Scots go out after Hampden travesty
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Scotland 1 - 2 Italy
2nd min : Luca Toni had stunned the Scots by stabbing the ball home from five yards with less than two minutes gone.
64th min: The Italians appeared to have subdued the fire of the Scots on the pitch until one of Alan Hutton's trademark surges towards the opposition penalty box won a free-kick.
McFadden's drive took a deflection off the wall, McCulloch's drive was blocked by Buffon but Ferguson stabbed it home on the rebound.
90th min: Scotland fell at the final hurdle in their Euro 2008 bid as Christian Panucci's last-gasp header earned Italy an undeserved 2-1 win at Hampden.
Scotland: Gordon, Hutton, Weir, McManus, Naysmith, Brown, Fletcher, Hartley, Ferguson, McCulloch, McFadden.
Subs: McGregor, Alexander, Caldwell, Pearson, Robson, Boyd, Miller.
Italy: Buffon, Panucci, Cannavaro, Barzagli, Zambrotta, Camoranesi, Gattuso, Pirlo, Ambrosini, Di Natale, Toni.
Subs: Amelia, Oddo, Chiellini, De Rossi, Perrotta, Iaquinta, Gilardino. -
a good start.. but still crash out
i really hope scot can go in instead of italy. -
i won't say italy didn't deserve it...they had a perfectly good goal disallowed for offside....
poor referee decision though....but it was all the ref's fault, certainly can't say the italians cheating the ref... -
McLeish anger at Italian winner
Scotland manager Alex McLeish was furious with Spanish referee Manuel Enrique Mejuto Gonzalez after the 2-1 defeat by Italy at Hampden. Christian Panucci's stoppage-time winner came from a free-kick that he felt ought to have gone Scotland's way.
"The set-piece that led to their second goal was an unbelievable decision," said McLeish. "Alan Hutton was in control of the ball and their guy battered him. How can that be a free-kick to Italy?"
The defeat ended Scotland's hopes of qualification for the Euro 2008 finals and sent Italy and France through to Austria and Switzerland. "We didn't deserve that, to lose that game," said McLeish. "We battered them in the second half and they were dead men walking at the end. "But they got most 50-50s and we expected that." McLeish stressed that his players should be proud of their efforts both at Hampden Park and throughout their campaign. -
lose liaoz always blame other ppl..
THIS IS FOOTBALL
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can't really say that...Originally posted by gunner77:lose liaoz always blame other ppl..
THIS IS FOOTBALL
think was reported that the referee really made a mistake on that decision... -
referee is protected..Originally posted by Father Lim:can't really say that...
think was reported that the referee really made a mistake on that decision...
u cant change the result. pity scotland -
Yup he really made a bad decision.Originally posted by Father Lim:can't really say that...
think was reported that the referee really made a mistake on that decision... -
poor Scots...