| SPAIN |  | 4 | : | 0 |  | ITALY |
| Silva 14', Alba 41' Torres 84', Mata 89' |
My match rating: -_-
Well, fuck.
No, not really. Spain was the better team and they played like it. The score, unfortunately, is too severe to the losers and doesn't adequately represent the values on the pitch. If Italy had played their best and had not had to be down to ten men, Spain would have probably won it 2-0 or 3-1, and that would have been more representative. But c'est la vie. As I said many times before and I won't take back now, at the end of the day all that matters in football is the scoreline, and the rest is chatter.
Italy ought to find pride in the rest of their tournament. Somewhat like Lippi in 2006, Prandelli has designed an efficient football machine by bunching inexperienced youngsters around the three pillars Buffon, De Rossi, and Pirlo. And in the midst of a major legal scandal back at home, this ragtag team won a ticket to the final of football's most difficult international tournament, only to lose to the best team of... probably the last two or three decades; best of all time, according to some madmen, but we don't listen to madmen.
So, once more, Forza Azzurri!
Some more miscellaneous end-of-tourney reflections on Euro 2012 are forthcoming.
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My man of the match: Iniesta (S)
UEFA report ---|||--- Player ratings ---|||--- Photos ---|||--- Highlights
UEFA report ---|||--- Player ratings ---|||--- Photos ---|||--- Highlights
Well, fuck.
No, not really. Spain was the better team and they played like it. The score, unfortunately, is too severe to the losers and doesn't adequately represent the values on the pitch. If Italy had played their best and had not had to be down to ten men, Spain would have probably won it 2-0 or 3-1, and that would have been more representative. But c'est la vie. As I said many times before and I won't take back now, at the end of the day all that matters in football is the scoreline, and the rest is chatter.
Italy ought to find pride in the rest of their tournament. Somewhat like Lippi in 2006, Prandelli has designed an efficient football machine by bunching inexperienced youngsters around the three pillars Buffon, De Rossi, and Pirlo. And in the midst of a major legal scandal back at home, this ragtag team won a ticket to the final of football's most difficult international tournament, only to lose to the best team of... probably the last two or three decades; best of all time, according to some madmen, but we don't listen to madmen.
So, once more, Forza Azzurri!
Some more miscellaneous end-of-tourney reflections on Euro 2012 are forthcoming.
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