World Cup 2006 Round of 16 Day 3
From Benny's Post Round of 16 Day 3
26 June 2006
ITALY 1-0 AUSTRALIA
Totti 94 (Pen)
In the second minute Toni wasted a superb Del Piero cross, heading wide from
6 yards out. The Fiorentina striker headed down a cross to Gilardino, he took
the ball high off his chest and struck an acrobatic volley which Schwarzer
parried with ease. His save on another Toni effort was considerably more
impressive. Pirlo chipped a ball into the box, Toni rolled his maker, Grella,
and hit a low shot which Schwarzer sliced clear with his left foot, the less
said about Gilardino's 'header' on the rebound the better. It took the Aussies
half an hour to get a shot on target. Chipperfield shot straight at Buffon
following a mix-up in the Italian defence on a set piece. Toni missed another
sitter, Perrotta helped on a Pirlo cross but the giant striker headed over the
bar. Moore was lucky not to be sent off for a lunging foul on Toni, he escaped
without a booking.
Materazzi scythed down Bresciano on the edge of the box and he made sure the ref
noticed by rolling over four times. Materazzi's foul was no different to Moore's
challenge on Toni in the first half, in fact that was arguably worse, but the
ref showed Materazzi a red. Despite their man advantage the Australians failed
to put the Italian's under a great deal of pressure and Hiddink waited until the
80th minute before bringing on Aloisi, Lippi had already introduced Totti and
Iaquinta. In the last minute Iaquinta missed an absolute gift. Perrotta had run
into traffic in a packed penalty area, when attempting to smashed the ball
clear, a defender kicked it against Iaquinta, it bounced off Iaquinta,
against Moore and back to Iaquinta again but he shot straight at Schwarzer.
Grosso burst down the right flank and turned inside Bresciano before running
into the box, Neill went in with a sliding tackled, Grosso turned away from him,
hooked his left foot over the defender and took a dive and the ref pointed to
the spot. Totti smashed the ball into the top left corner. It was hard luck on
Neill who had been outstanding all match but he only has himself to blame.
Attendance : 46,000
Red Card : Materazzi 50 (Italy)
Assist : Grosso (won pen)
SWITZERLAND 0-0 UKRAINE
During a brief spell in the first half this was shaping up to be a decent game,
despite telling a friend this had penalties written all over it. Wicky
intercepted Tymoshchyuk's square pass and let fly with a shot from the edge of
the box which Shovkovsky made an unnecessarily theatrical save. Shevchenko
clipped top of the crossbar with a diving header from Kalinichenko's free kick.
Frei rattled the crossbar with a ferocious free kick.
Gusin shaved a post with an excellent flick header from a corner. The remainder
of the second half was a complete non event. In extra time Gusin made a
fantastic block tackle to deny Streller when the forward was sent in on goal.
There were two notable substitutions in extra time. Milevsky, on for Voronin,
gave an instant spark to the Ukraine attack though I'm not sure what taking off
Frei and bringing on Lustrinelli was supposed to achieve.
Penalty Shoot-Out
Shevchenko sends the ball low to Zuberbuhler's right but it's saved. That's one
thing Milan won't miss.
Streller's kick is delayed by his own goalkeeper Zuberbuhler, who is standing on
the right hand side of the box, the ref tells him to walk off the pitch.
Streller, who looks nervous as hell, hit's a weak shot towards the centre which
Shovkovsky saves with ease.
Milevsky who looks like a cross between a rock star and Thor the God of Thunder,
does a Panenka. He takes a few steps before chipping a gorgeous right foot shot
which starts curling towards the right hand post before dropping towards the
centre of goal, a prostrate Zuberbuhler watches the ball hit the back of the
net. Brilliant penalty, so good I'm putting on DVD.
Barnetta rattles the crossbar with violent shot.
Rebrov with an awful penalty, poor height, poor placement but Zuberbuhler dives
the wrong way.
Cabanas hits the ball just right of centre but Shovkovsky maintains his policy
of diving at the last second and saves.
Match point to Gusev and he doesn't let his team down, slamming the ball
into the bottom left corner.
I've given Shovkovsky hell in the past but he came up big today. The Ukraine
probably deserved to win but in truth neither team showed much ambition.
Milevsky has already been dubbed the new Shevchenko and from what I have
seen at the U21 European Championships and briefly in this match he's got
tremendous potential.
Ukraine win 3-0 on penalties
The weekend football died, yes I know it's Monday. To those who were complaining
about how the first round, are you satisfied now?
Attendance : 45,000
Assist : n/a
http://soccer-europe.com
Chat room : http://www.lhcw.net/WorldCup
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Did Neill impeded the attacker?
