you say as we dont respect your nt, but why you HAVE TO GENERALIZE, not all said that usa is gona get killed. i for one hoped for a nice game and hopefully a 2-1 win or a close win.
YES I SAW; some fans wrote 3:0 to italy and etc, but NOT ALL, FGS DONT GENERALIZE!!!!
Ok, lets see what eurosport wrote about the red card incidents, atleast they should know a bit better:
First derossi red:
DANIELE DE ROSSI HAS TOTALLY LOST IT AND ELBOWS MCBRIDE AND HE'S OFF! That was horrible, it was deliberate and he is somehow protesting his innocence there but he looked, went up and swung straight into his
my comment: totally deserved
Mastroeni red
44' Reyna goes long to McBride who can't win the header Mastroeni mistimes his tackle and he's off!! That was a foolish challenge. Both sides down to ten men, poor tackle.
my comment: that challenge was bad, yes andy and who else usa supporters, it could have been ended as a serious injury to pirlo.
Yes we could say, look pirlo is ok, but we really cant predict how can a tackle end.
Pope
47' Oh no!! Eddie Pope clatters into Gilardino and it's a second yellow and he's off! Oh deary, deary me, on the edge of the box, ten against nine. It was a poor tackle.
It was a poor tackle and it was his second yellow, he had been booked first, dont believe; check this then:
21' Long ball by Italy, Pope and Gilardino tangle and go down, the Italian asks for a booking and Pope gets one.
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I am not trying to defend azzurri, de rossi deserved red. but you got to argue with fifa/uefa about usa players reds, not with us, azzurri fans.
Just look stats, there has been a load of red cards already before this match.
YC RC
1 USA 4 2
2 ANG 8 1
3 CZE 5 1
4 ITA 5 1
5 POL 5 1
6 SCG 7 1
7 TOG 4 1
8 TRI 8 1
9 UKR 2 1
*togo and ukraine have played 1 game, others 2 games.
A lot of yellow cards as well. you cant say that usa was robbed and didnt deserv reds.
My personal opinion is that they have gone a bit crazy with cards. but at the start of the tournament the reporters said that in this world cup, the new referee system will be used. yellow cards will be shown much more easily and etc. I dont like that, but i guess they try to control the game with that. Ofcourse if there are so many cards in one game, they aint gona get the control anyway, but well we just have to take it. Maybe they will learn from it and chanse things back to normal.