Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Offenses in Second Half of Italy 1 Australia 0 World Cup Game

4805 italy chance

5001 Italian Materazzi sent off, with red card, henceforth Italy will have to play with only 10 men to Australia's 11 men. The ESPN announcer felt that the red card was unwarranted. Bresciano was dribbling towards the goal, Materazzi slid in, slide tackle, ball went over his outstretched foot, Bresciano of AUS tripped over his outstretched foot.

5329 Italy opportunity to initiate aerial dribble

since the Italian was ejected, the Aussies have been getting even more time and space close to the Italy goal. The Aussies get more time and space closer to the opponent's goal, than any team I have seen in this 2006 World Cup.

5750 AUS missed chance

5805-5815 aus chances

5935-5950 aus chances

Ever since the Italian was ejected, most of the game has been in the Italian half of the field.

6320 Italy misses on pass

6430 AUS with time and space lofts long pass to Italy goalie

6850 aus misses on cross

6915 aus time space

7250 aus efforts on offense

7330-7340 aus off

7522 italian indiv dribbling attempt

7610-30 great play air dribble by italian

7744 aus misses shot

7820 aus offense attempt

7915-40 aus offense

8020 aus corner kick, cahill misses about ten feet high over crossbar on header, then grabs his head in frustration. Every time these guys head the ball, and miss, they hold their head in frustration as if it was almost a goal, what bad luck, but they very rarely actually score on these headers. At the same time much of the soccer world is very intolerant regarding efforts that do not involve crosses in and headers, when these efforts fail, their whole attitude is that wasn't anywhere near getting a goal. Whereas in reality, these efforts that do not involve crosses and headers are at least as effective as the cross and header approach. The difference is that in the cross and header one can see that obviously the ball ended up moving fast somewhere near the goal. With the other approaches, you get situations such as if this defender 40 yds from the goal had been beaten it would have set in motion a chain of events leading to a goal, yet such is not obvious or understood in the eyes of the simpletons. Alot of these problems have to do with catering to the opinions of simpletons as opposed to the opinions of the wise.

8325-35 aus tons of time and space,

8430 aus fails on cross in.

8450-8510 aus off

8625 italy off effort

8830-8930 aus efforts end with aus player Cahill missing on bicycle kick, he completely missed the ball but the espn announcer was ecstatic about it.

9120-30 aus offense

9146-9212 italian offensive efforts

9244 italian fouled on dribble in penalty area by aus. Italy scores on penalty kick.


@2006 David Virgil Hobbs

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