Francesco Totti scored on a penalty kick in the fifth minute of stoppage time after defender Lucas Neill was called for a foul in the box as Italy posted a 1-0 victory over Australia in a second-round game.

A three-time World Cup champion, Italy next will face Ukraine, which beat Switzerland on penalty kicks in the quarterfinals on Friday.

Playing a man down for the final 40 minutes after defender Marco Materazzi was handed a controversial red card, Italy appeared to be in trouble against the Australians.

But Spanish referee Luis Medina Cantalejo essentially decided the outcome when he called a foul against Neill, who was sitting in a defensive position when Italy's Fabio Grosso fell over him. Grosso made a great move and glided into the Australian box, where he tripped over Neill. Medina Cantalejo immediately pointed to the penalty spot.

"If you see the replay, there is no doubt it wasn't a penalty," Australian coach Guus Hiddink said of Medina Cantalejo's call.

Totti, who came off the bench in the 75th minute, then blasted a right-footed shot to the corner of the net, past diving goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer.

The Azzurri last won the World Cup title in 1982 and failed to get out of the second round in 2002, losing to South Korea, which was then coached by Hiddink.

The Italians absorbed a major blow in the 51st minute when Materazzi was red-carded by Medina Cantalejo for a tackle on Marco Bresciano. Replays showed there was minimal contact, but Italy had to play with 10 men the rest of the way.

"The important thing when we went down to 10 men was to keep our heads," Italian coach Marcello Lippi said. "Now I think we can go a long way in this tournament."

Penalty kicks were needed to decide a tepid second-round game between Ukraine and Switzerland. But Ukraine advanced to the quarterfinals in its World Cup debut.

Ukraine and Switzerland produced the most lethargic match of the tournament so far, with activity in front of the goal at either end a rare sight.

In the end, the game went to penalty kicks after both sides failed to break the deadlock in regulation time and in the 30 minutes of extra time.

Despite having Andriy Shevchenko miss the first kick, Ukraine won, 3-0, thanks to the successes of Artem Milevskiy and Serhiy Rebrov before Oleg Gusev converted the game-clinching kick.

Marco Streller, Tranquillo Barnetta and Ricardo Cabanas all missed their kicks for Switzerland, which exits the tournament despite not conceding a goal in normal play.

Switzerland, having failed to qualify for the past two tournaments, was looking for a fourth appearance at the quarterfinal stage, which it reached in 1934, 1938 and 1954.

Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin revealed he had to retreat to the dressing room as he "simply could not take" the excitement of the dramatic spot-kick win.

"The teams were equal," Blokhin said. "We were just lucky. A penalty shootout is like Russian roulette. I did not see the penalties myself because after watching 120 minutes on the sidelines it was simply too much to take for me. So I went to the locker room."

Swiss coach Kobi Kuhn blamed his players' nerves for the painful defeat.

"That was just a bad case of nerves," he said. "This morning at practice everybody took aim at different corners and our goalkeepers did not stand a chance. But today their nerves were just shot."

There was little else to report on an otherwise boring tie as both sides decided on caution rather than trying to seize the initiative.

Ukraine could have opened the scoring in the 21st minute after Johan Djourou halted a run from Andriy Voronin on the left wing. Maksym Kalinichenko curled in a sharp free-kick which Shevchenko headed against the crossbar.

The Swiss returned the favor straight away, with Alexander Frei curling in a beautiful 25-yard free-kick that also hit the woodwork.