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Italy. Germany. Here we stand again. On opposite sides of the line. With | :00:58. | :01:14. | |
history. A match that will live forever. The list of winning. The | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
game is all over. The west Germans are champions. We made it the first. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Italy are world champions for the first time. 1982 hurt. These | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
disconsolate Germans came on sec best. But we responded. History | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
makers, this German team. Here we stand again. And see the Whites of | :01:35. | :01:48. | |
your eyes. Unflinching. Ours is the upper hand. German tears are | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
starting to fall. The European championship is Germany's | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
competition. Here we stand again. With leaders proud with passion. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Drawn together for that which is most wanted. Here we stand again. | :02:08. | :02:19. | |
Die Mannschaft. The Azzurri. The grand dual. Der grosse showdown. | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
Italy against Germany is one of sport's great rivalries. Yet for | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
over 50 years the Germans have never beaten the Azzurri in a competitive | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
match. Antonio Conte's side will be looking to maintain that run this | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
evening. Joachim Low insists his team aren't afraid of the Italians, | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
despite the record. The three time winners have never lost in a | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
quarterfinal in a European championship. What match we have for | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
you this evening, in the company of three men who ompany of three men | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
who would terrify any defence - a warm welcome to Alan Shearer, | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
Thierry Henry and Gianluca Vialli. Italy are doing so well in this | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
competition. They always do so well against Germany. You seem strangely | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
nervous about it. I'm very proud of what we've achieved so far. We've | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
had a great manager who've been inspiring to a group of place, make | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
them play in an organised and effective manner. What's more | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
important to me is we've revolutionised the way Italian | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
football is perceived around the world. Not just effective but | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
entertaining. Now we face Germany, the number one team in the world, | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
world champions. It might be a mountain too steep to climb, but | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
they've got vulnerability, as I will show you later. We deserve to start | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
the match with a 50-50 chance. But you are their bogey team and our a | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
superstitious man. Alan Shearer was sitting there and you moved him out | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
Good long I'm not like that with England. Germany seem to be growing | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
into this tournament. The change for me is Mario Gomez played inside. You | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
have guys on the wing that look more balanced, if I can say. They are the | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
bogey teams Italy, but Germany, like Italy, always find a way to do the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
thing that you think is impossible at the time. It's a 50-50 for me. I | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
said the same thing about Italy-Spain. Again we are going to | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
see the two best of the tournaments so far. They show what they do, | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
however they do it. They set a certain plan and they do it. Germany | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
needs another striker. They have Mario Gomez. He is scoring goals and | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
they can move off him. I think the Welsh might disagree with you. The | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
Germans have lost one or two key players. Yes, and Muller hasn't | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
scored in this tournament as yet, so that might change tonight. Two | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
giants of European football. I'm a believer in you have a nemesis and | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
they are facing that tonight. There has to be something in that. We all, | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
I thought, used to like playing against teams, you had poor records | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
and good records against the teams. That's the case tonight for the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Germans. A lot of talk that the Italians didn't have the individual | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
talent to compete at this, they've proved that wrong. I think we've | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
been a bit harsh and underestimated the quality within this Italian | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
team. I think quite simply we are the best at making the simple things | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
that need to be done to be successful. We do it very well, | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
whether it is a flick or a pass, whether it is about defending. We've | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
got an incredible sense of mutual responsibility. When you attack, you | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
know you will be supported. When you're defending you know that | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
someone will cover if you make a mistake. That's the spirit of this | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Italian side. Side. Look at this volley. Simply, we can do the simple | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
things very well. Look at this defending. Great clearance. Simple | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
but effective. Giaccherini going forward. We go forward with a number | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
of players. Look at this strike. Yes we've got quality now onside. You | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
certainly have and you have proven it in the tournament. These are the | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
two starting XIs. Germany have become the first side | :06:30. | :06:43. | |
to keep a clean sheet in each of their first four games in a European | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
championship finals. Tonight they've changed their system and gone with | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
three at the back. Joshua Kimmich will play further forward as | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
wing-backs. Kroos and Khedira centre midfield. There are no room for | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
Schweinsteiger. Mario Gomez scored 21 goals in his starts for Germany, | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
including four in 2016. Italy, Gianluigi Buffon wins his 160th cap. | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
He has kept four clean sheets in four matches for Italy, the first | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
time since the 2006 World Cup. The only goal Italy considered at this | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
tournament came Ben Barzagli, Bonucci and I can ky weren't playing | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
together against the Republic of Ireland. All three are a booking | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
away from missing a potential semifinal. De Rossi is out with | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
injury. Parolo moves to a more central position, and Stefano | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Sturaro wins his fourth cap. Pelle's goals have come after the 90th | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
minute. He's impressed alongside Eder. Two sides have 12 major titles | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
between them. Including four World Cups each. Italy's semifinal defeat | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
of Germany four years ago was the 8th competitive fixture in row that | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
the Azzurri have managed undefeated. Undefeated. For Germany it is time | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
to freshen things up. However I like your beens ground, 50 | :08:17. | :08:36. | |
years of hurt is hard to swallow. With England and Germany, when the | :08:37. | :08:51. | |
English guys see German guys they fear and they can't explain why. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
That's the same with Italy. I don't know the reason for it. Nobody knows | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
it. The rivalry began in the heat of Mexico. They called it the game of | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
the century. In one frantic period of extra time, Germany took the | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
lead. But it wasn't enough. This was really a nightmare for Germany, | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
because we had the best team ever, Muller and Beckenbauer. We should | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
have won this World Cup. COMMENTATOR: Muller! Western Germany | :09:26. | :09:35. | |
live again. As long as people play football, they are going to talk | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
about this match. 12 years later in the World Cup final in Spain, | :09:41. | :09:53. | |
Germany were tortured. Rossi. The Germans torn to pieces. And how have | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
position. Italy have won the World Cup. When Italy travelled to | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
Dortmund in 2006 as underdogs the hosts were convinced it was their | :10:08. | :10:08. | |
time. Scored in the 119th minute. Dell | :10:09. | :10:31. | |
Piero has won it brilliantly. Germany's world is at an end. Four | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
years ago ago in Warsaw another semifinal, another chance, another | :10:39. | :10:39. | |
defeat. Incredible. It's Italy. So it is now | :10:40. | :11:00. | |
eight games without success, but the current squad are keen to ignore the | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
direction that history is pointing. Tonight, can Die Mannschaft swap | :11:04. | :11:18. | |
their cold coffee for a vintage Bordeaux? It really is an | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
extraordinary record that got over the Germans. It has to play on the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Germans' minds, surely? I don't know, I hope so. If I was German I | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
would use this match as an opportunity to change history, so I | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
would be extremely motivated. You must have played against teams you | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
went into believing beforehand you had a good record against them and | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
it will go well again? Positive mindset. We are the best example, | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
Italy and Spain. Italy couldn't beat them for a long time and they beat | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
item again. It will stop one day. How do you break down this Italian | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
defence? Very difficult, because they defend very well. You have two | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
ways of trying to make it a 5-3-2, instead of a 3-5-2. You have two | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
strikers. One on one side. The winger on the other side comes in as | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
a striker, the other one also. You neutralise, and they shield you. | :12:22. | :12:31. | |
Because Chiellini know, it is a counter. Or you have a winger that | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
stays high and wide. Two actually. You see there playing with his subs | :12:40. | :12:56. | |
but this space is high and wide. There is nobody behind him. See | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
where he is. The shield is still in a good position. It is too easy for | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
him to go. No danger, they do that to the T. Ir know it is easy to talk | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
about how to play but you need to try to make sure that they are going | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
to be full-backs. Not wing-backs. That makes a massive difference. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
Which brings us to you, Alan. The Germans have matched the Italian | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
system, so you've got wing-back against winning back. But their | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
theory won't change. They'll still expect the players or the wing-backs | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
to give them the width. This is four at the back with Hector there. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Giving width, getting balls into the box. Both full-backs, there | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
wing-backs. One is putting the ball in. The other is in the box. Great | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
width from both of them. The ball is into the box. The other fall-back is | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
coming into the box and making the numbers up. It will be a fascinating | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
battle today. I believe whoever comes out on top with this has a | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
great chance of winning. No difference to the Italians. Three at | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
the back gives the two wing-backs the licence to get forward, to give | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
the width in there and get balls in there. Very much like the Germans | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
what we've seen before. Two of them, both of them in the box. At every | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
opportunity, which is key. They've got balls in there. Not only | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
whipping them in but having it on goal as well. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
If if you on your own, it's imperative that you never go and | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
stand up against one the centre halves. Standing between them. If | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
one of them comes to you, stand between the other one. There has to | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
be space on the line. Interesting how the systems have come back, now | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
having three at the back seems to be the way that everyone is successful. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
The nights match takes place in Bordeaux, south-west France. 43,000 | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
fans will be crammed into the stadium with a good atmosphere | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
guaranteed. Pitch side for us, Jason Mohammad with Martin Keown. | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Welcome to Bordeaux, the big question I want to ask this former | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
uncompromising defender for Arsenal and England, which defence would you | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
like to play on this evening? Very much the Italians because they are | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
uncompromising, they love this system. I think maybe... I would be | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
more appreciated in this Italian team! Chiellini, I love how they get | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
stuck in. Bonucci, a far better footballer than I could have dream | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
dog, a wonderful player. The manager, Conte, you'll see him on | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
the touchline, giving them the instructions and they do it | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
beautifully well. But look at this German team behind you, look out | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
huge they are. They are massive, massive players, Khedira and Kroos | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
in midfield. That may be a weakness for them, they are not very | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
fleetfooted in that area, but great on the ball. Interesting to see, can | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
the Italians pull it up again after what they did against the Spanish? | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
The Germans have shown the biggest condiment by matching them, playing | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
with three at the back as well. It will be epic, enjoy it. One thing | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
you can guarantee is that Antonio Conte will be sprinting up and down | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
the touchline very soon. I'm sure he will be, and there he | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
is. Consolation for Martin Keown: he was always appreciated, apart from | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
those of us who played against him! The road to the quarterfinals has | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
been masterminded by Antonio Conte, a serial winner as a player and he | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
has had more success as a manager, leading tremendous to three | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
consecutive titles poor leading Juventus. He will be going to West | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
London and this is what Chelsea will be getting. I like to fight, I am a | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
perfectionist in my life and I want the best. | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
We used to start no good in every great event. The feeling was not so | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
good. But every single player, every journalist, people in Italy agreed | :17:30. | :17:39. | |
to have a feeling about Conte. Antonio Conte was my captain at | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Juventus. Very serious player, very focused on the tactics. He didn't | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
have a lot of technical quality but he was very smart on the pitch, he | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
understood the tactics of the game. I think he's the same as a manager. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
He was the symbol of Juventus, which in Italy is the strongest team. So, | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
he was the enemy for everyone. But now, since he became the coach of | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
the Italian national team, he is a hero because of his determination | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
and the strength and the team is very similar. Conte is on fire, and | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
so is the national team. I want to play with my players, I | :18:19. | :18:45. | |
like this. I want that my players feel me very close. And I suffer | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
with them. We are so proud about Italian players, the Italian team, | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
and Conte. This is a new way for us. Before we played in a defensive way | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
but now we are proud to show that we are new, thanks to Conte. I have my | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
philosophy, I like to play offensive football, attractive football with | :19:14. | :19:14. | |
great intensity. It is about always Conte, because | :19:15. | :19:26. | |
the players are not world-class players. So the coaching, for me | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
Conte is the best in the world. He has done very well so far, hasn't | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
he, with just one defeat, against Ireland. I must say, Chelsea Love | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
and Italian manager but they might find out thing about him here. I | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
think he is the perfect fit, from the special one, to the Italian one, | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
nothing change. Will I think he will have a very continental approach. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
The players will have to listen. They have had a disappointing | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
season. I think he will have to adapt to a different culture quite | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
