France v Italy

June 17th, 2008 . posted by admin

Euro 2008 Group C

France 0-2 Italy

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118 Responses to “France v Italy”

shlomi | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:21 pm | Reply | --7 |

ffff
Paul | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:31 pm | Reply | +5 |

FORZA AZZURII!
rvg | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:33 pm | Reply | +5 |

Ahem, I believe the result speaks for itself. I’m sure you will come up with about three excuses as to why Italy should have lost, you always do every time Italy wins…

For the record, I don’t generally make excuses for my teams when they lose. Did I make excuses for Italy when they lost to France in the first leg of the qualifiers? Did I make excuses when they drew with Lithuania? No. What I DO do is defend my teams from your attacks when they win.

A true mark of sportsmanship is how well someone loses, and I have rarely seen such sportsmanship towards Italy. Everyone complains about how Australia should have won, or France should have won, or Scotland should have won. No one is willing to see that perhaps the decisions that went Italy’s way were legit and perhaps Italy didn’t always get the decisions they should have gotten. Most people let their personal bias interfere with their judgement, especially when it comes to Italy. I really truly will never understand the hatred towards Italy. I can only hope that in the future, win or lose, people will be gracious towards Italy and respect them for the talented team they are.
rvg | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:35 pm | Reply | --16 |

For the record, “you” refers to all Azzurri haters.

Also, I believe it was the French, and not the Italians, the had a lot more dives in this game.
Rizki | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:41 pm | Reply | +6 |

To rvg…..

Cool down buddy, Italy has shown how marvelous they are tonight. And all tifosi around the world will be very proud to see the Azzuri tonight. Otherwise, the Italian haters are shut up

That is how a world champion should be. Let all the world say anything. Italy will move forward.

AZZURI TILL I DIE …….
joe | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:50 pm | Reply | +11 |

lol what the heck was henry doing???????
jordan | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:53 pm | Reply | --1 |

this sucks. i hoped the netherlands would let romania have the other match (i know i would have). it’s just not fun watching the same teams every championship. and i know germany will lose quickly the way they’ve been playing, so… go spain, i guess.
Joost | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:55 pm | Reply | --7 |

Wow rvg…seriously…your looking at this game with blinders on…are you seriously claiming catanatio against a ten man France is actually a victory? That should never have been a penalty, Toni never even had control of the ball. It certainly should not have been a red card. Also, nice to brag now, but really you have the Dutch to thank, they wrapped up Romania. Something Italy, pathetically, could not do. Don’t worry you’ll get to go home when you play Spain.
jordan | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:58 pm | Reply | --7 |

so what was with that penalty? it looked like the foul was committed AFTER the fall. and that sucks for henry… i guess the teams were evenly matched since these were the only goals?
globo | June 17th, 2008 @ 6:58 pm | Reply | --4 |

italy was horrible, but they scraped yet another win playing midocre football! the french were unlucky! (not saying the french play amazing football here… but you gotta feel for them!!)
Nour | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:05 pm | Reply | --14 |

The penalty was not deserved, if anything Luca Toni should of received a yellow card for acting, the referees suck this year, just as much as most teams do, including France and Italy, there are more kids playing this days than grown ups.
rvg | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:08 pm | Reply | --7 |

Wow rvg…seriously…your looking at this game with blinders on…are you seriously claiming catanatio against a ten man France is actually a victory? That should never have been a penalty, Toni never even had control of the ball. It certainly should not have been a red card. Also, nice to brag now, but really you have the Dutch to thank, they wrapped up Romania. Something Italy, pathetically, could not do. Don’t worry you’ll get to go home when you play Spain.

Ok, this is EXACTLY what I am talking about. “Nour” too. The commentators even said that the penalty was just, and yet you just can’t accept that Italy won fair and square…
LeFooty | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:17 pm | Reply | +12 |

Get well soon Ribery.
Will Benzema & Nasri be a star in next Euro2012 ?Wait for the time..

Congratulation Italy!
srr | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:30 pm | Reply | +8 |

Italy didn’t play a great game, but France plays even worse. I really like how Italy plays right after they score, they keep pressing and attack France.
Nowadays most of the teams, as soon as they score, all they do is to defense and play counterattack as Holland did both vs italy and france.
RIGHT!! I can’t stand anymore those comments about Italy plays defense.
ITALY ALL THE WAY TO THE FINAL VICTORY
David shaw | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:32 pm | Reply | +6 |

I really truly will never understand the hatred towards Italy.

