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The teams are out, and Italy are singing their particularly good anthem.
“I honestly feel like Italy might crash and burn in the latter stages,” says Nigel Nganina. “They are being hyped up after a win over a sorry Turkish side, with a relatively easy group. I look forward to being proven utterly wrong though.”
You may of course be right, but I’m excited by their potential. A is one of the groups that it’s probably better not to win, but I certainly expect them to reach the no-disgrace-to-lose-to-them stage of the tournament, and quite possibly the frankly-I-didn’t-think-they’d-get-this-far stage.
