The Italian coach”: “The revolutionized formation as a ‘pact’ with the players? Anyone who talks about locker room things is bad for the national team…”
“The goal in the 98th minute? We always believe in it in today’s football. There are illogical things in our matches, many things still to be put right. But this qualification is deserved, then we’ll think about the rest.” Thus the blue coach Luciano Spalletti to the microphones of Rai after the last minute draw with the Croatia qualifying Italy for the round of 16 of the European Championships. “Something still needs to be reviewed but then we need to take the qualities of these guys and put them in a position to give their best.” Then the Italian coach blurts out in the conference: “The revolutionized formation as a ‘pact’ with the players? They told him this, and whoever talks about locker room things does harm to the national team…”.
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Euro 2024, Croatia-Italy 1-1: Zaccagni takes the Azzurri to the round of 16 in the 98th minute and eliminates the Croatians
When asked if the move to 3-5-2 was the result of a dialogue with the players, Spalletti he reacted vehemently: “It’s not a deduction, it’s certainly something they told you – he replied – There is an inside of the locker room and an outside. But it’s clear that I always talk to the players, I listen to them: the 3-5-2 is my thesis in Coverciano and we had already tried this formation. More than a pact, I talk to the players.”
“When matches are decided like this in the end everything becomes more emotional, because no one believes it now but the players continue to function, keep a clear head and take little risk – he said again Spalletti – They covered everything even in width, we must compliment them on how they reacted and how they managed such an attacking team.” And again: “In terms of quality of play we are below level, there’s no point beating around the bush. If we do little, little is achieved. Ours is a behavior where we see that we think about the result to achieve without believing we can win it because a draw is enough, even unintentionally it happens. But I expect more stuff from my players, because sometimes they show it to us. We need to find more balance.”
“You can see that you can do something more, that you can do things badly on the outside – continued the Italian coach – They always hit us badly on our outsides. However, we were never able to bring home the chance that the team gave us. tactical system. The limit is not being able to play an outgoing ball, but we need to do more. We are below our standard of performance. In the first half we lost some incredible balls, regardless of the formation better with the 4 or the 3, we were timid, too timid in the first half. It has nothing to do with the formation, it has to do with the fact that even involuntarily we are satisfied with bringing home the draw. We have superior qualities compared to what we have seen . Jorginho he did the right thing, Stretcher he did well as well as Beans, calafiori he’s that top level player who can do everything. But as I said, more needs to be done.”
