3-1

fucking brutal

De Rossi should never be captian

Canna just GTFU

GOOOAAAL!!!

His body was off.

Damn. There goes my second team out. Ughhhhh

WOW WHAT A BEAUTY!

Quagriella should have started every game, he's been amazing

GGGGOOOOAAAALLL COME ON `1 MORE FOR GOD'S SAKWE!!!!!!!!!!!!

nice shot, too little too late though

Jees come on. freaking babies! Lets go play the game!!

OMG WHAT a chance

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH PEPE, PEPE.

Could have been a hero

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sure are a lot of injuries all of a sudden...

FT 3-2

Italy needed to start playing before the last 10 minutes of the game. Slovakia's keeper was disgusting though.

Pretty entertaining last 15 minutes or so.

I knew Italy weren't going to contend, but I didn't expect this. At least not until about 20 minutes into this match.

I don't know who's more to blame for this, Lippi or Canna... Canna was almost at fault for every goal Italy conceded in this tournament. but then it was Lippi who ignored his mistakes and kept playing him.

Well, I have to say, the way it looked to me is if Quag had played every minute and Pirlo wouldn't have been injured maybe things would have been different. Sigh.

Lippi is to blame, I respect the players for trying.

and it wasn't offside!!

Oh well, at least you won't have to play New Zealand and Paraguay at the Euors.

That happens when you're average at best.

Quag really impressed me. can't believe he was left on bench for the likes of Gilardino and Pepe.

Cannavaro was terrible.. no surprise to anyone. Same with Iaquinta.. Thumbs up to Quareigella, Di Natale, Pirlo for fighting. De Rossi was terrible..

The offsides and the line clearance were both debatable, kind of unlucky that neither call went Italy's way, but bottom line is they played so poorly overall this tournament they don't really deserve to advance. I mean, seriously, we were fighting to advance with 3 points. Laughable.

italy had it coming. u can not play as ordinary as that coming off winning a previous world cup, the only chance u have of going all the way is to give it all you got. and lippi as well as the players have been too cautious all the games. last 10 mins they remember what their original job was.

I think it was offside. I think Lippi, his crap Juve players and De Rossi's atrocious defensive play are responsible for this mess.

F@ckin mess.

Pepe epitomised Italy. They think they're good, but they're not. They're not even in the same zip code of good. Where was the class in Italy. Till Pirlo stepped on for the last 15 or so minutes, Italy didn't even look like they could hold the ball.


This is exactly why I wasn't supporting Italy. They aren't worthy of being winners. They have a bunch of people who are past it , a bunch of classless journeymen, and ALL of them walk in with the scumbag entitlement of being 'winners'.

Pirlo = Italy, italy's nothing without him.. sadly that's what Lippi bases his team around, and with his injury he had no alternative

They were on the same line more than anything.

It seemed his shoulder/head was offside, but the feet were level.

I think this match proved that Italy without Pirlo are worthless. His entrance changed everything.

I feel bad for the azzurri, they could and should have tied the result in the last minutes. But their overall performance in this WC has been dreadful, so they got what they deserved. But the main fault, without any shadow of doubt, is Lippi's. He should have never taken the team in the first place.

My god, what a mess...so terrible! Italy finishing 4th in one of the easiest groups...

Now prepare for absolute classic matches - Denmark-Paraguay and Holland-Slovakia. Can't wait...

I thunk the goal was offside, the goalline clearance was very, very close though.

Pepe was a mistake. Marchetti was pretty bad. That whol 4-3-3 was a disaster. What was he thinking? When you have forwards with no class, playing more of them is probably not the answer.

It's not just this match. What about the other two? They have not won a single game!! World Champions??!! Clowns. They remind me of the Indian cricket team.

Rule says since he can score with his head, it's offside. both decisions were unfortunately correct! I hope Italians don't even think about pointing fingers at the refs. they played like "ITALY" for only 20 minutes out of possible 270.


+1 you could almost feel the class a half ready Pirlo brought to Italy's game.

The goal was offside, by a very close call, but it undoubtedly was.

I think Italy should have been


Boriello/pazzini/gila

Rossi---------Cassano----------Balotelli


Pirlo------- De rossi


Criscito -----Chiellini ---- BOCCHETI/Gamberini/Moretti/anyone but canna ---Maggio




Piro with the armband

You can push pirlo to ACM and replace his DM spot by Palombo

also this team would allow us to play on our toes and not on our heels...

