope he will remember that in football defence is the key to winning games, World Cups, or qualifying for Euro 2008.
The match was very tense and tactical. Italy didn't play that well, apart in defence, but Spain was not spectacular either. What I am pissed off about is Luca Toni, how can we possibly win a match with a striker like that? I still believe Inzaghi could have saved the day, but all in all, Italy wasn't at its best and losing on penalties doesn't bring us shame. We bowed out fighting but not inspiring.
The thing that pisses me off the most, more than Luca Toni, was listening to the Spanish supporters, camouflaged as BBC commentators. Alan Shearer was the most annoying of them all, kept talking about how Italy was not trying to win the match, how Italy was boring, how Italy was lucky and so on, but I would like to remind to Mr Shearer that Italy without knowing how to play has won 4 World Cups and none of them with the help of a dodgy Russian linesman.
Can't wait for Alan Shearer to become a football manager and put into practice all his wisdom. I hope he will remember that in football defence is the key to winning games, World Cups, or qualifying for Euro 2008.
3 comments:
quanta passione in più c'è in un italiano all'estero...
have a nice olimpic games
Sergio
Fell asleep after 20 mins!!!
I totally agree, the BBC commentators were terribly on the Spanish side and it was very annoying indeed, however I didn't think Italy would have deserved to go on to the semi-finals stage: Toni has been burned out by Bayern Munich and had no juice left in him. Donadoni could have given Borriello a chance but he didn't. We need young, fresh and ambitious players, we have to move away from a team that without Pirlo cannot express any good football.
PS: Nice blog!
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