Monday, June 18, 2012

The Football - Italian Haunted by Failure in 2004


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The Football - Italy will face the party of "on-off" against the Republic of Ireland to win tickets to the quarterfinals. Failure at Euro 2004 was haunting Gli Azzurri.

Here are some facts related to both teams in the last match of Group C Euro 2012 on Stadium Miejski, Poznan, Poland, Tuesday (06/19/2012) pm dawn, as summarized Eurosport:

Italy will be eliminated if they fail to win this fight.

The two teams have met before in a major tournament victories and share each one: Italy's World Cup 1990 and the Irish back in the United States four years later.

But in the last five meetings with Ireland, Italy only won once. End up losing two games and the other two series.

Ireland manager, Giovanni Trapattoni, the manager of Italy's World Cup 2002 and Euro 2004.

Italy have never won in their last six matches in major tournaments for the first time in history, with five draws and one defeat.

This is the second time the Azzurri won the draw in the initial lag phase of two European Cup group, others were in 2004 and was eliminated even though they won the third game.

Republic of Ireland conceded eight goals and always lost in three games in the European Cup final

Italy scored four of their last five goals in the Euro through the set-pieces.

Antonio Cassano is the only non-goalie player who appeared in nine games Italy in Euro since 2004.

During handled Cesare Prandelli, Italy has never lost when Antonio Cassano played. Of the 12 matches, Italy won eight and four draws.

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