BERLIN, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Italy head coach Marcello Lippi said that his team are not the luckiest one in the World Cup.

    Lippi, whose side will meet Ukraine in Hamburg on Friday, was not happy with the claims that Italy were lucky to beat Australia through a last-minute penalty kick.

    "I'd like to say something about this talk that we have been lucky," he said.

    "We had Francesco Totti ruled out for three months, then Gianluca Zambrotta, Gennaro Gattuso and Alessandro Nesta all got injured. That's really lucky."

    Lippi also responded to criticism by the Italian media that his team were playing negative football.

    "In the past year we have tried to play in a certain, attacking way and produced some great games that were well received by everyone," he added.

    "Now we get this over-reaction after two or three games where we haven't played like that.

    "We are here at a World Cup and we have brought all our enthusiasm with us, as well as millions of problems, with Totti and all the other injuries." Enditem