quickly. Also he gets a break at the end of the tournament. To me he | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
looks the most exhausted of all of the camp. Energetic on the | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
touchline! The front two, he has got the best out of them, Pelle and it | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Ayr. A good partnership and they work well together, which is key -- | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
and Eder. Very rarely are they more than ten, 15 yards apart, they | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
understand each other's game. There are a mind that Pelle didn't make | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
his debut until he was 29 and Eder, 28. They have adapted as a | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
partnership very quickly and I've always found that the best | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
partnerships are the one where you don't have to work at it, it just | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
clicks. Pelle just steps out, doesn't hit the target but always | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
looking to get his effort on goal. One short, one long, takes a touch, | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
turns, both of them getting into the scoring positions. This one is | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
brilliant, little touch, one short, one along, going behind. He should | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
have scored, but as a pairing it works so well. There is the shout, | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
he turns, gets the ball back and they are on the attack again. So, | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
very dangerous, understand each other's game. One short, one, long, | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
talking to each other and they look very comfortable. They complete each | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
other, one of them makes the space and the other one attacks it. | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
Interesting because they weren't really looked upon as being the star | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
strikers of the tournament before it, were they? That's what happened | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
when you are playing a good team. Talking about the teams going | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
forward at the moment, they are teams, simple as that. You think | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
there may be edging in the arm of the German defence? A great side, | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
but their ros and weaknesses and it is up to to exploit them. -- but | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
there are weaknesses. They are very tactically educated, they can change | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
the system but sometimes when you move the ball from the middle to the | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
side and back to the penalty box, sometimes they are caught ball | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
watching, they don't mark tightly enough. Space between the bank four | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
and the rest of the team, they don't like tracking back -- the back row. | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
If you move the ball to the side and then back to the penalty box, you | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
can catch them, I think. They haven't conceded a goal yet but I | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
think there are some weaknesses. Sometimes it is easier to go past | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
him, and again, players in the box that aren't being marked. Neuer had | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
to make a great save. We need to believe that if we send players | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
forward, we can beat them. Should be a good one, here we go, two | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
heavyweights of European football going head-to-head. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
COMMENTATOR: Italy are the world champions. | :23:04. | :23:15. | |
There are the two teams in the tunnel preparing for this possibly | :23:16. | :23:41. | |
epic encounter. Thierry, you said 50-50, but if you had to pick a | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
winner? Putting me on the spot. It is kind of the job! Italy have been | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
terrific since the beginning, they are the team for me who can combine, | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
defending very high. Germany can only defend in a certain way, very | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
high. When they deal with crosses and in front of the box, they have | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
struggled with Tiago. Italy, because of their record against Germany and | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
how good they were against Spain. If we showed the Leicester and Wales | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
factor, playing without fear, then respect and without fear, if we can | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
counter in a fast way, we can hurt them, we can beat them because in | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
football, nothing is impossible. They are the best in the world. It | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
is Italy against Germany for a place in the semifinals. Your commentators | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
in Bordeaux, Martin Keown and Guy Mowbray. COMMENTATOR: Thank you and | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
good evening from Bordeaux. Famous for its wine, and a fitting venue | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
for a game between footballing nations of fine vintage. We've taken | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
a dip into the vault already, many memorable moments from Germany and | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
Italy games. All pieces of football history, all with the same theme, | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
Italy winning. The same again? Well, these German well champions have | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
different ideas and they start as the favourites to go through. Then | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
again, we've seen what fate can befall favourites at almost every | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
turn in 2016. About to start with a tune that is the favourite of many, | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
the Italian national anthem. # Fratelli d'Italia | :25:27. | :25:53. | |
l'Italia s'e desta # dell'elmo di Scipio | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
s'e cinta la testa # Le porga la chioma | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
che schiava di Roma # Fratelli d'Italia | :26:09. | :26:20. | |
l'Italia s'e desta # dell'elmo di Scipio | :26:21. | :26:32. | |
s'e cinta la testa # Le porga la chioma | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
che schiava di Roma # Stringiamci a coorte | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
siam pronti alla morte # Siam pronti alla morte | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
l'Italia chiamo # Stringiamci a coorte | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
siam pronti alla morte # Siam pronti alla morte | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
l'Italia chiamo gentlemen, please remain standing | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
for the national anthem of Germany. # Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit | :27:03. | :27:19. | |
Fur das deutsche Vaterland # Danach lasst uns alle streben | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
Bruderlich mit Herz und Hand # Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit | :27:28. | :27:40. | |
Sind des Gluckes Unterpfand # Bluh' im Glanze dieses Gluckes | :27:41. | :27:52. | |
Bluhe, deutsches Vaterland. # You get the feeling that they are up | :27:53. | :28:35. | |
for it. Are we going to get another Mario Balotelli moment? Marco | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
Tardelli, maybe? Maybe we will have to wait until the end and perhaps | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
the greatest extra time ever played, 1970, Mexico City. One change, looks | :28:46. | :28:54. | |
like you can love -- Joachim Low of May play with four at the back. | :28:55. | :29:02. | |
Julian Draxler has dropped out of midfield. He is unlucky to after his | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
performance and goal in the last 16. Thomas Muller searching for his | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
first ever Euros final. -- Euros final goal. He has scored ten in | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
World Cups. Two goalkeeper captains. We await | :29:16. | :29:34. | |
Gianluigi Buffon's presence. Viktor Kassai of Hungary took charge of | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
Italy's win over Sweden. He hasn't had a game for 16 games since. He | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
blew the whistle on France versus Romania three weeks back. | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
We can all probably recite the people in of the Italy keeper and | :29:54. | :30:01. | |
back three for their midfield shield has gone. De Rossi is replaced by | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
another of Juve 23-year-olds, Stefano Sturaro. It is expected that | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
Marco Parolo will drop back into the Daniele De Rossi role. In attack it | :30:12. | :30:19. | |
is the old couple. Brazil-born Eder and Graziano Pelle are proving | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
effective, if not quite in a typically Italian way. | :30:26. | :30:34. | |
Italy's team will be wearing black armbands tonight. They are paying | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
their respects to those who were killed in last night's terror attack | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Amongst whom were nine Italian citizens. | :30:46. | :30:57. | |
Traditional colours, two of the most traditional teams to still be | :30:58. | :32:09. | |
involved when a tournament gets to this late stage. Germany in white, | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
Italy in blue. We've seen hearts broken, history made. Now here are | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
the heavyweights. There'll be no romantic underdog tale to be told | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
here. One of the big guns is going out at the end of this game. The big | :32:29. | :32:35. | |
gun next to me is Martin Keown. I know you are looking forward to | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
this, because it could be a defensive masterclass. It could. | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
Germany have shown Italy the ultimate respect by switching to a | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
back three. No De Rossi tonight. The Italian general is not available for | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
this match. I think he's going to be a huge miss for Italy. First climb | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
high came from Barzagli. Mesut Ozil playing for Germany for | :33:00. | :33:21. | |
the 50th time tonight. Bonucci headed away. | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
Already Germany have started knocking the passes around at will. | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
They've gone to that wing-back. Look how high their wing-backs are really | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
forward this game already. Joshua Kimmich on the right-hand side of | :33:41. | :33:53. | |
Jonas Hector down the left. Bayern Munich and FCCologne respectively. | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
Pep Guardiola moved him to centre-back and said he could be one | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
of the best centre-backs in the world. Here he is almost playing as | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
the right-winger. Joachim Low has paid respect to Italy by matching | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
them up. Very much so. In that midfield, expect each to have an | :34:14. | :34:23. | |
extra player in there. Hummels. Kimmich. Made his debut at the end | :34:24. | :34:34. | |
of May, against Slovakia. Jerome Boateng scored against Slovakia last | :34:35. | :34:36. | |
weekend. Certainly not pressing high early in | :34:37. | :34:47. | |
the game, Italy. They seem bamboozled by the Germans putting | :34:48. | :34:55. | |
out this shape. Hummels. And there's the first bit of pressure. Safely | :34:56. | :35:05. | |
back to Manuel Neuer. He is almost like an extra sweeper at the back, | :35:06. | :35:17. | |
server of the ball. Pelle started to look interested in Neuer. And Italy | :35:18. | :35:27. | |
have it. Eder. The flag is up in favour of Italy. | :35:28. | :35:35. | |
The referee wants a quick word with Hummels hum, who contested that | :35:36. | :35:45. | |
decision. He is on a yellow card. Hummels, Boateng, Kimmich, Khedira | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
and Ozil in the Germany starting line-up. All have to tread | :35:48. | :35:51. | |
carefully. There are seven in itly side. Italy have accumulated more | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
yellow cards than any team in the competition, you may or may not be | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
surprised to learn. Italy now have a corner. Florenzi getting down that | :36:02. | :36:10. | |
right-hand side side. Striking up a partnership with Sturaro. | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
Bonucci is here. Chiellini is there. Bars stays back. Ini is there. Bars | :36:16. | :36:23. | |
stays back. -- Barzagli stays back. Eder. It was Sturaro who tried to | :36:24. | :36:34. | |
help it back towards goal. Neither shot nor helpfulness. Stefano | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
Sturaro earning just his fourth cap for Italy. Antonio Conte watching | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
him down the side. Pushing his team up. Here they are making sure that | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
the goalkeeper Neuer is going to have to kick this one. It is almost | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
like a chess match. He couldn't easily pass his way out of there. He | :36:54. | :37:01. | |
still did though. Always finds somebody somehow. Eder... Towards | :37:02. | :37:08. | |
Giaccherini. Giaccherini tried to catch Boateng out with a quick turn | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
of shot. Italy corner again. See how quickly Giaccherini is on to this. | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
His movement forward is excellent. Nothing like the player we've seen | :37:20. | :37:21. | |
playing in the Premier League. He's far better than that. We haven't | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
seen him for a while in the Premier League. Will we see him again, I | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
wonder? I'm sure Sam Allardyce will have watched his performances out | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
here with great interest. Recalled to the Italian national side after | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
18 months out of the picture. He's had a good season with Bologna, on | :37:40. | :37:48. | |
loan from Sunderland. De Sciglio, bars bars. Offside. German defence | :37:49. | :37:58. | |
coming up well there. Ball going backwards. They push out. Put out by | :37:59. | :38:13. | |
De Sciglio. Giaccherini. As soon as De Sciglio wins that ball he is | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
flying forward to get into that wing-back position. Chiellini, De | :38:19. | :38:28. | |
Sciglio. Defended by Hector initially. The only option was to | :38:29. | :38:37. | |
turn it back to Neuer. Boateng closed. Gomez had to work to keep | :38:38. | :38:53. | |
it, but here's Khedira... Muller tried to step across to win it, he | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
did win it somehow in the end from Bonucci. A good battle, Bonucci | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
against Muller. Did ever so well, intelligently let the ball go. A | :39:04. | :39:12. | |
counterattack from Germany. Hugging the right-hand touchline. | :39:13. | :39:20. | |
Taken from De Sciglio but out for a throw off the boot of Muller. He's | :39:21. | :39:29. | |
one of the strangest quirks of football that he's playing in his | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
10th game at the European Championships finals and hasn't | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
scored a goal. And yet 13 games, 10 goals at the other big one, the | :39:38. | :39:47. | |
World Cup. I just saw Parolo giving the ball away. Kimmich... Looked as | :39:48. | :40:01. | |
though he had got it through immich... | :40:02. | :40:03. | |
though he had got it through -- and Khedira couldn't get his stride | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
sorted out. Is he the coolest coach in the tournament? He is at the | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
moment. Wait until it hots up a little bit. He never sits down. He | :40:13. | :40:19. | |
is obsessive about giving information to his team. Loves it. | :40:20. | :40:27. | |
Giaccherini... Khedira... Turned behind and it had | :40:28. | :41:07. | |
to be by Marco Parolo. A 1-2 from Khedira. So many good midfield | :41:08. | :41:14. | |
players on the pitch today. Particularly for Germany. There are | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
two of them, Kroos and Ozil. Ozil is going to have to work hard | :41:19. | :41:36. | |
today. Kimmich... Gomez... Boateng... Eder is buzzing about. | :41:37. | :41:43. | |
Kimmich... Hummels... Now Hector. Interesting | :41:44. | :42:06. | |
watching the Italian defence. The back three never goes too far apart. | :42:07. | :42:17. | |
Just defend off this attack. Ozil... Parolo... Good play there from Ozil, | :42:18. | :42:25. | |
stopping that first pass, winning it back quickly. Nice touch too Ozil. | :42:26. | :42:32. | |
Ozil has an option from the left. It was Hector. Italy now might have the | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
chance to break that. Referee has ruled that that was not a foul | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
committed by Sami Khedira. Took Eder out of it completely. Interesting | :42:44. | :42:52. | |
there the Germans if they lose it, they are working hard to get it back | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
again quickly to stop the Italians mounting any attacks. Pelle helps it | :42:57. | :42:59. | |
on. Kimmich... Hummels... Ozil... It was cleverly | :43:00. | :43:19. | |
done by Bonucci was on to him. Bonucci reads the game so well. | :43:20. | :43:22. | |
That's what he's there for. That was a good tackle by Khedira | :43:23. | :43:37. | |
wasn't it. Sami Khedira might have been ail to put his input into | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
Germany's preparations, a Juventus man, he might have an idea how to | :43:43. | :43:49. | |
get past the fabled back three and goalkeeper. They are like a symphony | :43:50. | :43:57. | |
those three, all the one rhythm, one flow. They know their roles in this | :43:58. | :44:03. | |
team beautifully well. The manager makes sure they don't forget them. | :44:04. | :44:09. | |
Look at him there on the touchline. Continue continue a Juventus great | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
of times past himself. Sami Khedira getting in a couple of times against | :44:15. | :44:25. | |
that Italian midfield. Trying to get past De Sciglio. Wouldn't let him. | :44:26. | :44:33. | |
The keenness of youth. Against somebody who has seen and | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
experienced it all before and dished out plenty. It was that switch of | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
play out to Kimmich. Talking of dishing it out, Chiellini, I think | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
he would have had an idea he knew what he was doing when he left his | :44:48. | :44:53. | |
boot on Sami Khedira's. He's had injury issues in his time, Khedira. | :44:54. | :45:04. | |
Just trying to block him off. Standard challenge for him. Is that | :45:05. | :45:14. | |
his groin? Thank goodness that isn't what was stood on! You wouldn't want | :45:15. | :45:25. | |
to miss a player of his quality. Low is concerned about that one. He has | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
had a good season in Italy, Khedira, but not the best of luck against | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
them in the past. He injured his cruciate in a 1-1 draw a few years | :45:34. | :45:40. | |
ago. And I believe he missed a World Cup final? He came back for the | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
World Cup and missed the final, that is how his luck went, he injured | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
himself in the warm up. Hopefully it isn't that bad. | :45:49. | :46:16. | |
Italy throw. Khedira knows that his night is done. Bastian | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
Schweinsteiger is going to get a run out a lot earlier than... Not going | :46:24. | :46:33. | |
to say he would like to, than and was -- than was planned. He has been | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
anonymous most of this season for United. | :46:40. | :46:47. | |
That's nice and easy for Neuer. It would have been nice and easy for | :46:48. | :47:04. | |
any keeper. Neuer straightaway seize the chance to put it somewhere near | :47:05. | :47:08. | |
