Torres had an awful (Italy with 2 holding midfielders) game while Cesc Fabregas was largely contained for the 60 mins he got.....
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Juventino;2540799 said:But why all the sour grapes and hypocrisy in this thread? Chill out.
pede54;2540832 said: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.
modena_10;2540869 said:...this thread has cemented some of the reasoning in my mind as to why i don't frequent these forums as much as i have in the past. .....
KingPaulV;2540872 said:Its been over 24 years of frustration Modena, surely you would understand if you country had undergone such frustrating run of results, but you wouldnt at this point Italy has performed rather well over the pas 20 years in international competitions, including three world cup finals and one trophy...And actually if you count the fact that our only trophy was in 64 now you just compounded a further 20 years on an already frustrating set of events...
Mandieta6;2540822 said: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.
modena_10;2540887 said:i can definitely understand that. it has been a very long time of compounded frustration and disappointment for the spanish NT but all the garbage uttered in this thread, and even in other threads leading up to this game, is more shocking than the actual game. even before the game was won or even played, reading all that **** was infuriating.
on a different note, the one thing that probably pissed me off the most about this debacle of a tournament was the fact that even though this wasn't the most impressive italian side we still had the quality to win. in qualifying and friendlies we played well in both defence and offence but it seemed the occassion of euro put donadoni in a shell. maybe this was compounded by the loss to the dutch, who knows. but i do think that donadoni was not outcoached by his opposition rather himself. now i can only pray for a quality new coach and a much needed youth movement.
one positive i take out of this tournament was the play of giorgio chiellini. he was unreal today vs the potent spanish attack who we made invisible. i can only pray he keeps up this play because the options in central defence for the future are bleak behind him and andrea barzagli.
OrgulloVikingo;2540911 said:OK, we all know about the Italians playing 10 men behind the ball so why all this talk about both teams not wanting to take chances, bla bla bla? Believe me Spain are not Italy. we have the talent to take it to people. We don't sit back and hang out. C'mon, you can take 10 strangers from the streets and line them up behind the ball and chances are theyll defend decently! Italy doesnt know how to play another way. IMO, they are not talented enough to play a flowing short pass technical game. They showed up wanting pk's and they got it. I think its time to realize that their catennacio style is way outdated and does an overall diservice to football fans everywhere.
On another note, I am surprised there isnt more talk about that son of a (k)unt ref! I mean, he was either 1, paid off by Italy or 2, just absolute rubbish! Either way, he doesn't deserve to ever officiate a half important match anymore. Perhaps working in a pub league, but thats it. He nearly caused us the game! Sorry, but we had at the very least, 1 penalty that was ignored. I was appauled by his appointment for this match.
modena_10;2540955 said:i don't know why people are hating on di natale. when he went down with his "injury", and obviously i use the word injury lightly, he was obviously tackled late, just as david silva was. he took a knee right into his thigh, they even showed it again in slow motion. lucky it wasn't a charlie horse.
and again why are the italians being singled out for diving. torres and villa were shameful bitches just like any italian player who embelished, yet for some reason people single out italy and forget the rest. btw, it was villa who took the dispicable dive in the box and was rightly booked.
and the whole italy scoring late and being lucky is humorous at best.