smudge said:I don't think ballotelli will play. I hope he does so carrol can wind him up & get sent off. It all depends who scores first. Italy will go for the jugular I they score first I think, possibly leaving them exposed then England need to capitalise.
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Stelios said:England 0-0 Italy (Italy win 5-4 on Penalties, Young to miss and sky it Italia 90 style and the ball to be kept by a kid and sold online).
mrbrightside said:We were poor but I was truly starting to believe that this could be the time... It would have been great for our worst team in years to have won something! Italy were the better team though, but I still think we're cursed!
Nope, but then I equally could t have envisaged us winning the group, or holding Italy like that. We had a lot of luck in this tournament, and ground out results when even playing badly.The Psychoaster said:mrbrightside said:We were poor but I was truly starting to believe that this could be the time... It would have been great for our worst team in years to have won something! Italy were the better team though, but I still think we're cursed!
Let's face it, even if we had got through on penalties, on the basis of that performance could you really envisage us beating Germany? Hodgson was too negative, I think we could have taken the game to the Italians a bit more with different tactics.
Moley said:As the English media ask where their Pirlo is, the decision to force Paul Scholes wide to accommodate the ever-failing Gerrard and Lampard partnership somehow gets funnier with every tournament.