World Cup Semi Finals

July 10th, 2006 | Uncategorized

Germany 0 - 2 Italy
France 1 - 0 Portugal

Probably the most surprising thing about these two games is that neither of them were decided by penalties.

Italy’s two goals against Germany were good, but didn’t come until extra time when both teams were exhausted. Fabio Grosso scored a beautiful left footed curl from the edge of the 6-yard box and Alessandro del Piero scored their second, a nice chip into the top right corner after he was played into acres of space on the left-hand side of the penalty box.

France played a solid game against Portugal but neither team was particularly impressive. After Brazil and Argentina (my predictions for the final) were knocked out in the quarter finals it’s been an all-European affair.

Now it’s Italy and France in the 2006 World Cup Final in Germany, and Germany will play Portugal for the third place position.

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