The Azzurri goalkeeper believes that La Roja tower over the Blazers in terms of quality, and has stated that the pride of the Spanish will not allow them to stoop to anti-sporting activity.
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to keep them out.
Italy and Spain will start as the overwhelming favourites in their last group stage match against Ireland and Croatia, respectively.
However, a precise 2-2 draw in the Roja’s match against the Blazers will knockout the Azzurri from the competition, even if they triumph in their match against the Green Shirts.
The situation brings back nightmares from the Nazionale’s Euro 2004 campaign, where they were caught up in a similar situation, and were knocked out due to 2-2 draw between http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sweden-c3015.
Buffon dismissed the notion that the similarities between the two situations mean that history is set to repeat itself, and pointed out to the difference of circumstances.
The Azzurri goalkeeper stated that Spain is a team that starts as the overwhelming favourites for the game against Croatia, and suggested that the fact sets apart this contest from the one between the evenly placed Denmark and
Sweden.
The Juventus-man went on to state that La Roja contain players that apart from having top talents also hold the best of characters, and insisted that they will not stoop to cheating in the game in order to knockout the Italians.
The Nazionale veteran also pointed out that if such an event was to happen, then Spain will have to face massive repercussions from the world of football.
While talking to the press, the 34-year-old said:
“In this case the two teams are of different quality, in that Spain are absolutely the favourites and strongest of all. Their players have a pedigree that wouldn’t – in my view – allow them to be considered anti-sporting or become
a laughing stock around the world for getting a 2-2.” He added.
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