Italy ● The Biggest Upset in World Cup Qualification - 2022 

Match 8 around 6:25 is obviously Northern Ireland vs Italy, not Switzerland, apparently forgot to edit the name, my bad...

they really went from "IT'S COMING TO ROME" to "YOU'RE STAYING HOME" -

Italy in world cups: 2006: Champions 2010: Knocked out on the Group Stage 2014: Knocked out on the Group Stage 2018: Didn't qualify 2022: Didn't qualify

All I can say is that there’s a lesson learned here: Never let Jorginho take penalties for Italy ever again.

As a dutchman I understand your pain italy cause we felt that pain for 7 years missing out on the 2016 Euros and 2018 WC hope you guys will get out of this slum cause the worldcup ain't the same without italy

Zidane’s headbutt cursed them forever

Jorginho single handedly lost 4 points for Italy and somehow he’s considered a ballon d’or finalist. Shameful

It's ridiculous that a nation of the quality of Italy has not been in the last two World Cups. Mind-boggling actually. Especially after winning Euro. If this doesn't get them insanely hungry for 2026, I'm not sure what can motivate them.

There was many issues that accumulated and led to their humiliating crash-out. The misfortune bgan with the Achilles tendon rupture suffered by Leonardo Spinazzola at "Euro 2020" on July 2nd, 2021 and culminated with the equally unfortunate, season-ending ACL injury suffered by Federico Chiesa on January 9th, 2022. In concert, these were the death knell for their offensive capabilities. Jorginho's loss of confidence with penalty spots was the "cherry on top". Sad really!

Even as an Argentinian it saddens me that Italy didn’t make it. Hopefully they wake up and rebuild a strong team for 2026

Immobile is also one to blame. The amount of chances he missed is absolutely ridiculous

I'm an Italy fan. It's heart breaking to see Italy failed to qualified again. WC will be so different without Italy squad. Something's terribly wrong ... ...

Standards are gradually equalising in world football. Once runaway favourites are no longer so. Games are closer and outcomes increasingly unpredictable.

Love the content bro 🤩🙏

World Cup 2022. Without Italy 🇮🇹 💔

If Jorginho wouldn't have missed those penalties against Switzerland

I'm from the Netherlands and believe it is a real pitty Italy missed the World Cup in Qatar. Italy bring flair, quality, heritage, class and so much more with them when they participate. For me personally Italy is a class act and it is a real shame they didn't make the cut.

History will always remember, Italy was the Euro champion 2022...not qualify for the world will be forgotten as soon as possible.... it's winning the world cup and the uefa that count and be remembered...

There is a mistake in the video description. Italy last participated in 2014, not 2010.

poor Italy sometimes i think that no matter what they do there will always be a Zidane to headbutt their world cup dreams i hope that one day the trophy will come back to Rome👊👊

Italians are unpredictable. Thanks for that help. In nets.

Really disheartening that they could not be there in the world Cup finals. My favourite team.

That is so bad to see them missing the WC 😔 they would something if they qualified I wish them good luck next games love from 🇦🇿

As a french, it's always a great moment to see Italy get knocked out, Zidane really cursed them 🇨🇵💙

A Itália deu muito mole empatando em casa contra a Bulgária, dava pra ter metido uns 6X0 nesse jogo e mandado a Suíça pra repescagem.

Rather than focusing on penalties missed, the problem has been too few goals, and many missed chances combined with frankly a very average defence in the absence of Chiellini. The writing was very much on the wall from as far back as during the Euros when into the knockout rounds we ran out of goals from our Strikers. The victory came in the margins of consecutive penalty shootouts in the semis and final, and we relied on goals from midfielders (Pessina, Barella), a winger in Chiesa and Bonucci. Italy's problem for too long now has been not having a WC striker who can score consistently and pose enough threat to defensive back lines sitting deep. Italy dominates possession and has a very sound midfield base to choose from but the striker threat is so weak that teams are quite happy to sit back on Italy and pick them off on the counter. Switzerland are no mugs of course too; they put France out of the Euros and proved they can be trouble for any of the top sides in world football.

As for Italy, the Azzuris will be back. Don't worry too much as there's a Baggio somewhere being coached in many of her fabulous football schools.

My mom always supports italy at the wc and today she asked me when Italy's gonna play. (She's a bit old so she Isn't that updated on football). I think it broke her heart that Italy didn’t manage to qualify

Schade Italien war gut und doch ausgeschieden ....macht nichts ihr kommt umso heftiger zurück !! Forza Italia !

Zidane's headbutt cursed them forever.

