bazookajoe
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Get over the penalty decision. That's a situation where sometimes it's given and sometimes it's not. People need to start realising that the referees are not superhuman being who can spot dives/trips/unfair tackles and distinguish between them every single time.
I personally thought the ref had a pretty good game, except that red card. Bresciano may have been through on goal, but there was another guy behind him. Bresciano made a real meal of that as well, you wanna talk about dives, how many freaking times did he roll?
The fact is Australia couldn't capitalise when they had the advantage. Italy were down to ten men for over half an hour, and yet we couldn't score. Guus was obviously playing for the extra time to try to break down the Italians, and you just can't do that when anything (penalty in last seconds of match) can happen.
So in overall fairness, it's us who lost the match. Most of the team played horribly, bar our defense, and couldn't score with a one man advantage for over half an hour. Guus should also take some of it as he brought on Aloisi too late and didn't even consider bringing on anyone else before extra time. He should have been trying to gain through the opportunity presented to us from the red card, but we couldn't.
I personally thought the ref had a pretty good game, except that red card. Bresciano may have been through on goal, but there was another guy behind him. Bresciano made a real meal of that as well, you wanna talk about dives, how many freaking times did he roll?
The fact is Australia couldn't capitalise when they had the advantage. Italy were down to ten men for over half an hour, and yet we couldn't score. Guus was obviously playing for the extra time to try to break down the Italians, and you just can't do that when anything (penalty in last seconds of match) can happen.
So in overall fairness, it's us who lost the match. Most of the team played horribly, bar our defense, and couldn't score with a one man advantage for over half an hour. Guus should also take some of it as he brought on Aloisi too late and didn't even consider bringing on anyone else before extra time. He should have been trying to gain through the opportunity presented to us from the red card, but we couldn't.