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Everybody is hurting. We are all supporting Italy today. OK, not all | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
of us. England's survival depends on the Italians beating Costa Rica this | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
afternoon. Before then, we will have a post match postmortem on last | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
night's defeat with Alan Hansen, Thierry Henry and Clarence Seedorf. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Here is a reminder of how things slipped away in Sao Paulo. | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
It was blocked by a hand. The card is out. Yellow card for Diego Godin. | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
Rooney strikes wide. It did not look far-away. I thought that was in. | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
That has whistled over far-away. I thought that was in. | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
crossbar. It was a mistake from Phil Jagielka. Something different. It | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
has caught England out. Cavani with a quite brilliant effort. That is a | :02:39. | :02:52. | |
deliberate obstruction. Diego Goodin again. He was lucky. He has already | :02:53. | :03:05. | |
had a booking. Off the bar! Wayne Rooney came in and came so close. | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
Gerrard has been run through by Lodeiro. Cavani... Johnson backing | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
away. Suarez! Luis Suarez gives Uruguay the lead! Brilliant movement | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
from the Liverpool man. A little ricochet in midfield past Steven | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Gerrard. Good ball from Cavani. It had a goal written all over it. | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
Never mind the knee, the head is all right. England have to get their | :03:48. | :03:48. | |
heads right. Sturridge went through goal. -- went | :03:49. | :04:11. | |
for goal. That nearly went in again! England are up against it. Joe Hart | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
was looking to catch a yard to come and collect the ball. Uruguay have | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
worked an opening for a Luis Suarez. You don't see that too often. He | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
completely scoffed that. The game threatening to become | :04:30. | :04:45. | |
stretched. Henderson is having to work hard to win it. He could not do | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
it. Cavani! He misses his chance. Rooney! Brilliant save by Muslera! | :04:48. | :05:09. | |
It was the best moment of the match for England. The | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
It was the best moment of the match good. Johnson's cross, Rooney! Wayne | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
Rooney's first ever World Cup finals goal. The Uruguayan resistance has | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
been broken down. Relief on the face of Wayne Rooney there. Wonderful | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
cross from Glen Johnson. He has had our best moment of the game and he | :05:36. | :05:45. | |
deserved that goal tonight. Storage! Muslera with the save! | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
No flag. Suarez! He has dumped it in! One of the simplest goals you | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
will ever see. England lost concentration. Most crucially of | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
all, they lost Luis Suarez. I cannot believe that for all the beautiful | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
football in this tournament, this has been a long punt upfield. Suarez | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
does not miss from there. The emotion is writ large all over the | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
face of Luis Suarez. That is it. Uruguay win in Sao Paulo. Luis | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
Suarez won it for them. Five Liverpool players in the England | :06:41. | :06:41. | |
starting line-up but it was Liverpool players in the England | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
wearing the blue of Uruguay who made the impact. It just had to be Luis | :06:46. | :06:58. | |
Suarez. I don't think anybody let me down, anybody let the team down, | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
anybody left the country down. We conceded over to goals. We did not | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
allow many goal chances. If you take the rest of the game, I don't think | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
we conceded many goal chances. I thought we had a lot more possession | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
in and around the Uruguayan box. They stood firm and we could not | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
score. Just frustrated. For the first goal, they were about four | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
ricochets in the middle of the park. I don't think Joe Hart had that much | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
to do other than picking the ball out of the net. Up to a certain | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
point we did well but we conceded two goals. We did well enough to get | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
back into the game. I thought we could have gone on to win it. We had | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
quite a dominance. When they scored the second goal, time ran out. I am | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
bitterly disappointed for everybody. We came here with such high hopes | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
and we have not been able to deliver. We were in the driving seat | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
all game. We scored with plenty of time to go. We had a Uruguay's back | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
to the wall. They were defending deep. They have not priced is open. | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
It is incredibly frustrating but we have to move on. We have got one | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
more game and hopefully something to play for. We are relying on other | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
people. It is exactly the position we did not want to be in. We have to | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
take responsibility. We will be professional. See what happens. To | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
see if we have a chance going into the last game. It was very | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
disappointing after a couple of defeats. Couple of weeks ago it was | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
one of the highlights of my career. And now it is one of the worst | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
feelings I have had. The only satisfaction is that we did | :08:54. | :08:53. | |
absolutely everything. We tried our best but it was not good enough. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
There are some fantastic players in distressing. I'm sure all of the | :08:59. | :09:11. | |
supporters back home now that there are positives. It is not really time | :09:12. | :09:12. | |
to think about anything else but to dust ourselves down. It is very raw. | :09:13. | :09:13. | |
Everybody is hurting. We have to see what happens. Hopefully of Italy win | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
tomorrow, we get that small chance to got things right. Do you want to | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
continue with England into the European Championships? Of course. I | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
have been very happy with the team. I have enjoyed working with them and | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
I do enjoy working with them. England's hopes hanging by a thread. | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
If Italy win this afternoon England will need to beat Costa Rica in | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
their final game and hope Italy overcome Uruguay. If it is a draw | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
today, England are out. Italy have arrived in Recife. Goalkeeper and | :09:57. | :10:14. | |
captain Gianluigi Buffon returns to lead the Azzurri. It is only the | :10:15. | :10:27. | |
fourth time that Costa Rica have qualified for the World Cup. Their | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
best performance came in 1990 when they reached the last 16, famously | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
beating Scotland along the way. We spared our English pundits further | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
punishment on this one. Let's get a more neutral perspective on the | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
game. Alan? Well basically, it was a defensive horror show. When you have | :10:38. | :10:38. | |
a flat back four, you get four men in position. The positioning was | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
very poor. COBRA why's it was not there. And the communication in the | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
two matches has been abysmal. They have paid the ultimate price. How do | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
you think England performed? I don't think they played badly. They were | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
in the game. 1-1 with five minutes remaining. In the driving seat. If | :10:54. | :11:04. | |
you concede a goal the wave they conceded that goal at the end of the | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
game, there was no communication. Lack of communication. Cahill could | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
have covered. It is difficult. They did not outplay England, Uruguay. It | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
was a long ball. did not outplay England, Uruguay. It | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
does not have to deal with did not outplay England, Uruguay. It | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
and less. It is just a kitty, the did not outplay England, Uruguay. It | :11:36. | :11:36. | |
lack of concentration. The lack did not outplay England, Uruguay. It | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
rigging the situation at this level is crucial. -- it is a pity. Then | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
you come to the basics and the fundamentals. We are going to | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
you come to the basics and the on the set plays against them. It | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
was beyond belief what was going on. England | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
was beyond belief what was going on. that Joe Hart did not have a lot of | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
saves to make, but there was panic in the defence so many times. They | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
also came up against a hit man who was right up there with the very | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
best, Suarez? We said yesterday that Suarez, the operation etc, would he | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
play well? I don't think he was fully fit but he was still great. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
This is the opening goal. A little bit of movement from Suarez. Great | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
ball in. Great ball from Cavani. I will mention almost more Cavani than | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Suarez there. Cavani allowed Suarez to recover. Glen Johnson has got to | :12:34. | :12:42. | |
close down quicker than he does. Glen Johnson is 4.9 yards and Jordan | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Henderson is nearly 12 yards away. You cannot believe that Jordan is | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
the one who gets closest. He is a right footed attacker. Johnson, with | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
the one who gets closest. He is a physique, he should have closed them | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
down. It is the body shape. You have to go tight on him. He gave him | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
down. It is the body shape. You have much space. I don't want to talk | :13:13. | :13:13. | |
about the second goal. The thing about it was Uruguay were on the | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
ropes at the time. England were in the ascendancy. The keeper, when he | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
picks it up, he delays and delays and delays. If he had hated Airlie, | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
the English defence may not have had time to settle. There are three | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
England players in the picture. -- if he had hit it early. Gerrard | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
comes back, Cahill goes forward. Cahill does not track Suarez. It is | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
in the back of the net. Straightforward ball. Cannot deal | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
with it. English defence. What you do not want is to give Suarez this | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
kind of opportunity. He actually did not do anything great there to put | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
himself in that position. They allowed him to go. He did what the | :14:07. | :14:16. | |
defenders should have been thinking. Positioning poor, cover poor and | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
communication, none. Sometimes players switch off but five minutes | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
left in a World Cup game, you are right in the competition, probably | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
in the last game a win would see you through. That is inexcusable, isn't | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
it? It is a lot about the mentality. How they felt at that moment. When | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
they scored the goal we said it was like a relief rather than a case of | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
getting the results. You have to compliment Suarez. A striker's | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
perception of Suarez? I will agree with Alan. I don't think he had the | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
best game. I don't think he had the game that we usually see in the | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
Premier League. He is on playable at times. He did one thing, or to -- | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
two! He knew he had to wait for his moment around the box. People did | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
not talk too much about Cavani. Because Cavani was so generous with | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
his run, that allowed him to be close to the box, he did it. Any | :15:27. | :15:39. | |
other player in never England set piece is a bit of a | :15:40. | :15:58. | |
Danny Welbeck, that is the is terrible planning. I will show | :15:59. | :16:45. | |
you how Uruguay do it. Who do you think is closest? Suarez. He gets in | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
that position. He does not deviate. He attacks the ball. This was going | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
wide. I agree with what you say. When you have a player that has to | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
cover the area, he needs to be intelligent enough to know how to | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
position himself. You would make that | :17:12. | :17:11. | |
intelligent enough to know how to position himself. You would make | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
that very clear to weather going in that position. Nothing to do with | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
intelligence. That is a position every team in the world would take. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Don't let it, inside you. Attack the ball. | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
concentration. We have had a couple of lapses of concentration tonight. | :17:32. | :18:04. | |
I thought the substitutions changed the game. We started to outnumber | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
Uruguay. We got control of the game. I really thought we were going to go | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
on and win the game. Just a lack of concentration at the back. Suarez, | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
we said it before the game, I don't think he looked fit. But he had a | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
couple of moments. And two brilliant finishes. The first goal, his | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
movement off the ball, was world-class. Uruguay had two shots | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
on target and two goals. England did not show that energy and commitment | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
they showed against Italy. Was it about inexperience on the day? I | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
think particularly the front four were stifled by the Uruguayan | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
defenders. They were very aggressive. Diego Goodin could've | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
got sent off. defenders. They were very | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
aggressive. Diego Goodin could've -- Diego Golding. It feels like the end | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
of the world when you go out. There are still positives. The positive | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
for me is the philosophy Roy Hodgson has set out. He went with the | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
younger players. The experience these younger players will have got | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
from this tournament, particularly in defeat, Raheem Sterling played | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
brilliantly against Italy, the night he found out what playing at the top | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
