Italy wins a crazy match against Israel: 5-4. The result that keeps the hope of going to the World Cup alive but that also highlights worrying defects of the Gattuso national team
There is no logic in the victory that Italy has conquered in Debrecen, the neutral field of Israel. Nothing that can be explained with tactics or technique and, perhaps, not even using the rhetoric of the heart thrown beyond the obstacle or the inability to be normal. A crazy game, manifesto of surrealism of which Gattuso will do well to jealously preserve only the result: 5-4. It is the key that is used to keep the flame of the hope of winning the qualification for the World Cup on, as long as everything else erase.
Twice Italy has been on the edge of the abyss and twice was saved. It happened at first played too bad to be true, in which Israel not only carried on but also deserved it, and at the start of recovery when the Israelis found themselves in the lead again. For an hour the blues of Gattuso walked on the thin wire of the elimination from everything, including playoffs. Because losing in Israel’s house would have meant: writing a black page in the history of Italian football and preparing to undo the suitcases to stay on the ground next summer.
How Italy has managed to rebel against this destiny is linked to two factors: the opponent’s non -excellent quality and a sort of spirit of resilience that Gattuso seems to have instilled in his boys in this first week of life in common in Coverciano. This is the good news, together with the masses of goals poured on Estonia, waiting for Norway to make its duty against Moldova and clarify if the margins exist to try the ribaltone.
The good news, however, ends here: the brace of a Moise Kean who has finally become great, its understanding with attributes and the continuity of raspodori (on the net just set foot on the pitch) and the final flicker of tonals that represents the soul of this national team. The coach tried to joke, but not too much: “I took absurd goals, we are crazy but we reacted”.
Real both, the absurd goals (two Acti so much to welcome) and also the desire not to surrender, but the truth is that in October and November it will be necessary to put aside the madness of Debracen’s night and return to normal. Italy who beat Israel is not enough to fly to the World Cup; Not immediately in November, when he will have to meet Norway hoping that Haaland and his companions have left something on the street before, and possibly even in the spring we had to go through the playoff tagliola.
Disposed of emotions, the accounting remains. The Azzurri hooked Israel to second place in the ranking with one more game to play. The goal difference is now +5 (12 goals scored and 7 conceded) against +11 of Norway. Finally and for a few hours with the same encounted meetings. A mountain still high to climb, with the risk of irreparably sliding as it was close to Debrecen evening.
