ISERLOHN (Germany) – After the winning debut with Albania, Italy prepares for the second match of group B of Euro 2024 against Spain. The first match was also good for the Furie Rosse De La Fuente who beat Croatia 3-0, with Luciano Spalletti who is thinking about the best Italian 11 to face one of the candidates for the final victory. On the eve of the big match, the semi-final of the last edition of the European championship, the coach of the national team held a press conference to present the super challenge.
Spalletti: “The key is to play good football”
Before appearing in front of the journalists, the Italian coach spoke to Sky’s microphones: “I want an Italy that repeats what was done against a great national team that teaches football. They interpret everything very well, we must have no breaks and that crazy desire to show that we are an important team”. On his next opponents he added: “The key is to play good football and keep the ball more. With Spain there will be some more verticalisation because they don’t wait for us at the edge of the area. We’ve said it so many times, it’s a shortcut to get there. You have to enter the area and see what happens. They put the game on you, they always press, we give the goalkeeper something. Morata, on the other hand, goes to the goalkeeper 20 times if neededso the team must stay within 35/40 meters, they will stay high and some ball behind them, if we know how to recognize it, is fine”. Then he closes: “There are ways to play football and victories: team play and great champions who have these big tears that you can’t support them because they have more stuff in their muscles and they go faster than normal. We have the first path to take, we lack the one who wins matches alone.”
Spalletti, the press conference
The Italy coach Luciano Spalletti speaks at a press conference on the eve of the match against Spain: “This time I’ll tell you the lineup tomorrow. I won’t tell you the day before because I haven’t received any news about who is playing for the others. It’s one of the most important matches of my career, it has to be put at that level. Everyone has a story to tell, this is one of those matches that can determine that story.” It touches on the topic of penalty takers Luciano Spalletti: “Scamacca, Retegui, Dimarco. Then in my opinion he can also beat Calafiori and Jorginho. In any case he can beat one or two of them for now, there are no penalties in this match”