level was all about. Ross Barkley has learned from his performances. | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Jordan Henderson, Daniel Sturridge... England have not been | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
to a major tournament and had this philosophy for a long time. We have | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
two show faith in this philosophy and give Roy Hodgson the next few | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
years to continue with it. He will be devastated. In his interview | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
after the game he looked like a man on his knees. He has come here with | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
an attacking style. That is the way forward. The thing that has led us | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
down in this tournament has been defending, our defensive | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
organisation. A split second against Italy and two tonight. Fine margins | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
in the top games. We need our young players to be playing European | :20:13. | :20:13. | |
Champions League football because they get tested. They get tested in | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
those top games. If they do that, I think this England team can progress | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
and evolve in the next couple of years. Thank you. A lot of talk in | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
the press back in England, as you may expect having lost the opening | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
two games for the first time in history, as the first time in | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
history, as to whether Roy Hodgson remains the right man for the job. | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
They should give him another couple of years. He has embraced the | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
younger players. There are two or three players who could become | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
great. Not necessarily a certainty. Raheem Sterling Ross | :20:56. | :20:55. | |
three players who could become great. Not necessarily Barkley at | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
the attributes that you would think. But the problem is, a few years ago | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
we thought that Chris Smalling and Phil Jones were going to be the | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
future. Give him two years, then bring somebody in a revamped | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
everything. Four years ago we talked about the same thing, eight years | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
ago. In ten years of the job at the same thing unless something radical | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
is done to bring English youngsters through. You experienced the World | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
Cup at a young age. Should the England players learn a lot? They | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
will definitely learn. The future is bright for England. You have some | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
nice young players. They should aim at trying to win euro 2016 in | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
France, which I will not be happy about it they do! Make sure you can | :21:46. | :21:55. | |
compete in two years. I think they can. Any positives? Absolutely. The | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
first game, I like the first game. England play with flair, they have | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
the quality up front. I would like to see them loosen up a little bit | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
more. It says a lot about the English players. They want to do | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
something for their country. They fielded a little bit too much. -- | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
they feel it. He was a bit unlucky with the free | :22:21. | :22:37. | |
kick. This one, the jury is out. It is marginally behind him. He is a | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
bit unlucky. This is a great first touch, but he has got to score. He | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
knows, you can see his reaction. He was devastated. He should have | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
scored there. But he was finding himself in these positions. Look at | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
him on the left there. He can see that Sturridge is going to go | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
through now. He takes a chance. He gets on the end of it. But he was | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
always knocking on the door yesterday. And he had a great free | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
kick as well. I don't like to speak about the referees but the referee | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
had a huge impact on this game. It was a goal. A bit of luck is always | :23:30. | :23:38. | |
needed. It is good to hear that from you because when it comes from as it | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
sounds like sour grapes. You need more from luck -- need more than | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
luck. At the end of the day I still think you need to have Rooney | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
around. What else is missing? We went into this tournament with | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
expectations very low but it still doesn't make it any better? You need | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
one outstanding player. The two teams we have come up against, Pirlo | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
and Suarez, those players are top of the tree. England do not have that. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
I think Ross Barkley and Raheem Sterling, you never know what can | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
happen in two years. You could not guess that Raheem Sterling was going | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
to be in the squad and be good. I think that might happen in two | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
years. We have talked a lot about defending. Let's get the thoughts of | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
former England centre-back Rio Ferdinand down on the Copacabana. It | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
is disappointing really, getting into a position where you can take | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
something out of the game and and seeing it out. Italy done it. They | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
got into a position where they were in the lead and they saw it through. | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
We would have been going into our last game with our destiny in our | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
own hands if we had won the game. That is disappointing for me, you | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
have to see these games out. 1-1, you have -- you would have been in a | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
position to close out the group. We had them, we were on the front foot, | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
did they say let's go for it? You have two look at the game and say we | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
will take a draw. I would have taken a draw, straightaway. But doing it | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
in the heat of the game is difficult. That is where you | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
sometimes need some experienced players on the pitch or on the | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
sidelines, to guide you through situations like that. Even in the | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
studio we were sitting there and a couple of the guys were saying I | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
would not take a draw here, no chance. Sometimes you have got to | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
pull the reins in and take a bit of stock of what is going on and where | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
you are at. Are there enough leaders on the pitch for you? I think Steven | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
Gerrard is a fantastic leader. Wayne Rooney has the experience. But there | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
are not too many more that have the experience in that team. That would | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
have been a worrying element for me and maybe it was proved a little | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
bit. There are players in the squad who would have had the experience in | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
that situation to say here is where we are, 1-1, pull the reins in a | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
bit, not a bad result. But that is with hindsight. Final thoughts on | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
England. Thierry. At the end of the day, if you do not take your | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
chances, you end up not winning the game and that is what happened with | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
England Italy for me, and England Uruguay. England didn't take their | :26:50. | :26:58. | |
chances, Uruguay did. I have been in the situation where we went to the | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
Champions League final and we lost against Barcelona and I lost a one | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
against one to put my team 2-0 up. Until I die, that will be my fault. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
That is how I take it. But that is the game, if you do not take your | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
chances, and the other team does, because you guys definitely created | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
chances against Italy and against Uruguay, but I still think Rooney | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
should carry on. But that is what the game is sometimes. France won | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
the World Cup 1-0, 1-0, 1-0. It is about defence. The secret is to | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
score at one end and not let any in at the other! Christ, we have worked | :27:43. | :27:52. | |
it out at last! Naturally there has been quite a reaction on social | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
media to England's defeat. Dan Walker brings us up to speed. | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
England against Uruguay was a big talking point on social media | :28:03. | :28:10. | |
yesterday. 214,000 tweets were sent per minute, the highest being when | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
Luis Suarez scored the second goal against Uruguay. Two of the biggest | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
searches of the day were, "what is the media in England saying about | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
the match? And where can I find Mario Balotelli said he wanted a | :28:24. | :28:37. | |
kiss on the cheek from the UK Queen. Plenty of criticism from you | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
about England's defence, and also from the pop star Rihanna. You have | :28:46. | :28:55. | |
been moaning and complaining and giving us your response. Many of you | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
announcing your retirement from watching international football. | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
Matthew says, " the best teams have special players, Messi, Neymar, | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
Suarez. At the moment, England don't". Plenty of interest in the | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
Scottish fan who was seen celebrating with the Uruguayans. His | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
name is Mark McConville and he is from Glasgow. More on that on the | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
website. If you feel inspired to have a bit of a kick about yourself, | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
maybe not by England, go to the get inspired part of the website. The | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
other two games played yesterday were in Group C. England could yet | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
play one of these teams in the second round. We live in hope. | :29:50. | :30:07. | |
just wide. -- half a chance. What a wonderful effort. Great effort. That | :30:08. | :30:20. | |
was blocked well. That is a foul. He stopped them breaking away. A | :30:21. | :30:42. | |
free kick for the challenge. And a red card quickly to follow. The | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
second yellow card of the game for him. This is significant for Greece. | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
That is just ridiculous, the captain. Adjusted total lack of | :30:56. | :31:04. | |
discipline. The goalkeeper had to make a great save. He gets up | :31:05. | :31:14. | |
fantastically well. Great reflexes from the keeper. Lovely ball in from | :31:15. | :31:23. | |
Tagaloa. What a horrible mess. -- Shinji Kagawa. A glorious past. | :31:24. | :31:31. | |
Great run. He has got to hit the target. It is the nearest we have | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
got to seeing a great opportunity. Can they find a way through? | :31:36. | :31:44. | |
Socrates pushed it straight into the path of a Japanese player who put it | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
wide. Cannot clear his lines. He cannot wrap his foot around it. | :31:50. | :32:01. | |
Corner to Colombia. Five in yellow in the box. It is into the roof of | :32:02. | :32:11. | |
the net. Rodriguez! The golden boy scores the first goal of the game. | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
And that is what Quintero! 2-0, Columbia! They are a | :32:14. | :32:34. | |
brilliant, quick, counterattacking team. Quintero scores is first-ever | :32:35. | :32:45. | |
international goal. -- he is first-ever. Brilliant run by | :32:46. | :32:47. | |
Gervinho! Fantastic goal by Gervinho! Wonderful individual goal. | :32:48. | :32:55. | |
Maybe over the 90 minutes the more dangerous team has won. Colombia | :32:56. | :33:01. | |
two, Ivory Coast one. Group C looks like this. | :33:02. | :33:12. | |
Colombia join Holland and Chile as the two teams already into the last | :33:13. | :33:19. | |
16. Let's turn our attention back to today. The players are warming up, | :33:20. | :33:25. | |
or resting. Mario is waiting for his case from the Queen. Don't forget, | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
England meet Costa Rica on Tuesday. Let's hope it still means something. | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
For that to happen, the Italians have got to win this afternoon. | :33:35. | :33:44. | |
Thierry Henry Italy, if they win this, on their way? They are in a | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
good position but I don't think it is like to be an easy game. We are | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
all talking about Pirlo, and rightly so, but Candreva was very good | :33:55. | :34:02. | |
against England. Costa Rica certainly surprised us with their | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
performance against Uruguay. The Uruguayans have said they did not | :34:07. | :34:08. | |
acclimatise to the cheap because they were training in Montevideo. | :34:09. | :34:17. | |
They are used to it. They are very used to the differences in climate. | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
From the north to the south, there can be a change of 20 degrees. | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
Uruguay I think they will go further. It would be a very | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
interesting last night. What do the Italians think of their team? Add | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
they confident? There is one thing in Italy that always surprises me. | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
You always -- they always think they are going to win. They always have | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
the belief that they can do something. And you can see | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
sometimes, they go down to nine men, they go down to ten men. They | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
genuinely believe that they can win that game. And they usually do, | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
actually. I think this is an average side. They have one player who is | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
outstanding and they have Balotelli upfront. But I would be very | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
surprised if this Italian team wins the World Cup. This is only the | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
second game to be played at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife, where it | :35:19. | :35:22. | |
rains an average 224 days of the year. The well sparing of Jason | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
Mohammad and Robbie Savage should feel right at home. | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
Welcome to Arena Pernambuco, where Italy beat Japan in a seven goal | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
thriller last year. Cesare Prandelli says he is happy with Mario | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
Balotelli? Yes, great winning goal against England. Historically they | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
have not performed well in the second game of the World Cup. They | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
will have to win it. Some fantastic players on show. I would be worried | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
about the pace of Campbell. I think he can cause the Italian defence | :35:59. | :36:03. | |
some problems. A fantastic performance by Costa Rica against | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
Uruguay. Barry respect in the same intensity today? Yes. -- are you | :36:08. | :36:17. | |
expecting the same intensity? As the game wears on, the Keet, the | :36:18. | :36:21. | |
climate, Campbell's pace, they have got a chance. -- the heat. What is | :36:22. | :36:32. | |
