"We're Italy and if we qualify it will be by playing football," coach Gian Piero Ventura insisted on Sunday on the eve of their crunch World Cup play-off against Sweden.
Four-time world champions Italy need to overturn a 1-0 first-leg defeat to avoid missing out on the World Cup for the first time since 1958 when Sweden hosted the tournament.Read more
Layvin Kurzawa enjoyed stealing the headlines from Neymar and co as he walked away with the match ball after scoring a second-half hat-trick in Paris Saint-Germain's 5-0 Champions League demolition of Anderlecht on Tuesday.
Kurzawa, a left-back, scored three times in the space of 26 minutes after the break at the Parc des Princes as PSG ran away with theRead more
Left-back Layvin Kurzawa was an unlikely hat-trick hero as Paris Saint-Germain destroyed Anderlecht 5-0 on Tuesday and sealed their place in the last 16 of the Champions League with two group games to spare.
Marco Verratti and Neymar had scored brilliant first-half goals for the hosts at the Parc des Princes to leave the Belgian side demoralised and with tooRead more
Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti needs a "miracle" to face Manchester City in Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final second leg, manager Laurent Blanc said on Monday.
The Italy midfielder, 23, has not played since injuring his groin during PSG's 4-1 Ligue 1 win at home to Reims on February 20.
Blanc included him in his 24-man squad for the trip toRead more