WTF is a trident of Di Natale - Iaquinta - Pepe!?!?!?!?! Only one of those players deserves to even wear the azzurri...and he's out of position!!!

I think there are a couple of good players but overall Lippi's squad was average. how could he possibly say he didn't leave any better players at home. if I were Miccolli or Cassano, I'd feel insulted if a supposedly 'great' coach like Lippi said Simone il Joke Pepe was better than me.

Complete and utter failure. From the FIGC to the coach to the selection to the players themselves.

An embarrassment.

Please tell me you're joking. Gila?! he will never perform for Italy on big stages. NEVER!

hopefully we won't see most of these players on the italian team in 4 years

disgraceful to only get 2 points out of this group

time to let the younger guys in

Gila can't play in the 4-3-3. Put him there in the goalbox or around it. We already saw it with Milan.

This had to be the easiest group out there, and Italy finishes fourth. During the first match, I remember the announcer saying that Italy was the only WC team to have not won a match in 2010. Not sure if that's true, but that and now these results = bad team.

Lots of "Vaffanculo Lippi" comments on the FIGC Facebook page right now.

Agreed!

^$&^%*^&$

I'm so p!ssed off! From all the forwards taken Quaglia was the only one worthy, and to think the abbundance of talent left behind because of Lippi and his outdated tactics. He said he wanted forwards that could change the system if need be, well taking static guys like Gila, Iquinta etc is not the answer.

Cannavaro was a joke! He's steadily gotten worse with every game, if he had any dignity he wouldn't have played the last 2 matches. Chiellini wasn't any better, if this is the future of Italian defenders then I am really scared. He just has no awerness dives in at any opportunity. The defence was begging for Nesta, someone with class that could win the ball without hacking anyone and play it to his team mates not the opposition like they did with the 2nd goal.

Both decisions were correct, the only blame should go to Lippi imo, he wanted to build Italy from the team who came in 7th in the domestic league and that's what we saw in the Azzurri mid table level football.

Slovakia and Paraguay deserve to go through, but the Slovakian goalkeeper is a grade A pr!ck!!

I still think DDR was as crap-tastic as some of the names you've mentioned. In 2006 Rino would stop the opposing mid-field cold, while Pirlo would weave 'spells' (what else could you call it?)..and here you have De Rossi being bypassed as if he didn't exist.

Yeah De Rossi was invisable in pretty much all of the games. And I'm so p!ssed off about that as he's a personal favourite of mine and I know he can do so much better!!

To keep mentioning names, Pepe disgusts me!!! In the first game I thought 'wow this guy is cr@p but he plays his heart out, maybe he's not such a waste' But when his workrate went out the window it just continues to highlight how mediocre this guy is and the worst thing is is that he thinks he's some re-incarnated C.Ron trying to cut in and shoot or go past players and everytime tripping pver his own feet!!!

The only time Italy showed some form of class is when Pirlo came on. He sould have started ahead of Pepe, he looked more fit then most of the team that was playing anyway. I'm mostly sorry for him, Rino and Gigi since they're the only ones who seemed to care

I thought Quagliarella was impressive and I that Di Natale did some good stuff when he played.

Cannavaro, Chiellini, De Rossi, Iaquinta and Pepe were pretty horrific.

It's that beyond pathetic 'big-club' fixation he has got. He takes mostly Milan, Juve players. It worked last time, since both clubs were so strong and had players in their peak. Not to mention they were all eager to prove a point. But now it was senseless. Very few of the players in Juve deserved their place on the squad. Except maybe Buffon, Chiellini and Marchisio.

well can't say I didn't see this coming. The blame goes all on Lippi and his stubbon behavior. If your a top quality coach you better have a plan B and C when your entering a world cup. His confidence in the Pirlo plan backfired and he was left clueless on how to get Italy back on its feet.


his player call ups were questionable and at the end of the day thats what happens. Zambrotta over antonini? Gattuso over ambrosini? Cannavaro over every other CB?



what can you expect?

He only took 3 Milan players Jack... It's mostly a Juve thing and always prefering the veteran over the younger/better/more eager player. Why Canna, when you have one of the best performing CBs of Serie A on the bench? Why take Camo, Iaquinta, Gila, Pepe when there are players with the quality of Cassano, Rossi, Balotelli, Boriello, etc that you could have taken instead? Why not give Santon, both the Bari boys a chance instead of taking the old heads?

Lippi made a lot of mistakes and he continued to insist on things when you could clearly see that it wasn't working 15 minutes into the f******* competition