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Spain vs Italy [P+R+Why Italy Will Win]

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KingPaulV

Starting XI
Certainly I've seen worse in terms of defensive mindedness, but this particular Italy side and this particular display remind me of the Catennaccio years and the unimaginative teams that played in the Italy 1990 World Cup...horrible by the Italians who at no point looked like they wanted to win...they just didnt want to lose...they suck...I think the cycle is over with all these old players and at least we can only hope that for the World Cup qualifiers they are playing something prettier
 
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OrgulloVikingo

Senior Squad
celtic fc;2540811 said:
Congrats Spain. The rest of the competition should be interesting now that we're rid of the most defensive/anti-footballing team in football history!
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To say the least! Bunch of landscapers! Now where are these "superior" Italian fans here? Can't hear them! For the record, Iker showed why he is the best keeper. The great kick save (which wasn't luck. If you see the replay, his eyes follow the ball and he kicks accordingly), and the 2 pk saves. Gianluigi on the backburner!
 
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Mandieta6

Red Card - Life
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Congratulations to Spain, I was pleasantly surprised to see them go through, and this is coming from someone who generally supports the opposing team. This should make an interesting semi final, I'm sure Russia won't make the same mistake.
 
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Rocky

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OrgulloVikingo;2540818 said:
To say the least! Bunch of landscapers! Now where are these "superior" Italian fans here? Can't hear them! For the record, Iker showed why he is the best keeper. The great kick save (which wasn't luck. If you see the replay, his eyes follow the ball and he kicks accordingly), and the 2 pk saves. Gianluigi on the backburner!
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And when have Italian fans claimed to be superior? Most of the Italian fan-base on this site isn't even active anymore. Modena, Juventino, and I are like the only Italians that have even popped into this thread, so it's not like we have a strong voice on these forums. And to claim that Casillas is the best keeper after saving two penalites is kind of over the top isn't it? Buffon saved one too. If we awarded the title of best goalkeeper to the one who saves the most penalites in a shootout, Ricardo would be miles ahead.
 
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Congratulations to Spain...hopefully, you'll be offensive minded for the Russians.

Now, to be fair, Italy DID create some chances....a few were really good ones..Camaronesi's shot cleared off the line and that shot which forced Casillas to tip the ball over his crossbar. Although, I agree, they were very defensive minded...but without Pirlo and Gattussssssso, I saw it coming. I only tuned in after the 1st half ended....thank goodness for that!
 
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Hopeunited

Starting XI


This is a fantastic result. EURO happens once every four years and I don't want to keep sleeping through the games just because Italy is playing.
 
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To be honest, I was really hoping for the REMATCH: Germany vs Italy in the final, so from that point of view its a bit dissapointing that Italy were beaten, but other than hoping that Torres and/or Xabi Alonso had a good game, I didn't have a preference for the winner.
 
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pede54

Team Captain
Ah football. The game that unites the people of the World huh?

True, the Italians were super negative, and the extent of their negativity even shocked our Italian fans on this forum. So don't take it out on these guys, they had no say in their teams tactics.

So ok, their team was awful, but I still wanna say to the fans on here, hard luck fellas, really.

Spain? Congrats to the Spanish fans in here of course. Not surprised by the amount of diving going on by Torres, Villa and the rest, only dissapointed that with all the plaudits these players are drawing they still think cheating in front of the whole World is acceptable.

I hate divers, and I've had to put up with a few at Chelsea believe me. They are the lowest of the low and I just cannot respect any player who does that. I certainly would not want any more at my club either.

The Italians were no angels either. In particular I was pretty disgusted by the way that Di Natale crawled back onto the pitch to stop a Spanish attack. That was just shameful.

So congrats to the Spanish fans because I know that you never expected to go through, but try to be a little more gracious in victory guys. You could at least afford that to the losing fans.
 
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Gunnersgoal22

Youth Team
Something needs to be done about kicking the ball out when somebody is "hurt". I'm not sure what should be done, but it's getting ******* ridiculous.
 
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Rocky

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Gunnersgoal22;2540850 said:
Something needs to be done about kicking the ball out when somebody is "hurt". I'm not sure what should be done, but it's getting ******* ridiculous.
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Just keep going and ignore the ref if you have to. If the player is truly hurt, deal with it when there is a break in play, even if that break in play comes after a goal.
 
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ShearerM4

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newbie original;2540855 said:
Make it mandatory to kick the ball out...for some reason they no longer use that rule.
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And rightly so... it was abused way too much. Players asking for play to be stopped for every contact. F*ck that, play on man.
 
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twigsanberries

Youth Team
and most of the time, player hurt is all the way on the other end of the pitch, or away from their goal in midfield. it's not like he could have helped stop the fast break going the other way. they need to start carding for **** like that. treat it like a dive. it happened 3 times in this game. criminal.
 
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Rocky

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I think carding the player is too harsh, just ignore it and let play continue. Otherwise we'll be lucky if we even have any players on the field to finish off the game.
 
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The 6/22 Curse - on this day, Spain endured the following 3 results:

Spain eliminated from Mexico '86 (World Cup) on penalties in QF
Spain eliminated from EURO (England) '96 on penalties in QF
Spain eliminated from Japan/South Korea 2002 (World Cup) on penalties in QF

*On all 3 occassions, the team that beat Spain (in the QF) lost in the next round.

Finally, Spain wins QF of EURO (Austria/Switzerland) 2008 on penalties in QF
 
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