Ukraine hit the post, had a shot cleared off the line and hit the crossbar all whilst being only one-nothing down at the start of the second half, before an efficient Italy scored two further goals to ensure relatively stress-free progress to the Semifinal. Frank De Bleeckere took charge of his fourth match of World Cup 2006. Referee from Belgium left the same impression as he did in the first three, not bad, but not outstanding either; just getting through the games. A missed penalty for Italy features amongst the KMIs, our starting point.
Key Match Incidents
66' - Penalty to Italy (tripping)?
A bit of a deceptive situation - Camoranesi was running non-vertically (ie. away from goal) and could have been seen himself to jump into the outstretched leg of the Ukraine defender in front of him. No such thing happened, if anything the Italy player tried to everything he could not to be hit by that leg, but he was tripped.
De Bleeckere either had to award a penalty or punish Camoranesi for simulation - he did neither, and took the easy option. A penalty should have been given.
CRUCIAL MISTAKE
90' - Penalty to Ukraine (tripping)?
A tricky situation, it seems as though three things happen: Ševčenko wins the position, before giving his opponent what seems to be a shove, before then turning the Ukraine attacker is tripped. At the end of all that, a defensive freekick was the most astute choice, and the one the referee opted for.
Approach
What most impressed me with Frank De Bleeckere's performance was his very good decision to open the cards at 16', it would have been a mistake to decline that chance to flash a yellow. There were ten minutes in the first half the referee couldn't really calm the players down and only inflamed them more with his decisions - but nothing especially problematic. Referee's manner was not a real strength of De Bleeckere, and he didn't choose to act against dissent. In the end, De Bleeckere achieved his goal - to get through with the path of least resistance.
Italy's second goal had a question of offside regarding it, if so, the offside was too tight to be really be detected by the human eye in real time. That was on the side of Walter Vromans who, like Peter Hermans, wasn't really challenged on this evening.
Frank De Bleeckere - 7,9(3)
Peter Hermans - 8,4
Walter Vromans - 8,4
Tōru Kamikawa
Yoshikazu Hiroshima
BEL – JPN | Italy 3-0 Ukraine
Quarterfinal |
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Sviders'kyj (16.) - Tackle
Kalynyčenko (21.) - Tackle
Milevs'kyj (67.) - Persistent Infringement |
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