That 9-0 clearly useful for qualifying, which has been talked about a lot in recent days “unthinkable” And “impossible”, as he repeated Gennaro Gattuso. But not in the near future make it nine And suffered four at home, in front of 70 thousand people, there is one big difference. Italy lost the final match qualifies for the next match World Cup and he did it very badly.
The final score was 1-4 for Norway who showed it to the Azzurri in the second half because he is going to the World Cup and why the 3-0 scoreline in the first leg was not simply the consequence of a “bad day” for the Azzurri. Many people were fooled by his goal tonight Pio Esposito, in the 11th round, which broke the deadlock. A goal that made many Italian fans happy.
It was a match where the Azzurri played a good first half, then they disappeared. In the second set, Norway took the lead, started dribbling, put Locatelli and his teammates in the middle and went for it quality, play in the straits, speed And one on one. As if to be proud to show the difference from Italy. And soon the Italians returned to reality: Prima Nusa then in the 63rd minute he equalized the score Haaland – unseen until then – scored two goals in the span of 60 seconds 78th and it 79th. He thought of making his obligations more severe strand Larsen, which in the 90th minute made it 1-4.
“We have to do it First of all, apologize to ours fan, 4-1 is a tough result. It’s a shame after a very good first half, like a real team. There disappointment the greater it is second half, we lick our wounds and congratulate our opponents,” like this Gennaro Gattuso minutes after the defeat against Norway on Rai’s microphone. A match that brought Italy back down to earth and into reality: it is a national team that has very serious limitations.
Gattuso himself stated to Sky: “All our shortcomings were exposed.” That’s flawed – with all due respect Moldova, Israel And Estonia – it’s hard appear with an opponent of that caliber. And now on to playoff round, which will be played Line up. Four months in which we will try to smooth out many boundaries: “Time is short, we must repair our fragility”. This time Gattuso was right.
