China News Service, Beijing, March 25th. In the early morning of the 25th Beijing time, in the 2022 Qatar World Cup European qualifiers, the new European Cup champion Italy team lost 0:1 to North Macedonia and was eliminated.
In the 92nd minute of the game, North Macedonian player Trajkovsky scored a lore goal.
After 2018, the Italian team missed the World Cup for two consecutive times.
In this game, the Italian team missed the opportunity to score many times in the first half.
Changing sides and fighting again, they still took the initiative on the field, but they were still unable to convert their shots into goals.
In the 2nd minute of injury time, Trajkovsky scored a long-range shot and scored a lore goal.
Image source: Official social account of the Italian national team.
"Just like the European Championship was the best experience of my life, this moment is the biggest disappointment of my life. We definitely deserved the European Championship, everyone played great. Then some of our luck in the game changed. It became complete bad luck, because some incredible things have happened since September last year." Italy coach Mancini said after the game rather lonely.
The Italian team has also become the fourth new European Cup champion to miss the World Cup.
The other three were Denmark in 1994, Czechoslovakia in 1978 and Greece in 2006.
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