Thomas Muller. Forcing Bonucci to give Germany a throw in the Italy | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
half. Wanting to stretch the Italian defence, not wanting them to settle. | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
The ball straight to the front players. There we are, then. 15 | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
minutes played and Khedira, he knows his body, he knew when something had | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
gone straightaway. That's a shame, to lose a player of that quality, | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
but another one coming on. Certainly plenty of experience, hasn't he? | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
This is his 37th appearance at European Championships finals games | :47:42. | :47:44. | |
and World Cups combined. That equals the German record set by Miroslav | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
Klose. Taking over the armband from Manuel | :47:49. | :48:15. | |
Moyer, Schweinsteiger, too. -- Neuer. | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
That will test those knees! Is interesting, looking at Hector and | :48:23. | :48:31. | |
Kimmich, how they are really nullifying the wingbacks, pushing | :48:32. | :48:39. | |
them right the way back, Florenzi Anders Giglio. So far I think that | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
those tactics are working. -- and this Giglio -- and De Sciglio. Were | :48:44. | :48:54. | |
you surprised by the change of team given that the Germans haven't | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
conceded so far? Exactly, remarkable to see that but we've seen a lot of | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
the Italian team. A difficult system to work out and crack and he | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
obviously feels that he has to match it by playing the same system. | :49:07. | :49:09. | |
Although it's slightly different because he's playing with two | :49:10. | :49:12. | |
sitting midfield players and the Italians with one. Certainly worked | :49:13. | :49:19. | |
in the match in Munich, a friendly match at the end of March, 4-1, | :49:20. | :49:27. | |
Germany. Two sides that were pretty different than these that we are | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
watching tonight played in that one. Four, five severities on each team. | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
Germany need to improve -- similarities. Gomez and Muller, not | :49:41. | :49:42. | |
seeing much of them at the moment. Very cautious, the Italians, not | :49:43. | :50:20. | |
playing with that same confidence and the moment. Reluctant to play | :50:21. | :50:31. | |
the ball forward. The ball ran away from Eder and he has to fight to get | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
it back. He's a worker, though. Very good pace, Eder. So does Boateng, | :50:38. | :50:40. | |
though. Again, Pelle and Eder and | :50:41. | :50:51. | |
Giaccherini will loiter around the edge of the Germany box and make | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
Neuer kick this further down the field than he might otherwise. | :50:59. | :51:07. | |
Schweinsteiger closed well. Interesting, didn't panic, Neuer | :51:08. | :51:24. | |
wanted to pass the ball out and he won't be rushed in doing so. | :51:25. | :51:33. | |
Hummels, towards Gomez. He made a decision very early that he wouldn't | :51:34. | :51:44. | |
get to it with his head. It was a great run from Gomez, getting | :51:45. | :51:45. | |
between the two central defenders. Swung in near to Gomez. Important | :51:46. | :51:54. | |
flick header away. Muller wanted Gomez to be on that. | :51:55. | :52:35. | |
Gomez was still getting himself together after remonstrating with | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
the referee because he felt he had been unfairly barged over by | :52:39. | :52:39. | |
Bonucci. Picked off by Florenzi. Well | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
controlled by Eder. Not quite so in control. Italy | :52:46. | :52:59. | |
giving the ball away far too much. Being smothered by the Germans. Need | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
to show the same calmness that they showed in the previous matches. | :53:05. | :53:12. | |
Nobody making Iran. Bonucci can easily let it run for Gianluigi | :53:13. | :53:24. | |
Buffon Matt making a run -- making a run. Much has been made about the | :53:25. | :53:30. | |
difference between these two when you has really mattered, four | :53:31. | :53:32. | |
knockout matches in Raider tournaments all won by Italy -- | :53:33. | :53:39. | |
major tournaments. I know you said that professionals don't even think | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
about that. My Mac, you get on with it, it is a new generation. Looking | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
at Bonucci. He has two strikers at the top of the page. Just click it | :53:50. | :53:59. | |
into them. Chiellini has done that. Eder allover Boateng, who acted as | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
if you most wasn't noticing. So strong, isn't he? Kimmich, the court | :54:05. | :54:19. | |
-- the was caught himself and then he caught De Sciglio. Conte adamant | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
that it is a free kick and having to be pulled back by his coaching staff | :54:26. | :54:28. | |
when it is a free kick to the Germans. I think we are going to | :54:29. | :54:34. | |
have fun watching him on the touchline at Stamford Bridge and | :54:35. | :54:36. | |
through the rest of the Premier League next season. Fun watching him | :54:37. | :54:43. | |
playing three at the back as well, John Terry in the middle. | :54:44. | :55:17. | |
Never really likely to keep that in play, Kimmich. The couple that | :55:18. | :55:24. | |
Boateng has put out of play, hasn't quite perfected that ball. Looks | :55:25. | :55:31. | |
like Eder has some kind of knock. We are in the City of claret. And there | :55:32. | :55:38. | |
is a bit. He has done it here, just fending off the ball. Running into a | :55:39. | :55:45. | |
brick wall. And there's where it happened. Oh. I'm amazed it's only | :55:46. | :55:52. | |
dripping. In strongly when Sturaro. Poor went. | :55:53. | :56:15. | |
-- went. Conte is suggesting that Muller went in with his foot raised. | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
Wasn't anything dangerous. Nothing doing there. | :56:21. | :56:29. | |
Conscious that Italy are trying to slow it down. In comes Gomez, | :56:30. | :56:39. | |
clattering into Parolo. A bad pass from the Nucci, and you | :56:40. | :56:53. | |
don't get many those in a game. Sturaro won it back but the referee | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
once a word with him. Free kick, Germany. -- from the new chief. The | :56:59. | :57:04. | |
first lecture of the night is delivered to one of the less | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
experienced players on the field -- Bonucci. Very late, that challenge. | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
He hung his leg and make sure that Kroos caught it. An angry man, | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
Sturaro. Every German player, apart from | :57:19. | :57:37. | |
Neuer, in Italy's half. Dominating possession. As they have in all of | :57:38. | :57:43. | |
their games in this championship, averaging 69% possession in games so | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
far. Whatever shape they play in doesn't matter, does it? Muller | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
trying to keep possession. Howedes conceding it. | :57:54. | :58:07. | |
Kimmich, the wingbacks, getting back nicely. Yes, he gets forward but he | :58:08. | :58:12. | |
must get back when he can. Sturaro, presenting it to Ozil. Well | :58:13. | :58:41. | |
read by the Arsenal man. Hummels, even he is creeping | :58:42. | :58:54. | |
forward. Looking to find Schweinsteiger. Heading in, but the | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
whistle has gone. He is adjudged to have pushed the defender out of his | :59:00. | :59:10. | |
way. Hummels again, another great ball. Just a little shove. The | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
officials have done well to see that one. | :59:17. | :59:24. | |
And that one's been spotted. Foul on Sturaro. Mats Hummels the offender. | :59:25. | :59:34. | |
Hitly free kick, already taken. And that one's been spotted. Foul on | :59:35. | :59:36. | |
Sturaro. Mats Hummels the offender. Hitly free kick, already taken. -- | :59:37. | :59:39. | |
Italy free kick, already taken. Can't get it past Boateng. Muller... | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
Was grabbed by Parolo, but he's away from him now. A good recovery from | :59:45. | :59:49. | |
Marco Parolo. Excellent. That's what he does well. He's got to pass that | :59:50. | :59:52. | |
ball as well for Italy. Pelle, Sturaro. Good pace to find | :59:53. | :00:10. | |
Giaccherini. De Sciglio outside. Parolo... Chiellini... Unfortunate | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
for De Sciglio. It is even for unfortunate for Chiellini. They did | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
really well to pick him out under pressure. I feel for their | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
confidence, for Italy. It is important they keep possession well. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Just building their way back into the game. Can't keep inviting | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Germany on to the whole game. They'll need to pack a punch of | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
their own. Chiellini... Eder... Eder... Neatly down to Giaccherini. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Giaccherini was already going to ground when he ran into the back of | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Kimmich. Trying to anticipate the decision. Bonucci... Suddenly there | :00:52. | :01:04. | |
is more pace to the game. The interplay between Eder. Chiellini | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
into the back of Muller. Advantage waived. Gomez. I don't think he can | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
take advantage from there. The linesman is giving a foul there from | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Gomez. Just about onside from the initial | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
through ball. No real dramas for him yet in that | :01:27. | :01:38. | |
De Rossi role. Chiellini... Won't be too long. | :01:39. | :02:26. | |
Kimmich... Bonucci... Takes the ball away. Giaccherini... Picked up by | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
Hummels. Here now is Gomez. Muller... | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Sturaro... It is noticeable when Parolo gets the ball they are right | :02:39. | :02:54. | |
on him, forcing him to go back. Bonucci has to play the ball | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
forward. Dieing aly will do. De Sciglio... Giaccherini calls for the | :03:06. | :03:15. | |
ball and it is blocked. That's the difference, Parolo making a forward | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
pass. Getting lucky. Boateng, great defending from him. Sturaro... | :03:20. | :03:31. | |
Eder's movement, he hasn't always been picked off by the German | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
defence. Frustrated that he is not able to | :03:35. | :03:47. | |
find Giaccherini with that one. Boateng is reading it. Sees the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
danger so quickly there. Uses his athleticism to win that one. | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
Schweinsteiger... Kimmich... A little unnerved over the last couple | :04:01. | :04:18. | |
of minutes. Words of encouragement from Joachim Low. | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
Ten years ago he came into the job, following Klinsmann after the 2006 | :04:28. | :04:40. | |
World Cup. England did the same, as Steve McLaren took charge of | :04:41. | :04:41. | |
Sven-Goran Eriksson. Muller... Strong enough to stay | :04:42. | :04:53. | |
upright. Ozil... Change of direction. | :04:54. | :05:42. | |
Couldn't see him making any ground. It was a tactical stalemate. | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
Kimmich... Challenged by De Sciglio, who has another go. Significantly De | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Sciglio is doing all of his work this the final third. Third. Against | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
Spain he was in the attacking third. This is the third quarterfinal. The | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
last one tomorrow, France versus Iceland. Highlights on BBC One at | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
10.45pm. And you can see the winner of this match against the winners of | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
that one in the semifinal on Thursday, 7.30pm, BBC One. | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
Boateng away from Pelle. Giaccherini is on to it. | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
Wins Italy a throw in. How on earth did Emanuele Giaccherini struggle to | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
get a game in the Premier League? He's inspired playing under this | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
manager. It is Conte who signed him from Juventus. Plucked him from the | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
lower leagues. He's his man. He understands his role well. Tucks | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
back as an extra full-back. Breaks forward when he is. He can score | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
goals. He'll play a century at times as well. He'll play a century at | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
times as well. -- plays centrally at times as well. Hasn't worked for | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Florenzi. He was too close for the touchline for that. Germany's throw. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
I don't think they are particularly surprised that it is stalemate. In | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
the previous 8 tournament meetings there've been 18 goals scored when | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
these have come together. Only three in the first halves. Watching, | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
waiting. Somebody will bounce at some point, I'm sure. Neuer... Only | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
just missed Eder's boot. Dear oh, dear. | :07:41. | :07:50. | |
Hummels, easy for him. Kroos... Sturaro seen off by Kroos. That's | :07:51. | :08:11. | |
deflected, and Buffon had to watch it. He couldn't hold it first time. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
It nearly, nearly allowed Gomez to poke it home. It takes a Irish Shea | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
there. It's a little teaser. Bounces just in front of the goalkeeper, | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
with spin on it. Just about gathers the ball in. I mentioned that | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Germany haven't conceded at the tournament. Italy haven't with this | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
defence. Defence. The only goal against them scored by the Republic | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
of Ireland when it was changed in the final group game, having already | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
won the group. Chiellini doesn't want that ball from Bonucci. Put | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
under real pressure there. Bonucci... Eder... Neuer's out. If | :08:55. | :09:25. | |
it was a touch off Eder, it will be Germany's throw. Throw.. Neuer is so | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
quick, the sweeper keeper as we call him. The German fans I think just | :09:34. | :09:42. | |
outnumber their Italian counterparts in the stadium. There are a number | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
of camper vans outside the ground. Hundreds of them! | :09:48. | :10:02. | |
Barzagli... Pelle let it run. Schweinsteiger is running. De | :10:03. | :10:26. | |
Sciglio can't properly stop him in his tracks. It's a decent ball in | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
from Schweinsteiger. Well defended, Bonucci. No sign with Schweinsteiger | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
swine of that knee problem which forced him out of most of the | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Premier League season. How coolly done was that by Florenzi? That was | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
awkward, to say the least. He plucked that out of the sky. | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
Kimmich... Barzagli got out of the way and more coolness from | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
Alessandro Florenzi. It feels as if the Italians are just hanging on. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
They seem to have forgotten to have put their passing boots on today. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
Certainly Bonucci. A nervousness about them in possession. You say | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
hanging on. We've seen one fumble from Buffon but no saves. No, but in | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
terms of possession, I think on the break Pelle will get it right, | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
playing out from the back. Too high for Pelle. Parolo quick enough for | :11:27. | :11:39. | |
Gomez. This is the Italian way though, just to grind things out. | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
We've seen some great football from them in this tournament so far. But | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
not really seeing that today. Chiellini... | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
Muller... The referee has ruled that that was two grizzled old | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
professionals against each other. Muller and Chiellini have a | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
difference of opinion about it. I wouldn't mind one or two personal | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
duels to start developing. To hot things up a bit. If you could pick | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
two out who would be bickering, it would be two of them, those two. He | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
I said old professional about Muller, but he is still only 26. His | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
76th game for Germany. He'll be looking for his first goal in this | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
tournament as well. Kimmich... Gomez... It was a chance and a | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
chance for the man in form. Good movement from Gomez. Getting across | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the front of the defender. Can't get the direction on it. A nice teasing | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
ball in from Kimmich. Germany are repeating Italy's trick | :13:14. | :13:25. | |
here. Now just wandering away from Buffon's penalty area. | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
Giaccherini... Kroos... Muller... Boateng... A long jump from | :13:28. | :14:07. | |
Florenzi. Here's Hummels. Hummels keeps it. Hector... Bounces it | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
back... And it seemed to surprise Thomas Muller, who could only put | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
the ball in front of Buffon. A good move from Germany on the left-hand | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
side. Ball arrives at Muller's feet. Takes a bounce in front of him. A | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
wild swing from him. There is the view from the fans. | :14:32. | :14:42. | |
Doesn't seem to have the calmness in front of goal that we normally | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
expect. Scored a career-best 32 for Bayern Munich last season. 20 in the | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Bundesliga and eight in the Champions League. Eder managing to | :14:55. | :15:09. | |
find Parolo. Kroos loses the ball. Schweinsteiger in the way of | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
Giaccherini. That has stung the Italians into life. Giaccherini, | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
he's onside! Managing to keep it in. Neuer got a touch on it, Sturaro! | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
And it's deflected wide. Germany, wide open. It's a fantastic ball in, | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
isn't it? Just about stays onside. Giaccherini, keeps it in play. It is | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
a stinging shot. Great defending in the end to keep it out. Foot out | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
from the defender. I think that Neuer had it covered. Boateng's | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
touch wide. It was young Kimmich who played Giaccherini onside. Just a | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
fraction of a second late in stepping out of defence. Everybody | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
is back for Germany now. Italy throw. Saw Giaccherini making | :16:06. | :16:18. | |
that run that we saw against Belgium, when he scored. The | :16:19. | :16:28. | |
Italians like to play that ball. Muller is grabbing his shoulder. He | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
was rubbing his side earlier. Florenzi's Frei. Germany supporters | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
are making it clear that they think the Italians are not being quick | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
enough about things and smack throw. A bit of gamesmanship. -- throw. | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
Germany free kick. That's the first really big chance | :16:49. | :17:00. | |