Call it a hunch, but the incessant whining after the last two matches didn’t help their image
Peace | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:36 pm | Reply | +3 |

Italians deserved to win they had more chances and french were lucky not to give away 4 goals at least thanks to coupet/ goal posts to save 2 goals.

toni was horrible thou and he needs to work on his finishing , but the penalty was the right decision, the tackle was from behind and toni was in a position to score so red card is again the right decision.

But without pirlo/gattuso italians got to play really well to beat spain.hope they do it and hope they meet holland in semi’s, cant wait to take revenge.
dsdsd | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:38 pm | Reply | --7 |

fuck, the greasy ****s wins again by cheating
Banzi | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:43 pm | Reply | --1 |

Let them speak…it’s just envy…

For sure Italy is not the team that plays the best football, but since it won much more than anyone else, except Brasil, I think everybody should learn a bit and also respect the Italian way of playing…instead of spitting on it!

Spain plays much better now, but how it will perform against a world-class team? Pirlo and Gattuso are out, Cannavaro also… It should be easy for the Red Furies, but we will see…

P.s. All Italian newspaper websites are giving thanks to Holland… We are not as blind and regarless as someone else
Joost | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:46 pm | Reply | --4 |

Seriously Rvg, unless you are actually Italian, you have no excuse for liking Italy; not even if you are one of those fake Italian-Americans. Be that as it may, is this same hatred against the ‘Azzuri’ that your league director claimed after they lost to Romania, stating that there was, “a conspiracy against the Italian national team”. I’m with David Shaw, you guys are bad victors, but even worse losers. Have fun getting beat against Italy…
Nour | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:51 pm | Reply | +4 |

France and Italy both plyed midiocre soccer today and in this tournament, neither coaches deserve the job. The level of playing is very boring these days, I see a new winner this year again, it can be holland, spain, croatia or even turkey that had an amazing come back.
Nour | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:56 pm | Reply | --2 |

Get well soon Ribery.
Will Benzema & Nasri be a star in next Euro2012 ?Wait for the time..

Congratulation Italy!

Benzema and Nasri are not a first team material, Zidane was an exception, just like BenMbarek in the fifties, the french coach needs to be sacked pronto, there are a lot better talents in every league than national teams bring.
SalvaotoreDK | June 17th, 2008 @ 8:16 pm | Reply | --3 |

OMG I HATE ALL THE CRY BABIES OUT THERE!!!! Italy is still the best team and they proved it once again tonight! Deal with it! Rvg is right all u kids can do is to make excuses.. FORZA ITALIA
Rizki | June 17th, 2008 @ 8:26 pm | Reply | +5 |

Well I’m not Italian, I’m not Italian-American, nor any ethnic Italian, and so on and so on.

But really it sucks when there is no fair play too among all of comment here.

OK talk as much as you can say, Italy is worst, Italy is shit, Italy is bad victor and worse losers, and yet they won 4 world cups and advance to the next round.

It is also because Romania lose to Holland. But remember that Italy will not advance IF they didn’t win tonight also. So wake up dude. This is football.

For Joost remember that your Holland is also qualified in Euro 2004 thanks to Czech Republic that defeated Germany in the last game even when Czech have qualified yet. So it is the same anyway. don’t make such a retard comment.

You can say easily in your opinion who is bad and who is good tonight. Yet Holland qualified, Italy wins against France and the also qualified. That is a fact no matter if you want to kill yourself. Save your blasphemy for other match.

