World Cup - Australia vs Italy (round of 16)

Monday, June 26 at Kaiserslautern, Germany

Is it time for Hiddink to eliminate Italy yet again? I’ll be honest and say that anything that has to do with Hiddink gives me the heeber-jeebers (I can’t believe I just typed that).

Expect plenty of goals in this match. Italy will be very opportunistic this match, and while the Aussies have enjoyed their trip in uncharted waters, their World Cup run might finish where it started. No offense to the Aussies, but talk about Italy being “handed” the semi-finals to them. I think they have the best draw out of everybody. If they beat Australia, they will face either Ukraine or the Swiss. I’d say Australia will be the toughest match for them before the semis.

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if you thought the game between por-hol was bad, you havent seen anything yet. both aussies and italiens have a habit of commiting serious fouls. send in an idiot ref like the russian today, and we'r in for another world record of reds.

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with no disrespect to Aussies and ukr/swi, Italy has like the easiest route to the semis. They should and will make it that far.

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come on soccerooooooooos :fifa:

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Goooo Ausssssies!!

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Italy will kicksome ass..! :fifa:

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Thas Russian dude was sooo cool..:biggthumb :rotfl: It was raining yellow n red cards..:hehe:

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italy down to 10 men now.

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So far Austrailians are keeping Italians on their toes.

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at the moment aussies r playing better then italy

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Grosso won a penalty for ITaly with 5 seconds to go :hula:

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Yep 58% possession against an European team is SOMETHING. :D Italians are like watching the ball most of the time.

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Totti scores. Italy won.

How cruel for soccerrooos. They should be proud of themselves. :)

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wah wah!!! that is called good luck. Scoring the lone goal of the match just a second before whistle. :k:

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sheesh..

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Sydney was celebrating like Australia had won but it was the Italian celebrating in Sydney Italian win.

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Don’t forget that they were EXTREMELY lucky to get that penalty, everyone is furious in Australia the way their campaign ended, it was highly controversial but they should be proud of themselves.

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$hit happens. they always manage to scrape through.:mad:

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definitely a pathetic decision…what’s with these ref’s…almost all the deciding factors have been cause of ref calls instead of good ball play…especially the games played by Aussies. (both calls against Australia and for Australia have been awarded when they shouldn’t have)

EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED!

On a brighter note…Australia definitely should be proud of how they preformed throughout!..

Italy bloody lucky is what i say!:snooty:

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And I think they will have another lousy team in next round. They are through to Semis. Lucky Italian.