10 Important Last Minute Goals That Should Never Have Happened

Australia were supposed to roll over and die in this second round 2006 World Cup tie, but they were resilient. And when shy wallflower Marco Materazzi was sent off for two bookings early in the second half, the game was nicely poised.

In second half stoppage-time, Fabio Grosso broke into the Australian penalty area. Lucas Neill slid in, but far too early, and Grosso skinned him. Not content to beat his man and potentially score the winner, Grosso threw himself over the prone defender and the referee bought it. The Australians were outraged and rightly so, but substitute Francesco Totti tucked the penalty away in the 94th minute to seal a place in the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup.

And the rest, as they say, is history. While goalscorer Totti had a quieter tournament after the second round, Grosso and Materazzi had some crucial moments still to come. Grosso scored a late winner of his own in the semi-final, knocking out hosts Germany with a great finish on 119 minutes, before Alessandro Del Piero added a second.

And of course, Materazzi was involved in the most famous red card in World Cup history, receiving the Zinedine Zidane headbutt in extra time of the final against France. Materazzi had already cancelled out Zidane's early penalty to make it 1-1. Materazzi scored in the penalty shootout, before Grosso scored the decisive penalty to win the World Cup for Italy for the fourth time.