00:01still got plenty of music which presumably will stop before the match gets underway
00:06unless we're going to start with the beat of a drum
00:09well I doubt if many people heard the whistle other than the players but we are off and running
00:15this will be playing from right to left
00:24Belgium's beaten just once under their new coach Robert Brassege played 9-1-4 John Paul
00:33lost one and that was to England at the Stadium of Life in Sunderland
00:43Maldini
00:47almost great next year the Italians against Turkey a little bit more subdued here
00:58Siriano good industry from Mpenza
01:07people shouldn't judge him I think by his stepping on the ball in the first match
01:11no he came for crosses of the night man generally kept going very well and straight away he's been decisive
01:16which is if he's playing in front of him exactly what you want him to be
01:19I think he's in the middle but won't get that behind he's got to be careful
01:22Maldini it's a good stop in Suggie on the turn and again the building makes a great save
01:30goodness me
01:31goodness me
01:32the hand went to sleep and Maldini needy nearly made him play
01:37the rule that saving his side
01:46that was a marvellous double save wasn't it in fact when the ball got played in and
01:50Maldini attacks the ball
01:52great save that he's very very close and he gets up very very quickly to make the second save which
01:56of course is even better
02:02Maldini
02:02Albertini to take free kick for Italy
02:07no chance there and Francesco Dotti scores for Italy
02:15first goal in the championship for him the second of his career
02:22nothing that time that De Wilder could do about it good delivery
02:27good head up
02:301-0
02:30at the moment it seems to adjust the hair start
02:37well how many times have we said about the delivery being the most important thing
02:41and again like we saw with one of the goals the Portuguese goals the other night
02:44if you get in front of the defender and the delivery is right more often than not you'll score
02:49especially being such a close range
02:5320 seconds in for the 6th minute
03:03half of the cheeks in zaggy tries to get away well beaten by uh
03:21it will be interesting by just to see how uh the belgians react
03:25point in mind of course they are at home
03:28and they are under that pressure that uh you're in place is talking about
03:31in the joint host nation with holland before and to go one down against the italians
03:37they've got a lot of soul searching to do and a lot of patience are suggesting the way they're going
03:40to play the football
03:46point of their success under
03:48block of success under
03:51collectivity of effort
03:54spirit
04:01and
04:02a lot of
04:05potty thank the head
04:11you'll watch to the plan
04:29in fact as you may have noted played the crossfield ball
04:37what about the delivery for belgium
04:42everybody on the left side
04:46has come forward the hand is there
04:50going to front players that's very well out by nesta
05:00zembarotta
05:02got support forward tollo down the middle fiore further over good claim
05:11go ahead
05:15strupa
05:19vermont
05:22go
05:29strupa
05:31go ahead
05:33a little undecided i think and it was costly to him
05:38but back door very very unlucky behind good pressure this from the belgians
05:46the flounder door again and pens are in the middle it's not away yet by the italians and still not
05:55giuliano got his head to that
05:57stalin's
05:58the flounder
06:00crowd reacting
06:04to the excellent comeback by the home side
06:07the hand
06:12and the hacker got to be a bit careful here
06:18long spell of possession
06:22wilmots
06:26strupa
06:27npenza
06:28vajan
06:31everything to his left
06:34and a push in the area
06:37nothing given by the referee
06:40npenza
06:44midwell wasn't the greatest power
06:50but what a spell by the belgians
06:51yeah i just think it's the turn of
06:53and pens as much as anything they managed to get the shot on target but certainly
06:57fierce left foot from gore which really told i didn't know very very much about
07:02here we have it
07:04superb strike wasn't it
07:08number 21
07:15the plant
07:16school cross to the back of the box
07:19strupa
07:20too many touches wilmots the goalkeeper did well and having committed himself stayed there
07:25and wilmots hurt by that
07:31original plays by strupa trying to hold the ball up just to try to get himself a little half a
07:35yard
07:35to get the shot on goal and it was wilmots that was fined up but tolder was out very very
07:40quickly
07:41out of his penaltier and made himself very big to stop wilmots
07:48he starts at six foot five and he spread it there
07:53again strupa
07:59he's left his usual position is here instead
08:05strupa across the line of the uh massed ranks of the azure and the kick over and hit it cleanly
08:13enough
08:15on the邊 to keep it up to the plate there
08:41and that's
08:43just the filter of fiorentina could just watch it and wave it goodbye
08:43in the bread basket
08:45they come to the same again
08:47Petalda sees that all the way
08:49but there's another Italian edging behind him
08:51to cover that
08:53and the wall is inching forward
08:54it's not the required distance now
08:59so they've made their point
09:01the Italians
09:03comfortable again
09:04it's slightly different in style
09:07from the goalkeeper
09:08spread his legs backwards
09:10and flattened the ball on the deck
09:12it was never going to go through
09:13it wasn't the way he took the ball
09:17Bahane
09:21Struppart
09:21better turn
09:23Impenza
09:23nice touch
09:25shot was from Wilmots
09:32well that was the best move of the game
09:33for the Belgians
09:34hold up play by Impenza
09:35early shot by Wilmots
09:37but no real pace
09:38no real power on it
09:40absolutely no way was he caught there
09:44half time
09:47and the Italians
09:48have the only goal of the contest
09:50and here's the man who scored it
09:53Francesco Totti
09:56just in
09:57to the sixth minute