that we've seen in the game. And ball given against Pelle, which is | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
very harsh. He's trying to chest it down, something he does to good | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
effect. Eder running across the face of him. Difficult to play against | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
that. Florenzi decided he had to put it behind. He turns to Buffon and | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
explains that he had little option. Strong running, actor, -- Hector, | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
might have been able to turn it into the middle. Into injury time, one | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
more minutes to go. Kroos corner for Germany. Cleared by Sturaro. | :17:37. | :18:07. | |
Kimmich can't keep it in. And that will probably be that for half-time, | :18:08. | :18:25. | |
although the referee is sprinting across to stop anything developing | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
between Kimmich and De Sciglio. And there is the half-time whistle. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
Bringing to a close a half that has been, as we expected, really, very | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
close. Nothing in it, two defences on top. Nothing yet to suggest that | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
Germany can overcome their Italy kudu, which Low said, it is called | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
coffin and we prefer a fresh espresso. We are going to have one | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
of those now -- it is cold coffee. STUDIO: Very tense and tight, not | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
free-flowing football, that's for sure, but one thing is for sure, | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
tactically fascinating. Yes, it is, quite boring, actually, for 40 | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
minutes! It has been a tactical and mental battle and it came to light | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
on the last five minutes with a couple of good chances. We've tried | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
to confuse them, we have put them under pressure high on the pitch. | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
Has it worked, though? So far the defenders have had the upper hand. I | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
don't think there is enough tempo and creativity to serve the strikers | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
properly. I think both teams have realised it is easier to create an | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
opening when the opponent has the ball, just when it back and play a | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
ball through. Not enough football so far. If tactical battles are your | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
thing, this is the game for you because Germany have matched Italy | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
up. Exactly the same systems, three at the back, giving nothing away. A | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
lot of loose passes have been going astray, which is unusual when you | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
consider the quality on the pitch. Looking at that, it's probably | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
because of the high pressing and pressing from both teams. But very, | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
very little to talk about, very little goalmouth action. Unless | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
something deeds in the second half, they may need to gamble, which I | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
don't think they want to do -- yips. Not only matching each other | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
systems, they are cancelling each other out -- something deeds. A bit | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
more Germany because they are forcing Florenzi and De Sciglio to | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
defend and the back three became a back five, like we said. Instead of | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
being efficient on the counter, Italy, they have 20 more yards to | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
cover on the cover and they don't always have time to do it. The only | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
time Italy were successful was Giaccherini making an amazing run | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
and another one, we were talking about it. The wingbacks are now | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
full-backs. Germany are enjoying a bit more the territorial position, | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
if I can say. But still, nothing really to shout about. Not many | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
clear chances, the highlights of the first half, here they are, two | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
chances! Muller, wasn't it? He can't score in the Euros, it's bizarre how | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
these things happen. Incredible when you look at his goal-scoring record | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
in World Cups. He can't find one here. It was a decent chance, wasn't | :21:33. | :21:42. | |
it, for him. He couldn't have the excuse of saying he saw it late, it | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
didn't come to him very quickly, it is a snapshot. That sort of sums up | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
the first half. Yes, this is our chance. I think it could have been | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
similar, look at Giaccherini, similar to the goal we scored | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
against Belgium with that pass from Giaccherini. A good opportunity but | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Boateng is very good in deflecting the ball. Look at the run forward, | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
this is what we do. We encourage them to defend high on the pitch and | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
then we try to get behind with these forward runs. Very, very good run. | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
The high line of the Germans, the Italians have time on the ball, a | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
dangerous tactic. The most entertaining part of the first half, | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
watching Conte on the sidelines. The tactical battle going on, Thierry, | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
the Italians have been forced into a back five. Yes, because of the | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
positioning of Kimmich and Hector. The two centre-backs are occupying | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
the three at the back. When you do that, you need to make sure that | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Sturaro and Giaccherini can run, so play Howedes on the other side. They | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
have been playing too long for my liking, which is Italy. One thing | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
they have done well, it is now a five - 3-2, is dead of 3-5- two. We | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
can see what I'm talking about -- instead of. Space here, that's when | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
you can make Giaccherini run for a long time. He will be tired. That is | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
where he must stay with Kimmich. Now Giaccherini has to do a lot of | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
running with Sturaro, which is what they have to do more instead of | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
hitting the long diagonal early. The Italians pushing forward on the wide | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
areas. They won't come up will they? -- they won't, will they. | :23:42. | :23:51. | |
Schweinsteiger is now playing. If we raise the intensity, I don't know if | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Schweinsteiger and Gomez can cope with that. It seems to me that they | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
are not particularly fast. There is something that Germany does ever so | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
well, they don't allow you to see what's happening, to go on the | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
break. Florenzi and De Sciglio going but they don't have enough time | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
because Germany defending on the front foot. That might be wide | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
because they know that with Schweinsteiger he can't run. They | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
have stopped the counter very well. That's something that they have done | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
well, they have stopped the counter, they have got men back behind the | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
ball, they've made the tackle that they had to do. They know that if | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
they don't allow that, then the Italians can and will hit them on | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
the break. Because they have a bit more pace up front. As soon as that | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
happens, there, that's one thing they have done well, I think, | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
getting the ball back as quickly as possible. Getting possession back | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
and trying to get into the Italian backfired. Which is what Spain | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
didn't do, and that's what is key -- back five. We need to counter fast. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
I like what Hummels did, defending on the front foot. They don't like | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
defending in their box, they don't. Slightly struggling in a game of | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
football, you know when you are doing that when you centre on one of | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
the best passers on the pitch, who is a goalkeeper! The German | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
goalkeeper, Neuer, brie and footballer, once described by his | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
goalkeeping coach, "I've never seen a better sweeper, apart from perhaps | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Franz Beckenbauer." He can pass. Left foot, right foot, he can pass | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
and he isn't flustered, he doesn't mind if the Italians are putting | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
them under pressure or it is a difficult pass. Left foot, there. He | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
is very calm. That is what country is saying to the Italian players can | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
keep him under pressure because he might make a mistake. This is crazy. | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
He is quick in his head and with his feet, not only as a sweeper. Look at | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
that ball, he's like a number ten. Not bad, is it? Do you think he | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
could get in the team, on the pitch, rather than in goal? He might need | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
to run a bit more but his vision is crazy. We like seeing a bit of skill | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
occasionally and Renzi gave us a master these -- and Florenzi gave | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
us. Difficult, with the front of your foot. It was a bad clearance. | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
Look how he controls it, not the side of his foot. He is in his own | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
six yard box. That has come from 50, 60 yards up in the air, that's | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
supreme confidence for you. Ellie Little mistake, a poor touch and the | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
Germans are in. -- any little mistake. I would have put him under | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
much more pressure. He had too much space to do that. He shouldn't have | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
had that amount of time in the penalty box. OK, it has been almost | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
24 hours since Wales celebrated their greatest achievement on the | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
football pitch, reaching the semifinals of Euro 2016 after that | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
stunning victory over Belgium. Chris Coleman said that you dream about | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
nights like that and for Wales, they keep on dreaming. COMMENTATOR: These | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Welshmen are living the dreams of the greats, who have never | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
experienced this for their country. Here we go. Davis is in trouble | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
here. A big chance, a big safe, off the line, Hazard. Off the bar. | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
Taking the shot and he scores magnificently. Courtois with a save, | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
to deny Neil Taylor. Ashley Williams for Wales! The captain heading home | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
the equaliser. Wales are rocking again. Hazard... Towards | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
Robson-Kanu. What a turn. What a goal! If that was Messi they would | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
be talking about it for years. What a moment for Wales. Aaron Ramsey has | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
got a yellow card. The referee has had a look and play goes on. He got | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
away with that, Ashley Williams. In towards Vokes! Something special is | :28:14. | :28:24. | |
happening here tonight! Unbelievable! Amazing, amazing | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
stuff. Wales are heading into the semifinal. What a magnificent | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
victory. History boys indeed. There are dream continues. We've got | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
something to offer, we're not here to enjoy it, we're here to compete. | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
We have spoken about the character, our first time in the quarterfinals, | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
we were one down against a quality opponent, showing the strength of | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
character to get back. They keep surpassing what they have achieved, | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
which is a good sign. Tonight is a special, special night for everybody | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
involved. Our first tournament coming up against the big teams, but | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
we have nothing to fear, full of confidence. Put the bin out on | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
Monday, I won't be home, I won't be there! | :29:11. | :29:20. | |
Takes a bounce in front of him. A wild swing from him. | :29:21. | :29:21. | |
Fantastic stuff. What did you make of Wales, Thierry? We are talking | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
about the same thing every time. They have an idea, a philosophy. | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
They stick to it. It is about the team, about commitment, desire. On | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
the other side you see a total difference. Belgium, they are not a | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
team. No individuals, no togetherness. No desire on the day. | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
If you don't match the team, I don't care about individuals. You are | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
never going to win. You need to manage the team you are playing | :29:51. | :29:52. | |
against, then the individuals will make a difference. Not before. A few | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
moments of interesting commentary from Robbie Savage. One said if the | :29:58. | :30:04. | |
goal was scored by Messi we would be talking about it for years. It was a | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
fantastic goal. A great piece of skill. A lot of composure. But if I | :30:11. | :30:18. | |
was the manager of Belgium I would ask questions of the defenders. It | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
is amazing. I was so inspired by watching Wales last night. The | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
spirit, as Thierry rightly put it, was amazing. With the organisational | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
spirit you can climb mountains and make miracles. They had a real lack | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
of fear. They seemed to be really enjoying it. That's the key. | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
Respect, not fear. We've seen defensive... It's the decision of | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
the underdogs. Look at Leicester, Wales, Italy perhaps. Underdogs, | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
Italy?! It is their passion and togetherness. But I will tell you, | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
they didn't half play well last night. As in control of the game. | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
That for me was the impressive thing. We knew about their team | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
spirit but the way they passed Belgium off that park last night was | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
brilliant to watch. What I love ant them, there is no fear. They are not | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
scared of anything. They know what they have to do when they go on the | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
field, you can see they know who does what. They all know their jobs. | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
You can follow Wales's semifinal across the BBC on Wednesday night. | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
The final quarterfinal is tomorrow night featuring France. | :31:31. | :31:51. | |
This is as good as it gets here. Open roads, blue skies. One of | :31:52. | :32:03. | |
history's most iconic cars, the original Ford Mustang. | :32:04. | :32:31. | |
A tactical stalemate. Kimmich bounces it back. Sturaro deflected | :32:32. | :32:43. | |
wide. It was a little bit dull, we'll | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
confess that in the first half, but I've been handed a stat that will | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
encourage us all. 15 of the 18 goals scored in Germany's and Italy's 8 | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
previous encounters have been scored after the first half. Including | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
seven in extra time. It could get exciting. And it will, I'm sure, | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
because once the game gets more physical and less tactical, there'll | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
be more spaces, more chance. I think we need to be patient. It might be | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
decided by mistake. When it comes to mistakes, the Italians normally | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
don't make mistakes. That's tempting fail. I know. But I feel confident. | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
Alan, what do you think can change this game? A piece of brilliance | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
wouldn't go amiss from someone. But that's very difficult when there is | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
not a lot of space in there. Concentration will be key in the | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
last 10 or 15 minutes, because of tired minds and bodies. And one team | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
might be prepared to gamble. The two teams are coming out. Doesn't look | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
like we've got any changes, Thierry, but maybe a change in thinking or | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
tempo? I think they are going to stay the same way. Alan mentioned | :33:52. | :34:02. | |
fitness. Who is going to drop. Who is going to be a bit more tired. Who | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
will run the most? We are about to find out. Back to our commentators | :34:09. | :34:17. | |
Martin Keown and Guy brokenry. Thank you Gary. Germany the second | :34:18. | :34:25. | |
youngest squad at Euro 2016. Italy fourth joint oldest. Not that | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
they've shown any signs of being anything other than rock solid | :34:30. | :34:36. | |
strong so far. It's Italy who start the second 45 minutes. It might not | :34:37. | :34:43. | |
be the last 45. The way things are we are heading for an extra | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
half-hour. The Italians need to push on their wing-backs as they have | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
done at the start of this second half. Need to play like they have | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
done this previous matches. Wide positions where it could be won or | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
