Euro 2024, Italy-Switzerland: live score and live commentary

Spalletti’s words: “Willpower, quality and experience”.

“I have always dreamed of being able to wear the jersey of a strong team, I would never have even imagined the National team. It’s happiness”, says the coach Luciano Spalletti to the microphones of Sky Sport just before kick-off Italy-Switzerland. “Courage? We will pressure we live it, we feel it. When this group came out there was a real risk of going out, Spain and Croatia were two uncomfortable customers. Now that we’ve passed the shift, they’re no longer here calculations to do. You have to create with will, quality ed experience“.

The coach then comments on his lineup choices: “Fagioli will be the one in the middle, the one who will play a bit more director. With his youth he has all the qualities to become a big player in that role. Barella will be the one most delegated to go on their play, Xhaka. The outsiders on the other hand can do harm but also help with the folds“.

Unknown: this is the word that encompasses waiting

Saved by a goal from ZaccagniItaly seemed to be in tremendous need of certainties to face the round of 16 against the Swiss. Instead, a few minutes before kick-off at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, the watchword is incognita. Luciano Spalletti has changed everything: module and men. Maybe the coach wants a shockperhaps he is looking for an alchemy he has never found in extremis. One thing is certain: from now on, to win, anything and its opposite is valid. But there are no more appeals. If Beans it works in the direction, if Mancini ed The Shaarawy they integrate immediately into the mechanisms, if Church from winger returns dominant: these are the questions without an answer. The answers, in fact, will mark the boundary between the quarter-finals and farewell to Germany.

Spalletti revolution: this is how you play for a place in the quarter-finals

We return to the 4-man defense in front Donnarumma: new defensive pair formed by Sticks e Mancini (at his debut). On the flanks there is room for confirmed players By Lorenzo e Darmian; 3-man midfield with Fagioli in place of Jorginho e Barella–Cristante as midfielders. Offensive trident composed of Church, El Shaarawy e Scam.

Here are the official lineups

Italia (4-3-3): Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo, Mancini, Bastoni, Darmian; Barella, Fagioli, Cristante; Chiesa, Scamacca, El Shaarawy. Trainer: Luciano Spalletti.

Swiss (3-4-2-1): Sommer, Schar, Akanji, Rodriguez; Aebischer, Freuler, Xhaka, Rieder; Vargas, Ndoye; embolus. Trainer: Murat Sure.