” VS’is over, Italy is eliminated”, resolves to recognize aloud the presenter of Rai 1, after the surprise defeat in the play-offs (0-1) of the Nazionale against North Macedonia, 67and in the FIFA rankings. “After the 2018 World Cup in Russia, we will not be in Qatar this year. It looks like a curse, ”laments the journalist from Italian public television. As a symbol, the retransmission of Thursday evening’s match opened with archive footage of a collapsed Gianluigi Buffon after the elimination in 2017 in Milan and ended with the tears of the European champions, overwhelmed on the lawn of the Palermo stadium.
Roberto Mancini’s men will have plenty to regret tonight and for the next four years. End-to-end dominators (61%…
