by Pabs on 24 Jun 2006, 13:29
If not for the former Juve backup, Isakkson, the score could have been much worse.
Germany was clearly a cut above the Sweden team. The sending off was very harsh, IMO. The referee (Carlos Simon) looked like he wasn't going to give out the second card to Teddy Lucic but it was if he had big brother watching over his shoulder, and after a long pause smiled and gave him the card. That ruined it for me. Podolski shoudn't have patted Simon in the back, it didn't look good on him.
Kudos to the German team though. Very little energies spent in their games and they find themselves in the 1/4-finals.
Key to their victory once again was finding that early goal. In today's game, they scored 2 early ones.
Moreover, I've never seen a team shoot so often on net from distance.
Sweden better get new personnel in their aging defence or they may very well miss Euro'08.
Zlatan, as much as I love the guy, but he's carried his Juve form from this season on to the Sweden team. Nice tatoo he has though.
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