All Four Italian Clubs Lose / Shocking Free Fall: Italy's Worst Night in the Champions League!
All four Italian football clubs lost in the second matchday of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.
According to "Sports Three", Italy had no team to rely on this week from the group stage of the Champions League. Napoli and Inter lost, and Como and Rome couldn't get a good result either. Four representatives and four defeats in one day of Champions League matches, something that has never happened before. Added to these failures was a defensive crisis: these teams conceded 14 goals. Even the 9 goals they scored in total could not bring them a single point.
Three of the four Italian teams took the lead at the start. Napoli, Como and Roma took the lead first and eventually lost, as they could not hold on to their lead and faced problems in the final minutes that led to an increase in the intensity of the defeat. Inter was the only team that did not take the lead in their game and ended up losing: Club Brugge beat them 4-3 and it was the team's second defeat in this season of the Champions League.
Napoli conceded three goals after taking the lead at Villarreal. A defensive mistake opened the way for this Spanish team and they were able to win with a result of 3-1. After the game, Allegri explained the difference in the level of competition: "The level of the Champions League is higher. "You don't notice it when you play with small and medium teams, but when you play in the Champions League, you notice it."
In Rotterdam, Cuomo was also unable to maintain his lead. Feyenoord turned the game around to win 3-2, another blow to Italian football on a day where the worst was yet to come at Rome's Stadio Olimpico.
Rome was close to victory against Real Madrid. But everything changed in the final minutes: Real Madrid equalized in the 85th minute and won 3-4 in the 90th minute. Conceding three goals in eight minutes left Roma unrewarded and ended a day of four defeats for Italy.