2022 World Cup" again missed the 2022 World Cup European Cup champion-Italy

2018~2022 Italy returns to glory and falls to the bottom

Euro 2020 Champions - Italy

The UEFA Euro 2020 was postponed to June 2021 due to covid-19. At the beginning, England was the most optimistic. The media slogans of all the worlds changed from "Will football back home?" to "football back home", from questions to The shift in affirmations represents the expectations of fans around the world.

With a 30-game unbeaten record, Italy made it all the way to the final, where they met the much-anticipated England. The day before the European Cup, the media around the world were still cheering football home, and the final kicked off in less than three minutes. With England scoring at home, the desire to keep the European Cup Gold Cup in England seems to be getting closer.

Italy's continuous attack, and finally at 67 points, Bonucci made up for the tie, and all the way to the PK game, the Italian new goalkeeper smashed England's dream with both hands, and defeated the hope of football returning to its birthplace. Elected as a Golden Globe winner for a near-divine performance. Two of the five most dazzling football stars in the 2020 European Cup of Nations are Italian players.

38 unbeaten record goes into history - Azzurri

In the sixth round of the World Cup qualifying, on September 9, 2021, Italy defeated Lithuania 5-0. On this day, the Azzurri reached a historical peak in recent years, breaking the historical record with a continuous 38-game unbeaten record. On this day, it will go down in history, the winner of the European Cup and the redefinition of the historical record.

After this record, on October 7, 2021, Italy met Spain in the semi-finals of the European Nations League. The last time the two teams played against each other happened to be in the semi-finals of the European Cup. The Italian goalkeeper was in the PK game. Spain ended in 2019, but Italy was not so lucky in the semi-finals of the UEFA Nations League, losing 1-2 to Spain.

The loss does not seem to affect the Roman Legion

A lost game does not affect Italy, and Italy has experienced even more pain. Since Italy missed the World Cup after 2018, it has shown a series of reforms after a painful experience. Feeling the same, a generation of goalkeeper Buffon shed tears on the spot, and the sentence "This is my last World Cup" expressed the Italian captain's heart.

Since then, Buffon announced his departure from the national team. Buffon's withdrawal means that he has exchanged the historical positioning of becoming the first to participate in the six World Cups in exchange for the generational change of Italy. This is also the first time in 60 years that the football power Italy cannot enter the World Cup. 32 powerful.

After losing the game that year, the Italian players in the audience either kneeled or hugged and cried. The media used the National Memorial Day as the headline to describe the blow to Italy. Then , Roberto Mancini became the new coach of the Italian national team. Under Mancini's reform, Italy played to a historical height.

2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Lost, Italy Tragedy Again

However, on November 16, 2021, after the final round of the 2022 World Cup European Qualifying Tournament against Northern Ireland, it was clear that Italy could not qualify directly from the World Cup qualifiers. Play the play-offs for Italy's last chance. However, in the face of North Macedonia's unexpected defeat, the National Memorial Day came again, and Italy missed the World Cup for the second consecutive time.

Italy is currently facing the most serious problems

For this generation of Italian players, they have already lost the qualifications for two World Cups, so that young players cannot have such a large-scale event experience, which is a great loss for the players. In addition, the biggest problem facing Italy is the problem of offense. Italy has no effective offense. So far, it still relies on the tearing of young players and the maturity of veterans to score. For example, if the 35-year-old veteran Bonucci did not keep up with the goal that Italy tied in the European Cup final, it may not be the loss of England in the PK game.

The positioning of the historical record is to be unbeaten, but many of these 38 unbeaten records are draws. Although at a certain level, not being scored is the key, because only in an invincible position can you think about victory; but when the team is invincible This notion is a big problem when it is impossible to score the opponent's goal, because it means that the team can't stand out in the points system.

Regarding the qualification of the 2022 World Cup, the recent allegations against Ecuador by Chile have attracted the attention of the Italian media, because there may be a very small chance that Italy will qualify for the World Cup, but Italy should still seriously think about the team's Offensive positioning.