Italy and Chelsea midfielder Jorginho says he’s nonetheless haunted by his penalty miss because the Azzurri crashed out of the World Cup qualifiers.
The midfielder lower a dejected determine on the finish of their World Cup qualifier loss to North Macedonia on Thursday night time admitting that he’s tortured by two pricey penalty misses in the course of the World Cup qualifying marketing campaign.
Aleksandar Trajkovski’s beautiful 92nd strike from distance silenced the group in Perlamo, that means Italy will miss their second consecutive World Cup.
“It hurts after I give it some thought, as a result of I do nonetheless give it some thought and it’ll hang-out me for the remainder of my life,” the Chelsea midfielder informed RAI Sport.
“Stepping up there twice and never having the ability to assist your group and your nation is one thing that I’ll carry with me ceaselessly, and it weighs on me.
“Individuals say we have to elevate our heads and keep it up, however it’s powerful.”
Jorginho admits it’s going to take time for the group to get well from such a blow.
“It’s arduous to elucidate what occurred,” he added.
“It hurts a lot. I’ll be sincere, I’m nonetheless incredulous. I don’t suppose we lacked creativity, as we all the time dominated matches and created so many possibilities. Sadly, we had been unable to complete them off.
“We performed good soccer, we gained the European Championship final summer time, however sadly in the previous couple of video games we made small errors and had been unable to get well from them. They made the distinction.”
Jorginho missed the goal from a spot-kick within the last minute of Italy’s 1-1 draw with Switzerland in November, and the end result has come to hang-out them.
