The countdown is about to end. Saturday 29 June (6.00 pm) there Luciano Spalletti’s Italian national football team will face the Swiss in the match valid for the round of 16 of the 2024 European Championships in Germany. On the green rectangle of theOlympiastadion in Berlin the Azzurri will face each other Switzerland.
The Swiss team impressed well during the group stage, even coming close to winning against the hosts Germany. And then a match that brings to mind opposite memories in the recent past. Think of the clear 3-0 victory of Roberto Mancini’s Italian team, three years ago, on the path that brought Italy to the top of Europe.
The situation in the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was diametrically opposite when an internal draw against the Swiss forced the national team to face the play-offs, with a decidedly negative result. Tricolor team, in this specific case, capable of obtaining four points in Group Bsnatching a decisive draw against Croatia at 90+7′thanks to the goal of Mattia Zaccagniafter the marking of Luka Modric.
He spoke about it at the press conference Remo Freulerwho knows Italy very well, having previously been a player for Atalanta and now for Bologna: “They are a team that never dies. A beautiful and special match awaits us. I would place it in the top-3 among those played against Switzerland. It will clearly be a difficult match“, said the Swiss footballer.
“Naturally it’s not a game like the others for me. I built my career in Italy, also finding an ideal country to spend my life with my family“, put. “However, there won’t be all this love on the pitch. It’s a round of 16 final and there will be no room for feelings. The favorites are clearly the Azzurri. And welcome if they believe themselves to be so“.
Thinking of a 3-0 defeat in three years in the continental competition, Freuler responded: “I would say we learned after that match. We then went to the World Cup in Qatar. They stayed at home“.
