Italy U-21 - Hungary U-21 (3 Mar 10)

[vitomins]

Italy leads 1-0 at the half thanks to a goal from Roma's Okaka. Did anyone see the goal? Was it anything special?

For those who are watching, how is Balotelli doing??


This is a must win game for the Azzurini if they have any hope of qualifying for the Euro Cup...

 

[jmaster]

Haven't seen the match. Okaka Chuka scored in 25th minute, Bolzoni was red carded in 66th minute, Marrone scored in 81st minute. 2-0 for Italy

 

[snowforum180]

okaka's goal was decent deaked the goalie 1 vs 1 then scraped it in. Mario had some good passing on the pitch. He also tracked back a bit, and he also wasn't selfish. He fell quite a bit, but they weren't dives. (Irrelevant, but He smiled with his teammates after okaka's goal.)

 

[vitomins]

From what I heard, Balotelli had an excellent match and was constantly causing problems for the Hungary backs.

This is very good, especially because the senior team forwards did nothing impressive in the Cameroon friendly.

Maybe Lippi will shock everyone and bring Balo to the World Cup!

 

[rsz85]

Balotelli had easy job with Hungarian defenders, as i heard they were totally unwell. Lots of our players have match-missing, because our league only started at the weekend.

But our fate is in our hands. We must win the last 3 games, and we will be top of the group, that's 100 % mathematically.

 

[Jnr]

If anyone is interested then here is the U21 table..Hungary have a very good chance of showing :finger: to the young Azzurri!

http://www.uefa.com/under21/standings/round=2000006/group=2000010/index.html

 

[Edyy]

It's perfect Balotelli and very fast in the first team

 

[szasza02]

From what I heard, Balotelli had an excellent match and was constantly causing problems for the Hungary backs.

This is very good, especially because the senior team forwards did nothing impressive in the Cameroon friendly.

Maybe Lippi will shock everyone and bring Balo to the World Cup!

okaka's goal was lol-like. from the halfline, he dribbled the ball, the 1st defender slipped as he tried to tackle him (i.e. he f*cked up bad), while the other two just assisted to him, as he kicked the ball from the 16metre-line. the goalie... well I don't know what he was doing, maybe picking his nose? scratching his ass? fixing his hair? anyway, it wasn't a strong shot, could've been saved easily, but that's how it went. After that goal, I saw this defeat coming, and I barely kept up with the game. I happened to see the two red cards tho: both of them were bullshit imo, totally useless, totally stupid. referees must have some kind of a disease, sort of a swine flu for dives, pens, offsides and all this refereeing shit. it's really embarrassing.
as for Mario, I think he didn't do anything special. he did dive a lot, he did bitch around with the ref (a lot of times his own teammates kept telling his ass to just shut the f*ck up, not that he would ever listen). If this image impressed lippi, then the others must've had a terrible game I mean it's not because he played against us: if he'd scored two superb goals and 'd had a great game anyway, I'd say hats off coz he tha man... but that's just not how I think a man should behave on the field.

 

[vitomins]

okaka's goal was lol-like. from the halfline, he dribbled the ball, the 1st defender slipped as he tried to tackle him (i.e. he f*cked up bad), while the other two just assisted to him, as he kicked the ball from the 16metre-line. the goalie... well I don't know what he was doing, maybe picking his nose? scratching his ass? fixing his hair? anyway, it wasn't a strong shot, could've been saved easily, but that's how it went. After that goal, I saw this defeat coming, and I barely kept up with the game. I happened to see the two red cards tho: both of them were bullshit imo, totally useless, totally stupid. referees must have some kind of a disease, sort of a swine flu for dives, pens, offsides and all this refereeing shit. it's really embarrassing.
as for Mario, I think he didn't do anything special. he did dive a lot, he did bitch around with the ref (a lot of times his own teammates kept telling his ass to just shut the f*ck up, not that he would ever listen). If this image impressed lippi, then the others must've had a terrible game I mean it's not because he played against us: if he'd scored two superb goals and 'd had a great game anyway, I'd say hats off coz he tha man... but that's just not how I think a man should behave on the field.

Well a bunch of match reports I read said he was Man of the Match. If you do that without a goal or an assist, you must play extremely well.

I did not see the game, so I cannot comment, I just know that many reports that I read said he had a very good game. Casiraghi even said that he should be brought to the WC after the match...

 

[Xoonky]

Everyone has heaped praise on Balotelli for this match's performance, and half the world have been pushing for him to go to the world cup too, that's surprising and good to hear.

 

[pazzainteramala]

come on lippi just call him .italy's attack is so boring we need balotelli he will lighten us up !

 

[szasza02]

Well a bunch of match reports I read said he was Man of the Match. If you do that without a goal or an assist, you must play extremely well.

I did not see the game, so I cannot comment, I just know that many reports that I read said he had a very good game. Casiraghi even said that he should be brought to the WC after the match...

well they may be right. As I said, I didn't really catch up with the game after we conceded the 1st. he might have been great afterwards. He got a lot of free-kicks, that's a fact.
anyway, it'll be interesting to see him in SA.