{"id":274926,"date":"2025-11-10T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274926\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:49:14","slug":"why-tonali-is-not-expected-to-play-for-italy-against-haalands-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274926\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tonali is not expected to play for Italy against Haaland&#8217;s Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>              <a class=\"mg-blog-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/tonali-not-expected-play-for-italy-norway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sandro-Tonali-Estonia-Italy.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-920449 has-webp\" alt=\"Sandro Tonali playing for Italy against Estonia in Tallinn (@azzurri)\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sandro Tonali playing for Italy against Estonia in Tallinn (@azzurri)<\/p>\n<p><\/a>              &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Gennaro Gattuso admits he\u2019s unlikely to use Sandro Tonali in a World Cup qualifying match against Norway on Sunday, as the Newcastle star is one yellow card away from suspension, so he could miss the playoff semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle midfielder Tonali will likely be rested in Italy\u2019s World Cup qualifying fixture against Norway on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Azzurri will first visit Moldova this coming Thursday before hosting Norway at San Siro in the final World Cup qualifying group stage game on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Three Italy players on a yellow card in November<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gattuso-press-conference-november-10.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-925726 has-webp size-medium\" alt=\"Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso during a press conference at Coverciano on November 10, 2025.\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/901;max-width:1200px\"\/>Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso during a press conference at Coverciano on November 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Tonali, Andrea Cambiaso and Davide Frattesi are one yellow card away from suspension, so if they are booked against Norway, they\u2019ll miss the next international game.<\/p>\n<p>In Italy\u2019s case, it will likely be a World Cup qualifying playoff semifinal to be played in March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Why Tonali won\u2019t play in Italy-Norway<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sandro-Tonali-Italy-Moldova.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-896972 size-medium\" alt=\"REGGIO NELL'EMILIA, ITALY - JUNE 9: Sandro Tonali of Italy during the FIFA 2026 Qualifier between Italy and Moldova at Mapei Stadium - Citta' del Tricolore on June 09, 2025 in Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini\/Getty Images)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>REGGIO NELL\u2019EMILIA, ITALY \u2013 JUNE 9: Sandro Tonali of Italy during the FIFA 2026 Qualifier between Italy and Moldova at Mapei Stadium \u2013 Citta\u2019 del Tricolore on June 09, 2025 in Reggio nell\u2019Emilia, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Italy are three points below Norway in Group I, but Erling Haaland\u2019s side have a much better <a href=\"https:\/\/it.uefa.com\/european-qualifiers\/match\/2044329--italy-vs-norway\/standings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">goal difference,<\/a> +26 to +10, so they\u2019ll likely get direct access to the 2026 World Cup unless they drop points against Estonia before meeting Italy.<\/p>\n<p>During his <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/gattusos-press-conference-every-word-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">press conference<\/a> on Monday, Gattuso said: \u201cI spoke to Tonali 10 days ago; surely we can\u2019t afford to miss an important player like him for the semifinals. I think it\u2019s difficult that he\u2019ll play against Norway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Nicol\u00f2 Barella will be suspended against Moldova, so he\u2019ll be available against Norway.<\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPost navigation&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandro Tonali playing for Italy against Estonia in Tallinn (@azzurri) &#13; Gennaro Gattuso admits he\u2019s unlikely to use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-274926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}