Italy won the European Football Championship in the summer of 2021 in a great manner and with the offensive football it captured.
It was an announcement of better days for football in Italy.
However, after Juventus dropped out of Villarreal yesterday, Serie A does not have a representative in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
This is the second year in a row that there are no Italian representatives among the eight strongest European teams, and such a situation last happened 20 years ago.
Juventus dropped out of Villarreal, Inter out of Liverpool, Milan were last in the group, and Atalanta dropped out even lower after being third in the group.
The last time that Serie A could not reach the quarterfinals for two years in a row was back in 2002.
