Italy out Sweden Denmark through a fix???

[The PIT]

A poor performace overall for Italy but I did feel sorry for them when they scored with seconds remaining, only to be told the result of the Denmark Sweden game. The only score that could put them out. A fix ???

[thop]

First goal was fishy, keeper standing like 5 meters in front of his goal. Second goal was penalty, and Larsson(?) tried to provoke a penalty before but the keeper reacted a bit too late. Smells a bit fishy to me. There will be a lot of talking about the game.

The last minute of the Italy game, is classic greek drama.

Just saw the 3rd goal, there was no swedish player near the danish scorer within a 5 meter radius. And the 4th one was a major blunder by the keeper.

I don't think it was really fixed before, but you can bet that the press in italy will analyze every second of the game

[DukeP]

Lol.

There were no fish in the Denmark-Sweden game.

The Danes led first half 1-0, then 1-1, then again with 2-1 and in the last minutes, Sweden scored to 2-2.

Surely MUCH better fodball than what Italy showed.
(If it werent for that VERY generous overtime, they would have played 1-1 versus bulgaria - who where in the lead for most of that game!).

I DO agree that the penalty at the start of the second half should not have been. But that was the Judge - not the players (Well the Swede should have had an oscar for that performance, but thats all in the game).

And the last swedish goal was a fault on behalf of the Danish players. Tired and not enough focus.
Im quite certain that the Danish players could have been without the second place - who wants to go up against the Czech Republic??

But a very interesting game none the less.

~~DukeP~~

Edit: BBC's got the game good.

[Novdid]

Good game!

And no way that the result was fixed...maybe if the italians were playing the greeks in the exact same circumstances it would have been fixed, not when Sweden plays Denmark...get my point???

Well what more to say, our team sucked bigtime, but we went through with the danes and I'm very happy!

[The PIT]

Nah not a fix bt once it was 2 - 2 for the last minute not a lot happened.

I wish they'd go back to the simple system of Goal differance.

[thop]

ThePIT, i think they will. The chief of the WC2006 here in Germany, Beckenbauer, already said he doesn't like the system, too complicated.

[The PIT]

All I can is thank god for that

[Taz]

Originally posted by thop
I don't think it was really fixed before, but you can bet that the press in italy will analyze every second of the game

Maybe they should analyze their own teams performance then they might understand why they're not in it anymore

[omegaRED]

Originally posted by Taz
Maybe they should analyze their own teams performance then they might understand why they're not in it anymore

Yes, maybe, but remember WC2002? The South Korean striker (can`t remember his name right now) who scored against Italy was _SACKED_ from Peruggia. Why? It seems that if they draw the first two games and win by a single goal against the complete outsider Bulgaria, and then have to go home, it`s SOMEBODY ELSE`s fault, maybe Ibrahimovic who equalized, but surely not THEIR fault for not scoring, or at least trying real hard, to score a goal more than the opponents do.

P.S. In case i wasn`t clear, i`m not too fond (to put it mildly) of the way the Azzuris play and their attitude.