Shots 16-1 on goal and 9-0 in corners in the first half, 73 shots on goal, 32-4 on goal, 16-0 in corners, 103-12 in the 30m area... From the data alone, it can be seen that there is a very large power gap between North Macedonia and Italy! But this time, in the face of the crushing situation, the Italian team was stunned to turn the aircraft carrier upside down.
Shots 32 on target and 5 shots were weak to highlight the serious break of the Italian talent
Although Italian football is known for its reinforced clay defense, there is no shortage of good strikers in Italian football. Paul. Rossi, Skiracci, Baggio, Vieri, Piero, Totti, Inzaghi, Tony, Cassano... Italy has produced top strikers with various technical characteristics, and has also created a 9 and a half with unique Italian football characteristics. At its peak, Vieri occupied the main center position, Piero, Totti, Inzaghi, Del Vecchio, Montella, Cassano and others had to compete for the job, and Baggio, who still had a battle in the twilight of his career, could not even enter the big list.
But in recent years, Italy has been unable to come up with a reliable striker, and the last striker who can be recognized by the European giants is Balotelli! And now this Italian team is wearing the number 10, which is About to play in the major leagues in the United States. The best striker in this team is Immobile, who is invincible in the Serie A civil war, but has proven time and again at the national team level to be a mud that can't support the wall... Look at the other players in the Italian attacking line, either from clubs like Sassuolo and Cagliari, or as strikers who have played 27 league games at Napoli this season and contributed only 1 goal and 4 assists... When Berardi faced the goalkeeper to send an anti-aircraft cannon, he could not score in the face of the empty goal, because Mobile shot 1 on target in 7 shots, and the whole team shot 5 times in 32 shots, Mancini after the game was not so much ridiculous as losing the ball in 90 minutes, but to pull his group of forwards out and shoot them collectively.
For Spain, it was a big deal for the strikers not to score goals; however, italy was still caught in the strange circle of the forwards not scoring, and the team that scored the most goals in the world preliminaries, Immobile and Di Lorenzo, who scored the most goals in the world preliminaries, only scored two goals.
To some extent, the front line "there is no general in Shu, Liao Hua is the pioneer", which is actually a microcosm of the Italian talent break. Bastoni has risen, but in the face of a tough battle, Mancini still relies on the second oldest defender. The left-back, who has a lot of heritage in the history of Italian football, has also been out of gear since Grosso retired, and Spinazzola was seriously injured at the European Cup. When italy's 11 players on the field, there are many positions can be called the worst choice in the last 2 or 30 years, last summer to win the European Championship for Italian football, more like a return to the light after the terminal illness, this Italian team is still paying a heavy price for talent breaks!
The squandered opportunity is punished, and Jorginho must carry the pot
Although the problem of talent disconnection has been going on for a long time, it only took 256 days to fall from the peak of the European Championship championship to the abyss of not being able to qualify for the World Cup, and it was still planted on North Macedonia, which could not even play the national football team 8 years ago, which is ironic!
Looking back at Italy's World Preliminary Round trip, it can be said that they were punished in the process of squandering opportunities. Behind the constant squandering of opportunities, Inmobile needs to carry the pot, Berardi needs to carry the pot, but the number one "back pot man" out of Italy should be Jorginho.
Four months ago in Belfast, Italy was still in the air PK before the game, leading Switzerland by two goals difference. But in the constant shouts of "need to win" from fans on the British Isles, Italy had to play the play-offs in the 0-0 draw away to Northern Ireland, which had already made Mancini on the sidelines look like ashes; at that moment, Mancini's expression made many people think of Ventura in the last World Preliminary Tournament. Of course, Belfast is the nightmare of Italian football, they did not qualify before the final round, in fact they have "lost". Their real problem is that after winning the European Championship, they only won 1 win and 4 losses in the last 5 group games; of course, the biggest problem is that they have released Switzerland consecutively at home and away.
In both rounds of playing Switzerland, Italy was given the chance to kill the match. But in the two legs of the Swiss game, Jorginho, as the team's top player, lost a penalty; especially in the home game against Switzerland, in a 1-1 situation, the referee awarded a penalty in 89 minutes, which was equivalent to giving Italy a direct chance to kill the suspense of promotion. But Giogenho's penalty shoot-out eventually evolved into a World Cup qualification for Italy.
Two penalties into one, where will there be so much going on in the back? In this training camp, Mancini finally handed over the position of the number one penalty shooter who originally belonged to Jorginho to Berardi. But even so, Mancini cast a vote of confidence in Jorginho. With Verratti and Barrera performing significantly better than Jorginho and the midfielder needing to make adjustments, Mancini chose to keep Jorginho, but this time Jongnho still disappointed Mancini. Even if North Macedonia's goal is not even a good chance, it seems to have a lot of luck; but before Trajkovsky got up, he was in front of Giogenho; and when Trajkovsky adjusted his feet, Jorginho still raised his hand to signal the handball, causing him to miss the best time to chase back and block, and who didn't he carry the pot of out?
The sinking Italian football has no arrogant capital, Cannavaro picked up Mancini? Forget it
According to the regulations, the outgoing Italy and Turkey will also have a friendly match, which looks like it is just an act of the frustrated licking each other's wounds. After the exit, for the Italian team, it also means that the national team career of the second old is coming to an end, and the paper strength of the Italian team will only decline further.
The decline of Serie A has directly led to the problem of Italian football talent being broken, and there is no solution for the time being. But after two consecutive World Cup failures in bulgaria and North Macedonia, Italian football, which pays a heavy price for the wave, has no arrogant capital. Compared with 5 years ago, when De Rossi could at least show his bloodiness on the bench at the San Siro and roar at the assistant coach with "I should be replaced by Insigne instead of me", this Italian team is almost invisible to blood, and Italian football has completely sunk.
After missing the World Cup, Italy's "Sky Sports" broke out that if Mancini resigned, Cannavaro may replace him as the Italian manager. Considering that Cannavaro can expose a lot of coaching problems with the Full Division belt, let him succeed Mancini? Then forget it!