Dare Li! 2 Owns and 1 Winning, Italy took a roller coaster to send himself into the playoffs

As mentioned above: After the World Cup expansion into 48 teams, the group stages of the European qualifiers have become useless, and the real highlight is the play-offs.

54 Football Association members, 12 groups... Although European football represents the top level and development direction of world football, this cannot conceal the reality of the differentiation of strength and weakness in the group stage and the taste is useless. It is basically that traditional powerful men get the direct ticket to this group, and the remaining competition for the playoffs of this group.

Of course, football is round, and there are always one or two unscrupulous down-and-out households who will inevitably fall asleep and "do" themselves into a dangerous play-off. For example: The Italian team of the Blue Army.

As the winner of the four World Cup, the Italian team has been really unsatisfactory in the past decade. Although it relied on its rebirth in the European Cup, the painful experience of falling in the play-offs for two consecutive World Cups has become a pain that Apennines cannot breathe.

Because of losing to Germany in the 2024/25 European League quarter-finals, Italy was the loser with Norway, Israel, Moldova and Estonia to Group I. As a seed team, the biggest competitor of the Italian team to the World Cup is the Norwegian team with the "Demon" Haaland.

However, in the third round of Group I, the Italian team played in Copenhagen for the first time. Before the half was over, the Norwegian team was 0-3 - setting a century of shame in team history, and basically putting themselves into the playoffs.

coach Spaletti resigned, Gattuso took over, and Italian football entered the darkest era.

In the first game of coaching after Gattuso took office, the Italian team defeated the bottom Estonian team 5-0, which was a good start, but if you want to win the top spot in the group against the trend, you must defeat another strong opponent in the group, Israel, and the more goal difference, the better.

However, before halfway through the first half, Locatelli pierced through his captain's fingers, and this own goal directly forced the Italian team into a desperate situation.

"Telephone Gate" destroyed the soil of Italian football and led to the withering of talents. The former star-studded football team can only rely on planning to support the scene. Before the end of the first half, Retge made the ball and Keane equalized the score by detonating the arc in the penalty area, so that the Italian team would not return to the lounge in despair.

However, less than 7 minutes into the second half, Peretz helped Israel take the lead. However, this also completely woke up the Italian team. Keane and Politano each scored one goal within 4 minutes, finally helping the Italian team take the lead; and Retgi was the one who gave the assist. At the end of the game, Raspadori turned around and shot in the penalty area, helping the Italian team to take a 4-2 lead. Just when all fans thought the game would lose suspense, Bastoni's own goal increased the suspense of the game. Peretz headed the ball when the game was about to enter stoppage time, setting the score 4-4.

If the 3 points you get become 1 point, the Italian team will completely lose hope of overtaking Norway, and the play-off that makes all Italian fans scared to talk about will become a nightmare for Italian football again.

Fortunately, there is still time left for Italian football. After the kick-off in the middle circle, Tonali aimed at the left side of the penalty area and shot with a foothold, performing a countdown. The Italian team finally won the victory of the game in a thrilling manner.

With Tonali's final victory, Italy tied Norway with one game in less than 1 game, but the goal difference was 8 fewer than Norway's... With Gatuso's offensive performance averaged 5 goals per game after taking office, there may be hope, but can this defense...be able to hold on?