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What I find weird is that here in Italy ever since that match people act like NOTHING ELSE happened with Mancini's tenure. Many act like the Azzurri went from missing WC 2018 to missing WC 2022 without doing ANYTHING in between. It feels so absurd. How do they act like *winning* the Euros means nothing when you don't *participate* at a WC? How does QUALIFYING outweights winning a trophy?

Italia tiene la culpa de no clasificarse para el Mundial 2022. Hubo que marcar de penalti a Suiza, y hubo dos intentos, en el peor de los casos, ganar a Macedonia. Y un enfrentamiento a un partido en las articulaciones es incluso mejor que uno a dos piernas, porque

Sad for Italy for not qualifying but it makes me more happy when the big teams are being defeated in WC now .. Good Luck Italy for future. Italy is my Lifetime Favorite ❤️🇵🇰

This is why I wish the WC qualification change to where every continent champion to get automatic qualification to the WC. It's the world cup, so it's only fitting to their the continent champions in the tournament. Something didn't feel complete in Qatar when the Italy was not in the tournament.

As a Macedonian it was very cool for Macedonia to beat Italy, as they are a very small country, but I still feel very bad for Italy

After winning in 2006 Italy had abject failures in the World Cup, being eliminated inthe1st round in 2010 and 2014 and failing to qualify in the last two. This means their is a deeper crisis than missing penalties. And Jorginho should not play for Italy - he is a Brazilian full stop!

I'M Italian and I'm 12. I Start to watch football in 2017 and i see 2 World Cup without my nazional..., Sad Story.

This is beautiful to watch I have to say

its been 1 year since i have been waiting for the Road To Euro Cup vid, please make one

The Last time when Italy have Played on World Cup was in 2014 in Brasil.

They are the current European champions.. won that title with pure class and dominance and failed to qualify for World cup again

Glad I watched the qualifiers to witness

What sources do you use to download goals please🙏🏻?

The description is wrong. They played at the WC 2014

Just imagine Giovinco, Balotelli and Shaarawy together in forward, Italy would be in World Cup 2022 for sure.

1.Italy in last 2 world cup : 2018-did not qualify 2022-did not qualify 2.Germany in last 2 world cup: 2018-out from 1st round 2022-out from 1st round 3.spain in last 2 world cup: 2018:out from 2nd round 2022:out from 2nd round

oh my days. Don't follow football much these days, but checked out the world cup and couldn't believe Italy weren't there. I always enjoy watching them. So searched for this and wow what a drama. Even though by now I knew they didn't qualify I was watching this vid and looking at the table thinking how the hell they didn't qualify. You could barely make this up, it seems too over the top.

Heartbroken can’t even watch this tournament!!

Италия сама виновата, что не отобралась на ЧМ 2022. Надо было забивать пенальти в ворота Швейцарии, причём были две попытки, в худшем случае обыгрывать Македонию. И одноматчевое противостояние в стыках даже лучше, чем двухматчевое, поскольку это даёт шанс маленьким командам.

They just dropped their A game mode after the Euros quite bizarrely, I still wonder why a defending European champion wasn't able to just put off Switzerland while they could in that penultimate qualification game 🤦

Was Kean a substitute because in that one game against Lithuania he played really well. I don’t know the Italian team that well but just from this video my assumption that kean was one of the players that played well but didn’t really see a lot of action from.

Jorginho is the main reason why italy didn't qualify .. they could have extend the difference between switzerland to six points however jorginho had other plans

italy maybe out of WC22 but Italian messi has good chance of winning the cup, lets cheer for argentina

Italy will back and azzuri will left the world cup for the fifth time under Roberto Manchini

I think it could be the world cup champion curse added with Marco matarazzis karma

"Zidane Curse : I'm not gone yet 😎🇫🇷 "

this still makes me cry 😢

second time in a row....can't believe it....

A big team like İtaly must be much more productive to score goals and in offensive way. They often hardly beat their opponents even the opponent are not strong.

World Cup without Italy is just like a cup of tea without sugar.

As an englishman, this makes me happy

Zidane curse on italy

Proud to be Swiss and to have unfortunately disqualified Italy

Playoff system was really bad tbh but italy really choked winning their group

Jorginho🙄.. Horrendous PK's let his country down🤧

Actually I don’t see it’s a big setback for Azzurri but a necessary step to achieve more. We should look it in a range of ten or twenty years, then when you look back you’ll find it’s totally not bad to miss the WC this winter in Qatar.

Italy is becoming the new Hungary! 2006 was the last time we saw them in second round world cup!

People blame Jorginho but Italy should’ve won the last match against weak N.Ireland no matter what, they screwed up the last match big time.

