Well! If you see the replay, the Penalty was not there. It really hurts the Sportsman spirit and we should not give penalty in Times out time. (Make it a rule). I must appreciate if players of Italy refused to take this Penalty and take the game to Extra time. (This is Sportsman Spirit).
the decision was horrible --- it was not even a foul. gatusso tripped over the defender who was already down. who knows -- may be australia would have won either in extra time or via penalty shoot outs
Poor Aussies, I feel for them. They made a match out of it but at the last moment during three minutes of added time they lost the match simply because of a wrong decision by the Spanish referee to award a penalty to Italy who were at the receiving end throughout the 90 minutes battle. This world cup is no doubt witnessing the poorest quality of supervision. FIFA should wake up now so as to finish the competetion smmothly.
i am truly upset by the referee's wrong decision to award italy a penalty when no foul was there.it seems all the referees at this world cup are determined to ensure that big nations win the cup.australia truly deserved to win!italy are now going to face ukraine and i feel italy is lucky.but they will be knocked out in the semis.germany,argentina,brazil or spain will win the cup this time.
The Socceroos were cheated by the unfortunate last second penalty kick awarded by the referee. The Aussie player was not at all fault, forget the ball, he did not even actually touch the Italian player to cause his fall.
In my view it could have gone into extra time and then penalty shootout. Aussies were unfortunately shortchanged by the referee.
Such incidents create doubt in the public mind that some external elements decide who would move in to next round.
