Roberto Donadoni's Italy struggled against Holland in their European Championship opener, losing against Marco van Basten's side 3-0. The margin speaks for itself: a humiliating display by the world champions.

In the next match, Donadoni made several changes. He brought Alessandro Del Piero, Fabio Grosso, Simone Perrotta, and Daniele De Rossi into the first team for the game against Romania.

The match ended 1-1 and Gianluigi Buffon had to stretch in excellent fashion to save a penalty in the last few minutes of the game, saving the hopes of qualification for Italy.

The Italians went into their last group match against France, without having their futures in their hands. A win by Romania over the already-group winners Netherlands, would mean that Italy will have to say a final farewell to Austria and Switzerland.

Italy won 2-0 over a French side that has lacked creativity since the absence of the brilliant Zineddine Zidane, and this was exploited even more after Franck Ribery was carried off injured. His substitute, Samir Nasri, was clumsily substituted by Raymond Domenech after Eric Abidal took a red card and caused a penalty that Andrea Pirlo scored. Nasri's substitution brought in unreliable center defender Jean Alain Boumsong and ended the French hopes of scoring.

Sidney Govou could not provide Thierry Henry and Karim Benzema with assists, and Daniele De Rossi's free-kick was deflected by Henry into the back of the net, making it 2-0 for Italy. The great news came for Italy as Holland won, scoring twice and keeping a clean sheet against Romania.

But was it Donadoni's "brilliance", Domenech's blunders, or Holland's mercy?

Domenech was full of mistakes on the night. Before the most important match of the championship, that would normally command consistency, Domenech changed two players in defense.

Domenech however, did not change anything to add to the pace and creativity of his team. Of course Domenech doesn't have a lot of options since he kept David Trezeguet out of his squad selection (Trezeguet scored 20 goals for Juventus in Serie A this past season).

Instead of the experienced Juventus finisher, Domenech brought St. Etiennes' Gomis-a player who did nothing during his two appearances in the tournament.

Holland was full of mercy, beating Romania and thus playing an important role in Italy's qualification. 

I am an Italy fan, but as thrilled as I am that Italy made it through, I do not think that Donadoni was the mastermind behind all of this.

The goals came from a penalty and a lucky deflection after another random no-plan-display by Donadoni's men. For a manager who can't figure out a way to organize his team and brought a dozen of thirty plus year-olds with a selection that includes only two real strikers (Marco Borriello and Luca Toni), Donadoni has to count himself the luckiest man alive with Italy's qualification.

What do you think of Italy's chances of winning the Euros? Is Donadoni the right man to continue as Italy manager? Have your say and let's debate.