Olympic Soccer – Group A, Australia vs Argentina

I attended my first Olympic event yesterday, and it was a great experience – got kick-arse seats (row 9) and it was a good game, despite the loss for Australia.  Here’s some photos taken with my 450D, 17-85 IS lens.  If I had my 70-200L IS on me they would be even bigger and sharper, but you can’t win them all sadly – I’m lugging too much as it is.

Australia played well against Argentina but Argentina had many more shots at goal, it was inevitable they would convert one eventually, still – Australia put up a very good fight against the worlds best team. The Serbia vs Ivory Coast game was an exciting game with a goal in the first 3 minutes, and two in the last 4 and much intensity from the players. 

Lisandro López and Brett Holman
 

Australia defends a corner – click for bigger version (I will upload a cool sequence of Australia defending a free kick when I get a chance to photoshop it a bit)

 
The Stadium

Ivory Coast plays with intensity 

Ivory Coast defends a corner, click for bigger version

Australia is down but not out, but we have to win our next match and have favourable results in the other matches (which fortunately, at least in the Serbia vs Ivory Coast match, we did). Argentina will win Group A most likely which means I will see them in the quarter finals on the 16th.