france are bloody diving cheats, never a penalty.
They shouldn't have taken totti off though - he did nothing, but only cos he was marked out of the game. They needed him for structure, passes anbd fluidity, which they lacked today and meant couldn't go forward (added with their negavtive attitude).
No team were better than the other in the end - france were never going to score and italy had for some reason lost all ability or even want to go forward. It paid off for them, but with their penalty record it seemed a dodgy tactic.
You can't say france were better though - both sides did nothing really, or very little. In fact italy came closer to scoring with that offside goal.
They should have kept totti on though to have any chance of going forward - if he had actually come to a point where he wasn't marked out of the game then he could have created something before them.
It turned from being a good match in the first half to a quite boring one >_< but meh. Italy's game plan worked, though it was a dangerous one to play cos they have a history of being bad at pens. You can't say france were better - they created very little, there was only really that zidane header, and the only reason they were so much better is italy refused to go forward and therefore had so few numbers they couldn't string passes together.
I can't believe they wouldn't go forward and go for it even when zidane got sent off though - it was stupid and a bit of a pisstake to be honest.
Nice to see a referee actually consulting a fourth official for once, even if his penaly decision was awful.
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