Azzurri v South Africa, Or: So Many Players!

To sum up: Total domination; Lucarelli brace; several dozen players and nearly that many debutants.

Really, that's all you need to know. Italy's B-team, AKA Lucarelli and the Kids, dominated South Africa, threatening to run them off the pitch in the first 10 minutes until SA settled down and hung in there, pulling out a counter now and then and putting together the odd pretty move (all of which ended with Benni McCarthy running really fast).

Read the full article at The Offside: Italy.

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