your view of England? You have alluded to Balotelli, the top | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
players. When they pull on the national shirt of their country, | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
they grow. When England players pull on the white shirt, they seem to | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
shrink. I thought the performance the other night, was shambolic. They | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
need to reassess it when they get back. England no longer have any | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
world-class players? I would say no. In their prime, Rooney, Gerrard, | :36:58. | :37:03. | |
they weren't world-class. But on the evidence of this competition I would | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
say England no longer have any world-class players. Italy to win | :37:07. | :37:11. | |
today? It will be tough against a fearless Costa Rica side, but yes, | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
just from a. One other final point from yesterday's news Conference, | :37:18. | :37:20. | |
Cesare Prandelli worried about the sheet here in Recife. When they | :37:21. | :37:23. | |
played here last year in sheet here in Recife. When they | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
Confederations Cup, his team suffered badly. It is not raining on | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
this particular day. Costa Rica came into the group as the rank | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
outsiders. A win today would all the book them a place in the second | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
round for only the second time in their history. | :37:41. | :37:51. | |
2-1 to Costa Rica! I don't believe this! The greatest day in Costa | :37:52. | :37:59. | |
Rican football history. This is how Costa Rica line-up. The | :38:00. | :39:55. | |
highly rated Keylor Navas starting goals. And unchanged line-up. Five | :39:56. | :40:04. | |
at the back once again. Gamboa and Diaz will look to get forward as | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
much as they can. Bryan Ruiz is a key creative force, part of an | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
energetic midfield quartet. And young Arsenal striker Joel Campbell | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
has pace to burn. He scored last week against Uruguay. Joel Campbell | :40:19. | :40:25. | |
has got pace. He is dangerous. Yes, he can see the game. He had a good | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
spell at Olympia Akers. I guess we are all waiting to see him wearing | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
the Arsenal shirt. He is a great player. He showed in the first game. | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
He can pass the ball. He sees the game. He smells a goal. Easy and | :40:42. | :40:53. | |
Arsene Wenger player in time? I think you can be anybody's type of | :40:54. | :41:02. | |
player. -- he can be. He is the type of player arts lights. We would love | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
to see him play for Arsenal. -- he is the type of player that Arsene | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
Wenger likes. They are not scared of Italy. They are well organised. They | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
are very aggressive in a good way and they have speed. I saw them play | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
in a qualification round in Central America. They were pretty good. They | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
went behind against Uruguay and you expected them to go two or three | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
behind. And they came back really well. Racial great fitness in that | :41:35. | :41:42. | |
game as well. Absolutely. South American teams have that advantage. | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
They look very fit. Why'd you think they would have a advantage? Their | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
height a lot of times. They are used to playing in extreme climates. I | :41:55. | :41:57. | |
have experienced it here for a year and a half. They come to Europe and | :41:58. | :42:05. | |
they run for fun. The climate but also a lot of games in a short time | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
frame. They are used this. Italy have been boosted by the return of | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
their captain, Buffon. He is back today after missing the England | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
game. He is one of only three men in history to have been selected for | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
his country for five World Cups. In Italy, he is Superman. He is number | :42:26. | :42:33. | |
one. He holds everything together. His deeds can be measured by | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
considering the what if. What if he had not been there. What if this | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
Tuscan teenager had be -- remained another midfielder? Would Italy have | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
won a fourth World Cup? Would England have won on penalties? And | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
maybe, just maybe, Wood is in the hand got away with it. --? -- Wood | :42:54. | :43:01. | |
is in a lean sedan have got away with it? Such rapid reactions have | :43:02. | :43:07. | |
set him apart from mere mortals. In 2006 it was perfect. We concede two | :43:08. | :43:13. | |
goals. One was an own goal and won a penalty in the final. That is | :43:14. | :43:21. | |
amazing. But with special powers comes the kryptonite. Depression, | :43:22. | :43:24. | |
gambling allegations denied, his recent marriage break-up electrified | :43:25. | :43:33. | |
the Italian media. He is a totem, a supreme patriot who before each | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
match summonsed to mind his great-grandfathers who died in World | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
War I. On and off the pitch he is such an important personality. He | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
brings a calmness to the squad. Now he sings his song at a fifth World | :43:49. | :43:54. | |
Cup. Only two men can say the same. I am very lucky that I have played | :43:55. | :44:02. | |
with the best goalkeeper. Not even Superman can stay forever young. | :44:03. | :44:05. | |
Signs are the reflexes are not what they were. What if? What if he can | :44:06. | :44:11. | |
deliver another triumph for the jury at the age of 36? That Woody would | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
leap straight from the pages of comic book legend. -- that really | :44:17. | :44:25. | |
would leap. Where does he rank, Clarence? I have two agree with Del | :44:26. | :44:33. | |
Piero. Over the last ten years he has been the best. Daedalus of | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
Piero. Over the last ten years he same level in the last couple of | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
Piero. Over the last ten years he years. A fantastic goalkeeper and a | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
great professional. You have played and battled against him -- against | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
many great and battled against him -- against | :44:50. | :44:52. | |
Buffon. Where does he rank? One of the best. Gigi I guess we'll go down | :44:53. | :45:06. | |
in the story of the game. Five World Cups. He is a calm individual for a | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
goalkeeper? He looks Cups. He is a calm individual for a | :45:12. | :45:14. | |
pretty calm and he knows what he is doing. Total respect. Thing for any | :45:15. | :45:21. | |
central defender is what you want from your goalkeeper is | :45:22. | :45:22. | |
central defender is what you want He has been utterly reliable. | :45:23. | :45:31. | |
Let's have a look at the Italian starting order. Buffon is back in | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
goal and captain. Chiellini moves starting order. Buffon is back in | :45:38. | :45:44. | |
centre-back in a defensive reshuffle. De Rossi will sit in | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
front of the back four, as he did against England. Pirlo pulls the | :45:49. | :45:57. | |
strings in midfield. And Thiago Motta replaces Verratti. Up top, | :45:58. | :46:04. | |
Mario Balotelli leads the line. Candreva was hugely influential in | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
the game against England. I think he is underestimated. His position in | :46:10. | :46:16. | |
the drive, every time he gets the ball something happens. Great | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
passing skills, great crossing skills, individual quality, great | :46:24. | :46:28. | |
personality. Especially when Italy get the ball at the back and they | :46:29. | :46:35. | |
want to go to the strikers, he is the one positioning himself right | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
between the lines, between the defenders and the midfield. Left and | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
right footed and he can shoot well, complete player. For sure he is the | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
one who can give Pirlo that little bit more time in midfield. Costa | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
Rica have to deal with him better than England did, that is for sure. | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
Thiago Motta will be holding most of the time today with De Rossi. You | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
have to deal with De Rossi, Thiago Motta, Candreva, Marchisio, | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
Balotelli. I know maybe they are not at the level of players we are used | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
to Italy having back in the day, but they can all play. Andrea Pirlo can | :47:19. | :47:29. | |
appear. He is the man. He is an artist. A wise old man said years | :47:30. | :47:36. | |
ago the first few yards are in your head and I used to think it was | :47:37. | :47:40. | |
nonsense but the more I play the game, that is right. Just sitting | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
there watching this He is just sensational. Every time | :47:47. | :47:55. | |
he picked it up against England, they were trying to close down and | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
get tight and he was just playing around the corner. You try and press | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
him, it doesn't really matter what you do, unless you | :48:06. | :48:08. | |
him, it doesn't really matter what him, he still keeps control. It is | :48:09. | :48:16. | |
just effortless and unbelievable. I will show that again. Wonderful. The | :48:17. | :48:24. | |
thing that Pirlo has, you can almost see, he is moving all the time. His | :48:25. | :48:30. | |
head is always up. When you go and put pressure on a guy who puts his | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
head up, he faces you, and then he has the quality after to pick out | :48:37. | :48:46. | |
the pass. We have seen it before. Like I said, he meant that. I have | :48:47. | :48:56. | |
to agree, the more he plays the game, the easier it becomes. Amazing | :48:57. | :48:58. | |
to watch. Some interesting graphics here, only | :48:59. | :49:08. | |
to English players covered more ground, despite his age. These are | :49:09. | :49:16. | |
the good ones, top speed. He can't run, he does not sprint either, but | :49:17. | :49:21. | |
he is the best player on the pitch. Number of sprints made, five. That | :49:22. | :49:29. | |
is why he is still playing at his age. He is always aware of what is | :49:30. | :49:35. | |
happening, so you do not need to run fast or makes any runs. We say the | :49:36. | :49:45. | |
ball is faster than the man. It is just so effortless and easy. And | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
left foot, right foot. He's going to retire from international football | :49:52. | :49:54. | |
after this tournament and he will be sadly missed. Absolutely, wonderful | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
player. Italy have that movement in midfield. They have changed their | :50:00. | :50:06. | |
philosophy a bit. Italy we remember with a really tight defence, strong | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
midfield, physical. But this is a technical midfield with De Rossi, | :50:12. | :50:20. | |
and Draper, Pirlo, Thiago Motta. -- Candreva. They used to gamble before | :50:21. | :50:27. | |
on what Alessandro Del Piero could do as a striker, and then they would | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
defend. But now they are trying to keep the ball a bit more in the | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
middle, and make you run. It is a different approach but still they | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
are being efficient. For Italy, three points today puts them in | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
great shape. Initially you would have thought this was a foregone | :50:51. | :50:53. | |
conclusion but after the way Costa Rica played against Uruguay, it is | :50:54. | :51:03. | |
not. Against England, they were dropping back. Here they have to | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
attack. Costa Rica, what chance? They have | :51:08. | :51:17. | |
won their first game and when you have done that you can relax a bit, | :51:18. | :51:26. | |
it is not do or die. They won and they played well. They were dominant | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
in that game. Hot conditions there, will that affect the Italian is more | :51:33. | :51:42. | |
than the Costa Ricans? Especially if they keep that top on! I think it is | :51:43. | :51:53. | |
a style thing. Fashion. He is going to be the man. He scored in the | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
first game, that will help his confidence. Clarence, you managed | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
him. Is he one of those players that needs that boost of confidence to | :52:04. | :52:11. | |
keep him going? He was really good in the game, concentrating, staying | :52:12. | :52:14. | |
in his position. I'm really happy to see him there. Cesare Prandelli said | :52:15. | :52:23. | |
he wants more consistency from him. I suppose all managers want that. He | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
is getting more mature, you can see it in his behaviour. When he is | :52:30. | :52:38. | |
focused, he can do everything. He is still volatile, he will either get a | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
hat-trick or get sent off. I was wondering after the game, because he | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
played in England, I wanted to know if he was that focused because it | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
was England. I want to see today if he is going to keep the exact same | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
game, being efficient without doing backheels when there is no need, or | :52:55. | :53:05. | |
a nutmeg. He was very disciplined but was it because he was playing | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
against England? We are about to see it. It is Italy against Costa Rica. | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
I think we know what this game means now. Over to our commentators. | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
COMMENTATOR: Not since 1990 on home soil have Italy won their opening | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
two games of a World Cup finals. This would be a more than suitable | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
time to change all that. The four-time winners, still looking to | :53:32. | :53:37. | |
guarantee themselves a knockout place with victory. Of course it | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
would keep England's slight hopes flickering. Costa Rica perhaps a | :53:41. | :53:48. | |
different proposition to what they were before a ball was kicked in | :53:49. | :53:54. | |
this tournament. They surprised everyone against Uruguay. They have | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
never won two consecutive games at a World Cup finals. Can they produce | :53:59. | :54:09. | |
again? The warmth and humidity of Recife. Wonderful atmosphere | :54:10. | :54:18. | |
greeting the two teams. They are both well represented. Both knowing | :54:19. | :54:30. | |
the importance of the outcome. Italy actually play here in the | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
Confederations Cup 12 months ago. They beat Japan 4-3. -- Italy played | :54:36. | :54:43. | |
here. That was a very different atmosphere at a very different time, | :54:44. | :54:46. | |
as we pause for the two national anthems. | :54:47. | :55:16. | |
# Fratelli d'Italia l'Italia s'e desta | :55:17. | :55:23. | |
# dell'elmo di Scipio s'e cinta la testa | :55:24. | :55:31. | |
# Le porga la chioma che schiava di Roma | :55:32. | :56:02. | |
# Fratelli d'Italia l'Italia s'e desta | :56:03. | :56:04. | |
# Iddio la creo. # che schiava di Roma | :56:05. | :56:32. | |
And now the national anthem of Costa Rica. | :56:33. | :56:54. | |
# Noble Patria, tu hermosa bandera expresion de tu vida nos da | :56:55. | :57:11. | |
# bajo el limpido azul de tu cielo blanca y pura descansa la paz | :57:12. | :57:13. | |
# En la lucha tenaz de fecunda labor que enrojece del hombre la faz | :57:14. | :57:15. | |
# conquistaron tus hijos labriegos sencillos | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
# eterno prestigio, estima y honor Salve, oh tierra gentil | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
# Salve, oh Madre de amor Cuando alguno pretenda tu gloria | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
# manchar veras a tu pueblo valiente y viril | :57:30. | :57:34. | |
# la tosca herramienta en arma trocar Salve, | :57:35. | :57:37. | |
# oh Patria tu prodigo suelo dulce abrigo y sustento nos da | :57:38. | :57:45. | |
# Bajo el limpido azul de tu cielo # Vivan siempre el trabajo y la paz | :57:46. | :57:54. | |
dulce abrigo y sustento nos da # Bajo el limpido azul de tu cielo | :57:55. | :57:58. | |
Vivan siempre el trabajo y la paz. # Certainly those Costa Ricans believe | :57:59. | :58:11. | |
a touch more than when they arrived in Brazil. | :58:12. | :58:15. | |
The sunshine out which will not please the Italians, they had their | :58:16. | :58:22. | |
say yesterday about the kick-off time. 1pm local kick-off time, with | :58:23. | :58:33. | |
a 70% humidity. But no real surprise that Gianluigi Buffon returns to the | :58:34. | :58:36. | |
