Sweden and North Macedonia possible: the nightmare of the last failed qualifiers and all the previous ones
(by Carlos Passerini) The worst that can happen to us is the Svezia of Gyokers and Isaka couple of the 200 million goal. He did only two points in the qualifying roundtrue, but she was already sure of the playoff thanks to the placement in the Nations League.
The alternatives are the Romania of the magician Lucescu, eighty years old, who has the best man in Dennis Man (formerly Parma, now at PSV); there Macedonia of the North of Elmas, the Napoli all-rounder; In the end Northern Ireland of the starlet Bradley of Liverpool, an above all physical team, which looking at the Fifa ranking (69, the lowest of the quartet) would be the best draw, at least on paper. But the truth is that it depends on us, only on us: all four potential opponents of the playoff semi-final towards the 2026 World Cup are within reach. We have dropped in level, we are in difficulty, this is evident, but we have no excuses: the mission is possible. As long as we rediscover our best version, that of the six consecutive victories during the qualifiers, before the collapse against Haaland’s Norway. (…)
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