lost. The line-ups are as they were when the teams left the field at | :35:04. | :35:09. | |
half-time. One Germany change, Sami Khedira forced off injured and | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
Schweinsteiger swine came on for him. The ball given away by Toni | :35:14. | :35:20. | |
Kroos. Not the first time we've said that today. Germany a free kick. | :35:21. | :35:29. | |
That's one of the surprises of the game so far. We haven't had a yellow | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
card yet. Sturaro trying to get that early press on. Unlucky there. Conte | :35:36. | :35:45. | |
talked about these warriors. I'm sure he's been firing his team up at | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
half-time. I expect them to be much better in possession. I know they | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
can defend. What's impressed me is how they can handle the ball, but | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
not so today. Boateng... Hummels... Schweinsteiger tried to flick it. | :35:57. | :36:33. | |
Nice and easy for Buffon. 38 years old. Another tournament in him yet | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
it seems. Not thinking about packing in until after the next World Cup. A | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
lovely flick from Giaccherini. Played towards Eder, who is trying | :36:45. | :36:52. | |
to tee up, Emanuele Giaccherini. That's the Italian spirit. They are | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
coming out with the ball from the back at the start of this second | :36:57. | :36:58. | |
half. De Sciglio... Over to De Sciglio. Eder, by | :36:59. | :37:34. | |
Howedes. Much better from Parolo. Playing that ball dyingly ng that | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
ball dyingly across the pitch -- diagonally across the pitch. | :37:40. | :37:48. | |
Ozil set off. He couldn't be found. But Gomez might be. Barzagli there | :37:49. | :38:04. | |
with him. Kroos. Eder tried to stop the cross. Buffon in a hurry to find | :38:05. | :38:13. | |
Giaccherini, who is quickly closed down. Muller did that. | :38:14. | :38:23. | |
Schweinsteiger... Ozil... Muller... This time he's dispossessed. Pelle. | :38:24. | :38:28. | |
Seems to have broken out into a football match all of a sudden. | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
Couldn't get past Howedes. The referee from some distance away has | :38:34. | :38:42. | |
ruled that an unfair tackle. That was definitely a foul, Howedes | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
diving in. Clever from Pelle. As soon as he sees any contact there, | :38:48. | :38:55. | |
he's down. He hasn't done his best work until very late in the games in | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
the competition so far. Injury time goals against Belgium and in the | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
last 16 against Spain. Italy have scored late goals in every one of | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
their games. Or rather there's been a goal late on in every one of their | :39:12. | :39:20. | |
games. There are six Italians in the final third all of a sudden. | :39:21. | :39:29. | |
Sturaro came off Schweinsteiger. Boateng whacked that as far as he | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
could. Barzagli... Bonucci... A bit more care needed. Parolo now | :39:35. | :40:16. | |
has so many more options for him in the final third. The wing-backs are | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
pushing off. It's the team that goes on to win this, the team that's | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
decided to have a bit more belief about them. Obviously they are | :40:29. | :40:31. | |
playing this system for the first time this evening, Germany. But they | :40:32. | :40:34. | |
don't seem as confident in the start of the second half. Italy giving us | :40:35. | :40:42. | |
more balance to their play. A lot of quality in this German team. Ozil... | :40:43. | :40:51. | |
Showing a bit of quality now. Schweinsteiger... Muller to Kroos. | :40:52. | :41:00. | |
Now it's Hector. Hector gets to ball into the box but not into a | :41:01. | :41:02. | |
dangerous place. Boateng... Ozil... Kimmich's cross. And it had | :41:03. | :41:21. | |
to be headed there by Andrea Barzagli. Gomez was ready and | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
waiting. Bomb bomb was caught on his heels in the box there. Didn't | :41:26. | :41:33. | |
expect the cross in. -- goal was caught on his heels in the box | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
there. Didn't expect the cross in. Eder... A bit of hesitation and | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
thought put into it. Ozil... Keeps taking up that | :41:45. | :42:22. | |
position, Ozil. Schweinsteiger... Muller. More preoccupied with | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
ranting at the referee for not getting a free kick but getting back | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
up and winning it. Gomez is doing the chasing. Italy pass their way | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
out of trouble. Quickly passed their way back into it. It was Florenzi, | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
who conceded possession. Here's Gomez. Trying to tee up Muller... | :42:43. | :42:51. | |
It's blocked. A super blog. He denied Thomas Muller his first ever | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
European championship finals goal. Inspired defending. I think Florenzi | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
gives the ball away in the first place. Somersaults around, steers | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
that away from the goal. Great defending. He lifted his leg so | :43:07. | :43:17. | |
high. Kroos corner. Beat everybody. Boateng. It is on to be hit. | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
Boateng. As we saw against Slovakia, he can hit them, but that one was | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
too high. This one off his left foot. Rising away. The volume's | :43:30. | :43:37. | |
turned up here a little bit. This is Gomez laying it off. Brings it on to | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
his left foot, Muller. Look at this for a piece of defending. Remarkable | :43:44. | :43:50. | |
how he got back there. The Italians love defending. He's not a stunt man | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
there, through the air. You wonder if the angle the seed, | :43:54. | :44:04. | |
was it going wide? Florenzi couldn't hang about and think about that. -- | :44:05. | :44:14. | |
if the angle deceived. He made amends for giving the ball away in | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
the first place. He would have known as well that he needed to get back. | :44:20. | :44:22. | |
You could hear the Manaudou screaming at him as soon as he gave | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
it away. Pass the manager screaming at him. | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
Giaccherini has given it away. Sturaro stop the ball from raging | :44:32. | :44:45. | |
Ozil. He has gone off to the right of Eder -- reaching Ozil. Letting it | :44:46. | :44:55. | |
run, it didn't run to Pelle. Ozil. Taken out of it by Sturaro. That's | :44:56. | :44:59. | |
about his third offence. The angry wave of the arm has got him a yellow | :45:00. | :45:03. | |
card. You said in the first half that he's an angry young man. He | :45:04. | :45:10. | |
needs to be controlled. A big night for him and his country. You have to | :45:11. | :45:18. | |
keep your head. As you can see by what's on your screen, he isn't one | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
who was on the yellow card, but that is eight of them on the field for | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
Italy who are now. I didn't think the referee was going to book him | :45:30. | :45:36. | |
until he reacted the way he did. All of those yellow cards are only | :45:37. | :45:37. | |
relevant if the team gets through. Another flag is being waved, another | :45:38. | :46:08. | |
foul. It might be a yellow card. It is De Sciglio, who walks away. And | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
when he turned around he is going to be disappointed because if Italy | :46:13. | :46:18. | |
win, he won't be playing in the semifinal. Yeah, Kimmich, just | :46:19. | :46:26. | |
taking him out. Joachim Low has just turned Italian on us. He certainly | :46:27. | :46:33. | |
has. He's leading that sink in for a moment. It has to be forgotten. He's | :46:34. | :46:40. | |
got to make sure that he gets his team into the next round, never mind | :46:41. | :46:46. | |
that he's not playing. The first part of succeeding in that mission | :46:47. | :46:49. | |
will be keeping out this Germany free kick. They are being tested to | :46:50. | :46:52. | |
the limit by this German team, who keep probing. | :46:53. | :47:03. | |
There is a line on the edge of the penalty area. He was in the middle | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
of it, Boateng. Blocked by Chiellini. Pelle. He had | :47:09. | :47:33. | |
to do that by himself. He did brilliantly. Certainly did. The | :47:34. | :47:40. | |
first part of it anyway. Sturaro, that was rash, the way he went in. | :47:41. | :47:47. | |
What's happened now? The referee has seen a Germany player on the floor. | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
He's gone across and shown the yellow card, it's Mario Gomez. That | :47:52. | :48:03. | |
is Parolo booked. It is a wild kick. Parolo. Couldn't be better placed, | :48:04. | :48:11. | |
the referee, to see that. Seemed to take an age for Hindus dubbed the | :48:12. | :48:16. | |
game. Dishing out the punishment to the Lazio midfielder. -- took an age | :48:17. | :48:24. | |
for him to stop the game. 14 minutes in the second half and three Italian | :48:25. | :48:32. | |
names taken. Sturaro, just after he was booked, with a heavy challenge. | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
That was the booking. Was it the booking? Still Mr angry, look at | :48:39. | :48:41. | |
him. That was the first of the three. We need to see a senior | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
player just calming down a little bit. Italy are now on 216 Yellows | :48:47. | :49:02. | |
for the tournament. -- onto 16. Maybe it's part of their | :49:03. | :49:05. | |
gamesmanship, just to slow it down a little bit. Possibly being too | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
cynical. Could argue that seem Dyer some teams need to be a bit more | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
like that bans some teams need to be more like that. No names mentioned. | :49:19. | :49:27. | |
I've seen it written that Italy know how and when to commit a good foul. | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
Past masters at it. All the way back to Neuer, who is | :49:33. | :49:43. | |
rarely all the way back in his goal. Must be an argument for Neuer in | :49:44. | :50:05. | |
goal for buying Munich and this Germany team -- Bayern Munich. He | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
must be one of the most bored goalkeepers of all time. He is | :50:10. | :50:11. | |
almost a central defender at times. Hector has got it in, into exactly | :50:12. | :50:20. | |
the right zone. A bit of a breakdown in | :50:21. | :50:40. | |
communication between Hummels and Boateng. Lovely cross. Well defended | :50:41. | :50:53. | |
by Hector. Eja Renee does welcomer coming onto his right foot. -- | :50:54. | :50:55. | |
Giaccherini. One of the best breaks in the | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
business. A unruffled as yet, Conte. Yet to score his first international | :51:01. | :51:38. | |
goal, Parolo. Half a dozen for Manziel last season. It falls for | :51:39. | :51:42. | |
him nicely but he hasn't got the technique -- for Lazio. Hector | :51:43. | :51:50. | |
deliberately holding onto the ball. Giaccherini, I think he thought that | :51:51. | :52:21. | |
Pelle was there, but the flag is raised as he goes near the ball. A | :52:22. | :52:30. | |
change is in the air. Nobody has been called back from the warm-ups | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
yet. But a fume or have joined in with the stretching and limbering. | :52:35. | :52:41. | |
-- a few more. Italy were pushing up the wing-backs but now they've been | :52:42. | :52:42. | |
forced back again. It's almost impossible to isolate. | :52:43. | :53:00. | |
You talk about the back three. Barzagli, 35 years old, one against | :53:01. | :53:04. | |
one, I don't know if he's the most mobile, but he's so clever, he | :53:05. | :53:07. | |
doesn't put himself in that position. Must be more mentally | :53:08. | :53:17. | |
tired than physically tired at the end of the game. Moving from side to | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
side, keeping the distance between them, Parolo in midfield, and one | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
another, the defence, almost like an anchor in the ship, not moving far | :53:28. | :53:36. | |
apart from each other. Neuer, asking Gomez to get his head on it. | :53:37. | :53:46. | |
Confusing Florenzi. Florenzi is doing the full-back job. Hector | :53:47. | :53:54. | |
trying to pull it back. Mesut Ozil running in at the right time. | :53:55. | :54:01. | |
Germany find a way through. It might be all they need in a game | :54:02. | :54:15. | |
of such fine margins. And its Mesut Ozil who's made the difference. | :54:16. | :54:26. | |
Neuer is involved. Florenzi here, he seems to get bamboozled by the ball. | :54:27. | :54:33. | |
It gets behind him. Good work from Gomez on the left-hand side. Very | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
patient, look at that for a run from deep. And Ozil, so many times you | :54:39. | :54:46. | |
see him the provider. This time, the ruthless finish. | :54:47. | :54:54. | |
The deflection proved key. It just sets up perfectly for Ozil. He's not | :54:55. | :55:02. | |
going to miss it from there with the quality he has. Italy have to come | :55:03. | :55:05. | |
out and play a bit more now. Mesut Ozil's 20th international | :55:06. | :55:22. | |
goal. He missed a penalty in the last game, against Slovakia. That's | :55:23. | :55:30. | |
what got on now. -- forgotten. Germany trying to show their | :55:31. | :55:31. | |
ruthless died. -- side. A bit of a scourge of Italy, Ozil. | :55:32. | :55:55. | |
He scored in the 4-1 victory in March and in the last European | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
Championships, a late penalty that didn't make a difference to these | :55:59. | :56:08. | |
Gore. -- to the score. Now, one from open play, when we thought it might | :56:09. | :56:12. | |
be a game where we wouldn't see one. Germany trying to hang onto | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
possession, not giving the Italians any opportunity to strike back. If | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
anything, Germany looked to have grown even taller since the last | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
goal. Hummels, easily fending off Pelle. | :56:25. | :56:33. | |
Ozil is just this trying them, isn't he? That pocket of space. -- | :56:34. | :56:48. | |
destroying. Running the show, Mesut Ozil. Just | :56:49. | :57:04. | |
drawing the sting of the Italians, trying to fight back. Sturaro trying | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
to drag back Hummels. Looking for Gomez! Oh, that's a | :57:10. | :57:22. | |
great save from Buffon. Gomez improvised and it looked as if he | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
had beaten the Italian goalkeeper. But the veteran managed to stop it | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
somehow. Look at Ozil here, look at this for a ball, just the flick | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
over. Gomez just stays onside. What a save from Buffon, flicking it over | :57:38. | :57:44. | |
the bar. And standing. Those old reactions are still as Priam and as | :57:45. | :57:48. | |
ever -- outstanding. Going for the kill, Germany. Primed. | :57:49. | :58:08. | |
Taken away from Stewart. -- from Sturaro. Smothering Italy as soon as | :58:09. | :58:18. | |
they come out with the ball. Just a yard faster, Italy. Germany's throw. | :58:19. | :58:30. | |
Barzagli chesting down to Parolo. Giaccherini set-off, but Bonucci | :58:31. | :58:57. | |
couldn't find him with a pass. Ditto Ozil and his attempts to pick out | :58:58. | :59:04. | |
Muller. Now, every Germany tackle is a successful one. They are winning | :59:05. | :59:05. | |
the ball back with ease. Ebastian Schweinsteiger, Kroos... | :59:06. | :59:20. | |
Ozil... Loitering outside the penalty area. Muller went in. | :59:21. | :59:22. | |
Hummels... 20 minutes to go. Schweinsteiger. | :59:23. | :59:49. | |
Florenzi finding Parolo. Bonucci up to Pelle. | :59:50. | :59:59. | |
Tried to play him in too late. Gomez caught as he attempted to lay it off | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
to Kimmich. Italy will have to hold on before taking the throw. What a | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
ball that is. Takes it down. Wondered if it was a handball, but | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
no, it's OK. A little backheel is it? It's come off Chiellini. A | :00:19. | :00:31. | |
fingertip save. Just enough on it from Gianluigi Buffon. Gomez is | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
limping off. They've got the change ready. Mario Gomez's little run of | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
goals comes to an end tonight. Disappointed obviously, but | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
hopefully for him it is not a shrug of the shoulders that his tournament | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
is done. He is exasperated with whatever injury he's picked up. In | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
his place is Julian Draxler, a 22-year-old playing at Wolfsburg. | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
Very unlucky to be left out. Gomez was a thorn in the side. Going to | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
lose a bit of that for the change. Only one subleft for germ in. Italy | :01:20. | :01:32. | |
have three left in the bag. It is so important for the Italians | :01:33. | :01:52. | |
that he keeps hold of the ball for them. Towards Muller, who won't give | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
up on it. He's very unlucky. What a brilliant effort from the Bayern | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Munich man. He is like a middle distance runner. There is nothing of | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
him, by the way. Can you be ungainly and graceful at the same time? I | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
think Muller might. He's got the build of a long distance marathon | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
runner almost. Skin and bone, he is. Those shins take some treatment. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Sturaro... Bonucci... Barzagli... Parolo... | :02:31. | :03:00. | |
There's Pelle! No German touch on it. It flew straight, high and wide. | :03:01. | :03:11. | |
It's a fantastic effort there. Across the face of the defender with | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
his left foot. Can't get it on target. Bounces in front of him. | :03:16. | :03:40. | |
No tears as predicted by Sebastian Vettel, the German who drives for | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Ferrari. Vettel was approached with an | :03:48. | :04:04. | |
Italian shirt today and said, you will need it to dry your tears on. | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
They don't know the Italians. They'll think this is plenty of | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
time. Florenzi to Barzagli. Bonucci... Eder... Would he have got | :04:12. | :04:39. | |
that in I'm not sure he was offside. Beautiful play there from Italy. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
Diagonal passes, spinning off the shoulders of the defender. Two front | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
players working really well together there. | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
Just lent in there. Barzagli... Pelle. Boateng goes with him and | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
eats up the ground, but it is at the cost of a corner. Boateng just going | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
through the gears. Good work from Pelle. Trying to tee the ball up for | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
Alessandro Florenzi, who was a little slow in getting there, | :05:26. | :05:26. | |
preserving as much energy as he can. Florenzi will put the outswinging | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
ball in. Florenzi this time with the | :05:38. | :05:52. | |
in-dipper. And it's a penalty for Italy! They shouted as one. There | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
aren't too many German complaints about it. What on earth is his arm | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
doing up there, Boateng? You can't put your arms in the air like that | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
I'm afraid. Keep them down behind your side. Game changer. Leonardo | :06:11. | :06:27. | |
Bonucci is on the spot for Italy. It's not the final chance but it | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
might be the chance that keeps their hopes alive. Best goalkeeper in the | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
world, many say. Stands in his way. The other goalkeeper, who had that | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
title for so long can't watch. It's Bonucci. And it's 1-1 in Bordeaux | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
and it is game on in Bordeaux! CHEERING. Wild celebrations from the | :06:54. | :07:07. | |
Italians. Wild eyes from Bonucci. After a moment to reflect on for | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Jerome Boateng. He needed all of his experience there. Just a little | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