Italian team, one of three changes from the one that beat England. Only | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
the fifth Italians are playing in four different World Cup finals. The | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
back four in front of him sees Ignazio Abate. The other changes, in | :58:47. | :58:58. | |
midfield, Brazilian born Thiago Motta replaces Marco Verratti. Mario | :58:59. | :59:04. | |
Balotelli is requested to kisses from the Queen if he helps Italy to | :59:05. | :59:10. | |
victory today. -- has requested two kisses. Enrique Osses is the match | :59:11. | :59:23. | |
referee, who officiated Italy two years ago in the Confederations Cup | :59:24. | :59:27. | |
against Mexico. The two captains, Gianluigi Buffon and Bryan Ruiz, who | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
is part of an unchanged Costa Rica team. It is the one that took to the | :59:33. | :59:39. | |
field to beat Uruguay 3-1. All eyes on Arsenal's Joel Campbell, who | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
scored the equaliser in the opening match. Christian Bolanos completes | :59:44. | :59:50. | |
their front three. They maintained their back five including Oscar | :59:51. | :00:00. | |
Duarte of Bruges in Belgium, playing in front of the highly rated | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
goalkeeper who kept seven clean sheets in 14 games in qualifying. | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
Cesare Prandelli was very vocal yesterday in the press Conference | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
about the lack of water breaks and the heat. Also very comes entry to | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
Jorge Luis Pinto and his Costa Rica team after their win over Uruguay. | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
The Costa Rican manager said the World Cup was a dream of a lifetime | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
for him. It got better against Uruguay. Can his team take it to a | :00:38. | :00:49. | |
different level today? It will be Italy to get is underway in Recife. | :00:50. | :01:03. | |
Fabulous stadium. A brand-new one. It opened in May last year. It will | :01:04. | :01:15. | |
be the destination for Italy's second rung of the tournament. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Tea-time back home. I am sure pasta is on the menu. We will see if the | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
four time winners can overcome Costa Rica. What chance of Costa Rica | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
providing another upset? The best opportunity will be on the | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
counterattack with Campbell's pace. In the midfield area they will get | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
outnumbered. The Italians are technically very good. They will | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
keep the ball. I think it is all about the counterattack and | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Campbell's pace. That may be an early warning to Costa Rica. They | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
trailed at the break against Uruguay. It was a fabulous | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
second-half performance. Just their fourth tournament. A country with a | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
population of less than 5 million people. Can they make their country | :02:15. | :02:29. | |
proud? Bryan Ruiz spent the second half of last season on loan at PSV | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Eindhoven with the World Cup in mind. These two countries meeting at | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
a World mind. These two countries meeting at | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
ever time. That was a highly ambitious effort. Bolanos. Great | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
movement, grade one touch, great lay-off. Thiago Motta joined in. -- | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
dived in. Buffon winning his 141st capped in | :02:58. | :03:37. | |
the Italian goal. -- Cap. I watched the Australia, Holland game and | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
Holland didn't start the game well at all. They were expected to beat | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
the opposition comfortably. But Australia took the advantage early | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
on. It is important this Italian side do what they did against | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
England. Keep the ball. Attack at pace. | :03:56. | :04:12. | |
Chiellini is much happier in that central defensive role. Cesare | :04:13. | :04:27. | |
Prandelli only decided to choose two of them again today. Heavy | :04:28. | :04:39. | |
Prandelli only decided to choose two Only Balotelli up front. Good | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Prandelli only decided to choose two one. Great covering. | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
Prandelli only decided to choose two nearly got on the end of it. A | :04:51. | :05:02. | |
decent start. Prandelli keen to get Thiago Motta back in the game from | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
the start today. He missed the start of the inning game because of flu. | :05:08. | :05:21. | |
-- England. Italy make the picture very wide. -- pitch. | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
Foul by Abate. It is a foul. Diving in. | :05:31. | :06:09. | |
Every Balotelli back behind | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
have not had too much possession early on. Marchisio filed. Duarte | :06:17. | :06:29. | |
apologising. -- Marchisio is filed. The Chilean referee wants to speak | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
to Oscar Duarte. It has to be a yellow card. No doubt about it. He | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
has got away with that one. He has taken one for the team. He has to | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
has got away with that one. He has booked. No question about it. It | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
does not matter if it is in the opening five minutes, that has to be | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
a yellow card. Great anticipation by Marchisio. Got away with that. It | :06:53. | :07:08. | |
needed Barzagli's challenge to Marchisio. Got away with that. It | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
game. Bryan Italy have everybody back. As | :07:16. | :07:43. | |
Uruguay found out to their cost, Costa Rica are a threat from a set | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
play. The Italians, man for man marking, no zonal marking. Balotelli | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
in the hole. All three central defenders. That was an inviting one. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
in the hole. All three central Buffon did not get there. It came | :08:05. | :08:18. | |
off the head of Bourdais. -- Borges. Nero -- Nowhere near it whatsoever, | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
Buffon. Again, a bit more conviction would have put that into an empty | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
net. I have two say it is a positive start by Costa Rica. Very positive. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
Bryan Ruiz is causing problems to Daniele De Rossi. The Costa Ricans | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
have started very brightly. Bryan Ruiz penalised. A chance for Italy | :08:49. | :09:06. | |
to finally get hold of the ball. The 70th appearance for Italy by | :09:07. | :09:06. | |
Chiellini today. That was a very important challenge | :09:07. | :09:20. | |
by Gonzalez. Darmian has got great pace. He caused problems on the | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
right-hand side against England. Great pace. Italy's first corner of | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
the game. The touch at the Great pace. Italy's first corner of | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
post. The whistle had already gone. A definite foul by Balotelli. Two | :09:36. | :09:54. | |
arms on the back of the Costa Rican defender. He has got to try to get | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
in front of him. Balotelli scored the winner against England. 13 goals | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
for Italy. 11 of them have come in competitive internationals. It seems | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
when it matters, Balotelli produces. He made his debut in Cesare | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
when it matters, Balotelli produces. charge. Costa Rica are making Buffon | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
kick it. They are pushing high up the pitch. They are not letting De | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
Rossi and Pirlo dictate. Candreva and debate on different | :10:36. | :11:02. | |
wavelengths. -- Abate. Abate winning his 21st capped at right back. -- | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
21st capped. Only one previous meeting between these countries, 20 | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
years ago before the World Cup in 1994. Italy won a friendly by 1-0. | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
It was scored by Giuseppe Sannino array. He was not a bad player. | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
England would take a repeat of that today. Just look at Pirlo. 35. He is | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
setting the tempo. Bryan Ruiz furloughs Keynesian -- | :11:39. | :12:09. | |
Chiellini. He has got another year left on his contract at Fulham. He | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
will discuss his future after this tournament. Good movement from | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
Candreva. The control did not budget. -- did not match it. How | :12:21. | :12:32. | |
important is the heat, Robbie? Italy made a big thing of it yesterday at | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
the press Conference. The sunshine has, cried. It is the recovery runs. | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
If you make a long run and you have got to get back, you cannot catch | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
your breath. It takes time to recover in this heat. Sloppy again | :12:50. | :12:59. | |
from Italy. Very sloppy. They have not got going. They have not been | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
allowed to dictate. Costa Rica pushing up the park. Not letting | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
them get out. I think they watched the second goal against England. | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
They have worked on it. They are pressing high. Not letting them | :13:15. | :13:15. | |
play. De Rossi moving closer to the 100th | :13:16. | :13:36. | |
mark in self. His 97th appearance today. -- himself. | :13:37. | :13:52. | |
Very congested in the central areas. Lanny us wanted Campbell to sprint | :13:53. | :14:07. | |
in behind the back to of Italy. He did not do it. | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
There are a few conversations going on out there between the Italian | :14:19. | :14:30. | |
players. They have reached five finals and two semifinals in recent | :14:31. | :14:57. | |
everyone except Joel Campbell back defending for a Costa Rica. Abate | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
wandered into an offside position. That was poor. He can see right | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
across the line. Laziness. That was poor. He can see right | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
writeback of AC Milan. Gonzalez. He played every minute of | :15:21. | :15:43. | |
Costa Rica's last appearance in the World Cup finals, in 2006. Like in | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
2002, they failed to get out of the World Cup finals, in 2006. Like in | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
group. A different feeling about their squad so far in Brazil. That | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
is too long for Boll and asked -- too long for Christian Bolanos. | :16:00. | :16:23. | |
Marchisio. He is going to concede a corner there. That really is in | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
keeping with Italy's start to this game. Awful start from the | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
Italians. It is as if they can just turn up and win the game. Costa Rica | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
have started very well but Italy have been awful. They have a second | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
corner from Costa Rica to defend here. The referee one is a word | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
before it is delivered. So many bodies in that penalty area. | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
before it is delivered. So many in at pace. Punched away by | :17:07. | :17:21. | |
Cleared by Darmian. It will come straight back at Italy. Michael | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
I was in Porto Alegre for the game Umana, finally gathered | :17:32. | :17:45. | |
I was in Porto Alegre for the game you were talking about, when the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Dutch got a very big fright, against Australia. It could have easily gone | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
the other way. Italy trying to threaten, with Balotelli. | :17:55. | :18:08. | |
That has gone out, cut out by Darmian. Gamboa had a knee operation | :18:09. | :18:20. | |
in April and only just made the finals. | :18:21. | :18:39. | |
This could be problematic again for Italy. Plenty of bodies forward. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Looking for Joel Campbell. Darmian unable to make the | :18:45. | :18:57. | |
challenge. Cleared by Chiellini, only as far as Bryan Ruiz. | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
Eventually a Costa Rica throw. Good pressure, they are winning all the | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
second balls too. Even though they are outnumbered in the midfield | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
area, they are first to the ball. It is another Costa Rica corner. It is | :19:18. | :19:29. | |
not one that Chiellini agrees with. And he is right. It should be a goal | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
kick. He has gone into challenge. The ball has not touched him | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
whatsoever. The referee has got that one wrong. Can anything occur from | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
the resulting corner? There are two balls on the pitch at the moment, | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
that is the delay. The keeper has got a habit of punching, flapping. | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
We saw it with Casillas in the Spain game. But the ball on Buffon. | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
We saw it with Casillas in the Spain too deep for Oscar Duarte? He has | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
kept it in. Drilled against Chiellini. All part of defensive | :20:20. | :20:35. | |
duties. Arms behind the back. Wow, that must have heard. -- that must | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
have hurt. Shouldn't laugh! That must have hurt. | :20:45. | :20:54. | |
He has never been shy of offering his opinion, Daniele De Rossi, over | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
the years. In the second group match in 2006, when they won the game, he | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
was sent off at this stage. It is Thiago Motta and Junior Diaz | :21:07. | :21:37. | |
there. No contact whatsoever. I never understand why players do | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
that, sometimes. He is looking for a bit of movement | :21:40. | :22:10. | |
ahead of him there, De Rossi. There wasn't any. Marchisio. Now | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
Balotelli. The moods will always rise when he is on the ball. Too | :22:18. | :22:27. | |
many on that occasion. Great injection of pace from Balotelli. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
That is what the game has needed. It has been too slow, too pedestrian at | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
times from the Italians. He is a threat, Balotelli. | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
Candreva unable to bring that under control. Italy have won 21 of their | :22:46. | :23:02. | |
last 32 competitive internationals. That includes their horror show at | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
the last World Cup finals, of course. England supporters hoping | :23:06. | :23:17. | |
they will make it 22. It has not been the start we might have | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
expected from Italy. Laboured in their play. But you can see they | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
have still got real quality. The Costa Ricans are pushing up the | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
park, winning second balls, and they are on the front foot and unsettling | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
Italy. There is the 33-year-old again, | :23:35. | :23:46. | |
Barzagli. Abate. Italy patient in their build-up. Now | :23:47. | :24:03. | |
trying to find Balotelli. Marchisio in the centre. He committed a foul | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
in the end. It was excellent defending from Giancarlo Gonzalez. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
That is what Italy do worry well, keep the ball. The crowd were | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
jeering but they kept the ball and in the run-up Balotelli out wide and | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
it was very good defending. They wait for the right pass. Balotelli | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
couldn't quite get the ball under control. The referee got the | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
decision right. Bryan Ruiz was cut from the 23 man | :24:34. | :25:05. | |
squad for the last World Cup finals for Costa Rica, which devastated | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
him, so to lead them here means that little bit more for Bryan Ruiz. | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
Darmian for Italy. As it | :25:13. | :25:28. | |
this way, Costa Rica would eliminate England from | :25:29. | :25:29. | |
