well he dived the furtherist

It's so wrong that FIFA letting people to vote for man of the match. Italians are well know comapre to our Paston...

The rumour is that Moss was getting the third game,
I can't see that happening now.
Game 3 for Aus and N.Z. are going to be massive occasions,
no-one was chatting on these pages about N.Z. before the world cup started, I think the kiwis have taught us aussies a lesson in playing to your strengths and now justifiably it is they who are the talk of the town

While the UK commentators see it as a lower tier English side, the fact that there were four A-League players on the pitch means a lot of people will be taking a look to see what the A-League is all about...

yeah 4 a-leaguers starting 3 championshipers, 1 prem, 1 NZFC, 1 danish prem and one with no club????

Was nice to Sey barron come on, considering he had to take time off his job to go to the world cup to play his part in drawing with italy!!!

What?

Paston was definitely MOTM.

Glad we held on for a point. NZ's goal was offside anyway, so fk it. We dominated the game even with a side many would have picked differently. Totti would have made such a difference, along with Rossi.

dominate it all you want, you still didn't win. Slovakia found that out too.

Wouldn't it be superb if the Aussies and us Kiwis got through to the 2nd round. Bit of a long shot but that'd show them how footballs going down here! Go the Kiwis vs Paraguay. And with a little less enthusiasm, go the Aussies vs Serbia.

Really, if Di Natale and Pazzini had started even, let alone Rossi and Totti they'd have been more cohesive attacking.

According to FIFA website Daniele DE ROSSI was official MOTM :(

You can only play what's in front of you.

He hardly did anything apart from going to ground to win the penalty! What an ourtage!

great job kiwis!

Amazing result. I would say NZ dominated in that Italy were reduced to not particularly good chances.

Italy - worse than England?

:D - AGAIN, WELL DONE NEW Zealand - Lol this was the second match involving an Antipodean team in two days which had me standing inches from the screen by near it's end! lol

I just knew they would compete with Italy, given that past friendly and their organisation under Herbert, but sheesh, wow and tbh wow at how ordinary Italy have become - though again, credit to NZ.

And indeed - Paston surely was the clear MOTM for mine - even a few of the Italian players would admit that!

Sure Rossi drew the penalty, but that was it really! He went quiet come the latter quarter of the match, a time in the match where NZ could've even snatched the victory (Woods' chance), oh yeah, that was some MOTM performance from him, sigh. Heck Camoranesi had far more impact than Rossi, once he came on - he seemed to be the only Italian player creating ANYTHING half decent, who looked semi-dangerous!

I dunno...drawing with Algeria is pretty bad....they lost to Malawi after all.

I can go to work very happy today.

I now know a little how you Aussies felt after the last Italian diving team you encountered. They are just blatent cheats, great comment from the BBC website on this "Italy soon set about exploiting any means they could to try and gain an advantage".

It's a pity Woods great turn wasn't matched by his shot but for him to turn a world clas defender inside out shows that he has a big future in the game.

Bertos finally played almost up to his standards with some great runs down the flanks and I hate to say it but Lochead had a very good game.

A pitty I have to work today otherwise I would be in the pub :)

=d> =d> Bravo Kiwis =d> =d>
i woke up at half time and couldn't believe my bleary eyes, from what i saw it was a fantastic football performance.. Impressed with the young guy Woods that came on late too.



Smeltz was offside, did NZ cheat their way to a draw?



People as opposed to... their pets?

As opposed to the commentators or the referees selecting it as in some other tournaments.

All I can think is, what a night it would have been if Woods had scored that shot that flashed wide.

How the hell could he have been offside when the ball came of the Italian diving teams defender?

Edited by teza: 21/6/2010 04:08:54 a.m.

It took a glancing blow off...I think it was Fallon's head.

It was nowhere near Fallon, the ball went over both Reid and the defenders head into the stomach of the Italian defender then Smeltz got in behind him to finisj it off.

Good old Italians, can't win a war and can't stand up for more than a minute without falling over :)

Ok, so it was Reid then. It took a glancing blow off Reid. If you watch the slow-motion replay, you actually see the spin of the ball slow down as it goes over him.

Yay. Well in NZ

Well done - hope u make it thru to the group stage.

Well done NZ
Now you know what we Aussies have been saying all this time about cheating Italians and referee bias towards FIFA protected species. We weren't lying were we!!!

Way to NZ - Congrats

Well done NZ. Stick it to em.