I hope that you are getting some good coverage on the television. You can get the beers in and have a pizza whilst you are watching. There’s always 2026 in North America. In two of the three editions featuring countries in North America, Italy have had good tournaments, being losing finalists in Mexico in 1970, and the USA in 1994 to Brazil on both occasions. 4-1 in 1970 and 3-2 on penalties in 1994.

Missing 2 consecutive World Cups? This is the biggest shame in Italy's history.

How'd they go from not qualifying for the WC to winning the Euros to not qualifying for the WC?!! 🥴

Whoever wore number 11 against North Macedonia cost them the game and their chances at the World Cup

Italy dominated Switzerland both games, yet still didn't manage to score. You can thank Jorginho for the penalty...misses...yes misses. Then you can also thank him for the loss against Bulgaria, the first game after the Euros. Watch the build up to the goal, he was at fault. The fact it, it was poor line ups against the teams setup to defend / sit deep - no plan B. Mancini has to take the blame for that, but Jorginho is the route cause

Zidane has curse on Italy.

Honestly Switzerland had a phenomenal WC qualifier.

Кто мог знать что последний гимн Италии на ЧМ прозвучит аж в 2014

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Few things we learnt 1.Jorginho shit the bed and should never take a penalty against 2. Immobile can’t finish his dinner let’s alone a chance. 3. Sommer is an excellent goalkeeper and highly underrated. 4. Italy have probably their worst team (player for player) in the last 20 years, regardless of their Euro win( team effort).

For all the Italians on here if you wanna blame anyone blame Jorginho and his crap penalties he’s been doing

Jorginho was definitely afraid of Sommer. He knew how smart Sommer is, so his "little jump" trick was not going to work on him. Sommer ridiculiously stopped his pen in the first game. Unfortunatly, he missed again. That's the mind game.

growing up as an AC.Milan fan i was definatly feeling some teams were missing in WC, i didnt know it was italy.

This is 16 years curse from Zidane 😂

Очень крепкая была сборная. Жаль, что не увидим их на мундиале.

World Cup since 2006 2010: eliminated in the group stage 2014: eliminated in the group stage 2018: didn't qualify 2022: didn't qualify But in Euro... 2012: 2nd place 2016: quarter-final 2020: winner doesn't make any sense to me.....always great performance in euro and fucked up in world cup....

Nel 2006 a casa: Cassano, Lucarelli, Pellissier, Chiesa, Flachi,Amauri, Amoruso, Caracciolo, Borriello...e questi sono solo gli attaccanti che non poterono giocare. Il vero problema è che le scuole calcio Italiano sono sempre più severe, tattiche e i ragazzini non si divertono più. Non giocano più per strada.

It's sad. Italy is better than some European teams in world cup 2022

I don´t understand why they have to Qualify? In rugby they do it based on ranking so why should one of the top ranked teams in the world miss out? It makes no sense.

Italy should have been a top 10 team in World Cup, Coach is to blame for crucial mistakes and not having the team hungry and ready to play!!

Shimmer was class

Little Northern Macedonia hung in there! Great shot at the end to just go for it and get the goal! Great win for the underdog. :)

So much pain..😭 Jorginho is the worst.

We're down two world cups straight...this is a hard slap on the face, we have a well balanced team worthy of bearing 4 stars and for the 5th one as well. We're looking forward to 2026 North America World cup.

As an italian I can say that we are watching since 2006, not only the national team, but the players and the League becoming way worse than they were. I wasn't born, but every person that was before me all sayed to me that Italy, the Serie A and the players were on another level. Just remember Baggio, Maldini, Del Piero, Inzaghi, Totti... just hearing these names, every national team pooped their pants. Same as the old Juve, Inter, AC Milan, Roma... Now, hearing the names of Berardi, Donnarumma, DI Lorenzo and many more makes other national teams fell like even San Marino could win. I think we will qualify to a World Cup at least in 20-30 years time.

*Italy in Euro 2020-21:* It's coming to Rome. *Italy in 2022 World Cup Qualifiers:* Romecoming.

ITALY's penality kills are a huge 0 just could not score!! That's the reason for this huge UPSET!!

Bruh Italy kept on shooting every chance, some went in but a huge majority didn’t. Jorginho messed up both of his penalty’s and the Italian defence was a joke. If Italy passed more often and shot closer to the net , they might’ve qualified. Immobile kept shooting outside of the box which rarely works

They needed Giorgia Meloni to give them a rousing patriotic speech before that last game, look where it's got her!

Can't believe Italy squandered so many golden opportunities to score goals in qualifying

As a Portuguese person, I was actually glad to see Italy go, but at the same time, I think the playoff format was shit and I don't understand what was wrong with the two-legged play-off. I am happy that Portugal made it but I would've wanted to see Italy at the finals as well.