26 June 2006
ITALY 1-0 AUSTRALIA
Totti 94 (Pen)
In the second minute Toni wasted a superb Del Piero cross, heading wide from
6 yards out. The Fiorentina striker headed down a cross to Gilardino, he took
the ball high off his chest and struck an acrobatic volley which Schwarzer
parried with ease. His save on another Toni effort was considerably more
impressive. Pirlo chipped a ball into the box, Toni rolled his maker, Grella,
and hit a low shot which Schwarzer sliced clear with his left foot, the less
said about Gilardino's 'header' on the rebound the better. It took the Aussies
half an hour to get a shot on target. Chipperfield shot straight at Buffon
following a mix-up in the Italian defence on a set piece. Toni missed another
sitter, Perrotta helped on a Pirlo cross but the giant striker headed over the
bar. Moore was lucky not to be sent off for a lunging foul on Toni, he escaped
without a booking.
Materazzi scythed down Bresciano on the edge of the box and he made sure the ref
noticed by rolling over four times. Materazzi's foul was no different to Moore's
challenge on Toni in the first half, in fact that was arguably worse, but the
ref showed Materazzi a red. Despite their man advantage the Australians failed
to put the Italian's under a great deal of pressure and Hiddink waited until the
80th minute before bringing on Aloisi, Lippi had already introduced Totti and
Iaquinta. In the last minute Iaquinta missed an absolute gift. Perrotta had run
into traffic in a packed penalty area, when attempting to smashed the ball
clear, a defender kicked it against Iaquinta, it bounced off Iaquinta,
against Moore and back to Iaquinta again but he shot straight at Schwarzer.
Grosso burst down the right flank and turned inside Bresciano before running
into the box, Neill went in with a sliding tackled, Grosso turned away from him,
hooked his left foot over the defender and took a dive and the ref pointed to
the spot. Totti smashed the ball into the top left corner. It was hard luck on
Neill who had been outstanding all match but he only has himself to blame.
Attendance : 46,000
Red Card : Materazzi 50 (Italy)
Assist : Grosso (won pen)
SWITZERLAND 0-0 UKRAINE
During a brief spell in the first half this was shaping up to be a decent game,
despite telling a friend this had penalties written all over it. Wicky
intercepted Tymoshchyuk's square pass and let fly with a shot from the edge of
the box which Shovkovsky made an unnecessarily theatrical save. Shevchenko
clipped top of the crossbar with a diving header from Kalinichenko's free kick.
Frei rattled the crossbar with a ferocious free kick.
Gusin shaved a post with an excellent flick header from a corner. The remainder
of the second half was a complete non event. In extra time Gusin made a
fantastic block tackle to deny Streller when the forward was sent in on goal.
There were two notable substitutions in extra time. Milevsky, on for Voronin,
gave an instant spark to the Ukraine attack though I'm not sure what taking off
Frei and bringing on Lustrinelli was supposed to achieve.
Penalty Shoot-Out
Shevchenko sends the ball low to Zuberbuhler's right but it's saved. That's one
thing Milan won't miss.
Streller's kick is delayed by his own goalkeeper Zuberbuhler, who is standing on
the right hand side of the box, the ref tells him to walk off the pitch.
Streller, who looks nervous as hell, hit's a weak shot towards the centre which
Shovkovsky saves with ease.
Milevsky who looks like a cross between a rock star and Thor the God of Thunder,
does a Panenka. He takes a few steps before chipping a gorgeous right foot shot
which starts curling towards the right hand post before dropping towards the
centre of goal, a prostrate Zuberbuhler watches the ball hit the back of the
net. Brilliant penalty, so good I'm putting on DVD.
Barnetta rattles the crossbar with violent shot.
Rebrov with an awful penalty, poor height, poor placement but Zuberbuhler dives
the wrong way.
Cabanas hits the ball just right of centre but Shovkovsky maintains his policy
of diving at the last second and saves.
Match point to Gusev and he doesn't let his team down, slamming the ball
into the bottom left corner.
I've given Shovkovsky hell in the past but he came up big today. The Ukraine
probably deserved to win but in truth neither team showed much ambition.
Milevsky has already been dubbed the new Shevchenko and from what I have
seen at the U21 European Championships and briefly in this match he's got
tremendous potential.
Ukraine win 3-0 on penalties
The weekend football died, yes I know it's Monday. To those who were complaining
about how the first round, are you satisfied now?
Attendance : 45,000
Assist : n/a
http://soccer-europe.com
Chat room : http://www.lhcw.net/WorldCup
Rss feed : http://soccer-europe.com/RSS/News.xml
Did Neill impeded the attacker?
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