I don’t think Holland can pass the next game if they meet either Russia or Sweden. I hope it is Russia who gets through. I want to see Guus Hiddink let Russian defeat his homeland team. And lets see hows the sportmanship then.
Erick | June 17th, 2008 @ 8:33 pm | Reply | +8 |

You guys I want to remind you that the two teams have a great past, but none of them have been playing well. Eaither result would have made someone upset.
Chill out.
Thanks for the video.!
Joost | June 17th, 2008 @ 8:38 pm | Reply | --4 |

Oh Rizki,

Your insights are as poor as your English. Do you seriously believe that the team that beat the World Champs and the runner up with a three point goal differential in each game is actually going to lose to Russia. With all do respect their meager performance this EC is not going to cut it. As for Holland advancing due to the Czech republic winning good for the Czech republic. That sort of seems inconsequential to the matter at hand. Italy end second in the group with four points and a -1 goal differential. That does not show dominant attacking football. It shows a team worming by on the heels of betters. I was not for France by any means by the way, but at least the French posed some sort of challenge for the Dutch; the Italians just seem befuddled when their counter strategy burst to pieces after the second goal.
bert | June 17th, 2008 @ 8:43 pm | Reply | --1 |

in regards to italy, im australian and i think in the world cup they had a lot more chances than us of course, but its the way they win. and the same agaisnt france or scotland. its terrible. they are constantly taking these shitty wins. Is that what football has come to? The world champions of football win because of crap goals and then claim they are the best?? booo i say boooo
Rizki | June 17th, 2008 @ 8:47 pm | Reply | +2 |

Yeah sure Joost, France put one goal challenge and yet they get more goal in their net better than Italy

My English is poor ? Yeah, you are poorer. Just like your pathetic mind. It’s dumb to talk with person like you who think as a winner when the road is still too far.

You ask if I’m sure. Yeah I’m sure, just like I’m sure that Italy will not loose from Spain. Useless to talk with you. Let The result in the field on next round will show you. I won’t going to talk about the past. Because history of Italian football is much greater in Holland after all.

Pathetic.
dsl | June 17th, 2008 @ 8:49 pm | Reply | +3 |

as a fan of football in general, I will tell you why the world “hates” italy.
I dislike Italy because they have a great team, a lot of talented players and good chemistry, yet time in and time out they choose to sway from their deft passing and good build ups to the inevitable diving and crying, when the truth is they don’t need to play this way.
The games usually deteriorate into controversial penalties or they play to slow the game to a crawl for the inevitable penalty shoot out.
Why is a team with Luca toni, camoranesi, pirlo, cassano etc. doing playing +t=this way?
I used to like Italy but my thoughts changed when I saw the last world cup. The italy of old was great and had flair and style. This new “grind it out gain fouls italy” is a true disappointment.
As for this game, a red card seemed harsh but a penalty seemed inevitable given the contact.
Obviously the red card deflated france but I don’t think they played that well anyway.
Vamos furia roja!
dj roma | June 17th, 2008 @ 9:00 pm | Reply | +0 |

Wow rvg…seriously…your looking at this game with blinders on…are you seriously claiming catanatio against a ten man France is actually a victory? That should never have been a penalty, Toni never even had control of the ball. It certainly should not have been a red card. Also, nice to brag now, but really you have the Dutch to thank, they wrapped up Romania. Something Italy, pathetically, could not do. Don’t worry you’ll get to go home when you play Spain.

U ARE SUCH A HATER, FUCK U, FORZA AZZURIIIII.. stop being a sore loser because it takes true skill to admit defeat. (YET AGAIN)
maudo | June 17th, 2008 @ 9:01 pm | Reply | --1 |

Wow rvg…seriously…your looking at this game with blinders on…are you seriously claiming catanatio against a ten man France is actually a victory? That should never have been a penalty, Toni never even had control of the ball. It certainly should not have been a red card. Also, nice to brag now, but really you have the Dutch to thank, they wrapped up Romania. Something Italy, pathetically, could not do. Don’t worry you’ll get to go home when you play Spain.

U ARE SUCH A HATER, FUCK U, FORZA AZZURIIIII.. stop being a sore loser because it takes true skill to admit defeat. (YET AGAIN)
maudo | June 17th, 2008 @ 9:01 pm | Reply | +1 |

btw dj roma IS MAUDO
Rizki | June 17th, 2008 @ 9:04 pm | Reply | +0 |

To dsl

Please don’t use the word “world”. I’m sure different people around the world will have different favorite team if we talked about football.

Some will say Italy is pathetic, some will support them. Some will say Holland is pathetic, some will support them. Some will say France is pathetic, some will support them. It depends on all of us. And there is no problem for that, as long as we always regard the sportmanship. Look at France and Italy. Many will say that both countries are archenemies in football, but the player still can smile to each other even if one goes home and one qualified. That is the art of football.

