World Cup qualifiers In the European zone play-offs broke out of the big cold, Italy lost 0-1 to North Macedonia, before waiting for the peak showdown with Portugal, Italy took the lead in kicking itself out of the World Cup, which can be described as dying to the end.
As the winner of Euro 2020, Italy was reduced to playing the World Cup qualifiers in the European zone play-offs, which was a big deal, and the core of the team's midfield, Jorginho, conceded penalties twice in a row, dragging Italy into the mire.
Before the game, head coach Mancini said in an interview that he would still let Jorginho take the penalty, but unfortunately bad luck came, nothing could stop it, Jorginho could no longer get the opportunity to atone for his sins, and this obscurity would even be contagious.
In this game, Italy's talented striker Belaerdi successfully took over the honorary title of "Unlucky Little Prince" from Jorginho, no matter how much he tried his best, no matter how hard he worked on the field, all that awaited him was a variety of shots.
This is similar to Jorginho's failure to score a penalty twice, it can be said that it simply makes us look stupid, in a sense, Italy is a typical self-inflicted sin.
Wasting opportunities is to be punished, this is the blood and tears of countless classic games to bring us the lesson of tears, Italy naturally can not be spared, sure enough, survived the most difficult moments of North Macedonia, in the injury time stage suddenly forced, Rajkovsky scored the only goal of the game between the two sides, knocking Italy out.
When the World Cup qualifiers came out of the European play-off group situation, we lamented that Portugal and Italy always had a team to be eliminated, but unfortunately we did not even have time to look at the world cup collision staged in advance, and Italy was confused and played itself to death.
It seems that every time Italy wins the championship, the iron law of the crotch is also difficult to be broken, with the Italian style of playing, it is indeed difficult for a team in the world to easily defeat it, but it can't stand Italy itself.
Two consecutive World Cups did not qualify for the main stage, although Italy won a European Championship during the period, there is no doubt that this is the darkest moment of Italian football, the World Cup is less Italy, always feel that something is missing.