The AS http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603 vice-captain is over the moon after Italy secured a place in the semi-finals of the tournament, and likened Pirlo’s shot to Totti’s against the Dutch.
The Giallorossi midfield general was in superb form in the quarter-finals and could have scored the goal of the tournament from his left-footed strike 30 yards from Joe Hart’s goal. It was a cagey affair and the Three Lions set
up was very defensive, with both sides cancelling each other out in the first 90 minutes.
Despite http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Italy-c2926’s inability to breach the opposition defence in normal time, they remained the side that threatened more and looked more likely to score.
De Rossi was taken off in the second-half due to the injury he picked up in the match and could not feature in the eventual penalty shootout. Gianluigi Buffon had conceded to nervousness whenever he encountered penalty shootouts
but he stuck to his guns and made sure that the Italians came out of the match as the eventual winners.
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wolves-c40952 midfielder went on to comment on the penalty-kick of Andrea Pirlo, who scored with an audacious chip to give Italians the lead in the shootout. He went on to comment and was full of praise for the ingenuity of the Italian
midfielder. He was quoted to have said:
“It’s one of those nights that remain with you forever. It reminds me of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Francesco-Totti-c13940 against Holland 12 years ago when Pirlo scored that crazy penalty.”
He further went on to comment on his strike which saw http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Joe-Hart-c18699 rooted to the spot as the ball struck the woodwork.
“When I hit the post I thought a few things, so that went badly, but I wouldn’t change anything about this night. I still have to discover if I’m right or left-footed. I risked sending that shot into the stands, but it went fairly
well – apart from the upright.”
The Italians got through to the semi-finals courtesy of a save from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alessandro-c4710 Diamanti, and the Italians won
the tie 4-2 on penalties.
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