Turkey vs Croatia

[ItalianGuns]

WOW! Last time I saw something like that was Italy vs Germany in the 2006 WC Semis. When Italy plowed 2 goals in 1 minute and a half. (Still stands as the greatest WC performance.......Italy winning, in Germany, vs Germany (Germany has never defeated Italy in WC play) and with 2 minutes left in overtime, before penalties, Italy scores two). But todays game was just ridiculous. When Croatia scored, I knew not to turn the tv off, cause turkey was gonna do something.

Comments on that beautiful game.......

[LBVT]

I thought it was over when Croatia scored. But I was told that Turkey is the team that always comes back. And indeed, they did.

I hate when games are ended with penalty kicks though. Just seems like a cheap way of winning.

[ItalianGuns]

Originally Posted by LBVT

I thought it was over when Croatia scored. But I was told that Turkey is the team that always comes back. And indeed, they did.

I hate when games are ended with penalty kicks though. Just seems like a cheap way of winning.

Yea, but that's the beauty of soccer. Dramatic endings.

[xjsynx]

Spain > Italy

[ItalianGuns]

Originally Posted by xjsynx

Spain > Italy

Italy with Matterrazi, Cannavaro, Totti (optional), Pirlo, and Gattuso > Spain with starting world class lineup

It went to penalties, even with 5 (or 4 if you did not include Totti) Substitutes. Still, Italy played like they have never won a WC.

[xjsynx]

Originally Posted by ItalianGuns

Italy with Matterrazi, Cannavaro, Totti (optional), Pirlo, and Gattuso > Spain with starting world class lineup

It went to penalties, even with 5 (or 4 if you did not include Totti) Substitutes. Still, Italy played like they have never won a WC.

Hey, the refs tried they are hardest to give Italy the win.

3 huge fouls in the penalty box, and no PK's, but outside the box he was calling Spain for the same shit he ignored...

[ItalianGuns]

Originally Posted by xjsynx

Hey, the refs tried they are hardest to give Italy the win.

3 huge fouls in the penalty box, and no PK's, but outside the box he was calling Spain for the same shit he ignored...

The hand ball in Italy's box from the spanish player IN ANY OTHER game would have been a red card. You get a red card for hands on the ball if you were aware that the ball was being balanced by your hands. Next, when the Spanish player kicked the ball at the goalie well after game had stopped and hit Buffon..that was a yellow, and it happened to be villa, so that was a red card (two yellows).
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While the ref did suck, the 3 fouls would have been free kicks........they landed in the box, but the fouls were at the corners and on the lines, which no ref would ever dare taking a risk and awarding a penalty. So 3 very close free kicks for Spain, could of made a huge difference, but even the announcers who constantly ripped on Italy admitted that that defence was unbreakable.

I hate to see my country lose, as passionate as I am, but Spain did show up, in a good mood, all the starting players played for them (unlike the Italians like Totti who could care less), and they were the better team, so they won. On any given day, I would chose Italy over Spain with starting line ups. I just think the WC win for Italy was great, but it also hurt them by making them cocky and overrated (like Luca Toni, who I still don't think is better than Del Piero).

[xjsynx]

Well I doubt Alonso had such luck against Italy (Ferrari & Trulli), well I am sure he caught Trulli, but I need to go home and finish watching the French GP...

[ItalianGuns]

Originally Posted by xjsynx

Well I doubt Alonso had such luck against Italy (Ferrari & Trulli), well I am sure he caught Trulli, but I need to go home and finish watching the French GP...

Nice, I see you are into the Euro sports. Good stuff.