Italy are cheats, there's no getting away from it. It was not down to time-wasting because they did it all game long. Taking a dive when they got even the slightest contact. Rolling around holding their faces when replays showed no contact was made with the face. At one point when Lehmann came out and blocked a shot, on the replay you could see the Italian looking up to see where the ball had gone and when he saw Germany were mounting a counter he stayed down so they had to kick the ball out.
They got 2 German players carded for innocuous fouls.
Italy has good players and can play a nice game when they want to but when they do all this other stuff it just leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
Ditto for France and Portugal, because they both do the same thing. I hate to think that the winner of the World Cup will be a team that employs those tactics, but sadly that is the case with Germany out.
