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Chapter 235 The media in Italy who look down on the bad

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2012年欧洲足球锦标赛（欧洲杯）于2012年6月8日-7月1日在波兰及乌克兰举行，这届赛事是继2000年欧洲足球锦标赛后第三次由两个国家共同协办。

The first time was in 2000 when the Netherlands and Belgium co-hosted the European Cup.

The second time was in 2008 when Austria and Switzerland co-hosted the European Cup.

Therefore, Euro 2012 is also the second consecutive session hosted by two different countries.

The draw for this European Cup will be held on December 2011, [-] at the Palace of Arts in Kiev, Ukraine.

According to the lottery rules announced by UEFA, the first team is drawn first, because the two host national teams have already determined the grouping in the first team, so the first team actually needs to be drawn from the Netherlands and Spain.

According to the rules, the draw for the fourth-tier teams will follow immediately after the first-tier team draw. The four teams are France, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Ireland.

After the draw for the fourth tier, the draw for the third tier began. Greece was the first to be drawn. According to the rules, they entered Group A, which meant that Greece would play the opening game of this European Cup with Poland, one of the hosts.The other three teams in the third tier are Portugal, Sweden and Croatia.

The last is the draw for the second-tier teams, including Germany, Italy, England and Russia will all belong to their respective positions.

The complete draw groupings are:
Group A: Poland, Greece, Russia, Czech Republic.

Group B: Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Portugal.

Group C: Spain, Italy, Ireland, Croatia.

Group D: Ukraine, Sweden, France, England.

At that time, in the 24-day schedule, sixteen European teams will fight to the death for the final champion.

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Every time the lottery is drawn for a major competition, the media and fans are keen to discuss "who entered the death group" and "whose group is in a good position to qualify"... This is naturally the case after the 2012 European Cup group draw was announced last December.

Italy was assigned to Group C together with Spain, Ireland, and Croatia. Judging from the reaction of the Italian media after the draw, the Italian media and celebrities were clearly divided into two groups. One group of media believed that Italy had drawn the next lottery, while the other group of media and celebrities believed that such a lottery was far better than the so-called upper lottery in the 2010 World Cup.

"Gazzetta dello Sport" pointed out: "During the draw, Italian coach Prandelli habitually smiled in front of the TV camera, but Van Basten did not bring him good luck. Italy was drawn into Group C and fell into the trap of world champions Spain, Croatia and Ireland."

(PS: Van Basten is one of the draw guests, and the Dutch celebrity also drew the Dutch national team into the death group, but in comparison, Lahm who participated in the European Cup draw this year should be a little more awesome, after all Germany, Portugal and France are in the same group.)
Gazzetta dello Sport looked down on the national team for a reason. First of all, Italy met the most popular national team in Europe and Spain, the top seeded team in the tournament. This in itself is a great bad news. (PS: Looking back, this is true.)
Fortunately, the Italian team's style of play is not afraid of Spain, and from the perspective of historical matches, since March 2000, Italy has never lost to Spain in regular time in various competitions.In the six World Series matches, Italy has two wins and one draw against Spain in the World Cup. The two teams have also faced each other three times in the European Cup. Italy has one win and two draws. (PS: In some other international A-level competitions, Italy still lost to Spain.)
In the 2008 European Cup, the two teams met in the quarter-finals. At that time, Spain was in full swing and Italy was at the lowest point in history. But even so, Italy dragged Spain into a penalty shootout, only to lose in the penalty shootout.

"Gazzetta dello Sport" believes that these historical records are now history. Now this Spanish national team is the defending champion of the European Cup and the last World Cup champion, and the team is full of superstars.

Therefore, if Italy wants to qualify, the key is to play well in the group stage with Croatia and Ireland.

Although it doesn't talk about historical records, Gazzetta dello Sport backtracked later, and this was only because of Italy's second opponent, Croatia.

"Gazzetta dello Sport" wrote with a striking headline: "Italy never beat Croatia!"

