Socceroos World Cup Campaign
Well what happened in that last 30 seconds was devestating, but what was worse is that we couldn’t score against 10 men! Pretty amazed at the support that the socceroos got. Went to Star City to watch the game nice and early at 1am.
Started out there was a huge line to get to the main scream outside the food court area, and it just grew. This was at 10pm. But eventually we got into the casino and walked around. There were screens everywhere so you weren’t goin to miss the action.
Karina came late cause she went to Coldplay concert, but the lines in were huge at that time. took her about 1 hr to get in, and she just got in on time to see the kickoff.
Eventually everyone took the seats from poker machines, tables, bars any chair that was not bolted was moved infront of a big screen. It was amazing to see that when the game was on, no one was playing machines, and most of the tables were empty. Once half time came, everyone was back on the machines and tables.
Stopped a nation probably. The atmosphere was ok, but could have been better live. Lots of ooohs and ahhhs, followed by the normal, you #@&* get up, stop diving.
But in the end, i think the Socceroos weren’t good enough. We should have won that game, but it would have been hard to break the italians defence. They only let 1 real goal in the whole World Cup, the other was an own goal. Even with 10 players they defended awesome, and on the counter they were very smooth. While the socceroos toiled away and you could see the skill level as a team wasn’t as good as Italy. I guess we did miss "gout boy" but in the end not good enough.
So I think everyone who says we should have won and got robbed, well we didn’t make the most of our chances, it sucks cause after italy we would have had an awesome chance against Ukraine, but alas next time.
Don’t blame Lucas Neil, he was the best player, got lazy in 5 seconds and had to pay for it, that sucks. Neil MVP for Socceroos man.
