Italy-North Macedonia 0-1: Mancini’s words

Incredible. Italy is out of the World Cup for the second consecutive time. The night in Palermo turns into a nightmare, in the recovery of a cursed game. North Macedonia, 67th in the Fifa rankings, goes to the decisive play-off with Portugal. Coach Roberto Mancini struggles to find the words: “Last July I experienced the most beautiful joy of my career at the European Championship. Now I have experienced the greatest disappointment. This is football, sometimes incredible things happen. It is difficult for me to analyze. the game, I don’t even know the score. The victory in the European Championship was deserved and then the luck that accompanied us turned into total bad luck, but when you lose and you go out you have to suffer. I don’t know what to say . Maybe we shouldn’t have gotten to this point. There were two situations that don’t normally happen, one was enough. Conceding the goal in the 90th minute seems to have been done on purpose. This is a team with good players, I feel very sorry for them. human I can say that I love the boys more than in July. My future? I don’t know, now the disappointment is too big. First we need to let some time pass but the team has good players and has a great future. ”

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However, the theme linked to the future of the coach remains a cast theme. Federal number one Gabriele Gravina is for continuity: “I thank President Gravina for his trust – says Mancini -, but I repeat: it’s difficult to talk about it now. The next few days will be hard. The boys didn’t deserve to stay out of the World Cup. When one loses he has to suffer and be silent. Now we go back to Coverciano, we train and we go to Turkey to play “. Mancini returns to the cursed match: “What can you say about a game where we shot 40 times? We conceded the goal at the end and we don’t even know why. We don’t even know why we got this far. We won a European championship and we remained unbeaten. for two and a half years so I know one thing: our players are very good. So it’s not their fault or the president’s: I’m the one responsible. When you lose, the first responsible is the coach. ” Then an old feeling. “When there are Europeans and World Cups, the national team becomes important, but then it is abandoned a bit, at least compared to once. It’s a thought that I have had for some time, but I think it has nothing to do with defeat.”