Re: (Euro '04) RSS Battles!

"D-bol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> You clearly didn't watch Iuliano, Cannavaro, Nesta, and the Italian
> forwards. You are basing your idea of "perfect" defending on three referee
> decisions. How the referee decisions have anything to do with Nesta's et
al,
> performance still bewilders me.

The penalty on Nesta holding Kluivert(?) was a bit harsh, but that can be
called bad defending, since a good defender would know not to risk a penalty
in those circumstances if the ref tends to call those fouls. If the ref
ignores those fouls, then go ahead and hold the opponents' shirt however
much you like.

However, the second penalty (Iuliano tripping Davids) was certainly due to
bad defending by Iuliano who was beaten too easily. At most you can argue
that, given that Davids had gone by, tripping him was a good defensive move
by Iuliano, as giving up a penalty in that circumstance was the lower risk
option.

Zambrotta's red card was also bad defending. He already had a yellow, got
beaten, and made an unnecessary foul, leaving the team in 10 men.

The rest of the defensive performance was stellar.

But you do realize that we're arguing about semantics.

Daniele