Comments on: Croatia Lineup

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:50:50 +0000

The italians played dirty.. they should all be ashamed of themselves.. all a bunch of little fairies who go down for anything. thats not soccer.. thats a disgrace and id be ashamed to call myself an italian

By: England Fan

England Fan — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:09:32 +0000

Well done Australia! What a brilliant game, how dirty were the croations?!! I think that Australia will beat Italy easily. Good Luck! (Except when you come up against England of course!)

By: velebit

velebit — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:36:59 +0000

Congratulations kangaroos!!

we’d played bad in last 5 games, our team is tired, they can’t run at all, and witouth pace the technique is nothing…
That’s our reality.
You score second goal from the offside, our player played with hand 2 times, but the referee didn’t react, just 1 penalty for you. Bye!

By: LOKi01

LOKi01 — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:29:34 +0000

Marko you must be dreaming.

Croatia was outplayed pure and simple, and the Aussies had two penalties not given, one for a
rugby tackle on Viduka and the other for handball, and the last goal disallowed.

If it wasn’t for our goal-keeper being so useless, you would be lucky to score.

How about supporting Croatia #2 now and get behind the Aussies.

By: BOB

BOB — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:05:50 +0000

viduka is as fat as ronaldo…hahaha

3 yellow cards and no red??…that’s BS…i didnt see that (missed the last 15min.). In general play the ref. was good though. Not trigger happy like some others…or maybe he really is blind and couldn’t see what was goin on?? the hand ball missed in the box was crazy.

Lets call in a dietition for the players and an optometrist for the officials!!!

By: T Mayes

T Mayes — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:14:05 +0000

I agree with everything said by Troy. The refereeing was absolutely appauling. He should be sacked on the spot. How can one player get THREE YELLOW CARDS in one match. Absolute idiocrisy. It is unfortunate that Emerton will miss Italys match but it would’ve been worse if Cahill or Kewell missed it. Kalac should never play for Australia AGAIN. And Viduka – well, you have been so so disappointing this wholoe campaign. How many international goals have you scored for us? 6 in TOTAL or something? And you call yourself a striker. You better shape up or ship out.

By: BOB

BOB — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:47:26 +0000

yeah…second round…sorry…getting excited…apologies. i think italy will win against australia, but stranger things have happened.

I don’t think its easy to predict who will win the WC this early…there are some really good teams…argentina, germany, and of course brazil. Italy will need to play out of their skins to win (as will any team).

I would like to say if australia play well, the italy game will be close…lets hope italy have a not so great day…they’ve been known to be volatile when under pressure before…i hope the italians self destruct.

good luck anyway.

By: troy

troy — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:45:03 +0000

for gods sake marco. croatia were rubbish and used the most dirty tactics becuause they figured they wont be punished. suprise suprise they were spot on. the only reason croatia got the second goal was becuase of kalac the holes australia created in croatias defense was briliant. croatia should be ashamed and they were lucky it wasnt a 5-2 score line. australia should have had at least another 2 penalty kicks (suprise the ref missed the rugby tackle on viduka and the blatant hand ball “not”) so not has only australia made it. they have made it against some of the most biased umpiring in the world and fifa should take notice that australia are playing by the rules. croatia didnt play with any sportsman ship. prso and kovak played with there hearts and they should be proud. but the guy who was red carded and siminic and smnr should be disgusted. they were arrogant. true products of the old nsl days i fear(they are australians for anyone that doesnt know). any side lined up to play australia should be fearful because the amount of shots australia have had and missed borders on ludicris. i bet against italy they will be more on target. croatian fans imagine what your tornament would have been if your coach wasnt so defensive. they do have goal scoring capabilities when they attack. there coach should be sacked on the spot. what more does australia need to do to be given a fair shot. fifa should definatly reprimant the refs. they were terrible.

By: marco

marco — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:14:07 +0000

bob — wat u mean uv made tghe quaterfinals … dont you mean second round .. or do u mean that australia will beat italy .. lets say this italy should win the WC this yr .. so if they beat them you tellen me aus will win the WC

By: BOB

BOB — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:07:10 +0000

nice!!!
we’re through…!!!
as far as australia are concerned we’ve made the quarter’s and anything else is a bonus (for this year)!!!

marco the penalty was not soft, and in reality there should have been a second penalty in the second half.

can anyone shed light on why kalac was in goals?? – mark S is much better. and what is wrong with the aussie finishing…its still only mediocre…a lot of the first half cross’ on goal were rubbish.

Kewell definitely improved his performance this game and had a much larger impact…perhaps his groin is on the mend? Viduka had a bit of a shocker though…

I also think the aussie movement in croatia’s goal third was slow and lazy…they need to show more alacrity around the goals area and suprise the opp. with more movement! that would allow more goal opportunities hopefully.

All up, a fair game, and well ref’d i thought. (however i missed the yellow card onslaught at the end as i had to go to work…)

Go the aussies…beware the juggaurnaught is here!!!