3-1, comfortable Azzurri victory.

Nah, not really, extremely hard fought Azzurri victory.

 

Hoping for a good result, but being realisitc, you guys will probably win 2-1 or 3-1.

 

Hoping for a good result, but being realisitc, you guys will probably win 2-1 or 3-1.

Just wish you guys hadn't lost so badly against czechs, Now I'm stuck wanting Italy finish first and USA going through next round. Don't see how this can still happen now. Most realistic way would be high scoring draw against Italy, destroy Ghana and hope Italians beat czechs by shutout and Ghana miraculously manage low scoring draw or beat czechs....Like I said, don't see this happening,but you never know. Lot's of help from above needed

 

We have the players to beat any team. After Brazil showed they are pretty much all talk I don't see why the US out of all teams should be a problem. Let them talk, it's what they do best. Until now, Italy is the one that played best. Germany found it hard to beat Poland when Ecuador beat them easily. Weird.

 

I just hope for a win. Thats all I want and the qualification pass to the next round!

 

If Italy manage to score an early goal against USA, it is going to change the entire outcome of the match. Since, USA believe that they have a chance to beat Italy when they step onto the pitch, but if they concede and early goal their moral is going to severly drop down because the players won't be focused on anything except the fact that they are going to think that they are going home early.

I believe that Lippi should fire from all cylinders, he needs to tell his players to start attacking from the first minute and pressure the american players as much as possible, if this is the mentality the italian players are going to have when going into the match. I am 100% sure that Italy are going to win the match by a margin of two goals at least, my prediction is going to be 3-0.

 

I just want the same mentality and display as that v Ghana. Where we play quick attractive football, but also defend well and in the right numbers. At times our midfield got caught out a bit by Ghana, but our defenders covered well... we need to be more careful, but in the attack I just want more of the same, but this time finishing the chances.

 

italy 4 USA 0 , nwo no matter wat!!:heart:

 

JK still not showing any humilty:eekani: How about at least saying you hope for 4-0?

 

I actually support USA,they can do alot better.Beasley is also good,atleast in potential,but he will probally fail against Italian defenders.I hope it wont be a 1990 WC scenario,they dont deserve that.

 

Is it just me who thinks that since everyone is writing off USA, they might pull couple tricks out of their sleeves and surprise everyone..


Sorry man, Im half drunk. :drunk:

 

I'm in a dilemma over who to support. At this point, after the USA debacle on Monday, its hard knowing that if I root on the USA, then Italy's draw gets f'ed up in the Round of 16.

I'll probably just go with the flow of the game, if its close, then USA, if not, then Italy.

 

italy should win this game easily

 

Beasly is a good player but after that, I don't see anybody who can do any damage to us. And Italy should be able to win this game, I say something more like 2-0. What makes the USA even more hateful is that they act cocky and say really dumb things when they can not afford any of it. I understand teams have to act tough, no doubt, but tough does not mean Rambo-dumb tough. :thmbdown:

 

gotta go for italy in this one we r already out no matter what we do we cant beat italy plus now i only want italy to win and top the group and avoid brazil as we dont have a chance of goin thru .
italy 2-1 usa

 

if Italy manage to score in the first 20 minutes Italya will roll over the USA

The onlger the game goes on without a goal there will be a much greater chance of an upset

 

I'm in a dilemma over who to support. At this point, after the USA debacle on Monday, its hard knowing that if I root on the USA, then Italy's draw gets f'ed up in the Round of 16.

The result does not depend on who you root for.

 

go U.S.A., but 2-0 or 3-1 for Italy

 

Seeing what Ghana did against a favored Czech Republic, could we do something similar? I know we are two different sides, but still it gives some hope.

 

Time to tread on USA.

Unfortunately, when we play the Czechs, we may have to eliminate them if we win, but their stupidity vs Ghana won't let me feel bad.

 

Just the fact that you think the Czech's loss was a fluke illustrates the mentality that will lose Italy this game.

 

Come on the Yanks!!!

Pull off a result, and give us the first really interesting group

 

Line up !

Italy

1)G.Buffon
2)C.Zaccardo
4)D.De Rossi
5)F.Cannavaro (c)
9)L.Toni
10)F.Totti
11)A.Gilardino
13)A.Nesta
19)G.Zambrotta
20)S.Perrotta
21)A.Pirlo

USA

18)K.Keller
3)C.Bocanegra
4)P.Mastroeni
6)S.Cherundolo
8)C.Dempsey
10)C.Reyna (c)
15)B.Convey
20)B.McBride
21)L.Donovan
22)O.Onyewu
23)E.Pope

Forza Azzurri!

 

So much for Arena's "changes", the only one of which is Dempsey on the right wing instead of Beasley, which would be pretty much obvious to anyone who was watching the Czech game. How about Johnson in there? I wouldn't mind seeing O'Brien in there instead of Reyna as well.

 

Renya:yuck: