Well..although they won through penalty shoot-out but still they win. They worth to win.. really worth.. on me, I don’t like penalty shoot-out coz Italy has always lost on it. They didn’t have any luck on penalty. But they just did it.
The match has gone very well but Italy suffered since second half and during extra time. First half, Italy has a good ball possession but on second half, France took over almost ball possession. I just kinda think, Italy has their peak on last match against Germany. Now they were too tired to play after defeat Germany last Wednesday (they played for 120 minutes for God sake).
During second half and extra time, Italy had really really tried hard to defend. Like Iaquinta said that he found it so hard to contribute to attack because he had to worry more about defending. And he’s true. France was always managed to reach penalty box and endanger Buffon’s. Italian had always tackled French to stop them. Thanks to Cannavaro and Buffon who played very brilliant this night. And I’m still guessing that Italian hasn’t had their form yet since last semi-final.
Zidane scored first on 7th minutes through penalty after Malouda brought down by Materazzi. 10th minutes later, Materazzi paid his mistake by scoring with Pirlo’s corner. 1-1 for both sides. And stay the same until 120 minutes. Italy defended and attacked with suffering.
And last minutes, Zidane made mistake for heading Materazzi’s chest and red card for him. This is become a huge rumours. First, it was because the referee and his both assistant, didn’t see what it was really happen. Referee should’ve ask the fourth referee after Materazzi and Buffon asked him to. I think it was right thing coz what Zidane’s done is really really worth the red card. Materazzi didn’t do anything wrong and Zidane’s just butted Materazzi’s chest. But I read in this website, that it shouldn’t have happened. Coz, referee didn’t see anything except fourth referee who watched the game through the video and saw that incidents through video replay. Then the decision was made based on that. So, what’s wrong with that? This web said that since when is video replay used to make decision? And how come referee took too much time to make decision? So what? I guess that website is trying to say if referee didn’t see things happened then Zidane wouldn’t have to be sent-off and France would be world champion. And if that would really happened, I’m sure, pretty much sure the Italian fans all over the world would unsatisfied and totally angry.
Again, this website said that Materazzi 100% have had provoke Zidane in Italian. Because Zidane is fluent in Italian, he knew what Materazzi means. I didn’t see anything provocative from Materazzi through video replay. Oh well, it’s Domenech who couldn’t have this lost so he blames Materazzi for sending-off Zidane. He just keep saying bad about Materazzi. Oh please, you saw that yourself and you still think Zidane is not guilty?! I think you should check your preferences about fault in football. Just face this lost, Domenech..
I’m not proud about this anyway. Italy won through penalty shoot-out wasn’t the thing I should proud of. But in this 8 years (or 12 years?!) Italy has never made it in shoot-out. So I’m happy about that, that finally Italy could cope with their self and have won this shoot-out. Although it was because Trezequet (second’s France shooter) missed his shoot on crossbar. But still, five men of Italy made it on their shoot which is never happen in this last 8 years (I remember I always crying when Italy missed the shoot).
Well, although Italy has some trouble itself back at their own country, they are the WORLD CHAMPION..
