Coach Mancini is ready to quit after Italy did not win tickets to the World Cup
(Dan Tri) – Coach Roberto Mancini is ready to face a gloomy future after the Italian team lost in shock to North Macedonia in the play-off match of the 2022 World Cup qualifier in Europe.
Although they only have to meet their inferior opponent, North Macedonia in the semi-finals of the qualifying play-off World Cup 2022 The European region belongs to the C branch, but the Euro 2020 champion Italy suddenly lost in shock to the opponent with a score of 0-1.
The disappointment of the Italian players after a shock loss to North Macedonia (Photo: Dailymail).
The Italian team dominated for the most part in the confrontation with North Macedonia but only 5 of the team’s 32 shots were on target. Meanwhile, despite playing worse, but North Macedonia still won thanks to Aleksandar Trajkovski’s goal in stoppage time of the match.
This loss means Italy will miss the second World Cup final in a row, when four years ago they were also unable to be in Russia after losing in the qualifying round to Sweden.
Speaking after the game, coach Roberto Mancini expressed disappointment at the performance of his students, but attributed Italy’s failure to overcome North Macedonia due to “bad luck”.
The Italian strategist said: “If Euro 2020 is the best experience of my life, then this is the biggest disappointment. Obviously we can’t predict anything, it’s the rules of football, sometimes things are unbelievable. happened and it came”.
Coach Roberto Mancini said that Italy was too unlucky in the match against North Macedonia (Image: Dailymail).
“We wouldn’t have been here in the first place if we hadn’t missed the group stage. In fact we did everything we could to win and it’s difficult to explain how. that we failed.
Winning at Euro 2020 was well deserved, we played football wonderful. Then some of the luck we had in that tournament turned into total bad luck. Some unbelievable things happened from September onwards.
We dominated the game, all we needed was a goal, but it didn’t work. Tonight, it seems that conceding in the 92nd minute is inevitable. Unfortunately this is a good group of players and I am sorry for them not being able to be in Qatar“, Coach Mancini shared.
The joy of North Macedonia players when defeating Euro 2020 champions Italy in the play-off match (Photo: Dailymail).
With just reaching the top of glory at Euro 2020 but quickly falling into the abyss when he failed to win tickets to the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar, coach Roberto Mancini is facing being fired in the near future.
However, the Italian strategist did not show concern when declaring: “We’ll see. I think right now people are too disappointed when it comes to the future.”
Meanwhile, North Macedonia’s victory will help them meet Portugal to win a place in the World Cup final round on March 29.
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