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0-3! Italy won 0 wins in 4 games + 9 points behind the top spot, basically missed the World Cup, Haaland set a record

3:40pm, 7 June 2025Football

On June 7, in the European division of the World Cup qualifiers, the Italian team of the Blues played, and the opponent was Norway led by Haaland. This is the first game of the Italian team in this World Cup qualifier, but they suffered a bad start and the situation of advancing to the World Cup is now very serious. 0-3! Italy won 0 wins in 4 games + 9 points behind the top spot, basically missing the World Cup, Haaland set a record.

Norwegian team ranked 38th in the world and 9th in Italy. Norway, who played at home in this game, focuses on defensive counterattacks, with a ball possession rate trailing by 38%-62%, leading 8-6 shots, and 4-1 shots. Norway's offense was extremely efficient. He scored a goal in the 14th minute of the game. Noosa of Leipzig made a straight pass, and Throt, who played for Atletico Madrid, scored a first goal for Norway.

In the 34th minute, Noosa made a strong shot in the penalty area, piercing the Italian goal, and Norway led by 2 goals. 8 minutes later, Odegao made a straight pass to Haaland, who dribbled the ball past Donnarumma, and easily pushed the ball to the empty goal, 3-0, and the Champions League goalkeeper became the background board one after another. The Italian team used 5 substitutions, but failed to change the game, and Norway easily defeated Italy.

In the World Cup qualifiers, the Italian team has not won four consecutive games. In the last two rounds of the World Cup qualifiers, Italy 1-1 Switzerland, 0-0 Northern Ireland, and North Macedonia 0-1 in the play-offs, and now it loses to Norway. Italy lost two consecutive games in the first World Cup qualifiers, and failed to score three consecutive games for the first time. In this World Cup qualifier, Norway currently leads with 9 points in three games, Israel ranked second with 6 points in three rounds, Estonia ranked third with 3 points in three rounds, Italy ranked fourth with 0 points in one round, and Moldova ranked last with 0 points in two rounds.

group went straight to the United States, Canada and Mexico. After Norway defeated Italy in the first round, it almost locked in the top spot in the group. On the other hand, the Italian team is likely to miss the direct access to the World Cup. Although they still have the opportunity to participate in the play-offs, the difficulty and uncertainty of the play-offs can be imagined. In the previous two World Cup playoffs, Italy was eliminated by Sweden and North Macedonia one after another. The current civilian Italian team is weak in the striker and has no strong defense line. Its competitiveness is really limited, and it is very likely that it will miss the World Cup again.

Haland is getting closer to reaching the international competition for the first time, and he expressed his incredible post-match, which is the most interesting national team game he has ever played. Haaland, who is only 24 years old, has 41 goals in the Norwegian national team's career, once again setting a new Norwegian team's goal record in history. With his super high efficiency, Ronaldo's current record of 137-goal national team's historical scorer king may be broken.

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