{"id":470088,"date":"2023-11-17T17:47:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T21:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470088"},"modified":"2023-11-17T17:47:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T21:47:46","slug":"italy-beat-north-macedonia-4-2-and-remain-in-2nd-place","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/italy-beat-north-macedonia-4-2-and-remain-in-2nd-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy beat North Macedonia 5-2 and remain in 2nd place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy won against North Macedonia 5-2 at Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and whether the team will qualify for Euro 2024 will be decided in their last clash against Ukraine at BayArena in Leverkusen on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FT: \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Italy 5-2 North Macedonia \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf0<\/p>\n<p>First box ticked, one point in Germany needed on Monday &amp; EURO 2024 is coming. Chiesa man of the match.<\/p>\n<p>See you soon Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n2dPslisS4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/n2dPslisS4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adriano Del Monte (@adriandelmonte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adriandelmonte\/status\/1725631170388296116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both Italy and Ukraine have 13 points each. Still, the Italians are ahead of the Ukrainians in the standards because the tiebreaker is head-to-head matches. That means that Spalletti\u2019s team must avoid defeat on Monday to qualify for the European tournament next year in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Italy thought that they decided everything in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half against Macedonia, as the home team had a 3-0 lead after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes. Matteo Darmian scored the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> minute, and then Federico Chiesa netted a brace in the last 5 minutes of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half for the classic lead. Jorginho even missed a penalty in the 40<sup>th<\/sup> minute before Chiesa\u2019s 2 goals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Italy\u2019s Euro 2024 Qualifiers when Raspadori starts vs doesn\u2019t:\u2070\u2070Started:<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 vs Ukraine (2-1 Win)<br \/>\n\u2705 vs Malta (4-0 Win)<br \/>\n\u2705 vs N. Macedonia (5-2 Win)<br \/>\n\u2070Didn\u2019t Start<\/p>\n<p>\u274c at N. Macedonia (1-1 Draw)<br \/>\n\u274c at England (3-1 Loss)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to argue against Spalletti starting Raspadori\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WQ29LxwLkm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WQ29LxwLkm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Italian Football TV (@IFTVofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IFTVofficial\/status\/1725631204278284401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jani Atanasov scored for the away team in the 52<sup>nd<\/sup> minute to make it 3-1. To make things even more interesting, Jani Atanasov netted his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal in the 74<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Enis Bardhi\u2019s assist to make his team trail only 1 goal. However, Giacomo Raspadori decided everything with his goal in the 81<sup>st<\/sup> minute to make the Italians lead 2 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Stephan El Shaarawy made it 5-2 in the extra time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GOOOOOOOOAAAALLLLL! \u26bd\ufe0f<br \/>\nEl Shaarawy seals it on his home ground! \ud83c\udfdf\ufe0f \u26a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ITAMKD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ITAMKD<\/a> \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 5-2 \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf0 (90+3\u2019)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Azzurri?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Azzurri<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VivoAzzurro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VivoAzzurro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6q3itE1SKL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6q3itE1SKL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Italy \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f (@Azzurri_En) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Azzurri_En\/status\/1725631029182935136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy won against North Macedonia 5-2 at Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and whether the team will qualify for Euro 2024 will be decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":470089,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17082,18393,21309],"news_category":[14236,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18422,18440,21310],"acf":{"announce":"Everything will be decided for the Italians in the match against Ukraine.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470094,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470088\/revisions\/470094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470088"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470088"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}