94th minute penalty doom Socceroos

[Deathclaw]

A 94th minute penalty my Roma captain Francesco Totti doomed Australia to defeat. Lucas Neill missed a tackle but did not make contact with Fabio Grosso, he appeared to take a dive over Neill. Italy were reduced to ten men in the 51st minute when Marco Materazzi recieved a harsh red card, which should have been a yellow card because he was not the last man back for Italy. Italy became the first team to score while being a man down in 22 World Cup matches, since Paraguay scored twice over Slovenia while being a man down in 2002.

Italy face the winner of today's match between Switzerland and Ukraine.

My opinion: the penalty was a crap call, Neill was on the ground and not moving at all when Grosso purposely stumbled over his body to earn the penalty. Another instance of poor refereeing.

[artu]

speaking of ukraine amd switzerland are om extra time