feint, gets enough power on it. Take a look at me. Gets enough power on | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
it. Take a look at me. Pointing to his face - yes, it was me. He was | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
under real pressure there. Neuer had no chance. Under real pressure, and | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
you wouldn't believe it would you? The way it was stroked home. You can | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
see the warrior in his eye. The manager praying it has come off. He | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
doesn't care how he gets back into this game. Germany 1, Italy 1. We | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
are where we were again. Except it feels like a very | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
different game now. It's open. It's a lot more entertaining. It's | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
anybody's to win. A large element of luck about that. You've got to keep | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
your hands by your side. Ozil... Schweinsteiger... That's Muller. It | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
was nearly Muller. Kroos... Eder slipped and couldn't stop in | :08:26. | :08:50. | |
time. Here's Boateng. Italian voices can be heard now about the Stade de | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
Bordeaux. Steep stands here. You can feel structural movement when the | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
crowd jumps. There is lot of Italian jumping happening! Ozil... Tired | :09:04. | :09:14. | |
legends out there Ozil... Tired legends out there for the Italians | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
-- tired legs for the Italians. But they'll be energised by the fans. | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
Hummels... Hector... Neuer... Beaten for the first time at this | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
championship. Those constant voices is the Italian manager bark | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
instructions to his team. Team. Conte. Conte. Is that a costly slip? | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
Eder is outside. It's Pelle! A corner. Came off Howedes and it went | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
wide. Italy are up for this. Well, great run. Look at this first touch. | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
Comes inside the defender. Pelle pulls the trigger. Could do better | :10:10. | :10:19. | |
there and he knows it. Florenzi again. Taking his time. Well, it | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
worked on the last occasion. Took plenty of time over the corner. | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
That's what Fabio Capel la is doing now. | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
Eder is first man. Muller was the right man for Germany. | :10:39. | :10:53. | |
Buffon... Doing a Neuer. Even at his age, you can improve. I think we | :10:54. | :11:06. | |
have got in this game the old best and the new best haven't we? | :11:07. | :11:16. | |
Definitely, yes. The Neuer best. Towards Eder... Hummels strides out. | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
Ozil to Draxler. Hasn't been able to get into the game. But in it now | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
with Ozil, who has run into Sturaro. Free kick Italy. The call from Kroos | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
is he won the ball cleanly. Didn't tackle from a difficult angle. He | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
goes for that ball. Just gets a foot on it. The trailing leg catches his | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
opponent you don't are to book people time. I think the referee's | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
got that right. Sturaro... Barzagli... Bonucci, who was calling | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
for calm from Barzagli. Known had a calmer head than Bonucci when he | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
took that penalty. An Bonucci when he took that penalty. -- no-one. | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
Eder let that run for Pelle. Eder... Going to bounce back to Parolo or | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
Chiellini or both. Towards Florenzi. Florenzi takes on Hector. Florenzi | :12:35. | :12:43. | |
in. Pelle... Chiellini... Florenzi will be offside if he chases that | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
one. Feels like the Italians are going up a gear again. They are | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
inspired. Florenzi there. Not sure where Florenzi finds the energy | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
from. Might be more tired if he was at home. His wife gave birth to | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
their first child on the eve of the tournament. Wouldn't be getting much | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
sleep there. Draxler. A lovely cushion ball. | :13:10. | :13:25. | |
Gives chase to Florenzi. Who sees him off. It's a free kick rather | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
than a goal kick. That's Tim cap of Florenzi, there taking a well earned | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
rest. CEDYELLOW That's Tim cap of Florenzi, there taking a well earned | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
rest. -- that's typical. Ozil's goal. Got Thayne distinct to get | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
into the box. A feint there. Slots it away. Boateng with plenty a think | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
about. Boateng... Howedes... | :13:56. | :14:14. | |
Schweinsteiger. A substitution about to be made by the Italians. It is | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
Manchester United's Matteo Darmian who going to come on. | :14:23. | :14:36. | |
Five minutes of the 90 to go. Germany, one, Italy, one. As finally | :14:37. | :14:46. | |
balanced as it was always likely to be. -- finely balanced. Sensible | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
caution from Germany. Don't want to be caught on the counterattack. And | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
now Italy will make their substitution. Florenzi has gone down | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
onto the floor, much to the annoyance of the Germany supporters. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
It's the referee who is telling him to get a move on towards the halfway | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
line because it is his number that's up. Florenzi, who has run and run, | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
has won his last night. He couldn't have done more he's exhausted. 11 | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
kilometres, that's not bad. Considering there's still of time | :15:31. | :15:30. | |
left. He must have done well, he got a | :15:31. | :15:45. | |
well done from his manager. He's hard task master. They had a saying | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
at Juventus, he wanted his players to eat grass, meaning he wanted them | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
to run further and work harder, unless it lost something in | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
translation. This is Italian team have certainly been doing that for | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
him. Germany have to keep shifting the | :16:08. | :16:47. | |
ball, keep the Italians working from side to side. Difficult ball to deal | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
with there. Draxler rarely hasn't run with it since he's been on. | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Supporting Ozil on the ball in that free role. | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
I think Buffon once extra time now. It's amazing how it doesn't faze | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
them. Boateng got to it. The confidence | :17:20. | :17:33. | |
swing has been fascinating to watch, when Germany were up, they were | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
pressing and it looks like they were going to finish it off but a moment | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
later it was the turn of Italy to find the spring in their tie at | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
again. Eder, never stops being bouncy. -- in their tired step. | :17:47. | :17:56. | |
Neuer had it covered. The crowd were not so sure. Look at this for a | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
strike. For where we were it looked like it hit the back of the net. | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
Just another warning. I have to say, Eder was brilliant in the build-up. | :18:09. | :18:09. | |
He really looks lively. Howedes didn't want to run for that, | :18:10. | :18:39. | |
he called for commits to get it. The 90th minute cars for Kimmich -- for | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Kimmich. Pelle with the knock-down. Eder, | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
taken down by Hummels. Free kick, Italy and the referee goes to his | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
pocket and he has booked Hummels. If Germany go through, he won't play in | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
the semi. He will be hugely missed. Eder is too quick, isn't he. The is | :19:07. | :19:17. | |
thinking he shouldn't have been booked -- he is thinking. | :19:18. | :19:32. | |
The contrasting styles of the coaches. Into injury time, three | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
minutes of it. This is a slow, measured Germany | :19:38. | :20:14. | |
build-up. Something menacing on the end? Draxler throwing himself | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
through the air. Nobody in the middle yet. Here they | :20:17. | :21:01. | |
come now. Got the curl, but not the place to deny Barzagli the chance to | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
clear it. -- the pace. What can Germany do to conjure up one last | :21:11. | :21:11. | |
opportunity? Ozil's cross. Important header from | :21:12. | :21:25. | |
Chiellini. Schweinsteiger had jumped tremendously behind him. Another one | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
from Chiellini. The quality on that ball from Ozil. | :21:30. | :21:44. | |
Hummels, just the wrong side of Hector. The ball from Ozil, just | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
couldn't get on it, Schweinsteiger. Good defending, Chiellini, taking it | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
off his head. Agony for the next Neuer in the making. | :22:03. | :22:14. | |
Kept in by parole over. -- by Parolo. It will be a free kick for | :22:15. | :22:28. | |
Germany. See which team is more keen for the extra 30 minutes. It is the | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
team in blue. Germany wants to push on one more time. No more time. We | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
are going to go the distance in Bordeaux tonight. We knew it would | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
liven up, and it did. Mesut Ozil with the opening goal, cancelled out | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
a dozen minutes later by Bonucci, who kept his cool from the penalty | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
spot. The tactical battle continues. It's a little more open now. | :22:58. | :23:10. | |
Schurle so, extra time it is. For a while, it looked like Germany might | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
finally beat Italy in a major tournament. In the previous eight | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
encounters between these two sides, it has only gone to extra time | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
twice. The 1970 World Cup and the 2006 World Cup, both won, of course, | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
by Italy. And the two teams huddled together there. Their managers will | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
be saying a few words, and Luca, they came back, as Italy do. Yes, we | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
never give up. It was excellent. After conceding | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
the first goal, I thought that was the end of it, but credit to these | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
guys, they never give up, and I think it is a fair result. Now, I | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
think this match can be won by some brilliance from the players, but | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
more importantly, from the managers, what they do, what they say. They | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
change positions with somebody. Just one word can make a big difference. | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
Certainly can, and while it took a long time for the game to come to | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
life, when it did, it was a great goal from Mesut Ozil in the end. | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
It was very well done. N again, a long ball, and a mistake from | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Florenzi. Just keep your eye on Hector also. A good run from Gomez. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
We mentioned Hector getting up to support, and get up there in the | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
box, and whipping balding. That is such a clever, acute pass from | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
Gomez. Brilliant run from Hector. Little bit of luck from the | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
deflection, and a brilliantly timed run from Mesut Ozil. It took | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
perfection, and a very, very good finish. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
The only tie in the match where one of our midfielders did not stay with | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
it. A couple of yards, and he could not | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
really recover. It is back to front, isn't it? | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
Within seven or eight seconds, a big kick up and good play in the final | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
third. After that, of course, Gomez had a | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
really good opportunity to score, didn't he? It was a brilliant bit of | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
goalkeeping. Yes, and you have to give Chiellini | :25:18. | :25:27. | |
a lot of credit. We were all thinking, why didn't he should? And | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
amazing save. An amazing save from Buffon. But you have to give | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
Chiellini credit. We are all sat here thinking, why | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
does he not had it? And also, he has got as all in touch. His first touch | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
was so poor, it took away from the goal. | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
How many times over so many years has Buffon and another Italy? You | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
said semitones, that is a turning point. | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
Normally, when you miss your opportunity, this is very weird | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
stuff by bite and. I think he wants to show the referee that he is not | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
pushing, and that's why he gets his ends away from the body of | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
Chiellini, but in doing that, inevitably, he touches with his | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
hands. And what about this penalty? I will | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
surprise you here. This is the first penalty taken in his professional | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
career. What a hell of a penalty. Composure at its best. Whatever you | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
want from a guy like that. That is excluding penalty shoot-out, I | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
hasten to add, but any normal game. We were just talking about Boateng | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
before, that he did not defend and crosses. He has trouble with that. | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
In his box, he is not the best defender in the world. When he has | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
to defend, he is very good at that, and you almost wanting to defend | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
with his belly. It is kind of, we know what he tries to do, and a | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
mistake brings Italy back to the game. | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
It certainly does. We all thought it was 50-50 before the game, and it | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
remains that way. Yes, absolutely. Now, I would be -- | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
it will be down to physical conditions. Who has got more from a | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
physical point of view will be able to create more chances, to press | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
better. It is also a question of details. One little thing can make a | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
huge difference. OK, well let's rejoin Martin Keown. | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
COMMENTATOR: Thank you, Gary. Let me take you back 46 years. Can we hope | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
for something like happened in 1970 in the World Cup semifinal? That | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
game was 1-1 between West Germany and Italy. Five goals followed in | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
the next half-hour. They dubbed it the match of the century. Italy won | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
4-3. Or will it be more akin to the extra times we have seen at this | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
European Championship? It is the fourth game to go to 120, rather | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
than 90 minutes. Switzerland and Poland could not get a goal between | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
them in the extra half hour. Nor could Poland and Portugal. Croatia | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
and Portugal, we had to wait to the very end, when the Portuguese headed | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
through. The extra time so far in France, they have been cagey | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
affairs. I don't think anything we have seen in this game suggest | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
anything different to that. No, I think straightaway, with the | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
start of this match, the Germans matching the systems. A bit of a | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
chess match. A game has broken out. Once Italy got back into the game, | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
they are so professional and gamesmanship. Buffon was waiting to | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
extra time, but with at least ten minutes more to go in the match, | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
let's hope we can now see an improvement and an exciting ride in | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
this match. One substitute left for Germany. Two | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
remaining available for Italy. The stage might be set for somebody to | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
come on, somebody like a Podolski Ore Goetz. | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
World Cup Final, he came on as substitute and did an insignificant. | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
-- did something significant. For Italy, Immobile A and Zaza are | :29:08. | :29:19. | |
both options. It is remarkable that in the course of the game, he had | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
never taken a penalty before. You would not have believed it. No, | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
I mean that is what you want, isn't it? Your star player to come up and | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
deliver when it is expected of him. We have had that conversation with | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
you, haven't we, going back to 1998? Would you have taken it? | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
Now, a yellow card for Peller for going in late. There is another one | :29:40. | :29:47. | |
out of the potential semifinal. Old is just informing the Germany | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
touchline staff that Boateng is OK. -- moles. He doesn't look it at the | :29:52. | :29:53. | |
moment. That is a nasty one from Pelle and | :29:54. | :30:03. | |
needless. It certainly is nasty. Boateng just | :30:04. | :30:11. | |
too quick for him down the Achilles. And he can't have any complaint, | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
even though he would be upset. It is hugely important to the way | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
they play as well. On the counterattack, holding the ball out | :30:24. | :30:24. | |
for them. Cleared by Bonucci, but not very | :30:25. | :30:37. | |
well. Controls. Schweinsteiger to Miller. Miller | :30:38. | :30:47. | |
cannot get it through. Schweinsteiger this time brings | :30:48. | :30:58. | |
Herber Des in. Great imagination from | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
Schweinsteiger. That is a free kick. | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
