Quarter finals - Italy vs Ukraine

[Pak_cricketer]

it will be a boring game just like all the italian games soo far

Did you even see the Italy vs USA game? It was a war! I like Wars!

Only Soccer wars..

 

[hondeyho]

Ukraine have been poor... very poor in the first-half.

 

[Hariz]

Ukraine have been smacked by a very good Italian side. They are improving a lot in the tournament and Toni grabs two goals today. Ukraine never came into the match, pretty poor performance. Italy VS Germany is the first semi-final and is going to be a cracker but with this German performance they should go into the match with their confidence high.

 

[m_vaughan]

Ukraine have been smacked by a very good Italian side. They are improving a lot in the tournament and Toni grabs two goals today. Ukraine never came into the match, pretty poor performance. Italy VS Germany is the first semi-final and is going to be a cracker but with this German performance they should go into the match with their confidence high.

Germany did lose 4-1 I think to Italy recently. But this time I actually back the home side to get the win.

Ukraine were very lucky to even be in the QFs. 4-0 thrashing by Spain, and now 3-0 by Italy, shows they are no good.

 

[ZexyZahid]

Did you guys watch the match? In the second half Ukraine came pretty close to 1-1. Toni scored the 2-0 in offside and that meant the breakthrough for Italy. After that Ukraine had a shot on the bar and were still very unlucky. 3-0 doesn't say much about the performance in the field. Just like the 3-1 of France beating Spain. Some month ago these two teams played against each other and it was 0-0 then, with Italy being on the lucky side then to not lose the match.

Italy went through since they had some strong moments and not a dominant phase. But I would have still favoured Italy to go through, since they can pose a bigger threat to Germany.

 

[aussie1st]

Australia probably would have beaten the Ukraine. There wasn't much doubt about Italy going through. Their keeper hasn't let a goal in a few matches now and Toni finally finished off some good moves setup by the midfield.

 

[DJ Ager]

Score was cruel, Ukraine could have scored about 3 or 4, extremely unlucky. 2-0 killed it but just before then they should have made it 1-1.

 

[sachin]

It was not Cruel as Ukraine only had that one chance prior to the second goal.Now i didn't watch after the second goal as it was an aweful match,and Ukraine never really looked like scoring.

 

[m_vaughan]

Thats correct. They were for some reason playing a containing game when they 1-0 down.

 

[sachin]

Pleased to see them leave(Even if that meant Ital got through),because they were extremely negative and did not use their best asset ,Shevchenko,to his best ability.