Another quality performance from the Italians putting the highly rated Germans to the sword, a performance which makes England's effort look slightly better because John Terry and Lescott surely wouldn't have made it so easy for Super Mario score his two unchallenged goals.
Balotelli looked very good mainly because the Germans didn't frustrate him like we did, although they did make it slightly harder for Pirlo but forgot that the Italians have other players capable of quality passing.
Joachim Loew must have scoffed more than his usual amount of bogies trying to figure out what he could do, he replaced the frontmen at half time but it didn't really make a difference as one thing the Italians were always good at was defending.
Looking forward to Sunday where hopefully the Italians can turn it on again and beat the dull Spaniards.
dull spaniards? is iniesta dull? is silva,xavi,xabi,pedrito..dull?
ReplyDeletei think no.
jim
With the exception of the Ireland game they have been dull.
ReplyDeleteThe players you mentioned are all great players but without someone like Messi nothing really happens, the Italians made them look average, the Croatians really should have knocked them out, France were terrible and the Portugal game was one of the worst.
Torres might not be everyone's favourite but he makes them more entertaining to watch and gives them options, I can't see them beating the Italians without a cameo appearance from him.