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Good game by the Ozzies, they are actually somewhat dominating the midfield at halftime and the Italians are trying to slow things down to regain control. Toni looks a bit off pace, he's had good shots, very good shots, but he's not been running onto balls his teammates looked for.

The Ozzies are incredibly fit, if this game is close late they'll run the Italians into the ground the way they've beat up other teams. If Italy goes one ahead look for them to try to close down the back and sit on it.

Fun.

That sucks.
Worst ref call ever. And that is saying something.
There was no foul, total blatant dive. Horrible sportmanship.
Italy did not deserve that.

Good Italian defense, the Ozzies needed to put it away when they had the advantage.
They wuz robbed though.

Interestingly the Grauniad liveblog called it, this is why the very experienced teams tend to do well in the later stages.

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