Is Italy out of the 20 18 World Cup? Who eliminated you?
20 18 Russia World Cup qualifiers European play-offs, Sweden won the first round 1 at home, and Italy drew 0-0 in the second round, with a total score of 0: 1 watching Sweden advance.
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The 20 18 European World Cup qualifier, which ended early yesterday morning in Beijing time, had a sad result for countless fans. Italy, the four-time World Cup champion, was held to a 0︰0 draw at home by Sweden, with a total score of 0︰ 1, and missed the World Cup final next year. This is the second time after 1958 that Italy has been excluded from the World Cup finals.
Italy entered the play-offs as the second place in the group and faced severe challenges from Sweden. In the first round, they lost 0:/kloc-0: 0 away. This score is not wide but unlucky-in the history of European play-offs in World Cup qualifiers, all the teams that lost 0:/kloc-0: in the first round were eliminated.
Fans all over the world who love Italy are praying for them, but the miracle has not happened. At Milan's San Siro Stadium, Italy never found a chance to break the deadlock. Throughout the game, the Italian team shot 27 times, and the possession rate was as high as 76%, but it could not break through the Swedish team. The final score was 0︰0, and Italy missed the 20 18 World Cup in Russia.
Italy is out! This is definitely an unexpected result. In fact, before the qualifiers, many people were very optimistic about the Italian team, not only because of the outstanding performance of the Azzurri in the last European Cup, not only because Serie A began to show an upward trend in recent years, but also because of the magical "12 law" in the history of Italian football.
Since the World Cup in 1970, Italy has to reach the World Cup finals every 12 years. Italy won the runner-up in 1970, the champion in 1982, the runner-up in 1994 and the champion in 2006. According to the law, 20 18 will be another cycle of 12. This time, however, Italy didn't even make it to the World Cup finals.
It was a series of coincidences and bad luck that led to the tragedy of Italy's exit: Italy and Spain were in the same group in the group stage and planted the seeds of tragedy early; Bad luck in the play-offs, the powerful Swedish team was drawn. In the first round of the play-off, a refracted ball broke the door and hit the door frame in the second round.
The process of Italy's exit is full of accidental factors or regrets, but losing is losing, and no matter how much you complain about the injustice of fate, it will not change the fact that Italy missed the World Cup finals. The last time they missed the World Cup final was in 1958, and the host of that World Cup happened to be Sweden. Sweden is the hottest team in Europe in this qualifier, and they have overwhelmed the Netherlands and Italy to advance.
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