Italy will take the field again on Tuesday 29 March. The Azzurri, despite the defeat against Macedonia in the playoff semifinal for access to the World Cup, will still face Turkey.
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L’Italy he will not even have time to overcome the bitter defeat against North Macedonia as he will have to return to the field again for the last match before breaking ranks. In fact, the Azzurri, who have failed to access the next 2022 World Cup in Qatar, they will have to face Turkey in another game that already tastes like joke. In fact, the two national teams defeated in the playoff semifinals of path C will face each other in a friendly already scheduled by FIFA which will be played anyway. Tuesday 29 March at 8.45pm in Turkey, precisely to Konya.
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A game much contested by Portugal over the past few weeks which had already communicated to FIFA that he would refuse to play a game next Tuesday in case of defeat in the playoff semifinal against Turkey. Mancini himself confirmed that Italy will now get back on track and will honor this commitment before the group then meets directly at the end of the regular season. To understand, however, whether Mancini will still be on the bench or not …
In the meantime, this race already represents a sort of mockery between the two national teams who only a few days before anticipated a qualification for the next World Championships in Qatar, which however was sensationally missed. The match between Turkey and Italy it has no relevance from the point of view of qualification but is giving away important points from the point of view ranking that in the phase of future draws, as foreseen by the UEFA regulations, it counts a lot, just as it currently happens with Belgium which are first with 1828 points.
Italy is out of the World Cup, blue psychodrama at Barbera: Macedonia win in the 92nd minute
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As for the training, Mancini could think of letting those players breathe have not found space at Barberaor perhaps those who have not quite been summoned. Belotti and Zaniolo above all who were the great excluded from the match against Macedonia, but also the various ones João Pedro and Raspadori who entered only when the race was in progress. Players who will inevitably have to start a new growth path for a national team that now has a huge need to find new stimuli, perhaps even from the new players who have been called up to reinforce the current blue group.
In any case, Italy will face a wounded Turkey that has seen the qualification pass sensationally after having also missed a penalty with Yilmaz in Portugal that could have given the Turkish national team at least the possibility of playing the final in extra time.
The goal in the 94th minute of definitive 3-1 of the Lusitanians he then brought down Calhanoglu and his companions for good. The last match played between Italy and Turkey was at the Olimpico in Rome in the group stage of the last European Championships when Italy managed to beat Demiral and his teammates with the score 3-0 thanks to goals from Immobile and Insigne and to the own goal of the Atalanta defender himself.
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