The reason why the World Cup has an irreplaceable lofty status in the minds of fans, a very important reason is the scarcity of holding it every four years, so that its championship gold content is very high, which is why there is no World Cup champion star, even if brilliant achievements have been made, it is difficult to be able to rank among the ball kings, it can be said that participating in the World Cup is the ultimate lifelong dream of all stars.
However, in the 22nd Qatar World Cup European Qualifiers, italy and Portugal, the champions of the past two European Championships, have not been able to qualify for direct promotion because of their poor performance, and they are also divided into the same group as the play-offs, which means that there will inevitably be a team that will not qualify for the Qatar World Cup, in the semi-finals of the play-offs, Italy and North Macedonia will meet in a narrow way, and Portugal will encounter Turkey, and the prospects of Italy and Portugal will meet in the final before the match are more promising. But in the game, the fate of the same European champions is diametrically opposed, Italy has repeatedly missed good opportunities, resulting in its last-minute elimination, and Turkey missed the opportunity to equalize on penalties in the second half, Portugal escaped the day, and the probability of reaching the World Cup is greatly improved!
Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared, but when the opportunity arises, the team that cannot grasp the opportunity will be punished on the football field, this iron law of football has been verified countless times, and in the match between Italy and North Macedonia, the ST European champion Italy, once again confirmed this with a painful lesson, in the face of opponents who are far inferior to their own, the Blue Army can be said to have a clear advantage in the whole game, and has been pressing the opponent to chase and fight, and their ball control rate reached 66% in the whole game. Created 32 shots on goal, but unfortunately only 5 shots were within the threshold.
Berardi was in the opponent's penalty area throughout the game, showing his feet comparable to the defender, especially in the 29th minute of the first half, the North Macedonian goalkeeper made a huge mistake and directly passed the ball to the feet of Berardi, but unfortunately, the latter faced the empty goal with a weak shot like a return pass, so that the opposing goalkeeper made up for his own mistakes, and finally passively beat North Macedonia for a whole game, killing Italy with a long-range shot in injury time, sending the European champion home.
Compared to the one-sided match between Italy and North Macedonia, Portugal and Turkey played back and forth throughout the game, and in the first half, Otavio sent a pass assist to Jota to expand the score after helping the team to break the deadlock first, but Turkey, who was behind in the second half, began to fight back, and Ilmaz, who had previously played for The Chinese Super League team Beijing Guoan, helped Turkey win back a city shortly after the opening, making the game suspenseful again.
And in the last moments of regular time, Turkey won another penalty, but this time Ilmaz's penalty was directly released by anti-aircraft guns, Portugal escaped the disaster, if Ilmaz can equalize the score, which team can laugh until the end will become unknown, which is why fans have said that luck cares for Portugal after the game.
As the two best performers in world football in the past, Messi and Ronaldo are likely to usher in their last World Cup, and now Messi has led Argentina to lock in a regular place, and after Italy was eliminated, the probability of C Ronaldo leading Portugal to enter the Qatar World Cup has become very large!