Hope it will be a good game in Vienna against Spain
Sunil | June 17th, 2008 @ 9:10 pm | Reply | +4 |

Italy is in France is out…. ///
SalvaotoreDK | June 17th, 2008 @ 9:27 pm | Reply | --3 |

Well I’m not Italian, I’m not Italian-American, nor any ethnic Italian, and so on and so on.

But really it sucks when there is no fair play too among all of comment here.

OK talk as much as you can say, Italy is worst, Italy is shit, Italy is bad victor and worse losers, and yet they won 4 world cups and advance to the next round.

It is also because Romania lose to Holland. But remember that Italy will not advance IF they didn’t win tonight also. So wake up dude. This is football.

For Joost remember that your Holland is also qualified in Euro 2004 thanks to Czech Republic that defeated Germany in the last game even when Czech have qualified yet. So it is the same anyway. don’t make such a retard comment.

You can say easily in your opinion who is bad and who is good tonight. Yet Holland qualified, Italy wins against France and the also qualified. That is a fact no matter if you want to kill yourself. Save your blasphemy for other match.

I don’t think Holland can pass the next game if they meet either Russia or Sweden. I hope it is Russia who gets through. I want to see Guus Hiddink let Russian defeat his homeland team. And lets see hows the sportmanship then.

Actually ur wrong if Holland would ahave won and italy would have tied 1-1 italy would have gone on.. so dont talk… rofl bad
kingvera | June 17th, 2008 @ 9:50 pm | Reply | +6 |

i think italy played a good game but i still dont think italy deserved to advance cause they played really bad in past games. but not saying france deserved to advance either.
Rizki | June 17th, 2008 @ 9:51 pm | Reply | +4 |

SalvatotoreDK

You missunderstood my comment. So dont talk
monkey | June 17th, 2008 @ 10:09 pm | Reply | +3 |

i don’t understand this sentence “italy got through because holland beat romania” wtf?? each team gets three matches and then at the end they see how many points they get from the three matches… you should be looking at the final points of each team without looking at the order of the matches…actually romania had it easier than italy and france, since they played last… so no bitching…..

and for some reason, every time italy wins, people start saying “oh they cheated” “they shouldnt have won” “they played defence”…fuck off… and i dont see them diving more than any other team… every single player that i see getting tackled, from whichever team or club, starts crying and screaming like he got shot… so stop with excuses…..
GOKCEM | June 17th, 2008 @ 10:22 pm | Reply | +0 |

italy played well and dey won in the end its always the best team wins so use all haters should shut up lol im turkish offcorse i go for turkey but dis game was italys
ronaldo | June 17th, 2008 @ 10:23 pm | Reply | --4 |

henry like italians. that why he score an own goal.
ronaldo sux!!
mad_fan | June 17th, 2008 @ 10:29 pm | Reply | --2 |

Good comments guys!

As for my own, I agree with kingvera, Italy didnt deserve to win because of their past games in this tournament but France didn’t play that well neither.

I wonder how many more surprises the tournament’s gonna bring.

Football rulz, (regardless)!
dsl | June 17th, 2008 @ 10:52 pm | Reply | +2 |

I did not mean “world” rizki, I think that came out wrong. It was in response to rvg who game the impression that in general Italy was universally disliked.
Obviously the whole world does not hate italian football.
I just think they should really “play” to their full ability. they barely make it through it seems every time, no team can keep winning like that.
Simply because they have good defense doesnt mean they should grind out an entire game.
I will admit that it has worked for the past two major tournaments (Greece last Euro and the last WC), but it’s been played out. Spain will crush Italy if they don’t exploit a good counter attack where we are the weakest. In eithe case we’ll probably win, without gattuso and pirlo the midfield will have extreme difficulty in both stopping a build up and attack, as well as creating for the attackers up front.
I think Italy is very good but they are now missing their most important pieces (save Buffon and Toni) in Pirlo, Cannavaro and Gattuso (who really is the heart of the team).
You guys should get a new manager… to get Italy to play well again.
s | June 17th, 2008 @ 11:02 pm | Reply | +2 |

i think italy is not yet play they best game like in qualification.toni common score!!!!
micojoia | June 17th, 2008 @ 11:24 pm | Reply | --10 |