You look at this ball, the bravery, and a bitter afters between | :31:10. | :31:21. | |
Chiellini and ton-macro two. You see the bravery, for me, Chiellini, put | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
his head in the box when visible people put their feet. | :31:26. | :31:26. | |
Some afterwards perhaps. I think he is saying, you are | :31:27. | :31:40. | |
falling over like a baby! What is wrong with you? | :31:41. | :31:40. | |
A great reaction from Thomas Muller. Some have accused him of falling a | :31:41. | :31:50. | |
little too easily in the past as well. | :31:51. | :31:51. | |
Jack Arena. Eder was making his life 's mission | :31:52. | :32:02. | |
to get into the box. But there was too much on it. | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
Eder still going. Perpetual motion. The Brazilian born Inter Milan man | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
in brilliant form tonight. Keep winning those individual | :32:14. | :32:31. | |
battles, don't they, the Italians? Goes back three will keep going | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
until the very last. -- those back three. | :32:37. | :32:58. | |
Looked as though he might miss judge that. Kia Leamy. | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
What has he done in that Daniele De Rossi kind of role? | :33:05. | :33:17. | |
He has done the best they can. I think he does a bit more defensively | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
for his team. Could not get the clearance on | :33:20. | :33:51. | |
cross, and another coming together. Schweinsteiger, the offending party. | :33:52. | :33:59. | |
On Sturaro. Apparently, Schweinsteiger knew it was coming. | :34:00. | :34:01. | |
No. It is not intentional. I don't think Thomas Muller's | :34:02. | :34:10. | |
handshake was either! Very reluctant. | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
There is a study in the difference between the two coaches. Here is | :34:17. | :34:27. | |
Eder, who never stops moving. Pelle stretched out a foot, but only to | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
put it behind. Great little partnership there, Eder, beautiful, | :34:32. | :34:33. | |
the way he flicks it to Eder. International start, at 29. Another | :34:34. | :34:49. | |
late starter, and he must like the south Coast air in Southampton. The | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
Premier League has improved him. Well policed by Parolo. Muller once | :34:53. | :35:20. | |
more. Caught by Parolo. Free kick to Germany. It is becoming increasingly | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
difficult to envisage this finishing 11th A-side. Just Mesut Ozil's quick | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
feet, Parolo there. Parolo one of those at risk. | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
It is these moments you have got to make everything count, pour into the | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
box. Jack Arena there. He is trying to waste time. | :35:42. | :35:49. | |
He is not in a yellow card for the potential semifinal, you might as | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
well join the club. He is just delaying so his defence can get | :35:56. | :36:02. | |
prepared behind him. Important ball to be swung over like | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
a cross. There is a push, and a free kick for Italy. | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
I wonder whether it was enough to send their new cheats brawling? He | :36:14. | :36:26. | |
made noticed it. -- Bonucci. Draxler coming back, pushing to the | :36:27. | :36:27. | |
ground. Wasted. Switching play very well now, the | :36:28. | :37:01. | |
Italians, from side to side. Asking questions. Side to side is just him, | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
with his constant tactics from him. Loses that one. Here is Muller. | :37:08. | :37:28. | |
Draxler. Germany's throwing. He likes to run with it. | :37:29. | :38:02. | |
There are distant Giaccherini has covered is quite remarkable. | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
It is twice as far for him. He has got to engines! | :38:10. | :38:21. | |
Draxler. Just eased out of play by the Uber cool Bonucci. | :38:22. | :38:32. | |
Draxler really not having the quality necessary at the pace you | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
need to get past ten defenders. He should be fresh, though, shouldn't | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
he? Here is Pelle. He has an excuse not | :38:43. | :38:44. | |
to be, and Eder likewise. Miller was trying to let rip there. | :38:45. | :38:59. | |
Another chance to shoot. Big deflection for a corner. It is | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
almost as if Thomas Muller has the feeling now this is his to win. | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
He has had a couple of tracks at this. The shoots from distance. | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
Mesut Ozil. That can be left alone, but was it? | :39:16. | :39:28. | |
They didn't get the shadow. Parolo did not dare risk it. | :39:29. | :39:35. | |
Yes, he could let that go, but he gets no information. He does not | :39:36. | :39:36. | |
know he has to deal with it. Kroos to have another go from the | :39:37. | :39:54. | |
other side, and expect this one to come in with pace. | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
Again, the short routine. Boateng. It is wide. | :39:58. | :40:12. | |
You would have thought it would have to get in the box with some stage. | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
The frustration of the defenders, you can see they have gone off for | :40:18. | :40:20. | |
this. It is a defender who hits it from | :40:21. | :40:23. | |
distance. Can't believe they don't just put that into the box. | :40:24. | :40:47. | |
WHISTLE he will get a yellow card for handling the ball. | :40:48. | :41:14. | |
Well, I think there is contact. In fairness to the young man. He is 31, | :41:15. | :41:24. | |
but for you, I will let you off. It is all relative, isn't it? | :41:25. | :41:27. | |
I think the referee is right though. He is saying he is not. No | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
complaints. Moyer to take his time again. All | :41:34. | :41:43. | |
is. Just a bit too much for Ozil to do, | :41:44. | :42:18. | |
with too much pace on it. I wonder if it will be that for | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
Mesut Ozil. A bit of quality, needs something and someone, a bit of | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
inspiration. Not really able to implement | :42:31. | :42:32. | |
anything in the first half of extra time yet. | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
Don't get the feeling that either side is playing for penalties, | :42:38. | :42:45. | |
though. There is agency in there. There is. A lot of tired legs, the | :42:46. | :42:53. | |
end of a long season. -- there is urgency there. | :42:54. | :42:56. | |
You just feel Germany have got the handbrake on just a little bit. | :42:57. | :42:58. | |
Worried about the counter attack. Bonucci in front of Muller, just | :42:59. | :43:13. | |
covering for each of the brilliantly at the back. You think Bonucci has | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
made a mistake, suddenly Chiellini statin. -- steps in. Mats Hummels. | :43:18. | :43:28. | |
Half-time. Half-time in extra time. Nothing to get us on the edge of our | :43:29. | :43:55. | |
seats yet. We are 15 minutes away from penalties. It is still 1-1. | :43:56. | :44:04. | |
The Ten O'Clock News will follow the football. Don't worry about missing | :44:05. | :44:13. | |
that. The National Lottery draw is on BBC Two right now, and we could | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
well be heading for a lottery year, couldn't we? | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
Yes. It is very tight. The players looked very tired. I am probably | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
more worried about not giving anything away -- they are probably | :44:27. | :44:29. | |
worried, rather than trying to score and win the match before penalties, | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
so I don't see anything happening until a penalty shoot-out. | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
I would tend to agree with that. Very tired players out there. | :44:38. | :44:44. | |
Concentration, some of them, would not surprise me if there was a | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
mistake in there because of that. But other than that, I agree with | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
Luker, and think we're heading for penalties. | :44:53. | :44:55. | |
Lots of tired looking players out there? | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
Yes, and you would think hopefully, someone can come off the bench and | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
change something. Add a bit of freshness. | :45:03. | :45:04. | |
Surprising not to see a bit of that at this stage of the game. So many | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
players obviously tired, why not freshen up? | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
I don't know why the two managers are waiting so long to do it. That | :45:12. | :45:13. | |
is why I am not a manager yet! They need something to spark with, | :45:14. | :45:29. | |
but it is not easy to do, because they are holding each other, | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
tactically, physically, technically. A lot of players are struggling, as | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
you conceive. This is the perfect place to come on | :45:40. | :45:47. | |
and really make something happen. Can I point out in remarkable? Our | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
three central defenders had not been booked, and that tells you a lot | :45:52. | :45:52. | |
about the composure... to bounce back on what Luca said is | :45:53. | :46:05. | |
justified, they are not always on time. | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
15 more minutes and then possibly a penalty shoot-out. | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
I think we are the mind. Penalties, the most likely option. -- we are of | :46:15. | :46:24. | |
the same mind. Q somebody to prove us wrong and come up with something | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
utterly mind blowing in the next quarter of an hour. In goes Parolo, | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
and again. Kroos to our malls -- Hummels. | :46:32. | :46:53. | |
Neither coach made any changes during that brief interlude. | :46:54. | :47:07. | |
Mesut Ozil once more, Toni Kroos handily placed. | :47:08. | :47:32. | |
Schweinsteiger's lifted in. And it is knocked over. One of the first | :47:33. | :47:41. | |
times when the filly back three have not looked quite so sure. No, it | :47:42. | :47:47. | |
took an age to put the ball back in the box. Unlucky in the end there, | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
pops out, overhead kick could go anywhere. | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
And now, here comes the change that Jan Luca Vialli has just predicted, | :47:59. | :48:05. | |
and it is a necessary one anyway. I'm not surprised something has gone | :48:06. | :48:09. | |
twang after all the ground Eder has covered. Lets hope for his sake it | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
is just cramp. He has been an outstanding player for them in my | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
view. And Lorenzo in signal. -- Lorenzo | :48:18. | :48:29. | |
Insigne of Italy is going to come on. He was only recalled to the | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
squad in March. Scored against Spain. His first appearance. This is | :48:34. | :48:41. | |
his third as a substitute at these euros. | :48:42. | :48:50. | |
Barzagli had to make sure he won that. Now he has to get back as | :48:51. | :49:19. | |
quick as he can. It is Draxler. Can he get it through? It is right past | :49:20. | :49:27. | |
moolah. -- Muller. He has got to play that with more quality. | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
Too much pace on it. Schweinsteiger tease himself up with a shot. | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
Not sure there's going to be a better opening for either side in | :49:37. | :49:42. | |
what is left of the game. This is Draxler here, suddenly | :49:43. | :49:46. | |
running with the ball. A weighted pass, the quality is almost | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
overexcited on it. It is interesting as well, since he has been on the | :49:51. | :49:53. | |
pitch, they have stopped putting the ball in the box with Gomez going | :49:54. | :49:55. | |
off. Played by Kroos up towards Muller. | :49:56. | :50:20. | |
That is both one's all day, all night, all week, all year. He is | :50:21. | :50:23. | |
going to take an age here. -- that is | :50:24. | :50:30. | |
a man who has won just about the lot in his long career, ?buffon. | :50:31. | :50:38. | |
Just missing the European Championship and the Champions | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
League. -- Buffon. Everything in Italy, and of course, the big one. | :50:43. | :50:44. | |
The World Cup. Chiellini still once more, let me | :50:45. | :50:57. | |
tell you. Boateng has got to make sure, and he | :50:58. | :51:06. | |
does. A significant advantage over Insigne. No need to put the arms up | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
then. Germany have found a little bit of | :51:12. | :51:13. | |
energy from somewhere. They needed to. They needed to lift | :51:14. | :51:15. | |
it. Let me tell you, none of the players | :51:16. | :51:27. | |
really want to go to penalties, that is the sure. | :51:28. | :51:50. | |
Even Kroos has lost the accuracy in his passing. | :51:51. | :52:00. | |
Chiellini not happy with the ball. Issues another one. And uses up some | :52:01. | :52:05. | |
more time. Kroos lets it run the | :52:06. | :52:26. | |
Schweinsteiger. Now Mats Hummels. No shot and yet, and the pass of the | :52:27. | :52:41. | |
ball takes it to Parolo. Just keeps going, doesn't he, | :52:42. | :52:56. | |
Chiellini? The freshest player on the field, | :52:57. | :52:58. | |
but he did not get to that, Insigne. Yellow cards out again here. It is | :52:59. | :53:24. | |
going to be Hector, is it? Outcomes the hand. Not sure it does that much | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
damage, but you could say it is a foul. The referee walked over to | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
Hector and then realised who had perpetrated the foul. | :53:34. | :53:41. | |
Plenty of time taken with the free kick. | :53:42. | :53:56. | |
Nicely taken by Insigne. The shot goes straight at the goalkeeper. | :53:57. | :54:03. | |
What has happened there? An awful mix-up. The free kick to Germany to | :54:04. | :54:11. | |
spare Neuer's blushes. Dear, oh dear. | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
Hector. I did say a mistake might be key. | :54:17. | :54:25. | |
Well, a moment of madness there. Seven minutes. Precious little has | :54:26. | :54:32. | |
happened in the first eight minutes of this second period of extra time. | :54:33. | :54:40. | |
Up towards Mesut Ozil. Deftly trying to click it into the path of | :54:41. | :54:47. | |
Draxler. Now, Kroos. He had his chance to | :54:48. | :54:55. | |
stand and deliver. And that was Manuel Moyer and's | :54:56. | :55:12. | |
moment. He covered himself up, didn't he? He certainly did. Not | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
sure why the referee blew though. The little man just coming on. Look | :55:19. | :55:25. | |
at that. Almost coming back his way, and Neuer is the player who runs | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
into Pelle, not the other way round. Muller still tearing across the | :55:30. | :55:48. | |
turf. He is down, and has brought one for his team. | :55:49. | :55:55. | |
Respect, though, from both of them. Running themselves into the ground. | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
Cellini is trying to stop, though. He basically slows down, doesn't he, | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
so he runs into him as well? Chiellini there, with a little nod | :56:05. | :56:07. | |
they had, knows he has been done. That is one of tricks. -- a nod of | :56:08. | :56:13. | |
the head. Germany need quality now for this ball coming into the box. | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
They have got the two direct players when it comes to quality from set | :56:19. | :56:22. | |
pieces. It has not quite been there, as is | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
so often is, for Kroos in particular to night. Surely this will be an | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
inswinger. Cellini following Boateng wherever he may roam. It kills away, | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
and it is headed out. The referee was never likely to put a stop to | :56:39. | :56:44. | |
all that going on. He simply said, take it again. I think Germany are | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
quite relieved with that. It goes down far too easily there. | :56:49. | :56:55. | |
It will all happen again, won't it? Certainly well. This will be a | :56:56. | :56:56. | |
runaround. Chiellini on Boateng again. | :56:57. | :57:09. | |
Some of the Italians are just holding. Fired across too high. | :57:10. | :57:18. | |
Parolo flicked it clear. Excellent header. Draxler, Boateng. | :57:19. | :57:26. | |
Draxler to Mats Hummels, who seem to be surprised by how much time they | :57:27. | :57:29. | |
had. Four minutes. If Italy are playing for penalties, | :57:30. | :57:42. | |
surely this is the wrong nation to be doing at against. -- doing that | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
against. Free kick to Germany. They really | :57:47. | :58:02. | |
scrappy end to the game. Antonio Candreva trying to organise his team | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
to make sure they don't let it go seeming more intent on finding a | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
winner for somewhere. He is just beating the drum, wanting more from | :58:12. | :58:15. | |
these Italians. So animated on the sidelines. Get the reaction, though, | :58:16. | :58:17. | |
from his players. Mesut Ozil moving into a menacing, | :58:18. | :58:34. | |
more central position, as Kroos passes to Schweinsteiger once more. | :58:35. | :58:37. | |
Those two are playing their own game. Here he is, Mesut Ozil. Hector | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
had threatened to run. Mesut Ozil again. He might have just found | :58:43. | :58:48. | |
someone. Just through one up towards Draxler. | :58:49. | :58:51. | |
I think they are appealing for a handball there. The referee not | :58:52. | :58:53. | |
giving it. There wasn't a ball on for Jackie | :58:54. | :59:01. | |
Renee. Parolo, and that is a ball that will | :59:02. | :59:10. | |
not fire. Great vision, but he will not make | :59:11. | :59:17. | |
it. The quality, great moving here from Germany. Just flicks it up, hit | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
him on the head. He is very again. The immovable object to the back of | :59:24. | :59:25. | |
the defence, along with his colleagues. | :59:26. | :59:31. | |
Mesut Ozil, the 119th minute. A draining encounter. A tactical | :59:32. | :59:42. | |
battle. Cat and mouse. Germany are probing now. They seem to have the | :59:43. | :59:55. | |
legs to hang on, Italy. Ozil! Buffon made the save look as though it was | :59:56. | :59:59. | |
in the fifth minute of a pre-season friendly. He's getting closer. Ozil | :00:00. | :00:05. | |
on the right often, we saw him on the left. Can't see them changing it | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
now. Buffon going long. Straight onto the head of Howedes. Muller | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
wanted it to be held. He'll be on the list for sure. | :00:18. | :00:32. | |
Buffon again, going for maximum distance. Insigne trying to run | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
through. And outcomes Neuer. Worth a try. A busy little player, Insigne. | :00:42. | :00:58. | |
A drop in concentration. Italy are in no hurry to take the throwing, | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
though. I think Hector, you can forgive him. -- Defoe in. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
And Antonio Conte has did a really delayed the throw because he wants | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
to get Zaza onto the field. Chiellini is down, that will help. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
They can make the change and Chiellini is going off. Do you think | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
that Zaza will be taking a penalty, any chance? Yes, Chiellini has been | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
magnificent. Great defending from him. His job is done. He might only | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
have one job to do. Could be the most important job of the night. | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
Darmian with the throw. And Neuer will take the goalkick. I wouldn't | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
think much more will happen after that. Tactical armour to the last. | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
-- tactical, to the last. It will continue with Germany never having | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
beaten Italy in a major tournament over the course of a game. They | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
might be able to get through to the semifinals by winning a penalty | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
shoot out but the game has finished all tied. Get yourselves ready, | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
we'll get the scoresheet is out. Penalties coming. STUDIO: So, | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
penalties it is. Let me go through the various penalty histories. | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
