On the international match day, the World Preliminary Tournament was in full swing, the European division was upset, and North Macedonia, with less than 2 million people in the entire country, defeated Italy 1:0, resulting in Italy once again missing the World Cup finals. Italy failed to reach the world cup finals in 2018, and the team that just won the European Championship last year missed two consecutive World Cup matches. If the responsibility is pursued, head coach Mancini bears the brunt of it, and player Jorginho will not be able to escape his responsibility.
In the group stage of this World Preliminary Round, Italy won 4 wins and 4 draws, North Macedonia had a cold victory over Germany to achieve 5 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, and both teams entered the play-offs with the second place in the group to compete for world cup tickets. As a result, after 90 minutes of competition, the favored Italy lost to North Macedonia. In fact, italy suppressed North Macedonia in all aspects of this game, but with some lack of luck, it failed to win the game.
66% possession, 32 shots on goal, 5 shots on target, 103 dangerous attacks, this is Italy's data, 34% possession rate, 4 shots on goal, 2 shots on target, 12 dangerous attacks, this is North Macedonia's data. From the data point of view, Italy completed the explosion of North Macedonia, but 5 shots are only 2 times more than Macedonia, it can be seen that the level of Italian strikers is very general, not only the accuracy of the shot is not good, but also the conversion efficiency is also very low.
The several strikers sent by Italy in this game, whether they are Inmobile, Berardi, Insigne who started the game, or Joao Pedro, Pellegna and Raspadori who later replaced him, these six are not first-class strikers in European football, although they are all the main goalscorers in their respective clubs. These few people would not have been able to play in the starting line-up if they arrived in France, which shows that Italy is really a talent wither.
As the main midfielder of the Italian national team, Jorginho is not an absolute main player in the Chelsea team, and occasionally comes off the bench. Jorginho kicked a penalty twice in the group stage of this season's World Cup, Jorginho's penalty was saved by the opposing goalkeeper in the 5th round, Italy drew 0:0 away to Switzerland, in the 7th round Jorginho took a penalty before the final game, Italy drew 1-1 at home to Switzerland, if it were not for Jorginho's two penalties, Italy would not have played a play-off to compete for World Cup tickets.
Whether it is Jorginho or several main strikers of the Italian national team, they can only be regarded as second-rate players in world football, but they are the core main players in the Italian national team, so the withering of Italian talent is one reason for missing the World Cup final twice in a row. After Italy's defeat, legendary coach Capello expressed his opinion, saying that the development model of Italian football was wrong and that Italy should learn german football instead of Spain.
In an interview with Sky Sports Italy, Capello said that our country's football is all on the wing, there is no straight ball, we are imitating the football of Guardiola 15 years ago, this style of play has long been outdated. Our players are not physically fit and are not used to physical confrontation. We studied Spanish football and wanted to beat our opponents with our foot skills, but our technical ability was not good, we didn't have players who could make the game suddenly open.
Capello appealed: We should learn german football and constantly attack in the game. In Serie A, only Atalanta played offensive football, and Italian football was too slow. In addition, he also gave examples that forwards like Romelu Lukaku and Tammy Abraham are phenomenal players in Serie A, and in other leagues they are just ordinary players, which also shows that Italian football has lagged behind other leagues.
If compared with other leagues, Serie A is less intense in the Premier League, the confrontation in Ligue 1, the technology of La Liga, the attack of Germany. The long-term downturn in serie A has led to worse and worse youth training in major clubs, and there are fewer and fewer talented players in Italy, in stark contrast to Italy, France's youth training is doing well, although Ligue 1 is known as the fifth largest league, but the strength of the French team is indeed quite strong, because there are too many outstanding players in France.