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[s4tch]

UEFA president Čeferin: "Italy? They are too important. They must qualify for EURO 2024 otherwise it would be a disaster."

What a coincidence

he probably made a promise to his interista buddy gravina

italy are still likely to qualify, they have a game in hand and are yet to play two inferior teams, but imagine the scenes when italy won't make it, gravina loses his chair at next year's figc presidential election, and ceferin ends up with a useless uefa vice president with zero influence on a high salary because of the brilliant job he's done for his petty vendetta on juventus. that would be glorious

 

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he probably made a promise to his interista buddy gravina

italy are still likely to qualify, they have a game in hand and are yet to play two inferior teams, but imagine the scenes when italy won't make it, gravina loses his chair at next year's figc presidential election, and ceferin ends up with a useless uefa vice president with zero influence on a high salary because of the brilliant job he's done for his petty vendetta on juventus. that would be glorious

Only if it leads to actual structural change, otherwise we'll just end up in the same situation down the road.

 

[Badass J Elkann]

worst Italian side i've ever seen , I don't see any star in this team and most likely they miss the next WC.

Nah that conte team where freaking Pele and Eder was leading the line that was lel

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2002 i blame the refs though. Byrone Moreno or what ever his name was. Not that Italy would have won the whole thing cause they finished 2nd in the group, maybe they would not have met Korea had they won their group. Trapattoni was already past his prime. 2004 cant just excuse Denmark-Sweden fix. Bulgaria was trashed by both. Italy even was losing 1:0 half time. Sweden beat them 5:0.

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France 1984 won. 1988 failed to qualify.

But it was only 8 team tournament too.

Trapatoni should have called Baggio for that tournament

 

[MrMonkey]

Italia win tomorrow and draw against Ukraine and in!

 

[Badass J Elkann]

jorginho is utterly shit at penalties, how many times does he need to miss even against North Macedonia?

 

[Siamak]

jorginho

chiesa is the only player who brings 100 percent focus and effort

 

[iosono.bianconero]

Chiesaaaa

 

[Mark]

they lucky they got .

 

[campionesidd]

The hero they need, but certainly not one they deserve.

 

[juve123]

This stadio olimpico turf nearly caused another knee injury to Chiesa.

 

[campionesidd]

This stadio olimpico turf nearly caused another knee injury to Chiesa.

Such a terrible pitch. But a perfect metaphor for an archaic country living off its past glory.

 

[Bianconero81]

Fagjinho still playing for Italy in 2023

The rest of the world evolves but Italy remains frozen in time.

 

[Salvo]

Good to see Chiesa scoring

Why on earth is Jorginho still taking penalties?

 

[MrMonkey]

Good to see Chiesa scoring

Why on earth is Jorginho still taking penalties?

Didn't he miss about 3 in a row? If so maybe was under old manager. Spalletti doesn't look at stats. Couldn't watch but appears it got a little hairy until late two goals.

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

Chiesa is Italy’s only world class player. They look a different team when he’s playing.

I really hate that he’s wasted as a second striker for us instead of playing on the wing where he should be.

 

[MrMonkey]

HTH was it Frattesi missing the last one. Like a PK get the ball in the air and the goalie has no shot at the save. No he hits it along the ground.

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Completely controlled the first half. 66-34% poss ad, 7-0 corners, 16-5 crosses but still 0-0. Need that first goal and having to endure a Max type Juve struggle to get a draw. Chiesa missed a bunny early on too.

 

[BetterCallSaul]

I hope Chiesa scores 2 goals, gets subbed with Darmian in 80th minute and then complete colapse...3-2 Ukraine, own goals by Barella, Frattesi and Darmian

 

[iosono.bianconero]

Chiesa is way ahead of everyone in Italy

 

[HelterSkelter]

Are Ukraine getting a 1-0 here or what


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[MrMonkey]

Chiesa is MOM so far but he looks out of gas and might need to come out. Sloppy on a few moves trying to dribble ball out of own end. Italy playing Friday and Ukraine didn't doesn't help.