Minnows Macedonia almost pulled off the World Cup qualifying shock of the century- but then managed to lose to a goal in added time goal.
Ranked 146th in the world and 133 places below Italy they recovered from Andrea Belotti’s early opener goal to take a 2-1 lead just before the hour with two goals in three minutes from Illija Nestorovski and Ferhan Hasani.
However Ciro Immobile scored twice,the second late in injury time,and Italy took the game 3-2.
Buffon is getting a bit too old for this kind of tension.