Italy captain Giorgio Chiellini has backed manager Roberto Mancin i to continue as manager despite the nation’s humiliating World Cup qualifying exit.
The European champions were dumped out of the newly formed play-off setup at the semi-final stage, after they were stunned by relative minnows North Macedonia in Palermo on Thursday night. And just eight months on from their crowning moment at Wembley, questions are now being asked about the direction of the national team.
The hosts dominated the entire match, spurning chance after chance, before Aleksandar Trajkovski popped up in the second minute of injury time with an arrowed drive into Gianluigi Donnarumma’s bottom corner.
