Germany see blue....

The hosts crash out....is'nt that a surprise? Not to anyone who saw the match. Italy were clearly the better team defensively and on the offence. Playing 4-5-1, their famed defnce did all that was required to keep klose podolski and ballack quiet. Totti looked his imperious best and was spraying passes to all corners of the ground. it was goalless for 90 mins nad the game went into extra time. Italy came out with all guns blazing and hit the frame of the goal twice in two minutes, from gillardino and zambrotta. with two mins reamining for the game to go itno penalties, pirlo split the german defence with a sublime pass to the leftback grossowho curled a spectacular first time shot into the far corner.All lehmann could do was look on helplessly as german dreams evaporated. a minute late with germany pushing up gillardino held up th ball long enough for del piero to come tearing through and put an end to the matter. Germany can say goodbye to the trophy for another four years. The azzuri will be in dreamland awaiting a clash with france or portugal in the final.. All i can say is, on the day, the better team won.