After the heavy loss against Spain on Saturday, there has been a lot of criticism for the Italian national team. The Azzurri's captain Gigi Buffon analyzed the match as well as the situation regarding the qualification to the World Cup in an interview with La Repubblica:"I think we lost because we faced a team that proved to be superior. We have a qualification to obtain through the playoffs, but we aren't yet in the playoffs. We need to win at least another match, we're focused on Israel. Considering we were on a good streak, we thought we could stay in the match. The sentence that came from this match is that Spain proved to be better than us. They have great quality in individual players not since today but for ten years. Do I feel responsible? You can always do more on goals. When you have ten people in front of you, if you don't see the ball leave it's complicated. I realize this is making excuses"
Date: 04/09/2017 -