Embarrassing goal creates tougher road as Italy bids to avoid missing out on 3rd straight World Cup
Rome (AP) – if it is Italy Failure to qualify for the World Cup For a third consecutive time, an embarrassing goal may be remembered that it contributes to another epic failure.
Goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarum and Azuri’s entire defense protested against the referee when Joshua Kimmich played a short angle to the beauty of Musla, who recorded in an empty network to give Germany a 2-0 advance to Italy in The Countries League In Dortmund.
Germany advanced 3-0 at the end of the first half before fighting Italy for a 3-3 draw, but the host team is still advancing 5-4 in a total of Sunday.
“The second goal is killed,” said Italy coach Luciano Spallett. “It was easy to avoid. After saying that, these are players and I will always invite them, even if some criticism was appropriate.”
The result means that Italy enters a group qualified for the World Cup from five teams Erling Halland Norway Instead of a group of four teams in which the highest -class nation is Slovakia.
Winning the group is the only way to ensure the direct qualification of the next year’s championship in North America. The team moves second to the qualifiers-the stage in which Italy has been eliminated Sweden and North Macedonia It was excluded from 2018 and 2022 World Cup, respectively.
The World Cup champion was four times, the only time that Italy did not qualify for the 1958 version.
Norway opened the qualifiers in a wonderful form with a 5-0 victory over Moldova on Saturday. Also in the Italian group, Israel beat Estonia 2-1 in the opening match.
Norway will return to work on Tuesday against Israel, whose match “Al -Watan” will play in Debreen, Hungary.
Italy will not start in the qualifiers until June, opened in Norway and also ended team play against the team led by Juggernaut Haland in Manchester City.
“We cannot fail,” said Italy’s Giovanni De Lorenzo defender.
Spalletti said he mocked his team at the end of the first half.
“They had intelligence to assemble the strong second half,” the coach said.
However, Italy looked confused for long periods of both legs. Azzurrri approved two goals in losing 2-1 in the first stage, and Spalletti admitted that he had made a mistake in the starting lineup in the return match.
Now, there is no more space for errors.
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