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Honestly Sweden deserved to make it after constantly being in hard groups. Sweden could have easily qualified directly had they been in one of the easy groups.
You know what this means right? It means that Serbia will jump into pot 3, and we will avoid them.
Croatia will jump into pot 2, so they will be a possible opponent for us, replacing Italy.
Wrong, Bessos, wrong!!! Serbia is still in pot 4!
New Zealand needs to knock out Peru. Then Serbia will go in pot 3, and we will have the possibility to get New Zealand in our group. Also, Iceland or Denmark will go to pot 2 in that case, so we might face them as well.
Italy has gone from a side that could only play one of Del Piero/Totti (at their prime), to having trash like Darmian and Gabiaddini starting such an important match for them.
There was a time a decade or so ago when their 18-men squad included world class (or borderline WC) players: Buffon, Peruzzi, Pagliuca, Panucci, Nesta, Maldini, Cannavaro, Zambrotta, De Rossi, Gattuso, Pirlo, Camoranesi, Totti, Del Piero, Inzaghi, Vieri, Toni....
Amazing the drop off of talent that has happened since they won the WC in Germany.
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