I've watched the replay again and it doesn't look like Takahara was pushed into Schwarzer's path. However, I still looks to me as if the keeper made a mess of it.
This game looks to have a lot more goals in it though.
You can check out the first half stats at the Fox Soccer site.
Four years on and Roy Keane "quits" again - this time for good.
Viduka shows how brilliant he can be by playing in Bresciano with a cute back heel but the Parma player doesn't make good contact.
Japan go into the lead and it was a soft goal. Nakamura floats one in and Schwarzer makes a real bollocks of it. There was contact with Takahara but the referee - I'm assuming - judged that the Japanese player was pushed into the Aussie keeper.
I thought Schwarzer mistimed coming off his line and should have been able to take the ball in the air and to clean Takahara's clock at the same time.
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