Azzurri are through but I am sad for Czechs

Ok I guess we can’t have everything we wish for. Italy are through which makes me extremely delighted but Czech republic are out, a sad end to what could have been a very promising campaign. Italians came out stronger in second half perhaps this time they wanted to take full advantage of having one man more and not falter under pressure. Czechs specially Nedved (he deserves a whole post) tried their heart out but just couldn’t get that one goal and in the end conceded a late one. Filippo Inzaghi coming as a substitute scored the second for Azzurri though he should have scored one earlier too. So Italy are through and will now face Australia who once again showed tremendous fighting skills and twice came back from behind to earn a draw against Croatia thus creating a history by entering in round of sixteen. Harry kewell was finally able to score a goal but at what an important time it was. Azzurri must not take Australia lightly they gave Brazilians lots of troubles, they come very hard and have a lot of fluency in their attacking it will be one tight match. Specially kewell and Bresciano combine very well and will be a threat.

But even a draw for Czech would not have been enough for them to qualify because in the other match Ghana had beaten USA by two goals to one though there have been some questions raised on the issue of penalty which gave them the winner. But a Great result for Ghana finally one team has been able to keep African flag flying high though they will be up against Brazil who seem to be picking up their game quite nicely. Brazil thrashed Japan 4-1 thanks to a very professional performance in which Ronaldo scored twice and hence he equals the record of highest number of goals scored by any player in world cup finals.

So as it stands Italy plays Australia and Brazil will battle against Ghana, couple of very interesting matches.