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Italian national team
will face the playoffs to compete for tickets
World Cup
.Since the last two editions, the word World Cup playoffs has seemed like a trauma for Italy.
Italy is a great power in the world of football.Four World Cup trophies are proof of their greatness.Only Brazil has a larger trophy collection than Italy.
However, Italy’s greatness was ‘tarnished’ by the failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. This was the second time Italy had not been able to go to the World Cup after 1958. This failure also meant that their streak of 14 consecutive appearances at the World Cup was interrupted.
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Italy failed to compete with Spain and had to settle for being runner up in Group G. Italy also advanced to the playoffs and met Sweden.
Italy lost 0-1 to Sweden in the first match in Solna.When they were hosts, Italy could not reply and only drew 0-0.Italy also couldn’t make it to the World Cup.
Four years later, Italy repeated the same thing.Italy’s failure to reach the 2022 World Cup leaves bigger wounds.
The reason is that at that time Italy had the status of winning the European Cup.Victory at Euro 2020 is believed to be a signal of the revival of the Italian national team.
However, Italy failed to compete with Switzerland.The 1-1 draw against Switzerland at home was the turning point in Italy’s failure to maintain its position at the top of the standings.After that, in the last match, Italy drew against Northern Ireland while Switzerland won a landslide victory against Bulgaria.
In the playoff round, which this time has a longer format, everyone is already noisy about the possibility of Italy clashing with Portugal in the playoff final.Both teams are on the same track.
But in fact, Italy lost 0-1 to North Macedonia in the playoff semifinals.The dream of going to the World Cup has disappeared again.
This time, Italy is struggling again in the playoffs.Italy could not compete with Norway and lost twice to Erling Haaland and friends.
In the playoff round, Italy meets Northern Ireland and follows the winner of Wales vs Bosnia if they qualify for the final.Italy has a heavy burden in the playoffs this time after failing on two previous occasions.
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