DIt’s time to take stock. Balance sheets in the red, sportingly speaking, and with a deficit this big, first of all. After such a – and laughable, and reduced, and limping – European journey there is not even room for regret: only sadness and disbelief. Asking yourself what didn’t work implies revealing to yourself and others a masochistic nature of no small importance, since practically nothing worked. Ergo, the sadness and disbelief mentioned above can only grow further. From a tactical point of view there is no game system (among the boasts experienced in an anxious and anxious way by Luciano Spalletti) that holds.
From a physical and athletic point of view, it is breathtaking even in retrospect. From a motivational point of view, well, the way in which the match against Switzerland was approached is rather emblematic and indicative. Finally, question of questions: from a technical and qualitative point of view? Now, here we get to the crux of the problem. The Azzurri on whom Spalletti has decided to bet are up to the task National Italian? Or at least, if not in absolute and existential terms (which seems bad…), did they offer performances up to the level of the Italian national team? It’s really possible that the Swiss by fishing among its 8.9 million citizens (i.e. fewer than those of Lombardy alone) can it find more talented players than those that Italy has fished among its 59 million most naturalized citizens? Apparently…
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