Hello, sorry to burst your bubble, but your chances of knocking off italy in the playoffs next time out are near impossible
Croatia is an absolute piece of _ _ _ _ …make no mistake about that…the ultimate pretender team, they couldnt score on a useless japan team who gave up 3 to australia and 4 to brazil…the only team they did score on was australia who played their pathetic croatian backup goalie, and who i suspect was screwing up on purpose to give his homies a chance…nobody could be that bad
On a positive note…coach hiddink has finished 4th in the past 2 world cups with korea and holland, and now he has australia fit and playing well…but no matter what anyone thinks, australia is still very cheap in many ways, and no matter how fit they are the lack of quality players will show against the big boys.
It’s nice to dream, and i picked australia to qualify from that group along with brazil, because i knew how bad japan and croatia were…the top european teams are germany, holland, england, portugal, spain, italy…croatia is not in that league…big test next game vs italy…italy is a big boy in the soccer world and i won’t bet on the aussies to knock them out
Looking at it this way…italy is a big step up in class from anything australia have played, with the exception of brazil, who just beat your australia 2-0 a few days ago…i expect italy will shutout australia and win pretty easy
but…
that’s why they play the game
i know…not what you wanted to hear