as eric ronaldo said ONLY ITALY CAN SCORE AGAINST ITALY. so far nobody has scored against italy. and about the semifinal, italy and germany played in march 2006 when italy beat germany 4-1. and nightcrawler why do you say italy is lucky against australia. do you know till mataraazi was given red card italy was dominating and only the goalkeeper of australia was keeping them in game. may be if it was 11 vs 11 game italy would have beeen 2-0 up by 90 minutes. and about the penalty. i read in sydney herald ( which is an australian mazgine ) that said italy deserved penalty. you cant just dive infront of player so as to obstruct the way. Australian player delibrately slipping infront so as to obstruct the way and that deserved a punishment. and by the way for anybody to win against italy first of all they have to scroe against italy.