That is the lowest total of any major footballing power and has stood for nearly 50 years. From a country that has produced Rossi, Baggi, Del Piero, Vieri et all that blows my mind… Wow.
That is the lowest total of any major footballing power and has stood for nearly 50 years. From a country that has produced Rossi, Baggi, Del Piero, Vieri et all that blows my mind… Wow.
Playing with 442 means that the 2 strikers are going to share the number of goals, while in a 433 the centre forward is going to score usually more than the wingers (Look at Kane for comparison). Add the missed world cup qualification of 1958, 2018, 2022. Add the missed qualification of the European Championship of 1972, 1976, 1984, 1992. Add that in several occasions when Italy went far into the competition certain crucial games were decided by penalty shootouts that don’t count as goal scored. In the '90s and '00s there was an abundance of great strikers, competing against each other and resulting in fewer goals for each one, while in the '10s and especially the '20s there was and there is a crisis with very few strikers available.