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http://www.topnews.in/sports/files/italy_1.jpg vs. http://i45.tinypic.com/2jfitd3.jpg

 

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Winston Reid scored a dramatic injury-time equaliser to earn underdogs New Zealand a draw with Slovakia. Can he do it again against defending champs Italy?

 

http://ladiesdotdotdot.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/0814_new_zealand_soccer_getty.jpg?w=300&h=225

 

A pic of the New Zealand team doing the Haka.

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So I was unable to watch Italy's first game as I was at school, and now I have to wake up at 7AM on the only day that I have to sleep in to watch them? :angry:

 

Oh well, looks like I'll be waking up at 7 tomorrow morning as I'm not sure if I will even be able to watch another game of theirs all tournament long.

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Ha-ha!! Thanks 4 the props!

 

OMG!!! WINSTON REID DID IT AGAIN!!!! NEW ZEALAND TAKE THE LEAD!!! GO KIWIS!!! GO FEARNS!!!! GO NZL!!!! :rock:

My bad -- 'twas Shane Smeltz. Anyhow, GO ALL-WHITES!!!

Man, I wagered almost 4 Euro on Italy but I don't care -- I hope Italy lose... NEW ZEALAND, BABY!!

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After the NZ goal, Italy played frustrated and they played like crap and selfishly...

 

Then it started to play calm and started to create real shots and just nice football.

 

 

NZ looks good tho, definitely better than Australia as far as ball movement is concerned

 

Cannavaro looks like he struggles a bit defending these taller NZ players

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Or common sense, I guess it must be rough lacking it right?

 

http://i48.tinypic.com/eu08c5.jpg

 

The kid who says losing more than 0.5 lbs per week is unhealthy and 5% body fat is unhealthy is talking about common sense, always gives me teh lulz :lol:

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NZ's defense was very impressive... it is one of the best defense I've seen from all teams so far. Italy wasn't struggling on offense, NZ's D just made it so tough.

 

The game belonged to NZ's keeper Paston who saved like 5 goals on target at least... he played out of his mind, he protected the goal like Ben Wallace in his prime protected the rim. He was on fire tonight.

 

Then this NZ sub #20 Chris Wood is huge and he looks slow and clumsy, but I've never seen a soccer player his size (considerably fat by usual soccer player standard) can move that agile once he has the ball and he's very skilled. He almost posted NZ's 2nd goal but it was narrowly wide.

 

 

Good thing for Italy now it faces Slovakia in the final match so it should be a cake walk... I'm predicting 3-0 Italy win because Slovakia is just that horrible.

 

But I'm not sure now if Paraguay can beat NZ especially if they keep playing defense like this and Paston keeps playing great and saving the ball like that. In fact, if they do, NZ should win.

 

 

NZ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Aussie

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