Nice job Italy, clear and deserved victory, especially as they did not fall into the trap of 'playing italian' and just defend the game home from a 1-nil lead without trying anything offensively, but instead kept up the pace throughout. Very promising for their further efforts. Commendable effort by Ghana, but they seriously need to ditch that keeper and put someone else on the goal... just some random fat guy picked from the crowd would do better.
I think they lacked a bit of composure up front more than the keeper. If they've learned enough from this match, they could be very dangerous - they look strong enough to press anyone. Italy look very soild,
but they actually were lucky not to give away a couple of penalties. Their other 2 matches are against much slower teams (with the possible exception of Baros, who seems to blow very cold for his club, and very hot for his country), which should suit them a lot more, and I was quite impressed how they used their narrow midfield to draw out the fullbacks and give Gilardino and Toni space down the channels & pull apart the defence. Not sure that tactic would work against most defensive-minded teams, granted.
Although, just saw a replay of Kuffour-Iaquinta, and it was a horrific challenge, clear red card were it not, of course, for the offside. Of course, he got caught be Iaquinta for the 2nd.......
NB: Ghana keeper wasn't too bad; he did do a good shot-stopping job.
[15:50] Kazan: you first
[15:51] Kazan: throwing arround "Arrogant" at people for making factual statements is immature
[15:51] Kazan: and rather insulting
[15:51] Kazan: if you cannot refrain from baselessly bashing other peoples national teams then I suggest you STFU and get out of that thread
Can I suggest, if you want to keep insulting people and acting all petted-lip, you do it on the forum for all to see, rather than talking to yourself on an ignored ICQ channnel?
NB: watching USA-Czech highlights. Feel vindicated.
