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AFCA
17 Jun 2008, 05:06 AM
Italy and France face the unprecedented prospect of a penalty shoot-out to determine who finishes third in Group C if the two sides crash out on Tuesday. World champions Italy and France face each other in the final Group C match with both almost certainly needing a win if they are to make the last eight. But if Romania beat Holland, ending the pair's progress hopes, a draw would not separate the teams in the standings.

Therefore, a shoot-out would be played even though both sides would be out.

It would be the first time in tournament history two teams who have been eliminated from a competition would have to play out a penalty shoot-out for the purposes of determing future co-efficient points. The co-efficient can affect a team's seeding for future international tournaments.

That would be epic fail on France and Italy's part...
VCFan
17 Jun 2008, 05:18 AM
That would be epic fail on France and Italy's part...

How? That they've put themselves in a situation where they have to depend on another team to be given the chance to qualify? Teams go through periods of bad form and bad coaches, and unfortunately this rough patch coincided with Holland's ascension to power.

Or that they'd have to go through penalty kicks for third place? Personally, I'd consider the first point more of an epic fail than this one.
AFCA
17 Jun 2008, 05:42 AM
How? That they've put themselves in a situation where they have to depend on another team to be given the chance to qualify? Teams go through periods of bad form and bad coaches, and unfortunately this rough patch coincided with Holland's ascension to power.

Or that they'd have to go through penalty kicks for third place? Personally, I'd consider the first point more of an epic fail than this one.

This is like the proverbial turd on a bad cake. Or something.
Black Label
17 Jun 2008, 08:16 AM
Seems like a silly thing to do.. Where did you get this from?
1shot1kill
17 Jun 2008, 10:14 AM
I just read this somewhere else too, wth? How embarrassing would that be?

Edit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/euro_2008/italy/7457863.stm

So it's not true.
DaveyGorgeous
17 Jun 2008, 04:38 PM
Forzaaa Azzurrri!!!!!!!!!!