Matches, Matching, My Perfect Match

Yes, by now, everyone in Blogoverse and outside it know that Germany has lost in the semi-finals against Italy.

And what a lost it was. Italy simply pop 1 goal 2 mins before extra time end, and it sent the Germans trembling. So much so that no one noticed del Piero was secretly running into the scoring area to sweep the ball past Lehmann to score a second goal for Italy. Below are some extracts of my observation througout the entire 3am match:

First Half
Boring. Germans are not strong enough. No tactic. Italians same old, like to pretend. But nevermind, even though the Germans have lesser ball possession, my experience tells me that the country with lesser ball posession normally wins the game. Or so I thought.

Second Half
Now the Germans are doing better than first half. So many chance to score but dunno how they kick. There was even a very, very open opportunity, but bo lang di chu (nobody at home).

And will people like Lahm or Schneider stop doing that "I am going to run the ball all by myself and then score (for entertainment value)" thing? More often than not, the ball never make it to the box and the Italians took over.

Huh? Extra time? Can someone tell me how come it's just a game between 2 sides and there is no score even after 90 mins?! Do the Germans really want to rely on penalities to win the cup? Duh. Really 不光彩 to win that way lor.

Extra Time
Both teams bia like crazy. But Germans are not striving hard enough.

1st Italian goal at 29th minute. Thats it.

2nd goal. What were the Germans doing? Letting del Piero score with little effort?

The Italian players hug one another. Everyone knows the game is over. Jurgen Klinsmann was unnerved when the camera did a 360 close up on him on the field. I think the Germans are just too confident that they will win the trophy cos they are on home ground.

I have learnt:
It is possible to sleep at 10 and wake up at 3am to watch the game. I was quite alert. So tonight I can do the same thing again. When D W told me before one of the matches that he is going to do just that, I was doubtful. Now I am not. Cos I did it! Hee Hee... :)

I think I don't root for countries. It was a natural thing for me to separate the two sides to a "good" and "bad" side easily. So I support the good side. Don't like Italy cos they play cheat. Pretend kena fouled. Lotsa times. Whereas the Germans who may have been fouled got up and continue the game, the Italians took the opportunity to act. Easy to guess who I think is good and who is bad.

Play dirty and you will win. Period.

But the Germans really no tactic lah. I cannot deny that.

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I need new shoes! I need a can-go-with-any-outfit pair of shoes. The ones I wore today don't go well with my outfit today. Maybe I need to get 2 pairs instead of 1.

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Even the girl at my hairstylist's thinks that Superman is darn cute. She dropped a word that never occured to me when I wrote about the Man of Steel. It's exactly what I want to describe about him.

She said he is “温柔”. Even as a translator, I find it a difficult word to describe in the English language. Probably thats why the word didn't occur to me. Gentle is abit feminine... Seems inconceivable. But to some extend it's true. Gentleness in a man is attractive. Ask your gal pals, they probably think so too.