L’Italy returns to the field. The Blues they face Turkey tomorrow (Tuesday 4 June) in Bologna, the penultimate friendly before leaving for Germany and the start of Euro 2024.
On the eve of the Dall’Ara match, the technical commissioner of the national team Luciano Spalletti spoke at the press conference: his statements.
SCALVINI’S INJURY – “These are those things that you never want to hear, but a couple of them have already happened and we send our hug to Giorgio who is a great professional and the future of the modern footballer: yesterday he played in midfield, he is someone who knows how to do more things and where football is going, these players are needed here.”
ENTHUSIASM – “I have to say that I saw great enthusiasm from the players, also from Gatti who trained at home and showed availability. Seeing him arrive with his boots in his hand, running up from where he was today, is a great example” .
SENSATIONS AFTER THE FIRST DAYS OF THE MEETING – “Very good. I saw the team work in a very serious and attentive way, we created full possibilities and attention. There was stuff one after the other, continuously, and they developed it well. You can’t say we can go into autopilot, but we’re on the right track.”
POINTS IN COMMON WITH ITALY, EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS – “As we saw this morning, we must be willing to absorb things from other teams, from other gatherings. There is something to learn from everyone, we take responsibility for what we inherit, even if there have also been other things in between and sometimes you forget them… But we have to take that reference, we have to look for the best possible model.”
WHICH PHRASE FROM THOSE FROM THIS MORNING DID THEY CHOOSE FOR TURKEY – “They were very good and said very nice things and they will be laughed at every time we go to play with the national team, it’s good to hear them again. If I say them it can’t have the same value as something said by Baggio, Del Piero, Totti , Antognoni or Rivera: they have a much better chance of piercing your soul. Baggio said: “The responsibility is greater when you wear this shirt, but then either we face it or we lose this responsibility. Antognoni said it’s nice.” find many guys who were in the youth team. He said that we always have to go out on the pitch to win, possibly having fun It’s true that there is pressure, but you will have a great opportunity and when you grow up you will remember that pressure with a smile. You will compete with the strongest and there is nothing more beautiful in the world than the challenge”. And then Buffon said that this day must be tattooed. These are heroes that we will never forget, when they stop we wish they wouldn’t stop for the beauty that they always showed us. And then I want to remember Vialli: with his melancholy but determined face, with his courageous eyes, we want to have him even if he isn’t with us, we will leave him free to play all the roles”.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE ON THE FIELD – “That we are slowly moving forward with the work. It won’t be easy to choose who to leave at home, it wasn’t even easy to leave someone at home. For me it’s not just the match, we have a way of training so on the on the pitch we do situational things. We do the seven-on-seven match in the warm-up, then the training is developed in the roles, stopping them at the most correct times but still creating real situations. Then the match has something more, it’s true, but it’s the work that determines how you will face the match, it is during the work that you show what the response will be in the match.”
Türkiye AND WHICH TEAM TO CHOOSE – “We also have the friendly match against the Under 20s on Wednesday… That’s another match that will put us in a position to make some evaluations. Then it’s clear that we need to start bringing in players who we consider to be starters. Wednesday’s match was chosen to allow everyone the same playing time: for me what I see is important. We have six substitutions. Di Lorenzo will probably play at right back at the start, but Darmian knows how to play the third, the fifth, the fourth and can also play on the left.”
OUTSIDE TOP RIGHT: WHO LINES BESIDES CHURCH? – “Orsolini plays in Bologna”.
WILL BEANS PLAY? – “He came to the press conference because he is the one for whom I was a bit called out for bringing him to this gathering. These ten days are fundamental for him. And then they always say that we arrived long and tired, then I choose someone who is rested and it doesn’t suit us. He has always trained for a long time, we have the data because everything is monitored now. I don’t have any likes or dislikes, but I have the opportunity to objectively evaluate things and he has done all the training.”
CENTER FORWARD AND GOALKEEPER IN BOLOGNA – “The center forward is Retegui, the goalkeeper Vicario. Then we have to evaluate: we’ve strained our necks and someone is starting to feel a bit tired. We’ll look at today and then tomorrow’s finishing.”
BEANS AN ALTERNATIVE TO JORGINHO OR ARE THEY COMPLEMENTARY? – “Those who have this technical quality can always be complementary. The problem is understanding whether you are good at keeping the ball for 60 minutes and the opponents for 30 because then it becomes complicated to always go into battle. At that point, you need players who are more accustomed to the phase defensive and tackling”.
TURKEY AND THE ATMOSPHERE OF BOLOGNA – “Meanwhile, Bologna had a wonderful championship, they should be congratulated for what they showed: they deserved to be in the Champions League. I know Montella well, he’s very smart. He took over from Adana Demispor and won the ninth place, then fourth. The following year, without him, they finished eleventh with the same team. Turkey has quality, flair, they have burning counterattacks, they have players who play in the biggest teams in the world and they finished first in the season. It’s an important match that becomes difficult due to the moment, the work we’ve done and what we need to fix. But we have everything to start our journey: when you wear this shirt you have to respect the passion of those believes in us.”
WILL GATTI COME TO GERMANY? – “Yes, Gatti will come to Germany.”
WILL PELLEGRINI BE NUMBER 10 AT THE EUROPEANS? – “Pellegrini can be a number 10, just like Barella because he has plays that take you by surprise, that you don’t expect. Then it’s the total quality of the team that must make the difference, we want to become a very united and compact team”.
SCAMACCA SAID HE WASN’T LAZY – “Meanwhile, the person who asked him the question is also lazy because he remembered one of five things. I don’t say things to attack someone, sometimes children need to be told the true things if you don’t want them spoiled when they grow up. And he putting together certain data on speed, strength in speed, he loses to many. In football you need everything and you try to stimulate him, but I haven’t offended him, I never offend my players. I love my players footballers. Today I hugged him, he was smiling, he has beautiful highlights…”.