Contrary to the fact that Spain has never won against Italy in regular time in the World Series, Croatia has remained unbeaten in five international competitions with Italy, five times against Italy, Croatia has maintained an unbeaten record of three wins and two draws against Italy. (PS: It is also an international competition, and Italy has also won in other A-level competitions.)
In the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, Italy lost 1:2 to Croatia in the group stage, which also caused Italy to meet the South Korean team with Moreno in advance (Moreno was the referee), and was finally eliminated because of Moreno's misjudgment. (PS: Ecuadorians were imprisoned for smuggling heroin in 2010, which is also retribution.)
As for Ireland, the third opponent in the group stage, some optimistic Italian media think this is a good opportunity for the national team to grab points, but another part of the media and head coach Prandelli don't think so much.There is only one reason, because "they have Trapattoni, which shows how terrible they are."

Ireland's current coach is Trapattoni, a team that knows Italy well.

Trapattoni, who is Italian himself, has made great achievements in Italian football. He is the world's top coach that Italian fans are proud of and one of the most successful coaches in Italy.

In June of this year, the Irish team led by Trapattoni defeated Italy with a score of 2:0, ending Prandelli's unbeaten record for nearly a year.You must know that Prandelli's team drew away with Germany and defeated Spain at home during the same period, but lost completely in the face of Ireland.

More importantly, Trapattoni is Prandelli's teacher. After ending Prandelli's unbeaten record for nearly a year, Trapattoni publicly pointed out that "I know where the biggest weakness of Prandelli's team is."

For this, Prandelli also said in an interview after the draw: "I really want to avoid confrontation with Trapattoni's Ireland..."

It can be said that Prandelli is suffering beyond words.

In short, in this group, the Croatia and Ireland that Italy met cannot be underestimated, and the strongest opponent they will challenge Spain is also the strongest team in Europe, so it is said that this is a draw.And this signing is obviously not only because of the difficulty of qualifying, but also because Italy is divided into a difficult half. Even if they fight hard to qualify, the team will face a series of fierce battles in the subsequent knockout rounds.

Subsequently, for Italy, which was signed in this way, "Gazzetta dello Sport" also conducted a poll on whether the national team can qualify. However, compared with most of the domestic media who are pessimistic about the national team, Italian fans are very optimistic. In this poll, 52.3% of people believe that Italy can qualify second in the group, 27.2% believe that Italy will be the first in the group, and only 19.6% of fans think that Italy cannot qualify.

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In addition to "Gazzetta dello Sport", "Corriere dello Sport" also believes that Italy, which is divided into such a group, will face very difficult challenges.

The other is "Turin Sports News", they think that Italy should be more careful about Croatia if they want to qualify in the group stage, because they have never won against Croatia in the big competition, and the number of confrontations between the two teams in history is very small, so the game against Croatia will definitely be the most mysterious game in this group.

If the media is pessimistic, then there will be media who hold the opposite opinion. For example, "Football Market", they wrote an article saying, "Italy has always been strong but not weak, and it is not strong when it is weak. When it meets a strong opponent, it is helpful for Italy to play well."

"The so-called good signing? Italy has already suffered in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa! If Italy is grouped together with Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic, then perhaps, we should really think about the 2010 World Cup in South Africa!"

(PS: In the World Cup in South Africa, the Italian team was in the same group as Paraguay, New Zealand, and Slovakia, but the final result was that Italy got two points in three games and was eliminated in the group stage. On the contrary, in the 2008 European Cup, Italy was in the death group together with the Netherlands, France, and Romania. However, the Italian team successfully qualified for the group, but narrowly lost to the champion Spain in the quarter-finals.)
The legendary Italian star Mazzola also believes that this kind of group draw is beneficial to the national team. "It is actually a very good thing to be able to face Spain immediately. To enter the state very early in the big competition, you must face the strongest opponent in the first game, and such an opponent encountering earlier than later is very beneficial to the team's preparation and adjustment. As for other opponents, we already know Ireland very well. Trapattoni's team is no stranger to Italy. Croatia is also a very good team, but these two opponents are stronger than Italy. stronger."

(PS: It’s a pity that the difficulty is that Italy met Spain at the beginning, and also met Spain at the end!)

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