Spanish referee gives Quarter-finals passport to Italy

"I just can't believe it. We're in disbelief because anyone who watched the game could see that it was not a penalty," Australian midfielder Tim Cahill told reporters.

"It was very surreal. It's very, very cruel," Viduka said. "This was a game that we really dominated and we had the feeling that if the game went into extra time we would have beaten them." (Australian striker Viduka

A wrong decision, at the injury time, of the Spanish referree Luis Medina Cantalejo gave to Italy the opportunity to score a penalty converted by Francesco Totti and the game was decided

The Italiam team was playing only with ten men after the 50th minute when Spanish referee Luis Medina Cantalejo harshly showed a straight red card to Marco Materazzi for bringing down Marco Bresciano.

After Portugal-Netherlands yesterday, this match places once more the attention on the referees. We hope not to find an Italian referee in Spain's next game.