Except it wasn't true. If it was somehow possible, I'd say both teams deserved to go out. Italy were incredibly uninspiring, Sweden played horribly defensive and negative football. You can't really 'acnknowledge' the Swedish performance, because it just wasn't there. Sweden were godawful.
Haha.
Why shouldn't Sweden park the bus for 90 minutes at San Siro when they already had a 1-0 victory in the 1st leg?
Sweden nullified Italy's attacking game despite having some few good chances.
Hell, even their captain (Andreas Granqvist) even won Swedish POTY thanks to his Maldini-esque performance.
You comes across as a bitter cnut for being salty about Italy missing the World Cup for the first time in 60 years.
Sweden were better than Italy throughout 180 minutes. Simple a that.
Regarding the bolded part, I guess you would dismiss Juventus' performance vs. Barca in 2nd leg as well for instance?