this way, Costa Rica would eliminate Those Italian scarves can't quite | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
this way, Costa Rica would eliminate yet. Marchisio early for Balotelli. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Once again the flag is up on the far side. He is an side there, the | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
linesman has got it wrong. -- he was an | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
-- he was onside. They are cutting the ball off | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
-- he was onside. They are cutting situations in between the back | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
line. They are not giving the space for the Italians to dictate. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
De Rossi. Thiago Motta a little more advanced but Costa Rica able to make | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
the challenge. The referee was waiting for any | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
advantage and eventually gave the free kick. Food for thought for | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
Cesare -- food for thought for Cesare | :26:44. | :26:53. | |
Prandelli at the moment. It is a free kick. | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
It just seems such a slow tempo. It is extremely humid in this stadium. | :26:59. | :27:10. | |
Which is actually on the outskirts of Recife. When Italy played here | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
last year in the Confederations Cup, of Recife. When Italy played here | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
it was 9pm local time kick-off, and they still struggled. | :27:24. | :27:34. | |
Pirlo looking for the run-up Balotelli again. It comes to Thiago | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
Motta! -- the run of Balotelli. We have seen a view of those fly in | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
from him over the years. Off target on that occasion. It has all he has | :27:47. | :27:55. | |
not just won the second ball, but he dragged his shot horribly wide. It | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
has come from Pirlo. He has come over to the left-back position to | :28:04. | :28:04. | |
get the ball, to over to the left-back position to | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
going. Thiago Motta, only over to the left-back position to | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
for Italy. Not close to over to the left-back position to | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
on that occasion. A man Jose Mourinho signed at Inter Milan and | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
went on to win the treble. Here he is | :28:27. | :28:39. | |
Bryan Ruiz penalised. Was it for a hyphen it? The definition | :28:40. | :28:55. | |
. -- was it for a high foot? Bolanos. He has got raw pace. On | :28:56. | :29:12. | |
that left-hand side for Costa Rica. You can hear the cheers of their | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
supporters. All the England fans and England | :29:17. | :29:31. | |
players watching this want Italy to just keep going. Bolanos. Joel | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
Campbell was available but he tried instead to find Borges. Joel | :29:39. | :29:50. | |
Campbell trying to slide the pass through to Bryan Ruiz. Cut out by | :29:51. | :30:00. | |
Barzagli. All the way back to Buffon. No chances taken by Darmian. | :30:01. | :30:19. | |
are you kicking the ball out? Goal and attack. He has won the ball fair | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
and square. Great challenge and they kick the ball out for him. To cater | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
it was. -- decade. -- decade. Looks like he is in agony. Get up, | :30:31. | :30:48. | |
has a sip of water. Prandelli does not like it. I am sorry, great | :30:49. | :30:56. | |
tackle. Why kick the ball out? Attack. He is not hurt. It is not a | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
head injury. Get up. Balotelli getting some liquid. Incidentally, | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
Italy unhappy that they weren't allowed official drinks breaks in | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
this game. The FIFA directive said it had to be 32 degrees or more for | :31:17. | :31:18. | |
that to happen. It is in it had to be 32 degrees or more for | :31:19. | :31:27. | |
20s at the moment. That was a useful ball towards Bolanos. | :31:28. | :31:41. | |
They are not too impressed at the moment, the Italian fans. Chance for | :31:42. | :31:49. | |
Balotelli... And he could not take it. They were off their sofas in | :31:50. | :32:00. | |
England at that moment. The former England -- Manchester City man could | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
not take the opportunity. What a pass from Pirlo. Balotelli has no | :32:04. | :32:10. | |
conviction. His first touch actually, just there, was a bit too | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
far away from him. He has got to do better. He has got to score. The | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
keeper comes rushing out. Hands on his head. Got to do better, I'm | :32:22. | :32:29. | |
afraid, Mario. Most score. I think he knows it by that reaction as | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
well. Seven goals in eight competitive internationals for | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
Italy. That was the clearest chance of this game so far. A matchwinner | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
against England. Unable to finish that off. Lovely ball from Pirlo. | :32:46. | :33:03. | |
That was a foul. It is from behind. Stayed on his feet. In the Premier | :33:04. | :33:04. | |
League you would get away with that. No flag again. Balotelli again. | :33:05. | :33:34. | |
Denied brilliantly by the goalkeeper, Navas, who was up | :33:35. | :33:44. | |
quickly to thwart Marchisio, too. Again, that man Pirlo. He was | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
offside. The linesman has missed that again. The linesman has got to | :33:49. | :34:03. | |
flag. But Costa Rica have had their warning, the ball from Pirlo over | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
the top just a minute ago. Again, stationary. A decent strike. | :34:08. | :34:15. | |
Straight at the goalkeeper. They had their warning a couple of minutes | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
ago. Suddenly Italy have come to life. I have to say, I wouldn't mind | :34:20. | :34:31. | |
an offside Italian goal today of all days. I am sure all of the England | :34:32. | :34:43. | |
fans at home would not mind either. This time the flag is up. He keeps | :34:44. | :34:52. | |
playing that ball, Pirlo, first time into the space for a willing | :34:53. | :35:05. | |
runners. Just offside. Pirlo now is influencing the game. He knows how | :35:06. | :35:13. | |
to go and get the ball. Costa Rica have got to try to do something with | :35:14. | :35:21. | |
him. That has gone Italy's away as well. Both players down. -- way. De | :35:22. | :35:37. | |
Rossi may have come off worse. 50-50 challenge, both players with their | :35:38. | :35:48. | |
eyes on the ball. Not much in that. Look at the reactions of both | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
players. They both get up now chatting to each other. Not much in | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
it. Junior Diaz the Costa Rican wingback playing in the absence of | :35:59. | :36:14. | |
Everton's Bell Fuego. Costa Rica are without their first choice striker | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
as well. He scored eight goals in qualifying. | :36:18. | :36:50. | |
The game is becoming a little more stretched. Another long-range shot. | :36:51. | :37:01. | |
Good save from Buffon. He does like to have an early shot, Bolanos. Yes, | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
he has been a thread on the left-hand side. Decent strike, right | :37:08. | :37:15. | |
footed. Buffon should say that. He pushes it away, out of | :37:16. | :37:19. | |
footed. Buffon should say that. He zone. A keeper of his quality should | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
be saving that. Decent save. Again, it is a warning for Italy. He only | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
made one appearance at the last tournament four years ago. He | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
suffered a back injury in the opening game against Paraguay. That | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
was a great tackle. The ball got stuck under Candreva's feed. -- | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
feet. No one able to find a goal yet here | :37:49. | :38:00. | |
in Recife. He was unlucky there, Campbell. | :38:01. | :38:29. | |
Balotelli and Campbell, Once again the Chilean assistant | :38:30. | :39:20. | |
Again. I think the Chilean assistant has got that one wrong. But Costa | :39:21. | :39:30. | |
Rica are going to get caught if they keep playing this high line. | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
Balotelli's movement has not been that great. The ball from Pirlo | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
dictates what Balotelli doors. -- doors. | :39:43. | :39:55. | |
Bryan Ruiz with a shot from range. Comparable for Buffon. -- | :39:56. | :40:12. | |
comfortable. De Rossi has got to do better than he did. Not a great shot | :40:13. | :40:20. | |
from Bryan Ruiz. But he is a player who pulls on the international shirt | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
and his game lifts. Look at some of the England players last night, and | :40:25. | :40:36. | |
they shrink. Bryan Ruiz plays at Craven Cottage for Fulham. He | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
struggled with the big price tag when he came from Holland. | :40:42. | :41:13. | |
We move into the final five minutes of this goalless first half. The | :41:14. | :41:21. | |
scoreline, as if you needed reminding, if it stays like this, | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
would eliminate England from the competition. Campbell! Chiellini did | :41:26. | :41:39. | |
enough. Again it is the high pressing. Costa Rica when the ball | :41:40. | :41:47. | |
up the park. Campbell tries to get across Chiellini. Good defending. | :41:48. | :41:55. | |
Good defending. Costa Rica's fourth corner of this first half. Italy | :41:56. | :42:10. | |
have everybody back to defend it. Points the way but Buffon. -- | :42:11. | :42:22. | |
punched away by Buffon. There is the header! Duarte. Just over the top. | :42:23. | :42:32. | |
Good play from Costa Rica. Winning the second ball. If Duarte stayed | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
forward for the previous the second ball. If Duarte stayed | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
He just gets too much on it. Buffon was stranded. He punched the first | :42:44. | :42:52. | |
corner. Too much on it from Duarte. Scored his very first international | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
goal against Uruguay, Oscar Duarte. A puff of the cheeks from Buffon. | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
Relieved that was under the crossbar. He has been horrible on | :43:02. | :43:09. | |
high balls into the box, Buffon. He doesn't look comfortable whatsoever. | :43:10. | :43:22. | |
That was slack. Campbell... The referee tells Joel Campbell to get | :43:23. | :43:34. | |
back on his feet and says no penalty. Absolutely shocking. It has | :43:35. | :43:48. | |
to be a penalty. Big talking point. Hearts England mouths, that is for | :43:49. | :43:55. | |
sure. Jorge Luis Pinto is going absolutely bananas down there. | :43:56. | :44:02. | |
Rightly so. It was a penalty. Terrible decision from the referee. | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
Rightly so. It was a penalty. Chiellini must have breathed a huge | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
sigh of relief. That is why you have got to question referees in this | :44:13. | :44:18. | |
tournament. Should you really be refereeing in the biggest | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
competition there is when you come from a country where the league is | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
not that strong? I am not sure you should. England's flickering hopes | :44:26. | :44:38. | |
still just about there. That was a stroke of luck. Some sloppy play | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
from the Italians. Strong end to the first half from | :44:43. | :45:07. | |
Costa Rica. Bryan Ruiz! Costa Rica with a minute to have time take the | :45:08. | :45:16. | |
lead through fallen's Bryan Ruiz. A huge goal for Costa Rica. It is a | :45:17. | :45:28. | |
killer goal for England. Thoroughly deserved. They should have had a | :45:29. | :45:34. | |
penalty. What a ball into the box. They deserve it. Fantastic header. | :45:35. | :45:36. | |
In off the crossbar. He has They deserve it. Fantastic header. | :45:37. | :45:47. | |
drifted into an area. Buffon does not know whether to stay or come. | :45:48. | :45:57. | |
What a header. Buffon doesn't know whether to come. He is unsure. He | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
has been poured today. Great header. It goes over the line and they have | :46:04. | :46:10. | |
got their rewards. Just to make absolutely sure, in case you were in | :46:11. | :46:14. | |
any doubt, Costa Rica lead in Recife. Jorge Luis Pinto dancing | :46:15. | :46:25. | |
along the touchline. They didn't back home in England, that is the | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
sure. Costa Rica absolutely fantastic. They should have had a | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
penalty before that. We haven't seen that yet! Before the game we said | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
about Campbell's pace. Chiellini, Barzagli. Chiellini was towing a | :46:43. | :46:57. | |
caravan! Welcomer Italy with their own situation to take care of as | :46:58. | :47:04. | |
well. What a time to score, Robbie. The Italians were sloppy. That is a | :47:05. | :47:12. | |
penalty! What is the referee seeing there? It is a penalty. | :47:13. | :47:20. | |
penalty! What is the referee seeing Motta. Amongst all that, there were | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
two minutes time to add on. We are into second minute. It has been | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
quiet at times, this first half, but it has certainly sprung to life. He | :47:32. | :47:34. | |
has won the ball. Thiago it has certainly sprung to life. He | :47:35. | :47:44. | |
pedestrian in his play. The referee, look at him. Get the vanishing spray | :47:45. | :47:55. | |
out. I could have done with some of that for my trousers with that red | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
wine last night! You don't normally spill a drop. This will be the last | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
action of the first half. Pirlo behind the free kick for Italy. Can | :48:06. | :48:12. | |
the Italians make it count? Balotelli has come out to have a | :48:13. | :48:14. | |
word with Pirlo. He takes Balotelli has come out to have a | :48:15. | :48:23. | |
quickly. It did not fool Costa Rica. That is the last action of a first | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
heart that had a dramatic end. The referee involved in a big talking | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
point with Joel Campbell. Costa Rica and their manager thought they | :48:35. | :48:37. | |
should have had a penalty. A minute later, Fulham's Bryan Ruiz headed | :48:38. | :48:47. | |
home. It is the team ranked 28th in the world, at half-time in Recife, | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
who have the lead. Italy 0-1 Costa Rica. I'd | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
who have the lead. Italy 0-1 Costa spell it out that as it stands at | :48:58. | :49:02. | |
the moment England are going home, they are out of the World Cup. Costa | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
Rica moved it well, they pressed well, they limited | :49:09. | :49:11. | |
Rica moved it well, they pressed six touches. They looked really | :49:12. | :49:13. | |
impressive. The one thing against them, I felt that pushing up | :49:14. | :49:20. | |
impressive. The one thing against line, sooner or later the Italians | :49:21. | :49:21. | |
were going to get line, sooner or later the Italians | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
saying that if Suarez had been playing, it might have been | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
different. They should have had a penalty and then scored a great | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
goal. They deserved their lead, I think. I love the way | :49:36. | :49:38. | |
goal. They deserved their lead, I play, aggressive in a good way. Even | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
when they lose the ball, most of the time teams that play against Italy, | :49:43. | :49:49. | |
they just drop, but time teams that play against Italy, | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
not drop, they carry on putting pressure. It is a good cross. I | :49:55. | :49:57. | |
think Buffon cannot do anything there. Great header, great goal, | :49:58. | :50:05. | |
well-deserved. It is a great ball in from Diaz. Buffon comes and then | :50:06. | :50:15. | |
goes back. It is a great cross and a perfect header. He invites him to | :50:16. | :50:22. | |
come out of the goal and then he says he cannot get it. It is what | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
they deserve. Two minutes before it, stonewall penalty kick. It is kind | :50:29. | :50:37. | |
of difficult to understand that. Joel Campbell gets the ball, full | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
speed, you know he is going to come back on his left, and that is a | :50:42. | :50:52. | |
penalty. He is chasing back, and look where the referee is, miles | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
back. But we are miles away and we saw it! Why have assistants? It is | :50:58. | :51:13. | |
fantastic, the reaction. And rightly so. It was a clear penalty. They | :51:14. | :51:23. | |
have been impressive, Costa Rica. The way they move the ball, the way | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
they have pressed. Talking about the technology like that. It changes the | :51:28. | :51:38. | |
game. It is in most sports. We have the goal line thing. That was | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
massively important. But now if Italy scores again, you would like | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
