LY744 From Canada, joined Feb 2001, 5536 posts, RR: 11 Posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 555 times:
After a very close game between the two Group G teams of the Fifa World Cup, Croatia has taken the victory over Italy with 2 goals to 1. Vieri scored first for Italy on the 55th minute (his 3rd goal of the tournament), but Croatia soon recovered scoring two goals, on the 73rd minute (Olic, who entered as a substitute), and the 76th min (Rapaic). Croatia has lost their first game to Mexico, which makes this the more surprising. Italy was quite unfortunate today, with a free kick that went to the post, and two goals that were disallowed due to supposed offsides, any comments about those?
In any case, the two teams seemed to be fairly equal today, and its a great result for Croatia, congratulations!
Airsicknessbag From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 4723 posts, RR: 38 Reply 3, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 539 times:
I got the impression the ref signalled the Italian had scored the Croatian´s shirt?
Anyway, all in all a fair result I´d say. A draw would have been OK too.
Daniel
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9A-CRO From Croatia, joined Jun 2000, 1574 posts, RR: 9 Reply 5, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 530 times:
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yes, yes, yes
Miroslav Jozic managed to turn Croatian play from very bad against Mexico to todays excellent play agains Italy
using Olic and Rapaic instead of Suker really payed off
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COPA737 From Panama, joined Jan 2002, 331 posts, RR: 6 Reply 6, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 520 times:
"Two goals that were disallowed due to supposed offsides, any comments about those?"
The referees need to be fired for making the worst calls ever. This is Unbelievable...
Italy should have been the winner of the match . But the referees robbed their victory .The scores must be 3-2 .
Do not let them be referees of any another match in the future..
COPA737 From Panama, joined Jan 2002, 331 posts, RR: 6 Reply 8, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 516 times:
I completely agree that the referee was bought. I'm not even Italian, but I can see that the whole game was definately corrupted!! The ref did appear to be bought!!!
Racko From Germany, joined Nov 2001, 4838 posts, RR: 21 Reply 9, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 509 times:
Yeah, the referee was really bad. His peformance was nearly as bad as the performance of the S. Korean referee, surprising for an english referee. Shit happens, maybe he just had a bad day. Even the worlds-best referee made a mistake yesterday which decided the game...
GKirk From UK - Scotland, joined Jun 2000, 24621 posts, RR: 58 Reply 10, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 501 times:
Errr....the referee wasnt bad, the linesmen were bad.
The first disallowed goal for offside should have counted, the second ruled-out goal was because Inzaghi pulled the Croatian guys shirt so that was rightly disallowed.
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Airsicknessbag From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 4723 posts, RR: 38 Reply 11, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 487 times:
"scored the Croatian´s shirt" - caramba, I meant to write "pulled the Croatian´s shirt", sorry.
Anyway, people make mistakes, and I don´t believe it´s appropriate to call this "corrupted". And before we punish them for mistakes, we should remember that we have 5 replays in slow motion from 5 different angles. The refs don´t have that luxury.
And I don´t understand why everyone is so mad at the Korean ref from the BRA-TUR game - so he awarded a wrong penalty, so? It has happened before and it´s going to happen again. Nothing serious. And he was right with both expulsions.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62 Reply 12, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 485 times:
I hear that they got the ref's from the international Skating Federation.
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Ihadapheo From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 6026 posts, RR: 59 Reply 13, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 472 times:
oh oh I can see it coming now a International Skating Federation vs FIFA flame war !!,
as far as the play being offside... even as sleepy as I was watching the match even I could see the goal was okay
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Ghost77 From Mexico, joined Mar 2000, 5127 posts, RR: 53 Reply 14, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 461 times:
I can said the same thing as Ihadapheo,
I was almost getting sleepy and I also I saw the goals with no replays... I think that was really unfair for Italy and Croatia was very lucky and still alive in the group G.
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