What do you think of Italy's draw with Northern Ireland in the preliminaries and its failure to advance directly to the World Cup?

I think Italy's poor attack and inappropriate lineup made this game a draw with Northern Ireland, which led to Italy's failure to advance directly to the World Cup. The performance in Italy was terrible. They were kicked by the Northern Ireland team without any temper. It shouldn't be this script. Italy is the champion of the European Cup. It didn't take long for it to win the trophy, and then it regressed to this state. This plot is too reversed, which is beyond my expectation. Although the Italian team's fighting capacity will be slightly reduced because some great players like Inmobile and chiellini didn't come to the game due to injuries, I didn't expect it to be so difficult to play Northern Ireland.

Italy and Switzerland have the same points before the game, one ticket, two teams, and whoever has more points will qualify directly. Switzerland was lucky to draw a team like Bulgaria and beat its opponent 4-0. The Italian team is not so lucky. Italy and Northern Ireland drew, so Switzerland surpassed Italy in points, which made Italy unable to advance directly to the World Cup.

The Italian attack in this game did not show the strength of the European Cup champion. Italy shot six times in this game, which was completely intimidating and was easily intercepted by the Northern Ireland goalkeeper. I don't quite understand. Italy's possession rate and passing rate are higher than those of Northern Ireland. Why did the Italian team hand in a blank at this key point of shooting? Italy's wings won't break through, the midfielder can't give a penetrating longitudinal pass, and several strikers can't cooperate with each other, so the attack efficiency is too low.

Italian coach Mancini's on-the-spot command is not good. He shouldn't put Inny and Varela on the left, and he shouldn't change Cristante. Mancini has a problem with employing people. Berardi played so badly that Mancini let him play the whole game and kept giving him the ball. Chiesa switched to the right and passed the ball with his back foot, which was much better than him. Italy didn't create a real scoring opportunity throughout the game. Italy won the European Cup, and I really admire it for playing football like this. Next, Italy will play a play-off. There are too many strong teams here. I hope Italy can take every game seriously.