Archive for June 22nd, 2009

Sunday is the day my wife and I have been waiting for the Brasil-Italy match in The Confederations Cup. We are watching the match on ESPN.

Brasil-Italy started as a wild affair. Both teams have been racing up and down the pitch. Brasil has had more scoring chances but the Brasilians haven’t found the back of the net.

Italy has had their chances too but the Italians have misfired as well too.

Both teams have settled down a bit.

Brasil has spent most the first half in the attacking zone.
Brasil’s relentless attack resulted in a goal in the 37^th minute. Fabiano one timer off the miss by Maicon gave Brasil 1-0 lead.

This goal was the result of a great built up. What I mean by a build up is that Brasil made four or five passes in the attacking zone. With each pass, the attack moved closer to the goal. 

Brasil continued to press the attack. Fabiano found the back of the net to make 2-0 at the 43^rd minute.

A brilliant run by Robinho up the sideline started off another jailbreak goal for Brasil. Robinho passed to Kaka. Kaka’s skip to my Lou pass to Fabiano resulted in an easy marker for Fabiano.

A defensive blunder by Italy’s De Rossi led to a Brasil jailbreak into the attacking zone. Robinho broke free and fired a pass into the box. Italy’s Dossena stepped in front of the cross and knocked the ball into his own net 3-0.

Italy has stepped up the offensive pressure in the second half.  It looks like Brasil is taking the foot off the gas pedal.

The Italians had at least four good scoring chances. Nothing so far for the Italians as the clock motored on tick, tick, tick.

The Italians had their best chance of the match to score but De Rossi missed the wide-open shot in the 76^th minute.

Brasil totally took it easy in the second half.  Brasil won. Brasil is on to the semifinals with a 3-0 win over Italy.

www.uol.com.br wrote this about Brasil demolishing of Italy in The Confederations Cup:

Em sua melhor apresentação na Copa das Confederações até o momento, o Brasil derrotou a Itália por 3 a 0, com dois gols de Luís Fabiano e outro contra, e selou a classificação para as semifinais do torneio, em que terá a anfitriã África do Sul, do técnico brasileiro Joel Santana, como adversária. De quebra, o triunfo nacional deste domingo no estádio Loftus Versfeld, em Pretoria, tira da disputa os atuais campeões mundiais.

The translation goes like this: Brasil had its best game so far in The Confederations Cup. Luis Fabiano led the way with two goals to lead Brasil to the semifinals.

The article goes on to state that this was the largest margin of victory for Brasil and this margin of victory coupled with the USA margin of victory sent the USA into the semifinals. This victory was very improbable but the USA took advantage and advanced on a better  goal difference than Italy.

Derrotada por larga margem de gols, a Itália viu a segunda vaga da chave ficar com os EUA. Os norte-americanos derrotaram o Egito neste domingo por 3 a 0, no outro jogo do grupo B, e conseguiram uma classificação improvável, depois de duas derrotas seguidas nas rodadas iniciais. Os EUA acabaram com vantagem no desempate contra os italianos nos gols a favor (as duas equipes, além do Egito, fecharam a fase com 3 pontos somados; os egípcios ficaram em desvantagem no saldo).

 Now for the crazy part of this Sunday, USA has advanced to the semifinals with a 3-0 win over Egypt. The USA needed Brasil to win by three or more goals. That happened. The USA needed to beat Egypt by three or more goals. Guess what? That happened too.

Who says Lightening can’t strike twice in the same spot. It did.

This is totally unreal.

Was another one of those crazy sports miracles. Yes.

Check this sites out

www.palau.org

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