Wow.

That Panenka pentaly of Zidane was just gorgeous, altough it shouldn't have been a penalty, Materazzi barely touched Malouda.
Materazzi La Belva (the beast) scored a beautiful goal, he and the outstanding Cannavaro proved that Italian defenders are still the best in the world.

Italia deserved to win: their backline (Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Materazzi, Grosso) was the best of the tournament, midfielder Pirlo played near perfection, Gattuso is one of those players who can play two games on a row, and the strikers were there when they had to be. Even tough Totti wasn't that good, Buffon made the compensation by playing outstanding.

The red card of Zidane was not so decisive for the game as it looks: even with him, no one could have scored before the penaltys. Zidane would probably have kicked his penalty instead of Abidal (who was weak IMO) and Trezeguet would still have missed.
Materazzi was smart enough to let himself fall and act like to be murdered. No doubt it was really hard, but I think he exagerated a bit.
Brazilian lipreaders said Materazzi said Zidane's sister's a whore. In France they tell Materazzi said something bad about his mother. Englishmen say he called Zidane a terrorist. Materazzi's father said that Zidane shouted something first.

Anyways, next week Zidane will speak and tell what really happened. If he's no already murdered by that time.
Aha, finally. In fact the way they played was not particulary good, on some moments it was quite boring, especially after the 90 minutes of normal playtime (except for Zidane's moment of course) but the atmosphere was huge. Italy nearly exploded last night.