The Brazilians played a relatively good game, but it was not, according to Barry Lambert the commentator, a Brazilian team that could not be beaten.
Ghana took more shots than the Brazilians, but the latter scored more.
That two goals were allowed by the Slovakian referee when the Brazilians were offside did not help matters for
Check the Guardian’s comment:
44 mins:
From: http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/minbymin/0,,1788429,00.html
A lot of people maintain the “officiating was bad”. Others say execrable; others “racist”.
It’s not so much that this team lost, but more of a presaging of what is to come—that because of the potentially racist referees,
Some of our players missed huge ones—Asamoah Gyan being the biggest, having missed at least three, but
Till 2010!:-)
2 comments:
If only Ghana scored just 1, I'd have had a solid reason to jubilate.
david--tell me about it! we missed several opportune, erm, opportunities!:-)
sokari--too right! I think we just have to accept this fact, and proceed wearily by making sure that our future strikers, as well as the current one is so clinical a goal is indisputable!! Then biased referee or not, you cannot mess with an emphatic goal:-))
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