to say if we had a penalty, we would be 2-1 up. We don't want referee | :51:49. | :51:57. | |
decisions changing the results. We want to avoid that as much as | :51:58. | :52:04. | |
possible. Costa Rica play very high. They push up and if there is no | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
pressure on the ball, it can go against you. Look how high they are | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
up the pitch. There is space in behind. If you get it right, it is | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
perfection. If you get it wrong, you are in trouble. Especially if you | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
are playing against someone like Pirlo. All of a sudden, because you | :52:22. | :52:28. | |
are playing high up the pitch, Balotelli got in about three or four | :52:29. | :52:32. | |
are playing high up the pitch, times. And then over the top, space | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
in behind, he is onto it quick, and his movement on the three occasions | :52:37. | :52:42. | |
wasn't great. This is Pirlo, over the top, space in behind. It is if a | :52:43. | :52:47. | |
nominal pass. But you can see the danger. He should score there. The | :52:48. | :52:53. | |
big thing for me is that they did not learn their lesson, because this | :52:54. | :52:56. | |
is two minutes later. Magnificent pass. He has two improve his | :52:57. | :53:03. | |
finishing if he wants any sort of kiss from the Queen, I tell you. Two | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
full-backs behind the three centre-backs, Balotelli in again and | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
onto it quickly, maybe he should have done better. The longer the | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
game goes on, if you keep employing these tactics, they will get in, no | :53:19. | :53:25. | |
doubt. They are opting for high-pressure, to get Italy less | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
times in their own half. You will concede some chances against a team | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
like Italy. Wait a minute, Balotelli has been in three times and he has | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
had the best chance of the first half. Thierry, they pressed and they | :53:41. | :53:48. | |
worked hard. Positive, as you said before. I just love it. It is easier | :53:49. | :53:57. | |
for everyone. If everybody is compacted, look, they stay there, | :53:58. | :53:59. | |
for everyone. If everybody is they come in, that is the left-back | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
going to put pressure on, they don't drop back, they stay. That is the | :54:05. | :54:14. | |
right back. What do you do? You get the ball back. For me as a striker, | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
if you see that, you stay there and you relax a bit more. Because the | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
amount of metres that you have in between the guys, it is impressive. | :54:25. | :54:31. | |
They have been impressive with the ball and without the ball. They have | :54:32. | :54:39. | |
had other chances as well. They were knocking on the door from the start | :54:40. | :54:47. | |
for sure. Buffon is a very courageous goalkeeper, so he tries | :54:48. | :54:52. | |
to come out when he can. They were knocking at the door, as we said. | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
The strategy was working. The Italians, different from in the | :54:59. | :55:04. | |
past, they want to play. They want to get possession. That gave Costa | :55:05. | :55:07. | |
Rica the opportunity to create these type of chances. That is another | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
great chance. What I like about them is their patients. Five men in the | :55:13. | :55:34. | |
box. -- their patience. In the first half against England, Pirlo had 70 | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
touches. In the first half year he has had 33. | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
There is not a lot he can do in that position, taking it off the | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
goalkeeper. And he plays it. Then when he gets it back, he plays it to | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
Chiellini, who tries to play it through the middle. That is what you | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
want, you want someone who is not great in possession trying to play | :56:00. | :56:03. | |
through the middle. It is easier to read and it is easier to cut out. | :56:04. | :56:10. | |
That is the ball. If you are on the pitch and you don't put pressure on | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
him. Thierry and I were saying, there are a couple of examples of | :56:16. | :56:22. | |
when Ruiz went tight on Pirlo, he was not interested in where the ball | :56:23. | :56:25. | |
was, he just went to try to force him back. You had Darmian three, or | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
Chiellini. Sometimes it is like shall I go on Pirlo, or Chiellini? | :56:33. | :56:39. | |
Stay on Pirlo, and Chiellini can have the ball. Good tactics. For the | :56:40. | :56:46. | |
younger viewers among you, make sure you tune in tomorrow morning. | :56:47. | :56:59. | |
The Germans looking to progress after that 4-0 win over Portugal. | :57:00. | :57:10. | |
Something else to look out for tomorrow. | :57:11. | :57:47. | |
the game is on his travels around Brazil and he has been finding out a | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
bit more about another of the country's best-known sporting | :57:52. | :57:52. | |
pastimes. Brazil is known for its love affair | :57:53. | :57:58. | |
with football, Samba, and general love of life. It is also famous for | :57:59. | :58:06. | |
a traditional martial art called Capoeira. I'm going to find out how | :58:07. | :58:08. | |
tough it is to master. How long have you been doing | :58:09. | :58:23. | |
Capoeira? About three years. The first time you feel like you have | :58:24. | :58:25. | |
got two left feet and you have no idea what you are doing. And then | :58:26. | :58:31. | |
when you practice, everything is just a response. Somebody clicks and | :58:32. | :58:35. | |
you have to get out of the way. Keep moving. As long as you are swaying, | :58:36. | :58:41. | |
you are good. If I stand there there is a chance I will get my head | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
kicked off? They will probably be nice to you! The interesting thing | :58:47. | :58:53. | |
about this is that cap wearer is completely noncontact? Capoeira does | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
have contact, it was created as a fight by the slaves in Brazil. Is it | :58:59. | :59:13. | |
very much like the Maracana in football, is this the place to do | :59:14. | :59:21. | |
Capoeira? Absolutely. I am not very fit and flexible, am I ready to have | :59:22. | :59:28. | |
a go at this? OK, away we go. I am off to the little room to get | :59:29. | :59:30. | |
changed. Me and you? Wow, OK. The master has | :59:31. | :00:06. | |
invited me into the ring and hopefully he will be | :00:07. | :00:32. | |
am sweating. I think I pulled if you muscles. OK! This may surprise you, | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
but you know Alan Hansen does that every morning when he gets up! I am | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
very mobile. That is impressive. You lived there for 18 months, you must | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
have done a bit of that? Looking at it a lot! You have been sending in | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
more of your World Cup seats. Here are few of the best. Here is a | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
roundup of my World Cup seat. Starting with the Kaizer Chiefs, | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
currently on tour in the UK. This is where they watched the victory over | :01:14. | :01:14. | |
Ghana. -- currently on tour in the United | :01:15. | :01:32. | |
States. And you keep surprising us with where you are watching the | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
World Cup. I have noticed projectors are very in at the moment, even on | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
the side of caravans. Scott found another way of passing time in a | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
supermarket. Hot tubs and baths are also proving very popular. We have | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
no way of verifying this but Graham Thomas claims that is an original | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
seed from Wembley Stadium in 1966. If it is, well done. You join me | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
catching up on the World Cup on the BBC sport website. I'm just checking | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
it out right now. You are supposed to be working! This is work. Many | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
people have said this tournament is out of this world. It is official, | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
it is. In time-honoured fashion, we have saved the best for last. That | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
is cool, that really is. We have got some international news in from Greg | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
Dyke, the FA chairman, who has told reporters that Roy Hodgson will | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
remain as England manager until 2016. He has said that everybody is | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
disappointed but the FA is supporting Roy Hodgson. He came to | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
do a four-year cycle. supporting Roy Hodgson. He came to | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
staying. The second half, England are going home early unless Italy | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
score at least twice. Costa Rica have been really impressive in the | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
first-half. The only way I can see the Italians getting back in is if | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
they get Parolo on the ball more and keep pushing up and living space | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
behind. Costa Rica have been so impressive. Prandelli is bringing | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
Cassano on for Thiago Motta. I think he will play on the left. Candreva | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
on the right. It is good. he will play on the left. Candreva | :03:29. | :03:39. | |
that is what they need. Some more creativity on the side. Prandelli | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
was clearly frustrated in that first half? Yes, the time to make the | :03:44. | :04:00. | |
changes at half-time. I supposedly be interesting to see of Costa Rica | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
change their tactics now that they are ahead. -- I suppose it will be | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
interesting. They should carry on playing their way. What we have seen | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
in the first match, and I think they have a very clear strategy, they | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
will do it all the way. Let's rejoin Robbie Savage and Steve Bower. A big | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
45 minutes ahead for the Italians. It will be Costa Rica to get us | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
under way in the second half. Cassano for Thiago Motta as -- is | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
Cesare Prandelli's change at half-time. He looks for an | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
alteration in this scoreline. Costa Rica enjoying themselves. Bolanos | :04:44. | :04:55. | |
has linked up well with Junior Diaz. He provided that wonderful | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
cross. He probably would not even be on the pitch if V8 was fit to play. | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
-- if Brian Oviedo. Cassano is on. He has played in three European | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Championships but never before at a World Cup finals. He has finally got | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
his opportunity at 31 years of age. I think you will go and play off | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Balotelli. De Rossi and Pirlo will hold. He will go and play off | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Balotelli. That is a very attacking move from Prandelli. Balotelli | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
onside. It is a corner to Italy. Good work from Balotelli. The Costa | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
Rican defender is playing a high line. They keep doing it. Barzagli | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
and Chiellini forward. Pirlo is going to deliver it. Can he get the | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
Well defended by Gonzalez. Balotelli that he is looking for? | :06:08. | :06:22. | |
Well defended by Gonzalez. Balotelli went to ground and is told to get | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
back on his feet. Enrique Osses, the Chilean referee. I think it is a | :06:29. | :06:41. | |
wonderful tackle. Great challenge on Balotelli. Balotelli overreacts. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Went down far too easy. Costa Rica are living the dream at | :06:47. | :07:07. | |
the moment in their fourth World Cup finals. The offside flag was a late | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
one but it went up eventually on the far side. Costa Rica, who played in | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
seven different countries just to get to this tournament, finished | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
runners-up in their group. They are certainly enjoying themselves so far | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
in Brazil. Junior Diaz scampering forward. | :07:34. | :07:57. | |
Costa Rica corner. Lovely one touch play from Costa Rica in the middle | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
of the park to create opportunities for Diaz. Just a bad first touch | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
allowed Abate to get back. With and without the ball, Costa Rica are | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
good. Buffon has to make a without the ball, Costa Rica are | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
to come or to stay. He has got to be better. Will he be tested again | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
here? Bolanos to deliver the corner. He | :08:22. | :08:42. | |
had a trial at Charlton Athletic. Buffon backpedalled. Too much in the | :08:43. | :08:54. | |
end for Gonzalez. Costa Rica have been good from set pieces all | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
tournament. Again, to the back post, but Gonzalez could not get across. | :09:00. | :09:09. | |
Cassano was in space. More frustration for Italy. | :09:10. | :09:22. | |
Neatly done by Candreva. The game is opening up. It will suit the | :09:23. | :09:33. | |
Italians. Pirlo on the ball all the time. And Italy free kick. He signed | :09:34. | :09:47. | |
a new two-year deal before the tournament, Cesare Prandelli. He got | :09:48. | :09:58. | |
a fingertip to that, Navas. To deny Darmian. Yes. He came inside. Decent | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
strike. Fingertips from the goalkeeper. Positive start for the | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
Italians in the opening minutes of the second half. | :10:16. | :10:47. | |
The challenge from Umana was an illegal one. It is in Italian free | :10:48. | :11:01. | |
kick. Cassano popping in the hole. It is a free kick. Silly challenge. | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
It is Pirlo with the free kick. We saw the one against England. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
It is Pirlo with the free kick. We got the technique. He hits | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
underneath the ball. He gets swerve on it like Rinaldo. -- Ronaldo. | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
Navas organising his wall. Are we to witness a moment of Pirlo | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
magic? Beaten away by Navas. Fantastic technique. Look how he | :11:35. | :12:07. | |
hated with the front of his foot. The ball deflected off the wall. Not | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
much swerve on it like we saw against England. The goalkeeper put | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
it out into a safe area. Great technique from Pirlo. No matter how | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
old you are, you keep working and working and working, and you can | :12:27. | :12:27. | |
eventually do things with the ball that people can only dream of. His | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
sixth major tournament, Pirlo, probably his last. How far will it | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
go? That tested Buffon from Borges. Costa Rica trying to get Joel | :12:38. | :13:04. | |
Campbell's pace in. Much more energy already in the | :13:05. | :13:31. | |
second half from the Italians. Prandelli has obviously had a go at | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
them. They have lifted the temple. -- Temple. I should point out that | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
Italy have scored in each and every one of the last 15 World Cup games. | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
They need to score in this one. England certainly need them to | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
score, at least twice. That was over by Candreva. The Italians want more | :13:56. | :14:15. | |
from Candreva and Marchisio today. Insigne is being readied as the 2nd | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
Battalion substitution. -- Italian. It is a very early one as well. Less | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
than ten minutes into the second half, the young man who plays for | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
than ten minutes into the second Napoli, five foot four. | :14:34. | :15:07. | |
De Rossi trying to find a way through. The offside flag was up | :15:08. | :15:24. | |
against Mario Balotelli. That is the type of ball they are looking for. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
