Norway-Italy ends with a lesson to the Azzurri. Qualification at the 2026 World Cup compromised before starting, we risk staying at home for the third time in a row. All guilty, nobody is saved: Italian football is in an emergency
We are beyond the alarm, one and a half foot (perhaps two) inside a psychodrama. That the trip to Oslo against Norway was the highest obstacle in the Montale 2026 race was known. That Italy was slapped, torn, put on the corner and mistreated by Haaland and companions not. It was a humiliating and clarifying experience. Not only going to the United States or Canada and Mexico next summer by winning the group is now something that belongs to the size of the dream, not even more a project, but also thinking of grabbing in some way the qualification moving from the playoff tagliola today seems arduous.
And since the last time the Mameli’s anthem resonated in a world championship review there were no Spotify, Netflix and Tiktok, the Prime Minister was Matteo Renzi and that of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano and in the championship Allegri had not yet trained Juventus the first time (there was still, albeit for a few days, Antonio Conte) -year 2014 -, it is good to say that someone must take responsibility for the responsibility.
Do soon! Right away. There are no explanations that can withstand the impact of the bleak national performance in Oslo. Not the end -of -season effort, given that our opponents also ran and played throughout the year, not the injuries of a repeat defense and not even the rain, the wind, the exuberant house audience, have taken goals to the first shot of others or everything you want to add. So Italy is still at home and it would be the third time after seeing the others playing it in Russia (2018) and Qatar (2022).
Italy has made Sorloth, Nusa and Haaland three phenomena. Maybe they are also, but the technical, tactical and intensity crash has been so vertical as to call into question first of all the responsibilities of a group that has returned to screwing on itself after some timid post -European recovery signal. A manifestation that had been another failure, quickly eraseing the sweet memory of the triumph of Wembley, and that had been put on the account of Luciano Spalletti and that’s it.
Evidently he is not the only responsible, but not being able to do much more we start from him. Do you believe the technical commissioner in the possibility of avoiding the third non -qualification? Are you aware of the abyss in which our national team crashed? Did it make sense to challenge Norway with the usual football and pseudo-aggression by placing the whole structure on a defensive phase so fragile as to touch the embarrassment? As if the lessons of the past were not enough, Italy has delivered itself to the defeat pretending to be obliged to recite a script not suitable for interpreters and on the occasion.
Now the situation is compromised to the limit (beyond) of the sports disaster. To make it simple: win the group with Norway ahead of 9 points and 13 goals of nets difference (+10 their, -3 we) passes solely through a series of blue victories and a gift from some part of the Norwegians. On November 16 there will be the return, but the unfortunate performance of Oslo risks making it a journey of the illusion. So if it goes well you will have to go from the playoff shell and it will be hell. Spalletti and his condemned everyone to a ten -month long psychodrama. There is no forgiveness, just a question: can you bring us to the World Cup or do you ascertain and think of someone else?
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