Also the advantage of simply not qualifying if your team is ““proper shit””, Italy never lost more than one game at an EC even when you went out in groups. You even managed to get knocked out in groups without a loss in 2004. Germany in contrast always qualified but has a lot of ECs with 2 losses, often that infamous 2nd group stage game, and sometimes even had 2 losses in group stages (2000).
If you count every extra game for Germany as a loss for Italy Italy would just have 1 more loss than Germany and I’m sure Italy wouldn’t have lost every single group game with not even a draw. It’s not like there is a staggering difference in games played.
Euros in the past we barely qualified half the times and when we did we did well, it’s not surprising at all. Even in '04 we never lost and we exited in groups.
wtf we’ve only lost 6 euro matches?
guess it makes sense if we have a high percentage of making it out of the groups, as a loss eliminates us. still crazy
Iceland only lost 1…
You love to draw
Can’t lose many matches if you don’t qualify
Also the advantage of simply not qualifying if your team is ““proper shit””, Italy never lost more than one game at an EC even when you went out in groups. You even managed to get knocked out in groups without a loss in 2004. Germany in contrast always qualified but has a lot of ECs with 2 losses, often that infamous 2nd group stage game, and sometimes even had 2 losses in group stages (2000).
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If you count every extra game for Germany as a loss for Italy Italy would just have 1 more loss than Germany and I’m sure Italy wouldn’t have lost every single group game with not even a draw. It’s not like there is a staggering difference in games played.
I’m in favor of Italy losing their next 8 euro matches for the sake of academic discussions
Aaaahhh the good old days
Why lose when draw is enough?
Euros in the past we barely qualified half the times and when we did we did well, it’s not surprising at all. Even in '04 we never lost and we exited in groups.