After the heavy defeat on the field, Luciano Spalletti’s Italy is forced, among other things, to also take the jab from the talented playmaker from Switzerland and Bayer Leverkusen, Granit Xhakawho rejoices as he returns to talk about the round of 16 match that cost the reigning champions their elimination from the 2024 European Championships.
Xhaka returns to Switzerland-Italy
Having not yet digested the disappointment of the heavy, if deserved, 2-0 defeat against Switzerland, theItalia continues to question the future of a national team that seems to have reached the end of a project signed Spalletti and Gravina which has just begun, but which already seems impossible to get back on track.
The Azzurri’s unexcused performance against the Swiss was so disgraceful that it even pushed their opponents to to rage. In the last few hours, one of the protagonists of the match, the talented Swiss captain, thought about it, Granit Xhaka.
The dig and the revenge on the Azzurri
But what did he say? Xhaka in a press conference? A phrase that, objectively, is difficult to refute and, equally objectively, can only throw salt on a wound that is still too fresh. “Italy? We won that game before we even stepped on the field.as they did with us three years ago. I have to be honest, I have never seen Italy in such difficulty on the pitch like against us the other night.”
The reference to the previous one is, obviously, to the clear 3-0 defeat inflicted on the Azzurri national team with Roberto Mancini on the bench in the second match of Group A of Euro 2020, played on 16 June 2021, decided by Manuel Locatelli’s brace and the goal of Cyrus Immobileexcluding some illustrious Spalletti figures.
An impeccable Switzerland
Focusing on the excellent European Championship of the Croatian national team so far, Xhaka continued: “I am extremely proud of what we are doing and what we have demonstrated. This is a special achievement, especially for the performance and the game we have managed to express. We felt the defeat of three years ago and there was still the pain. Every victory gives you confidence, winning a race like that, then, gives you even more. We were impeccable“And how can we blame him?
