Italy lost to North Macedonia in the semi-final of Group C in the preliminaries, and Azzurri missed the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022!
20 18 Russia world cup, Italy was also eliminated in the preliminaries, when the group stage was eliminated by Sweden. After missing the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, Italy has failed to enter the World Cup for two consecutive years.
This is also the fourth time in Italian history that Italy failed to participate in the World Cup. The first three times were 1930, 1958 and 20 18 respectively.
Italy was defeated by North Macedonia in the preliminaries, humiliated by 0-/kloc-0, and missed the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. This is the fourth time that Azzurri missed the World Cup finals, and it is also the first time that they missed the World Cup for two consecutive times.
After winning the European Cup in summer in 20021,Italy failed to maintain its strong performance of continuously refreshing the team's history record. In the subsequent World Cup qualifiers, although the Azzurri remained unbeaten in 8 games, 4 wins and 4 draws, the Italian who was weak in attack only scored 13 goals, which was far less outstanding than the European Cup.
After winning the final round of qualifiers, Italy was finally drawn 0-0 by Northern Ireland, and missed the opportunity to advance directly to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 finals by two points, which reduced Italy to the point where it needed to compete for World Cup tickets through the preliminaries.
Italy and Portugal were in the same group in the World Cup European qualifiers play-offs. When everyone thought that the two teams would meet in the final of Group C for the World Cup tickets, Italy took the lead in the first play-off against North Macedonia.
After the game, some Italian players were lying on the court crying. This is the first time that Azzurri missed the World Cup final after losing in the 20 18 World Cup, and it is also the fourth time in their team's history that they missed the World Cup in a row.
The previous World Cups that Italy missed were 1930 Uruguay World Cup, 1958 Sweden World Cup and 20 18 Russia World Cup.