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Italy ALWAYS does the same. They suck ass in the qualifiers, they get (usually) unfairly qualified for the KO-rounds in the last minute, and from there on, they begin to play only a little bit better and they always make their way quite far, or they win the cup. It's not a coincidence that the word which defines the most defensive of football stances is Italian. It's called "catenaccio", "padlock" in English. We saw a great example of catenaccio this very year, in the semifinal games between Barcelona and Inter Milan, in the Champions League.
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