09:59the sort of match that we've seen many times before
10:02when Italian teams play
10:03well how often do we see it
10:05Barry score an early goal
10:07retreat back into their shell
10:08who's to say it's the wrong thing
10:10while they've invited the pressure from Belgians
10:12onto the Italians
10:13the Belgians haven't really created enough chances really
10:16that the pressure really should have produced for them
10:20not much time to think through what happened if you're sitting in the stadium
10:24and not behind the glass panel
10:26because your ears are assaulted
10:30during the half time interval
10:32where we go in the second half
10:35and the Belgians
10:36looking for
10:38an early goal
10:41and I suspect the neutral is too
10:44suddenly terribly quiet after the drummers stop
10:54first attack down the right side
10:56more than the other side
10:59by some distance
11:03and to Stalence
11:04but Gore
11:06Hendricks outside him
11:09three kick
11:13by Cannavaro
11:17his body position on the opportunity that fell to Mpenza
11:20was interesting
11:23covered what might have been a hole in the goalkeeper's rank
11:28and Gore to take
11:31Stupa just this out of the penalty spot
11:33Ford to come from the far side
11:38now get a push and shove
11:41comes out for Stalence
11:43it's a good stop
11:44second really good save
11:47that Toldo has made in the match
11:48one on to the woodwork
11:50Stalence now
11:52denied by Toldo's
11:55left hand
11:57Gore will take
12:04good encouragement
12:05from the home crowd
12:08Stupa on the near post
12:10climbing from the back
12:11that was very close indeed by Wilmots
12:18again good delivery wasn't it
12:20off-sided this time
12:22really attacked the ball
12:23Wilmots very very late
12:24he almost came off the side of his head
12:36second match running that he's been brought on as a substitute
12:42impressive against Turkey
12:46good save again
12:49good save again
12:55again
12:55again saw it late
12:56the meat
12:58one thing about him Barry
13:00his foot movements is excellent
13:01told him
13:06bit strong
13:08the planned
13:15three on this Italian break
13:20now Albertini
13:24Conte
13:26offside given against Nzaghi
13:30to be brought offside
13:31it surprised him
13:32that
13:32if he was offside
13:34it was a bit criminal
13:35and he was
13:43comes Maldini
13:45behind
13:45there first
13:50Nzaghi
13:51returns the ball
13:53and that is a brilliant goal
13:57scored by Fiore
14:02for all
14:03Belgian pressure
14:05the Italians
14:06strike quite beautifully
14:11he started it
14:13got the ball back from Nzaghi
14:15and he finished it
14:18Stefano Fiore
14:20just great quality wasn't it
14:25little give and go
14:26Nzaghi
14:28didn't make him break his stride
14:30had a quick look
14:31Fiore
14:31and really just passed it
14:33passed the Vilda
14:35a goal of the highest quality
14:41well he was only brought into the side
14:43in February of this year
14:45but on the evidence of the two matches
14:47we've seen so far
14:48it was a very good decision
14:49by Dino Tchoff
14:51and you may argue Barry
14:52that Italy have had three attacks
14:54and scored twice
14:56again we've seen that before
14:58once or twice
15:01just into the 66th minute of the match
15:04to be with a comfortable cushion
15:08Belgium
15:10with a real test
15:15and the other thing as well of course
15:17you play Cannavaro
15:19Nesta
15:19Giuliano
15:20as more
15:20because
15:21you watch now Barry
15:23so Brotto plays a right back
15:25Maldini plays a left back
15:26all of a sudden
15:27you've got five
15:29Nelis
15:32and
15:33Dodrum are now prepared
15:35to pair the
15:38Penza brothers
15:41the
15:41Jünger and Penza
15:43and
15:43Luke Nelis
15:45they're having trouble
15:47keeping hold of the ball
15:48consequently
15:49there's a lack of movement
15:52Vecchio trying to get there
15:55the flag is up
15:58the assistant referee
15:59on this side
16:00has his flag raised
16:02and I suspect
16:02there was a push
16:03the Italians are celebrating
16:06but it is not to be a goal
16:09Fiore
16:10goes to inquire
16:11with the Spanish referee
16:19I don't think there can be any doubt
16:20about this
16:21whatsoever
16:22all gets flicked on
16:23by Del Piero
16:27definitely Del Vecchio
16:28just a little gentle
16:28shove in the back
16:30feel the defender
16:31onto the ball
16:34bagger anyway
16:35as well as who it was
16:36but
16:36he's just going to play the ball
16:38when he gets a shove
16:41Zombrotto pushed forward
16:42as well down the right hand side
16:43they've looked very very compact
16:45they've not exactly been
16:45very creative in the area
16:47but they've just been
16:47very very difficult
16:48to play against
16:49Zopp is saying
16:50that he doesn't necessarily want
16:53a sort of really creative
16:54player
16:55it's
16:55collected job
16:56oh
16:57there was the second chance
16:58part of the same man
17:03I think it was
17:04I think you'll find
17:04it's a shin of this
17:06with a little flick through
17:08just never really got any
17:09great power behind it
17:11and Penza
17:11slightly rushed
17:14the Italians with
17:15two victories
17:17last five seconds
17:19of stuffage time
17:20being counted down
17:21just about time
17:22for the free kick
17:23to be taken
17:23and be all over
17:45there's a player that
17:47can excite
17:51has ideas and the technique
17:53to match them
18:002-0
18:01for the Italians
18:04the early goal
18:05gave them the control
18:06they withstood the pressure
18:07goalkeeper
18:09making one excellent save
18:10in that spell
18:11and one later in the day
18:14but the Italians
18:15winning well
18:16yes extremely comfortably
18:18the benefit of the early goal
18:20that really made Belgium
18:21start to come at Italy
18:22and Italy just sat back
18:24generally controlled the game
18:25although they
18:26you know
18:26surrendered some possession
18:27to Belgium
18:28but eventually
18:29they've coasted through
18:30to this match
18:30so
18:31I just don't
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