Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Disbelief in Dortmund

Del Piero beats Lehmann to secure a 2-0 extra time stunner for Italy/Yahoo

SemiFinal Open Thread................Whom will Italy face in the finals and your thoughts about the dramatic finish in Dotmund. Post your comments here.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

To think if we had some luck and decent refereers we may be the ones out in the streets celebrating right now.

Anonymous said...

FIFA has refused to suspend Ronaldo for the match with France. What utter rubbish!

off to bed. I look forward to see the commentary in the morning.

Anonymous said...

Del Piero is a clutch player. When you have a striker of his caliber on the bench as a reserve you know you have a great squad. Italy is the best team and will defeat the winner of France/Portugal.

Anonymous said...

rumors have already begun to fly that klinsmann will be offered £ 1.5 million a year to coach USA. Stay informed on this story through the Daily Telegraph rumor section.

Anonymous said...

Do you have a link for the story?

Anonymous said...

Also, why would get an offer in pounds and not dollars?

Anonymous said...

We will be all watching the telly to witness if Portugal the cheats can continue the run of cheating by knocking off France.

Floridan said...

We knew the Italians had a strong defense, but these figures show why they won yesterday:

Shots on goal: Italy (11); Ger (6)
Corner Kicks: Italy (12); Ger (4)

They were more aggressive.

Hernandez said...

La Volpe is gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

the story follows at http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news;_ylt=Akf1sRMkSPFC_.aDcH92rnkmw7YF?slug=ap-wcup-mexico-coachleaving&prov=ap&type=lgns

Kartik said...

LaVolpe is gone. Pretty amazing since I thought he did a good job. Mexico runs through coaches pretty quickly.

Portugal's performance today was brave but Scolari and the team bench show an excessive amount of gamesmanship when they all storm off the bench in anger.

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Anonymous said...

I agree Kartik. Portugal is very unsporting and I am thankful they have been eliminated

Anonymous said...

Dommenech made it clear before the tournament that Barthez was his man. Besides, when did Barthez last concede a non PK goal?

Kartik said...

A good article on Graham Taylor's views of England's misery:

http://www.football365.com/news/story_188187.shtml

Anonymous said...

portugal now has the rap of floppers and divers