They've never faced each other before in a major tournament in a | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
penalty shoot out. Italy have contested eight penalty shoot outs | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
at major tournaments, winning three and losing five. They have won three | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
of the last four after losing their first four. Germany have contested | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
six shoot outs, as Germany, West Germany, winning five and losing | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
one. They lost their first against tekkers Backley in 1976 in the final | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
but they have won the subsequent fire -- against check the back year | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
-- against Czechoslovakia. 21 consecutive penalties, they've | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
successfully executed since 1982, which is quite extraordinary. | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
Doesn't necessarily bode well, Jan Luca, but they've never beaten Italy | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
in a major tournament -- Gianluca. As a manager, I look at Low, you | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
want players, when you look them in the eyes, they don't look away. You | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
don't want them to say "If you want me to come I will take a penalty", | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
you want them to demand to take the penalty, to show desire and | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
responsibility. What if only three of them want to? Then you must pick | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
another two but it doesn't look good! Something like that happened | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
in 1990. As a player, my advice is to make your mind up early and don't | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
change it. Keep the angle. Strong minds are needed. Do exactly what | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
you practised on the training ground. Never change it. Does it | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
make any difference? You must practice, do exactly what you done | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
on the training ground. Have belief in yourself and keep it strong mind, | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
do not change your mind. Something you can't recreate, unfortunately in | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
training, pressure. You can still practice. That's how you deal with | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
pressure. You can't recreate pressure. Who is going to be able to | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
deal with the pressure? We will see. We were talking before the game, the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
back three, Chiellini, Barzagli, Bonnie Ichi -- Bonucci. You must | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
give them a lot of credit, passing 16 kilometres, all of them, which is | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
astonishing. Don't get involved in mind games with the goalkeeper. Keep | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
your mind strong. You've chosen where you're going to put your | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
penalty. No matter what he does on the line, stick to what you believe | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
in. Two of the best keepers in the world. Let's see who is best at | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
penalties. It's also about the information they get before | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
penalties. They should know exactly where the opponent will be trying to | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
put the ball. There is also something I wanted to add about | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
taking penalties. Always have respect for the man who takes it. | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
The one who misses it is the one whose image you keep in your head | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
but not a lot of people know that when you are in the huddle, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
sometimes you have a lot of players who say they don't want it. | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
Sometimes you want to have a go at them, go and take it, you can miss | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
it, no problem. I will admire anybody who takes a penalty. They | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
will be taken in front of the Italian supporters, is that an | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
advantage? If you are a penalty taker on a regular basis, you will | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
have studied the other goalkeeper to see which way he dives, to see if he | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
has done anything on a regular basis, going to the left or the | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
right. You should know that if you are a regular penalty taker. It is | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
squeaky bum time, isn't it? It really is. Looks like Neuer is | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
walking towards the goal first although Buffon is right behind him, | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
so I don't know who's going to take the first. The Italians have the | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
ball, so it's all yours, Guy Mowbray. COMMENTATOR: Thanks, Gary. | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
Stepping up first, it is the substitute, Insigne. He hasn't been | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
on the field for very long. Clearly he was brought on with this in mind. | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Ditto Zaza, coming on in the dying seconds of extra time. Interesting | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
that Germany have a substitute, among them Podolski, one of the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
scorers in their last penalty shoot out, in the 2006 World Cup shoot out | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
against Argentina. Neuer will be looking to try and preserve | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Germany's record from here on in. So, Insigne against Neuer. The first | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
kick for Italy. Maybe that's why he was brought on | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
because it never looked in doubt. A very cool penalty. The size of Neuer | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
in the goal. He just tucked it away. The Italian fans behind the goal, | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
making this very difficult for the Germans. Toni Kroos of Real Madrid. | :07:48. | :08:01. | |
Against Buffon, who in Italy's last shoot out three years ago saved | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
three of Uruguay's five. Here comes Kroos. And he puts it just where | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Buffon can't reach it. Very nicely taken excess back. Beautifully | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
placed into the corner -- very nicely taken excess back. Look at | :08:19. | :08:28. | |
the weight on it. -- nicely taken too. And the Italian late | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
substitute. Did he take the ball after coming on the field? This will | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
be his first touch. Zaza. And he's blazed it is, after an | :08:35. | :08:51. | |
exaggerated run-up. To Kim ages to hit the ball and it hasn't come down | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
yad! -- it took him ages. Hasn't come down yet. He skies it. Said it | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
was tactical to bring him on, but he got that one wrong. Muller. Germany | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
have scored 22 in a row in penalty shoot outs. Muller, saved by Buffon! | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
It stays all square. Muller, the first person to miss the Germany in | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
a penalty shoot out since 1982. Muller there, taking liberties, look | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
at -- looking at the goalkeeper. A great save from Buffon, using all of | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
his experience. Barzagli. You said he would be taking one, Martin. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Another cool defender, from Juventus. And Barzagli very neatly | :09:54. | :10:05. | |
puts it into the back of the net. You need a strong mind in these | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
situations. Up steps the experienced defender, straight down the middle. | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
Big jump from Neuer, but nowhere near it. Germany, certainly | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
frontloading. Mesut Ozil is coming next. All of the big hitters taking | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
the chance to walk up to the spot. Mesut Ozil. He scored a penalty | :10:31. | :10:41. | |
against Italy at the end of March. Oh, and the pressure is too much | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
this time and suddenly, Germany, after 22 in a row have missed two in | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
a row! Ozil gives the goalkeeper the eyes. He hit it the other way. That | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
was a terrible miss. Pelle, for Italy. I wonder if he's | :10:57. | :11:12. | |
going to go for power? He's telling Neuer what he's going to do with it. | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
Oh, Pelle drag it tamely wide. The tiredness is coming to the fore | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
here. I think that the hand of pressure has reached out and grabbed | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
him around the throat. Look at this. He has to be hitting the target with | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
that. Draxler, to try and level it again. Didn't do very well when he | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
came on, did he? That won't matter at all. If he scores this. And he | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
does. Emphatically so. 2-2, sudden death now. | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
Look at that, he picked his spot, perfect pen. Two goalkeepers | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
wouldn't have saved that. Now, Bonucci, who scored the penalty that | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
took us to extra time and led to this shoot out. In the Confederation | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
cup there was a shoot out and Italy lost, against Spain in the | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
semifinals, and blue Cheek missed. He's scored one already tonight -- | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
and Bonucci missed. And he can't score another! It is the big hand of | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
Neuer and Germany, one click away from winning it. He goes for the | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
opposite corner to the first one. Neuer, guessing perfectly well. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
Great goalkeeping. Swinging backwards and forwards here. There | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
might only be one more trick of the Baltic Knight. Bastian | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
Schweinsteiger to try and preserve this remarkable Germany record -- | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
one more kick of the ball tonight. It's the captain, the Germany. And | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
he has put it high! There's no end to this. The penalty shoot out is | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
disintegrating in terms of quality strikes. Well, you can't believe it, | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
a player of his quality. Nobody seems to want to win it. 2-2 after | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
five. Giaccherini, the next to make the long walk. Italy were only one | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
click away from crashing out of Euro 2016. -- one kick. Has he got the | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
energy in his legs? He has run and run and Giaccherini scores. He had | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
enough left. Now it's Italy who are one click away from reaching the | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
last four. If you are Neuer, you are better off going down the middle. | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Such an athletic jump. Buffon seems to stand up a little bit longer. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
Hummels to keep Germany alive. And Hummels beating Buffon, who got | :14:28. | :14:45. | |
a hand to it, but not enough to keep it out. 3-3. It's a good penalty. | :14:46. | :14:56. | |
Under severe pressure, Hummels. Again, he picks his spot and Buffon | :14:57. | :15:09. | |
isn't able to get there. Parolo. Neuer's name is blooming out from | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the other end of the ground. Parolo goes down the middle as well. I | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
think they've worked out that Neuer is only diving to the right. Here he | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
goes again, the keeper. Straight down the middle. Kimmich walking up | :15:25. | :15:37. | |
next the Germany. Time for the young man to really come of age. 21 years | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
old. A Bayern Munich prospect. Pep Guardiola has said that he loves | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
this boy. He looks very young, doesn't he? Kimmich, inexperience, | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
against Buffon, who has seen and done it all. Pete scored right in | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
the bottom corner, nerves of steel! -- he scored. Fantastic from the | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
young man. What a great penalty, he knows exactly what he's doing, he | :16:06. | :16:17. | |
picks his spot. A player from the town of Rottweil and he has beaten | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
back. De Sciglio. From Milan. De Sciglio missed against Uruguay three | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
years ago in the confederations Cap. Neuer is trying to put him off. And | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
De Sciglio scores. But his heart must have skipped a beat when it hit | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
the crossbar on its way. He has absolutely thumped that, look at it | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
rising. Just makes it in. The pressure goes back onto Germany. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Jerome Boateng, whose handball took us here in a roundabout way. He has | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
the pressure of Germany on his shoulders. You can feel the pressure | :17:03. | :17:13. | |
now. All around me. Voting. Beating Buffon. Nobody is missing now. A | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
poor start to the penalty shoot out, but now it's like a shooting gallery | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
and they are all going in. Voting showed real nerves of steel there. | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
-- Boateng. Now it is Darmian. Another who left the bench for Italy | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
during the game. Has he worked out the Neuer way? No! He went low and | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
Neuer diet low and saved it and Germany are nearly there once more. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
Brilliant from Neuer. He's outfoxed him. Just a little step to the right | :17:59. | :18:11. | |
and then he went left. Hector steps up. A man who's had a phenomenal | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
rise to the Bundesliga, playing in the lower leagues. Only two years in | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
the FC Cologne first team and now on the biggest stage of all, to take | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
Germany through, and he's done it by blasting it through Buffon. Sending | :18:25. | :18:34. | |
Germany through to the semifinals of the European Championship. It might | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
go down as their worst penalty shoot out ever, but they still found a way | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
to win it. And the heartbreak is all with Italy. Germany, on penalties. | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
It's always Germany. They are one step closer to what would be a | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
fourth European Championship crown. 20 years on from Euro 96, they are | :19:03. | :19:12. | |
closer to fussball coming home again. Germany winning on penalties, | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
we've heard that before. You just knew he was going to put it in. Full | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
of confidence. Look what it means to them. Nobody wants to win a game of | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
football that way, but they'll take it. Gallant effort. Just going under | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
Buffon's body. Just had enough on it. Agonising. They always find a | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
way. STUDIO: The celebrations for the | :19:45. | :19:57. | |
winning penalty. Well, Germany have done it again, haven't they? Another | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
penalty shoot out victory, they go through to the semifinals and will | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
face either France or Iceland. Even when they start missing penalties, | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
they still win the shoot out! Is the first time that Germany have ever | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
beaten Italy in a major tournament. A tough one to take for you, Jan | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Luker. A tough one but still I think we should be proud because of how we | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
played -- Jan Luker -- Jan Luker it is cool but we have to accept it. | :20:24. | :20:39. | |
It's a pity. Some of those penalties were the worst I've ever seen and | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
the run ups, what on earth, it was incredible. Dancing in front of the | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
ball, Pelle telling the goalkeeper he was going to think it rather than | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
concentrating on what he was going to do. Tears were Buffon, | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
understandably, he got so close to a couple and couldn't save them -- | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
tears for Buffon. Pressure makes things that -- makes you do things | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
you wouldn't normally do. Like Alan said, we saw some of the worst | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
penalties in the history of the shoot out. But Neuer, we have to | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
give him credit, he stopped two. He showed all of the game why he's the | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
best in the world and also in the penalty shoot out. We saw some | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
atrocious penalties. It must be complicated when you see the | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
goalkeeper like Buffon and Neuer. They are so big. They make the goal | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
looked so small. Understandable, a lot of pressure. Great goalkeepers, | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
not an easy task to take them. Not at all. In the end, somebody always | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
gets the blame, somebody must miss for somebody else to go through and | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
it was Darmian who missed the fatal one, wasn't it? A good save. Similar | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
to the winning one that just went under Buffon. It's always a matter | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
of inches, details. You always remember the one of Darmian but if | :22:07. | :22:17. | |
I'm Italian, I will think of the run-up of Pelle, telling the | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
goalkeeper what he's going to do. It is adding pressure to yourself. You | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
already have enough on you. Not a lot of power. The others were pretty | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
poor. Well, Germany, France possibly in the semifinal. We aren't there | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
yet! Let's play that game, let's try and win it: massive respect for | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Iceland, let's see tomorrow. We just about have time. Thank you, Luca. | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
Commiserations. Germany have done it again. Goodbye. COMMENTATOR: The | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
same theme of Italy winning. Germany find a way through. It's a | :22:58. | :23:22. | |
penalty for Italy. And it's game on in Bordeaux. Penalties coming. | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Germany | :23:28. | :23:28. |