Their #9 plays for Al Ain, they brought on one guy who plays for Seattle Sounders and another who plays in Belgium. Their goalscorer plays for AEK Athens. It is mediocrity throughout with one or two elements of quality.
Just being blunt I'm not trying to shit on Sweden because they do well - precisely my point about a collective rather than the possession and hope approach of Italy.
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I was being sarcastic, he was genuinely hit in the face even if it was not deliberately dangerous. Well, if you jump with arms these days then there is always a chance a ref will punish you, Italy were desperate later on and tried to play on that but the jeers Bonucci got were pretty laughable. You could see him still holding his nose late into the first half.