Sampdoria v Inter: Typical Bloody Matrix
By: Martha | January 28th, 2007
About eight minutes in, Sampdoria went down to 10 men and, though they put up a good fight, for all intents and purposes the game was over at that point — all thanks to the warped genius of Marco Materazzi.
Chasing a deflected shot, Samp’s Gennaro Delvecchio flew towards Inter keeper Julio Cesar with his foot out. When the play ended, Delvecchio was lying in the goal box, miles behind everyone, and Julio Cesar was about to play the ball out. Until, that is, Materazzi sprinted back to scream at the prone Delvecchio for having the nerve to chase down a loose ball. Those he was ostensibly “protecting his keeper,” after watching five different replays about 200 times, I can say with 87% confidence that Delvecchio’s boot didn’t touch Julio Cesar. Whether he touched him or not instantly became moot, however, when the indignant Samp player stood up hard and very intentionally rammed the top of his head into Materazzi’s face. As you might expect, Matrix went down like he’d been shot, and Delvecchio was off with a straight red.
The best part of the whole encounter is that, because of the angle of confrontation, Delvecchio’s head clearly made contact ONLY with Materazzi’s nose. A few minutes later, however, Matrix was petulantly showing the Sampdoria team the blood that was issuing from his poor, damaged … lower lip. Were I a betting girl, I’d put a lot of money on Matrix biting his own lip, just to make his victimhood complete. Well-played, Marco. Well-played.
[image from inter.it]
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Materazzi must have a head fetish, seriously, that’s how he scores all his goals and attracts his scandals…
Otherwise, I heard Zlatan played a nuts game!! Hooray for Suedes!Posted from
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Ibra was awesome Sam, but I’m starting to expect him to be that way so I don’t notice as much as I should. I love how eagerly he plays — he’ll try anything, just cos it’s fun, and it might work.
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maybe if i ever get to Milan one day, I’ll come to Inter training ground and ask for a chance or two (maybe five) to headbutt Materazzi, it seems like a fun game.
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I think Julio Cesar had no reason the fake getting raked across the thigh by delvecchio’s boot. Plus there is not getting around the heat butt. You can see it on all the replays and although Materazzi did make a meal of it there was definite contact and it was rightly punished by the ref. All the same Samp put up a great fight but with a man down it was always going to be tough.
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And now we need to be absolutely certain that Matrix gets a punishment that is precisely two-thirds of Delvecchio’s. That’s the headbutt precedent, right?
I’d love to see the videos of this.
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must resist making head-related jokes… :|
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Delvecchio could certainly take lessons from Zizou on how properly to deliver a headbutt. It was akin to the headbutts I get from one of my cats from time to time, so maybe Delvecchio was simply trying in a rather maladroit way to kiss and make up. But kudos to Matrix for instantly cashing in, and kudos to Julio Cesar for setting it up right. It was his snarl at Delvecchio that drew Matrix’s attention. And yes, I think by now we all have to admit, however much it pains us, that Matrix is a genius. For me, he has just overtaken Gattuso as the player I most love to hate, and the hated opponent I would most love to see playing for my side. Porco cane!
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