Borrowing a line from the national anthem, La Gazzetta dello Sport asked: "Italy, where is the victory?"
Wednesday's 1-1 draw with Luxembourg, a team ranked 112th in the world, was called an "embarrassment, a mini Korea" inside the newspaper's pink pages, a reference to the humiliating 1-0 defeat they suffered at the 1966 World Cup.
Italy, who face England in their opening World Cup match in Brazil on 14 June, had beaten Luxembourg in all eight of their previous encounters and had not conceded a goal to the minnows since 1976.
Blushes, there were a few.
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