What Happened to Italian Consistency?

Why do Italians make such fools of themselves lately?

I can't help but point out again the biggest humiliation in Italy's football history, the Euro final loss from last year.
(And the fact that Prandelli remained coach afterwards.)

Likewise, some of the current Juventus football figures made fools of themselves, too, before and during the Champions-League quarter-final first leg against Bayern. Buffoons, if you will.

If I say "buffoon", the readers' attention might be immediately directed to Gianluigi Buffon. Yes, that's one. But, first, Antonio Conte.

If you're going to go to a pre-match press conference, and brag that your team deserves to be there, Mr. Conte, you better have the team to back that up. After the match against Bayern, it is clear that Conte had better shut the hell up.
Maybe he'll learn his lesson, and in the future become cocky after a match, not before.

'Cause Juve played like shit. Nobody expected Bayern to put 9 goals past Juventus, like they did against Hamburger SV three days prior, but they certainly had the chances to do so against Juventus, too.

You may think Juventus' defending was good, then, if there were more than 9 chances for Bayern, and the Germans only scored twice.
But it wasn't. Juventus was lucky not to concede four or five, and I mean in the first half only. And they didn't have scoring chances, either. They were totally overwhelmed. Even Pirlo was pathetic.

And then there was Buffon the buffoon. For a goalkeeper who's hailed as one of the best in the world, he can certainly let in some howlers.
(Remember the goal he alone created, for Lecce, against Juve, late last season? Well, maybe that was for betting purposes...)
But when Alaba scored, in the very first minute, Buffon was by far the guilty Juventus player. He either wasn't paying attention, or his talent goes in and out in some matches. Really, Buffon should apologize to all Juventus people, because he started the suckiness of the Italian team at the Allianz Arena.

If Conte's the one guilty of not preparing the Italian champions properly, Buffon is the one guilty of screwing up the tactics of the Turin club from the very start. They basically had to start from 0-1, because Buffon couldn't see in time that the opponent was shooting from 40 meters out, or so.

Not that 0-2 is an insurmountable result, but Juventus certainly did not live up to their expectations. And now they're staring elimination in the face.