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Italy's defensive shape has taken Euro 2016 by storm,
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 1 July 2016 | Martin Keown

Posted on 07/01/2016 10:33:18 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Italy are the team who have impressed me most at Euro 2016.

They don’t really have any star names but they’ve already seen off two sides packed with them — Belgium and Spain — and face another on Saturday.

The key to their success is their formation — and how well it is executed. Playing three at the back has often been dismissed as old hat in recent years, but we are beginning to see more teams flirt with the idea.

And when you see a team like this employ it to perfection, who can blame them?

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To: Berlin_Freeper

Buffon
https://streamable.com/7p1t

Barzagli
https://youtu.be/lomck3mDC5k


41 posted on 07/02/2016 10:18:27 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The only 4 players on the pitch today who play in England all missed their penalty (Ozil, Schweinsteiger, Pelle, Darmian)
42 posted on 07/02/2016 10:26:27 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Germany have made their last seven tournament Semifinals:
2005 FIFA Confederations Cup
2006 FIFA World Cup
UEFA EURO 2008
2010 FIFA World Cup
UEFA Euro 2012
2014 FIFA World Cup
UEFA Euro 2016
43 posted on 07/02/2016 10:30:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Penalty shootouts lost in official tournaments:
[7] ITALY
[6] Argentina, England, Iran, México
[5] Brazil, Netherlands, Uruguay


44 posted on 07/02/2016 10:35:12 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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That was the most horrendous penalty shootout I ever witnessed.


45 posted on 07/02/2016 10:36:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To quote Portugal: We get criticized a lot but we don’t care because we are in the semifinals.


46 posted on 07/02/2016 10:43:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Buffon almost got the Hummels pk that went slightly over his outstreched hand.
On the game winner by Hector, it looked like
Buffon adjusted his dive to possibly get a hand on
a high shot, but alas, it went under him: unlucky.


47 posted on 07/02/2016 10:51:29 PM PDT by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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To: period end of story

Nine times out of ten, Buffon makes that save.


48 posted on 07/02/2016 10:57:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Someone said, Chiellini faked injury at the end of that game right before the penalties were to be taken so as to get Zaza in and look how that happened. I don’t know if this is true and happened at the 120th minute but I am going to try to watch that segment of the match.

Buffon did not start against England in their World Cup match in 2014: http://us.soccerway.com/matches/2014/06/15/world/world-cup/england/italy/1220089/ But started against Costa Rica and Uruguay. So, I was trying to find out if there was a time when he was not considered Italy’s starting goalkeeper.

Pirlo may be 37 years old I think; but one wonders how he might have played in such a match.


49 posted on 07/02/2016 11:55:13 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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Wales decisively won their quarter-final. Thank you for that.

Shoot-outs may be essential but a horrible way to decide a match. Really.


50 posted on 07/02/2016 11:56:42 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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Okay, Buffon was sidelined in that first match of the World Cup. http://us.soccerway.com/matches/2014/06/15/world/world-cup/england/italy/1220089/

I believe Buffon has already said he’s going to try to be in Russia 2018 and that was his decision before the match vs. Germany.


51 posted on 07/02/2016 11:58:35 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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Yesterday's game is being scrutinized.


52 posted on 07/03/2016 12:38:30 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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Zaza


53 posted on 07/03/2016 7:18:03 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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Hector! Of all people!

I see what you did there. Schnellinger!

54 posted on 07/03/2016 10:24:56 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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