Fans watch quarter final between Italy and Ukraine

Описание: (1 Jul 2006)
1. Fans watching the match on a big screen
2. Various of Italian fans celebrating their team's goal
3. Wide of fans
4. Mid of two Italian fans with red white and green hats
5. Fan with Ukrainian flag painted on his face
6. Italian wearing glasses with red white and green lenses playing drums
7. Two Italian female fans
8. Wide of fans
9. Ukrainian fan waving flag
10. Wide of fans
11. Italian fans celebrating second goal
12. Mid of fans
13. Italian fans celebrating third goal
14. Mid of fans
15. Various of Italian fans celebrating after the end of the match
STORYLINE:
With an early strike, a goal-saving scramble, and help from defender Gianluca Zambrotta, Italy held off Ukraine 3-0 on Friday, setting up a semifinal match against host Germany on Tuesday in Dortmund.
Fans without match tickets gathered in front of a big screen in Dortmund, to watch a game which Italy started as favourites against a Ukrainian team which reached the quarter finals for the first time.
One minute after Zambrotta kicked a ball off his own goal line to quash Ukraine's last hope of an upset, Toni scored his first World Cup goal in the 59th minute with a header and added a second when he slid in Zambrotta's goalmouth pass in the 69th.
Zambrotta flew home early in the week to visit former Juventus teammate Gianluca Pessotto, who is fighting for his life after falling from a window at the Italian club team's headquarters in Turin.
The defender ran down the right in the sixth minute, set up a one-two with playmaker Francesco Totti and finished it off with a searing 20-meter (yard) left foot drive that goalkeeper Oleksandr Shovkosvskyi couldn't stop.
Only Zambrotta's second goal in 56 games for Italy, it put the Azzurri in the situation they have perfected over decades of World Cup success: defending a slender lead.
After a few narrow escapes, Toni made sure Italy did not have to worry until the final whistle.
And if they have a reputation for unattractive play to achieve that goal, it was never on show Friday. Led by Totti, the Azzurri sparkled with little backheels and clean, crisp passing combinations that Ukraine could never match.
After seven seasons in Serie A, Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko no longer held any secrets for Italy's expert defense and could not give his
president Victor Yushchenko any reason to cheer in the stands.
Afterward, the Chelsea-bound player went up to the Italian fans, applauded them and bowed in respect.
In the end, Ukraine, the surprise team to make the quarterfinals in its maiden World Cup run, was finally exposed as a team which had too little to offer beyond a robust defence.
Keyword-world Cup 2006

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