De Rossi that time with time on the ball. Mario Balotelli wandering | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
offside again. He keeps doing it. It will be Candreva to make way to | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
allow Lorenzo Insigne to make just his sixth cap. He scored on his | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
debut against Argentina. Here is Campbell. That wasn't convincing. | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
Chiellini thankfully got a second opportunity to give it away. | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
Chiellini has been poor today. He does not look like he has recovered | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
at all from the start, mistake after mistake. Chiellini first to that | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
one. Bryan Ruiz. Gamboa to his right. He chose the option of Joel | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
Campbell instead. The long legs of Junior Diaz scampering forward | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
again, the left wingback. Plenty in the penalty -- none in the area for | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Costa Rica. Bolanos. It has come back to Bolanos once | :16:32. | :16:43. | |
more. Finally done. The supporters seemed to enjoy that, inside the | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
stadium. Great skill from Bolanos. A little drag back. See you later. | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
Great skill from Bolanos. He has Champions League spirits, with FC | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
Copenhagen. In the 2006 tournament. He has impressed in this one. What | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
can Italy try and do differently here, Robbie? Pirlo, when he has no | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
pressure on him, he is looking to whip that old in behind, try and get | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
the ball to Cassano, to his feet in those areas. Cassano trying to take | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
the pass from him but unable to do so. Ruiz. What a ball. It needed | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
Buffon out of his penalty area to deal with it. I think he might have | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
just been offside, it was Bolanos who made the run. He came out and | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
read the danger but I think you should have just held his run a bit | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
more. He was a fraction of side. The linesman gave it. The game is | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
opening up. I think it will suit Italy. But the counterattack from | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
Costa Rica, with Campbell's pace. Cassano. He gets it back from | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
Darmian. Still Cassano. Gonzalez with the challenge. Another long | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
ball from Ruiz, another offside flag, this time against Joel | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
Campbell. He was a bit too eager that time, | :18:31. | :18:40. | |
Campbell. Hold your run comic you have got the beating of the two | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
centre halves for pace. Marchisio. Insigne is now offside. I think they | :18:46. | :18:59. | |
should get the rule book out. I know it is hot, but... Just hold your | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
run. You can see across the line. Not good enough. Junior Diaz, who | :19:04. | :19:19. | |
plays his football in the Bundesliga with Mainz. Foul by Abate. Too | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
tight. Not seen many forward runs from | :19:28. | :19:45. | |
Abate today. They have only ever one for World Cup matches, Costa Rica. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
They for World Cup matches, Costa Rica. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
1990 in Italy, and they beat Uruguay in this tournament. They | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
1990 in Italy, and they beat Uruguay Italy in Recife with half an hour to | :19:59. | :19:59. | |
go. Bolanos. | :20:00. | :20:10. | |
Duarte. Pirlo with the challenge. Foul on | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
Marchisio. Good work from Pirlo initially. | :20:22. | :20:42. | |
Cassano trying to get on with it. The pace taken out of the shot by | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
Duarte. Comfortable for Navas. He has had an impact, getting the ball. | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
These Costa Rican defenders are throwing bodies on the line, making | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
it difficult to get clean strikes off. He was a rather surprising | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
choice in the squad for Cesare Prandelli, Cassano. He did not | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
appear at all in the qualifiers, which Italy breezed through. Two of | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
the permitted three changes already made. It is a foul that by | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
Marchisio. This will made. It is a foul that by | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
the time. Italy cannot get a fluid pattern of | :21:35. | :21:45. | |
the time. Italy cannot get a fluid Colombian. He failed | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
the time. Italy cannot get a fluid Rica to the 2006 tournament. He | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
could not get Columbia to 2010's. It is all becoming a bit predictable | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
again now. The Costa Rican defence is dropping deeper, so there is no | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
space in behind them for Balotelli or Cassano. Costa Rica are preparing | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
a change as well, the next time the ball comes out of play. Balotelli | :22:15. | :22:29. | |
commits the foul. He is getting frustrated now, marry. Should have | :22:30. | :22:41. | |
scored in the first half. -- Mario. He gets frustrated quite easily. | :22:42. | :23:02. | |
As it stands, Bryan Ruiz is the matchwinner. Still plenty of | :23:03. | :23:14. | |
football to be played in this one. Insigne. He thought he had been | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
fouled by Joel Campbell but the referee did not. Campbell cutting an | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
isolated figure at times, but great workrate for his team. It sums up | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
the Costa Rica performance. I will be very interested to see where he | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
starts the season in August, Joel Campbell. Placed at Olympia | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
Chiellini across. They have been fantastic, Costa Rica. The crowd | :23:43. | :23:58. | |
giving the oles, Costa Rican fans in full voice. Italy need to up their | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
game, or it will be a decider against Uruguay in that final game. | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
Insigne. Italy searching for some inspiration here. Too strong for | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
Marchisio. It was not the story that he dreamt about when he went to bed | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
last night, that is the shore. -- for sure. Tired team, Italy. Is the | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
heat affecting them? Costa Rica look like they have adapted to the | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
conditions better. Full of enthusiasm. Full of self belief as | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
well. As a player, when you put in the resort you had against Uruguay, | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
how different is it? They believe they should be here, they think they | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
belong on this stage. They have grown in stature. They are | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
confident, powerful. In contrast with the Italian team, at the moment | :25:04. | :25:04. | |
they look lacking ideas. Abate wrestling with Bolanos and | :25:05. | :25:18. | |
coming out on top. Marchisio. Wonderful crossfield | :25:19. | :25:33. | |
ball. Once again the Italians unable to time their run. Offside once | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
again. What are you doing? Have a look at the line. You can see right | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
across it. They are playing a high line. Just time your run. Got to be | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
better than that. Great ball from Marchisio, switching play. Possibly | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
a midfield runner, such a high line, but with De Rossi and Pirlo, they | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
have not got that runner. Ruiz did not keep that in. One more | :26:03. | :26:19. | |
Italian change. Costa Rica are making one first. | :26:20. | :26:30. | |
Tejeda is coming off. It is a straight swap in midfield. Jose | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
Miguel Cubero, who almost joined West Ham in January. He is on in his | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
place. He did well, Tejeda, protecting those three centre | :26:48. | :26:48. | |
halves. It is important that the shape stays | :26:49. | :27:05. | |
the same. Disciplined. Ciro Immobile, | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
the league's top scorer last season, he was eating readied, but Italy | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
have changed their mind, going with Alessio Cerci instead. Meanwhile, | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
Insigne is offside. The referee decides to play on because Costa | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
Rica are in possession but they are not now. | :27:30. | :27:39. | |
It is up again. They are being far too predictable. Yellow card for | :27:40. | :27:52. | |
Balotelli. Frustrated figure, not happy. The performance has been | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
poor. Should have scored in the first half. He has pulled back the | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
defender there. first half. He has pulled back the | :28:05. | :28:15. | |
it. That is the first yellow card of this game. Alessio Cerci is the | :28:16. | :28:24. | |
decided one. Third and final role of the dice the Italians. Marchisio | :28:25. | :28:37. | |
makes way. Alessio Cerci only made his debut last year against Brazil. | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
Another one who came in from the cold. It is this 11 now who will | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
have two try and rescue it for Italy. You have to save all the | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
technique you have got in that midfield area, who is the one who is | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
going to run in beyond? Who is the player who is going to date the | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
difference, make the run in behind Balotelli? The third man runner. | :29:02. | :29:12. | |
First touch for Cerci. Heavy touch from Cassano. Picked up by Cubero | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
for Costa Rica. De Rossi. It is anxious. There is | :29:19. | :29:36. | |
the ball again, trying to flick it in behind the Costa Rican defenders. | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
Balotelli not on the same wavelength as Cassano. Really poor from Italy. | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
Costa Rica have been better, with or without the ball. Navas, straight | :29:51. | :30:00. | |
through to Buffon. It is not the scenario you would have | :30:01. | :30:02. | |
through to Buffon. It is not the will stop certainly not one that | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
England wanted to think about. Or indeed Italy. Cassano's foul. | :30:07. | :30:32. | |
Cubero. He has just come on, the substitute. | :30:33. | :30:50. | |
They just glanced at each other in disbelief over that. All full. No | :30:51. | :30:59. | |
other word to describe it. Lack of energy, lack of enthusiasm. We need | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
some enthusiasm from these Italian energy, lack of enthusiasm. We need | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
players. Prandelli cannot be happy at all. He has made his three | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
changes. Umana got the ball, according to the | :31:12. | :31:24. | |
referee. Italy upset. Joel Brilliant team ethic from Costa | :31:25. | :32:13. | |
Rica. Closing down in numbers. Giving the Italians no time at all | :32:14. | :32:14. | |
on the ball. I said before | :32:15. | :32:28. | |
in the second game of I said before | :32:29. | :32:37. | |
Today it has been the same. They have been really poor. Come on, | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
Today it has been the same. They Italy, we need some enthusiasm. You | :32:42. | :32:50. | |
have to go back to 1990, when the World Cup was in Italy, for the last | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
time they won their first two group games. That wants the first | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
time they won their first two group that tournament. -- they won. Joel | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
Campbell is going off to be replaced by Urena. He has worked ever so | :33:06. | :33:19. | |
hard. This was the first half. It should have been a penalty. That is | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
a penalty. The referee got it wrong. Campbell can't believe it. He has | :33:25. | :33:31. | |
worked exceptionally hard for his team. And he has done exceptionally | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
well. Urena places football in Russia. He made his debut five years | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
ago. He is on for the last quarter of an hour. Alan Hansen said at | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
half-time it is not a great Italy team. It has proven that. They have | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
become predictable all over the top. Balotelli running behind. I want to | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
see something different, a plan B. A midfield runner. What was Chiellini | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
thinking of there? Finally it is and is and Italy throw. It is as if they | :34:07. | :34:15. | |
have just turned up believing they are going to win the game. It | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
doesn't work like that in international football. After the | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
win against England, confidence was high. But today, the workrate of | :34:23. | :34:28. | |
this Costa Rican team has baffled Italy. A crowd of more than 40,000 | :34:29. | :34:39. | |
inside this stadium in Recife. Many supporting Costa Rica. They are 15 | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
minutes away from one of the greatest ever victories in their | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
country's history. Cassano ignored in sync day -- Insigne. Seven Costa | :34:49. | :34:57. | |
Rican defenders. You could throw a blanket over them. When they do put | :34:58. | :35:04. | |
the ball out wide in the final third, | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
the ball out wide in the final poor. Cerci gets around Diaz. Three | :35:12. | :35:22. | |
men around the ball. Look at that for work ethic. | :35:23. | :35:39. | |
Insigne wins it back for Italy. Costa Rica have never won their | :35:40. | :35:47. | |
first two games in the World Cup finals. | :35:48. | :36:04. | |
Cassano was looking for Balotelli over the top. Unable to find him. | :36:05. | :36:20. | |
You have to go back to France in 1998 for the last time that Italy | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
did not score in 90 minutes of a World Cup match. They still have not | :36:25. | :36:33. | |
scored in this one against Costa Rica. | :36:34. | :36:47. | |
Disappointing again from Barzagli. The balls from the back to the front | :36:48. | :37:04. | |
are too straight. No plan B. As it stands, a glorious day in the | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
sunshine for Costa Rica. A damaging one for Italy. And if scoreline | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
that, if you need reminding, means England are out of the World Cup. | :37:15. | :37:27. | |
Unless we see some late drama. They have been so disciplined, Costa | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
Rica. Five at the back. The midfielders have been rigid, | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
protective. Limiting the space for the Italian flair players. They have | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
done really well. Jorge Luis Pinto keeps turning to his right. His | :37:45. | :37:51. | |
assistant is Parolo one shop, a blast from the English past. The | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
management team is on the verge of something that nobody else in their | :37:57. | :37:57. | |
country has ever done before. Abate still unable to get in. It is | :37:58. | :38:24. | |
a goal kick. Wonderful defending from Diaz. Didn't dive in. Stayed on | :38:25. | :38:39. | |
his feet. He has had a fine game. Use saw Leighton Baines in the | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
England game go on his feet, dived in. Diaz did it brilliantly. They | :38:46. | :38:56. | |
are 11 minutes away from one of the World Cup stories. The upset against | :38:57. | :39:05. | |
Uruguay raised if you eyebrows. What would this result to? -- raised a | :39:06. | :39:14. | |
few eyebrows. That was late on Pirlo. | :39:15. | :39:24. | |
Costa Rica are making a change. Their captain and goal-scorer, and | :39:25. | :39:31. | |
at the moment matchwinner, Bryan Ruiz, is going off with ten minutes | :39:32. | :39:41. | |
left. The man of the moment. Breaking Italian and English hearts | :39:42. | :39:48. | |
with this goal. Yes, great header. Timed his run. Did not get offside. | :39:49. | :39:55. | |
The ball from Diaz was what made it. Barzagli not happy. Bryan Ruiz goes | :39:56. | :40:07. | |
off. Bryn Estyn, a vastly experienced 30-year-old, the man his | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
