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Italy won an incredible classification of the World Cup against Israel 5-4, as Newcastle’s midfielder, Sandro Tonali, found a winner in the stoppage.
Italy led the 4-2 with only three minutes to the left, but Israel was on the shores of a famous tie when Alessandro Bastoni scored his own goal and Dor Peretz scored his second at night in the 89th minute.
But there was still time for Tonali to find a winner in Debrecen, Hungary.
Italy has not been qualified for the World Cup finals since 2014, and despite the late winner, the leaders of the Still Trail Norway group by three points. They also scored five goals on Friday night in a routine victory at home in Estonia.
Everton’s former leader, Moise Kean, found a space between Israeli defense to mark on each side of half the time, leveraging the score on both occasions. Matteo Politano finally gave Italy the 59th minute leadership out of an assist from Mateo’s Flicheled Backheled, and Giacomo Rasadori scored a quarter.
The game was over, but Israel scored twice in two minutes before the tonali arrived at a speculative curling shot in the first minute of stoppage, which seemed to be inattention, but found his way through a multitude of players and the net.
Italian errors were an important topic, with two own goals and some blatant errors of the goalkeeper of the new Manchester City, Gianluigi Donnarumma.
Alternatively, Alexander Isak presented himself as a late substitute, as Sweden was struck 2-0 in Kosovo, Croatia hit Montenegro 4-0 and Switzerland was comfortably in Slovenia 3-0.
“We are a crazy team”
Italy’s manager, Gennaro Gattuso, admitted that his side defense left a lot to be desired.
“Today was a murder,” he said.
“It’s the most crazy game with which I have been as a coach, but it is my problem and not the players. If we want to play in a certain way, we must improve in this. We were crazy to systematically go to the attack, this is what Israel had expected, they hit us every and opposite. We could defend ourselves -deeper when it was driving.
“We are a crazy team, because we are too fragile, we admit ridiculous goals too easily. The boys know it, but this is my problem, not theirs.”
