Finally A Match with Goals

venerdi, 29 giugno, 2012

L’Italia 2 – 1 La Germania (Mario Balotelli ’20, ’36 – Mesut Ozil ’92-p)

Bravissimo! Forza gli azzurri! Forza fratelli d’italia!

It's 2 - 1 for Italy!

Two matches before, the last quarter-final match Italy vs England, and the first semi-final Spain vs Portugal, were ended tied without any goals, and had to be done with penalties. But we could see how one of the teams really dominated the match. Spain dominated the Spain vs Portugal match, while Italy definitely dominated the Italy vs England match.

But this match, Italy against Germany, both teams played really well. They actually played equal enough. They played beautiful games. Both did dangerous attempt to make goals. What a beautiful game!

Actually at first, Germany was dominating the game. They almost made a goal in the early minutes. OMG! It was close! Some Germany player made a very nice goal shot, I was very scared, I screamed, but lucky, our hero, Andrea Pirlo blocked it very well! Thank God for Pirlo!

Then they attacked each other, played very open, very offensive. Germany made lots of shots those almost be a goal. But lucky (for me and all Italian fans), Italy's got the best defense. And they got Gianluigi Buffon, one of the best goalkeeper in the world!! Yeayy!! Ti amo, mio Buffon!

And they've also got the best attacking team! Oh God! Their goals are sooooooo....beautiful!

The first goal was on '20. Antonio Cassano made a very brilliant action through the left side. He entered the Germany defensive area, released a very wonderful crossing, gave the ball to Mario Balotelli in a very perfect spot. And Balotelli--with his head--maximize that beautiful chance to a very beautiful goal. Bravissimo!! 1 - 0 for Italia!

But nothing like Balotelli's second goal! That second goal was... amazing!! Amazing!!

He got a long pass, got away from the off-side trap, and calmly, confidently, shot the ball to the upper-right corner of the goal! Whoaaww...!! That was a beautiful goal! Germany goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer didn't move. He might think that it wouldn't be a goal. Fantastic!

In the second half, both Italy and Germany still played with full of power. They kept the rhythm of the game. Both made dangerous attack. Federico Balzaretti almost made it 3 - 0 for Italy, but he was on off-side position. And Buffon did the wonderful savings over and over again! He's trully a superhero! Seriously! I've got to admit, Germany is a great team, they've got pretty good player, they played very well, the strikers are very sharp. But what can you do, facing a goalkeeper like Gianluigi Buffon?

Finally Buffon couldn't save his goal from Ozil's penalty kick. Balzaretti did a handsball and Germany got the penalty kick. But well, it was penalty kick. It was in the end of the match. The final score is 2 - 1 for Italy.

Wow! What a wonderful game! If I was a German supporter, I'd be glad losing that way.

L'Italia: Gianluigi Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini, Federico Balzaretti, Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci, Claudio Marchisio, Daniele De Rossi, Riccardo Montolivo (Thiago Motta ’64), Andrea Pirlo, Mario Balotelli (Antonio DiNatale ‘70), Antonio Cassano (Alessandro Diamanti ’58)

La Germania: Manuel Neuer, Mats Hummels, Holger Badstuber, Philipp Lahm, Jerome Boateng (Thomas Muller ’71), Sami Khedira, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Mesut Özil, Toni Kroos, Lukas Podolski (Marco Reus ’46), Mario Gomez (Miroslav Klose ’46)

Germany	Statistics	Italy
15 (8)	Shots (on Goal)	10 (5)
13	Fouls	19
14	Corner Kicks	0
0	Offsides	2
54%	Ball Possession	46%
1	Yellow Cards	4
0	Red Cards	0
3	Saves	6

And now Italy will go to the final, where they meet my other favorite team, Spain. So, for now, whoever win the Euro 2012, I’d be happy as well.