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Originally posted by Deathbringer:
1)Er.. you must remember that Italy were very unlucky in the Worldcup. They had numerous goals ruled against them. Two or three goals that Italy scored were disallowed due to offside, but in the replay it was proven that it was bad judgement on the linesmen side. The last World cup was the worst in history when it came to linesmen making the wrong decision.
2)Friendly's doesn't mean anything. Managers often use friendly's just to try out new members, or give the bench a run. Also players don't put in as much effort in Friendly's compared to their club games because they don't want to get an injury that will put them on the sidelines during their club games. I highly doubt that Italy were playing to the best of their ability.
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1)Yeah, I remember, I remember all too well. In fact it wasn't two or three goals, but it was five, and the last of them was the golden goal who gave us victory against South Korea... And given what happened to Spain in the following turn, and given also the fact that the game referee, B. Moreno is being kicked out of Fifa for corruption, one could also doubt that it was simply a wrong decision. Anyway, it was our fault: we should have crushed them under 3 or 4 goals.
2)Well, for Italy and its coach that match wasn't a friendly (actually neither for Fifa, it was an European championship qualification match), since if anything went wrong there, the coach would be busted.
What you say about the players who prefer to spare their energies is true, however. They weren't sparing themselves in Korea, though, and the result wasn't so bright anyway.