As is often the case in such a tightly closed match, the delivery came from a set piece opportunity. 30 meters out, Andrea Pirlo delivered one of his specialties, and produced the goal to put the Azzurri in the lead. The Georgian goalkeeper Georgi Lomaia was a bit naive at getting completely surprised out of position, anticipating the cross to Toni. Before the half ended, Lomaia amended for his mistake by parrying away another good Pirlo FK delivery. 1-0 at the break. With Italy in the lead, you'd have expected the Azzurri to play more relaxed and be a little more daring in the final third of the field. Not so. Instead, the Italians still stubbornly refused to challenge their opponents one-vs-one (sound familiar?), and constantly slowed the game down by passing back to their defenders. Donadoni was desperately trying to get his full-backs (Oddo and Grosso) to overlap on the wings, in order to create some crossing opportunities, but even that didn't work. The Milan right-back notably was having a very poor night in terms of passing delivery, his crosses always falling short of the mark or being too long. Toppmoller tried to use what little ammo he had available to give his team a few hopes (out Mchelidze for Kenia, 16 year-old prodigy and recent Schalke 04 acquisition), but with little effect. Not that the Azzurri were doing much to contribute, mind you. Donadoni, on his part, finally decided to take out Quagliarella and give Pasquale Foggia a chance to play. Cagliari's no10 was evidently too excited with his Azzurri shirt debut, because he lost the ball too many times due to excessive dribbling, but one of his (deflected) crosses almost made it to Luca Toni, who couldn't connect with the ball. On the ensuing corner the Bayern man was ready however, but Lomaia showed some great reflexes to stop the ball. 5 minutes from the end, it was time for Fabio Grosso‘s return in the Azzurri goalscoring chart, his latest tally (I'm sure you all remember) being the game-winning-goal vs. Germany in 2006. Despite tonight's [url=http://cheapnbajerseysshop.webs.com/]cheap jerseys[/url] goal wasn't as beautiful (or as capital) as the one he produced in the World Cup semi-final, it was pretty nice nonetheless. The Lyon man first had a good chance from outside the box (his shot heading for the top corner) which was deflected away by a defender, but minutes later brilliantly set up by Luca Toni, made no mistakes in the 85th: controlling the ball, Grosso waited for the keeper to make his rush and chipped him onto the far post with a beautiful scooped shot. 2-0 Italy. Decidedly the only exciting moment in an otherwise very drab match.