8 years ago today, Italy lost 0-0 to Sweden and missed the World Cup in Russia

6686 Sports News on November 13 Eight years ago today, on November 13, 2017, in the second round of the 2018 Russian World Cup European Qualifying Playoffs held at the San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy, the Italian team drew 0-0 with the Swedish team at home, thus being eliminated with a 0-1 overall result and missing the Russian World Cup finals.

Four years later, in the Qatar World Cup qualifying round, Italy once again entered the play-offs, but lost to North Macedonia in an upset and was eliminated. It missed the finals for two consecutive World Cups. Next year's US-Canada-Mexico World Cup, according to the current situation of the European qualifying rounds, Italy is very likely to participate in the play-offs again.