MY GOD THESE NON DESERVING PASTA EATERS PASSED ONE MORE ROUND, AMAZING HOW LUCKY THESE JACK ASSES ARE, THEY SUCK THEY ALLWAYS SUCKED AND SOME HOW THEY STILL CARRY ONE, SOME PLEEEASSSEE GET RID OF THESE ARROGANT CRAP SHOOTERS..
God | June 17th, 2008 @ 11:45 pm | Reply | +1 |

The penalty was not deserved, if anything Luca Toni should of received a yellow card for acting, the referees suck this year, just as much as most teams do, including France and Italy, there are more kids playing this days than grown ups.

I think you are seriously lacking adequate mental capacity. Please go back to school you moron.
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ronaldo | June 18th, 2008 @ 12:38 am | Reply | --2 |

lUCA TONI WILL SHOW THEM HIS POWER, SKILL AGAINST SPAIN
mAN U suX~!! HAHA..
Zeus | June 18th, 2008 @ 1:37 am | Reply | --1 |

strong teams don’t win
the teams that win are strong

Italy didnt play the best football but they won
winning is everything
50sketch | June 18th, 2008 @ 1:56 am | Reply | --1 |

will someone please convince me luca toni is a striker?
acid pilot | June 18th, 2008 @ 2:19 am | Reply | +0 |

at last.. henry score.. huhu
GiB | June 18th, 2008 @ 2:41 am | Reply | +1 |

this game would have been better off as a draw, neither of these teams deserved to make it through….
s | June 18th, 2008 @ 3:42 am | Reply | --1 |

italy was just lucky
Shell | June 18th, 2008 @ 3:58 am | Reply | +1 |

Well I’m not Italian, I’m not Italian-American, nor any ethnic Italian, and so on and so on.

But really it sucks when there is no fair play too among all of comment here.

OK talk as much as you can say, Italy is worst, Italy is shit, Italy is bad victor and worse losers, and yet they won 4 world cups and advance to the next round.

It is also because Romania lose to Holland. But remember that Italy will not advance IF they didn’t win tonight also. So wake up dude. This is football.

For Joost remember that your Holland is also qualified in Euro 2004 thanks to Czech Republic that defeated Germany in the last game even when Czech have qualified yet. So it is the same anyway. don’t make such a retard comment.

You can say easily in your opinion who is bad and who is good tonight. Yet Holland qualified, Italy wins against France and the also qualified. That is a fact no matter if you want to kill yourself. Save your blasphemy for other match.

I don’t think Holland can pass the next game if they meet either Russia or Sweden. I hope it is Russia who gets through. I want to see Guus Hiddink let Russian defeat his homeland team. And lets see hows the sportmanship then.

Actually ur wrong if Holland would ahave won and italy would have tied 1-1 italy would have gone on.. so dont talk… rofl bad

Thats not true, Romania would have gone to the last 16 because of a better goals front/against. So you better thank us dutchies
heaven | June 18th, 2008 @ 4:13 am | Reply | --5 |

italians are facking sore losers….they took down ribery who is actually the pike of france attack….then they simulate in the penalty box lots of times witch is why abidal got sent off and because of unlucky henry….italy go eat your spagetti…..allthough im a fan of Brazil!!! lol
Rizki | June 18th, 2008 @ 4:46 am | Reply | +0 |

To shell

Sorry, I’m not a dutch supporter. I’m an Italian supporter. But lets show respect to them. However, I will kill that Joost fucking guy if I meet him
join soccerfanbase.com | June 18th, 2008 @ 4:46 am | Reply | +1 |

it was a good match , I congratulate the italians for their wonderful play ….the french coach was just too awful with his silly selections….all football lovers and fans are invited to join soccer fan base dot com for the best of football forum discussion and news update
calcio | June 18th, 2008 @ 5:24 am | Reply | +0 |

ahh….
to all italian-haters, admit that u all are just jealous and envy towards italian’s success
z00b00 | June 18th, 2008 @ 5:28 am | Reply | --2 |

winning is important. result is everything.
over-rated spain will be sent home as usual by the italians