goal against Jamaica ensured Costa Rica's place in Brazil, culls on. -- | :40:12. | :40:18. | |
comes on. Time is ticking away for Italy. And subsequently England as | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
well. predictable today. Even he, at his | :40:22. | :40:32. | |
age, so experienced, predictable today. Even he, at his | :40:33. | :40:59. | |
something different. The Napoli striker, Insigne, got right | :41:00. | :41:09. | |
underneath that. It is a great run. On site. -- onside. It is terrible | :41:10. | :41:18. | |
technique, actually. Leaning back, falling over, trying to volley it. | :41:19. | :41:27. | |
With the exception of Balotelli's chants in the first-half, Italy have | :41:28. | :41:29. | |
created absolutely nothing in the final third. -- chants. | :41:30. | :41:52. | |
Insigne dispossessed by Gamboa very comfortably. Free kick to Italy. | :41:53. | :42:02. | |
Chiellini has to get back... Urena Pirlo again quickly closed down. | :42:03. | :42:47. | |
Chiellini has to get back... Urena for Costa Rica! Chiellini did get | :42:48. | :42:50. | |
back. Great defending for Costa Rica! Chiellini did get | :42:51. | :43:00. | |
Chiellini. Italy taking chances, leaving gaps, leaving space, stood | :43:01. | :43:04. | |
on his feet. leaving gaps, leaving space, stood | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
to get chances in the leaving gaps, leaving space, stood | :43:10. | :43:12. | |
minutes because Italy have got to take chances. Use saw in the last | :43:13. | :43:16. | |
game against Uruguay -- you saw. take chances. Use saw in the last | :43:17. | :43:26. | |
would have thought as it stands after a couple of matches in the | :43:27. | :43:29. | |
group, it would be Costa Rica the only team with two victories? | :43:30. | :43:38. | |
Incredible. Everybody says England played well in the first game, | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
Incredible. Everybody says England they did. There was optimism. What a | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
job that man has done. His motto is, the brave the ball, the better the | :43:49. | :43:49. | |
bull fight. -- bowled. Nobody expected them to do anything. | :43:50. | :44:03. | |
As it stands, top of the group. Fearless. Without the ball they have | :44:04. | :44:06. | |
been disciplined, dedicated. Junior Diaz stood his ground. | :44:07. | :44:17. | |
Volleyed clear by Gonzalez. Bourdais... Italy appealing. Costa | :44:18. | :44:48. | |
Rica playing on. Finally it is an Italy throw. He is trying his best | :44:49. | :44:55. | |
to inject a little more drive into his team. Italy need more than that. | :44:56. | :45:06. | |
They have been lacklustre. They have created hardly anything against not | :45:07. | :45:09. | |
the greatest team in the world but a team that has worked hard. They look | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
absolutely shattered, the Italians. Costa Rica currently ranked 28th in | :45:14. | :45:24. | |
the world. They have beaten Uruguay and they are on the verge of an | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
historical win over Italy. Cassano, looking for Cerci. No prizes for | :45:30. | :45:37. | |
guessing what has happened next. When was the last time you saw an | :45:38. | :45:40. | |
international game in a major tournament with the flag up so much? | :45:41. | :45:46. | |
I can't remember it, I've never seen as many. It is just so poor. He is | :45:47. | :45:59. | |
offside. In the final third, in the box, with a chance to go at a | :46:00. | :46:08. | |
defender. Come on! Let's have something to talk about! He is about | :46:09. | :46:15. | |
to be elevated to hero status in Costa Rica, the 62-year-old | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
Colombian. If getting to the tournament was the dream of a | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
lifetime, what on earth will these two results be? Balotelli today, all | :46:26. | :46:40. | |
he has done is stood in between the three centre halves... He has | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
offered nothing. He three centre halves... He has | :46:45. | :46:52. | |
nothing. You have got to score that goal in the first half. | :46:53. | :47:10. | |
Costa Rica a little over two minutes away from a place in the last 16. | :47:11. | :47:31. | |
Foul on Chiellini. Urena has worked exceptionally hard since he has come | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
on. Chiellini, slight contact there and he goes down. Two minutes of | :47:36. | :47:45. | |
normal time remaining in Recife. De Rossi, for Italy. Comfortable | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
against the Costa Rica. -- comfortable again, for Costa | :47:51. | :48:00. | |
Rica. Member the last time Costa Rica made the last 16 of a World Cup | :48:01. | :48:07. | |
finals, the only time, was in Italy. -- remember. They were taken to | :48:08. | :48:08. | |
extra time by Czechoslovakia. -- remember. They were taken to | :48:09. | :48:15. | |
group they were in, nobody expected them to be in this kind of | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
situation. Here is Cerci. Italy corner. Been outstanding, each and | :48:23. | :48:30. | |
every Costa Rican player has been absolutely outstanding. | :48:31. | :48:43. | |
Last minute of the 90. They need something to happen. Cerci to live | :48:44. | :49:04. | |
-- to deliver the corner. It was Cassano who got his foot to it. | :49:05. | :49:16. | |
Great corner from Cerci. Tides defending, a bit of shirt grabbing. | :49:17. | :49:21. | |
Look how tight the Costa Rican defenders are, man marking. No free | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
shop therefore Cassano. Great defending. We are minutes away from | :49:27. | :49:34. | |
one big Costa Rican party that, let's be honest, they never thought | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
they would be having. Unbelievable performance. Four minutes of | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
stoppage time. He has gone for the return. The | :49:43. | :49:59. | |
referee again has not blown. Nice little 1-2. It is Barzagli, it | :50:00. | :50:08. | |
looked like, who brought him down. Insigne. He looked to have been | :50:09. | :50:16. | |
pulled back as well. By Duarte. The referee let that one go. He has let | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
a lot go in this game. Only four stoppage time in its separate Costa | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
Rica from the knockout stages of the World Cup finals, with a game to | :50:28. | :50:29. | |
spare. He will admit surely, you cannot | :50:30. | :50:56. | |
deny Costa Rica their day. They have been better in every single | :50:57. | :50:59. | |
department. Second balls, first to the challenge. Great goal, and they | :51:00. | :51:06. | |
should have had a penalty. How can you be so good against England, | :51:07. | :51:08. | |
everyone purring about Pirlo, and be everyone purring about Pirlo, and be | :51:09. | :51:27. | |
so bad today? Urena. Brenes To try one! That had Buffon scampering | :51:28. | :51:38. | |
across his goal. He tries to bend one in the top corner. | :51:39. | :51:47. | |
When Group B was drawn, England, Italy, Uruguay were the three | :51:48. | :51:54. | |
nations thought to be competing for Italy, Uruguay were the three | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
the two places in the last 16. Nobody upon nobody expected this | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
scenario. It is a great World Cup tale. So disappointing for the | :52:05. | :52:17. | |
England fans back home. Chiellini's backpass Italy have disappointed | :52:18. | :52:19. | |
themselves and they have certainly backpass Italy have disappointed | :52:20. | :52:22. | |
disappointed England. Here is De Rossi. | :52:23. | :52:31. | |
Last minute of stoppage time. Every single member of that playing or | :52:32. | :52:58. | |
nonplaying Costa Rican squad, single member of that playing or | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
poised to burst onto this pitch at the full-time whistle. Two results | :53:03. | :53:11. | |
poised to burst onto this pitch at beyond their wildest dreams. And | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
there it is! Costa Rica, for just the second time in their history, | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
are through to the last 16 of the World Cup. What a story. The Central | :53:23. | :53:30. | |
Americans with a population of less than 5 million people, have followed | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
their than 5 million people, have followed | :53:34. | :53:35. | |
beating Italy, the four times than 5 million people, have followed | :53:36. | :53:41. | |
winners dispatched, a result that confirms England's elimination. One | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
which Cesare Prandelli will be left to reflect on. Bryan Ruiz of Fulham | :53:49. | :53:55. | |
the goal-scoring hero. It is a real picture book moment for the Costa | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
Ricans. They are pinching themselves at this scoreline. Italy 0-1 Costa | :54:00. | :54:02. | |
Rica. Jorge Luis Pinto commented before | :54:03. | :54:10. | |
the World Cup about facing three former world champions, we love the | :54:11. | :54:18. | |
group, the braver the bull the better the bull fight. Who would | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
have thought that surprise package Costa Rica would be the first team | :54:25. | :54:30. | |
through to the last 16? England, of course, are out, after just two | :54:31. | :54:39. | |
games, for the first time in English football history. First a word on | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
England, it is desperately disappointing. For all the | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
supporters watching, but the players as well and the | :54:49. | :54:49. | |
supporters watching, but the players staff, it was not for lack of | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
trying. England gave it their best, they were just not good enough. When | :54:55. | :55:01. | |
you see a team like Costa Rica going through playing | :55:02. | :55:03. | |
you see a team like Costa Rica going attacking style, you never see that | :55:04. | :55:12. | |
style of football from England. Robbie was saying, and rightly so, | :55:13. | :55:15. | |
we were praising Pirlo after the game, but there is one thing that | :55:16. | :55:19. | |
England did not do an Costa Rica did, is that they were going forward | :55:20. | :55:23. | |
and putting pressure on Pirlo. In the second half he never had one | :55:24. | :55:27. | |
chance to turn and pick apart. They were on him. The left-back, Diaz, | :55:28. | :55:30. | |
the writeback, Gamboa. If you let Pirlo Blake, he will | :55:31. | :55:46. | |
expose you. -- if you let him play. You have to give them credit, they | :55:47. | :55:52. | |
never wanted to let him play. It was not only on Pirlo, there was just | :55:53. | :55:56. | |
pressure everywhere. The Italians did not have an answer. No answer. I | :55:57. | :56:04. | |
did not like that Thiago Motta went off. I thought he was playing well. | :56:05. | :56:11. | |
They lost the midfield. With only De Rossi there, it was easy to block | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
them. How many times did they stay really high? How many times were the | :56:17. | :56:24. | |
strikers offside? We have to give them credit. I know sometimes you | :56:25. | :56:34. | |
can say... 11 offside is! That is a world record, I would think. | :56:35. | :56:38. | |
Their energy levels were so high, Costa Rica. Italy just survived a | :56:39. | :56:49. | |
stonewall penalty claim. Great ball in, great header, and it set them on | :56:50. | :56:55. | |
their way. When you get your chances, you need to make them. | :56:56. | :57:00. | |
Italy got their chances in the first half. In terms of the game, Costa | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
Rica deserved to win. half. In terms of the game, Costa | :57:05. | :57:12. | |
is, we were laughing about it after the English game against Italy, you | :57:13. | :57:22. | |
have to take your chances. Italy had more clear-cut chances than Costa | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
Rica, but. This was half-time, after the goal, just as the teams went in, | :57:27. | :57:33. | |
there was a bit of a scuffle between the two benches, it looks like. That | :57:34. | :57:40. | |
is exactly what happens usually! The thing about Costa Rica was the | :57:41. | :57:43. | |
energy levels at the end of the game were as high as they were at the | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
start. Amazing, absolutely amazing. Italy were poor. You said this was a | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
very ordinary Italy side and we all scoffed. I just thought, watching | :57:55. | :58:00. | |
them against England, if you took Pirlo out of the equation, the | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
creativity was none. They got Balotelli in two or three times in | :58:06. | :58:08. | |
the first part but in the second half I don't think they created | :58:09. | :58:12. | |
anything. When England got after them, I thought they were | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
vulnerable. There was only one team in this game. Candreva was not | :58:17. | :58:23. | |
having a good game. Pirlo was the only one who could do something. | :58:24. | :58:28. | |
Does this suggest that Costa Rica are much better tactically than | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
England were? I think yes, because the midfield of Italy was completely | :58:35. | :58:39. | |
blocked. Costa Rica did not show Pirlo any respect during the game. | :58:40. | :58:45. | |
I'm sure one of them will want to get his shirt now after the game. In | :58:46. | :58:51. | |
the first half and the start of the second half he was moving and moving | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
and trying to get in behind. I don't think that England could possibly | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
play that Highline because we would -- they would not be as | :59:01. | :59:06. | |
well-organised as Costa Rica. Let's get a further English perspective | :59:07. | :59:10. | |
from former player Rio Ferdinand. Desperately disappointing for | :59:11. | :59:15. | |
everyone involved with England? Yes, definitely. I think the weather in | :59:16. | :59:19. | |
Rio reflects the mood in being Glenside at the moment, gloomy. The | :59:20. | :59:26. | |
World Cup is especially for me would be a better place with England in it | :59:27. | :59:30. | |
but you have got to earn the right to stay in the tournament and | :59:31. | :59:32. | |
unfortunately for us we have not done that. How have England let | :59:33. | :59:39. | |
themselves down? Maybe being a bit naive in situations. The game | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
yesterday, when we got back into it at 1-1, we kind of have a chance to | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
kind of get a point and kind of dust ourselves down and say we are | :59:50. | :59:53. | |
getting ready for the last game but we did not give ourselves that | :59:54. | :59:57. | |
opportunity. It was there for us but we could not see it through. Is | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
there anything England can take positively from this, the | :00:03. | :00:05. | |
performance of the young players, will they learn from this be damaged | :00:06. | :00:15. | |
by it? I think they can take the experience. I have to look at myself | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
when I went to the 1998 World Cup. I didn't play any minutes. Some of | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
these young guys have played minutes. They can take that into the | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
next tournament. It is valuable. Not just playing, being around the | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
hotel, preparing yourself. Take it into the next tournament. That is | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
what you have got to look for from these young guys. We have got a lot | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
of young talented players. Thank you. Alan, it sums it up. You have | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
got to take this forward now? Yes, part of me thinks you should look | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
back. If you look at the players had -- the players England had in 2006, | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
they were so much better than they are now. You had Terry, Lampard, | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
Rooney, Ashley Cole... The peak them with quarterfinal. Now they are | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
struggling to get out of the group. It is a mixture of young players and | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
players probably past their best. You need players in their prime, | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
don't you? Yes, you do. But having said that, I'm sure you guys don't | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
know one player from Costa Rica. All I'm trying to say is if you have a | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
good team, sometimes you don't need names. Costa Rica showed us that | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
maybe without the quality England have, Uruguay and Italy, that if you | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
are well organised and you have an idea of what you need to do, you can | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
win. That is something we have to take into consideration. You cannot | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
win the tournament without having the players. I agree. But they still | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
showed us. I saw Greece winning the European Championships. It is about | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
a team. Gents, we are out of time. Thank you very much. Italy lose and | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
England go out. Can't wait for a European Championships and 2016. -- | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
the European Championships in 20 16. I don't believe this! It starts here | :02:29. | :02:43. | |
for England. Good finish! Balotelli is going to | :02:44. | :03:03. | |
get there. After bar! Suarez! Luis Suarez gives | :03:04. | :03:37. | |
Uruguay the lead. Rooney! Luis Suarez! He has dumped it in! -- | :03:38. | :03:49. | |
thumped it in. Suarez! He has dumped it in! -- | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
take the | :03:55. | :03:59. |