Welcome to another edition of on the continent, your one-stop shop for everything to do with European football.

I'm Dotton Adibayo.

I'm Andy Russell.

And I'm David Carlage.

The Champions of Europe might fail to make the World Cup.

Have the doors blown off, Mancini's Italian job.

Portugal are also struggling to qualify for Qatar next year.

How can that be with a much better squad than what they had when they were European Champions 5 years ago?

Also, someone said this about Edin Hazard the other day.

Today he's a different player because he has a history of injuries now.

The Edin who dribbled past five or six men, that's over.

Are they right?

So, as ever, we kick off by asking one of the personal questions,

not of any of the people here, not of any of the pundits here in the room,

but we had to ask our own Nikki Bandini what she makes of Italy's, well,

demise since winning the European Championships.

Oh, I just asked Italy doing things the hard way again,

going to play off once again to try to qualify for the World Cup.

I think it's probably not worth voting too much on the normal draw with Northern Ireland,

I actually didn't consider God at home, or through qualifying.

I think the missed opportunities for Italy in qualifying,

absolutely, with two games against Switzerland ahead to heads, obviously,

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