«We missed the rhythm, the freshness, which always makes the difference. Tonight I changed some players but at the moment we are not able to do more than that.” Thus Luciano Spalletti spoke to Rai after the elimination from Euro 24. «That goal at the start of the second half cut our legs off, we were not very incisive, the pace made the difference, their was higher in the first half and even individuality there was a different pace between couples. Many were not continuous in pressing, in nibbling away at centimetres.”
«In my opinion it’s difficult to talk about modules when you go below level like this. When you play with three, you are still forced to recompose the line in the defensive phase. If we play like this below par even with 3-5-2 we would have conceded a lot. This elimination still gives us some indications. There are things that we absolutely must change, we need more speed, more legs. Now we are not capable of doing more than this. From a playing point of view we can do much more, but when you find a team that passes the ball well we must be able to do it too. The lack of speed is there because we do not have many players with this quality of running, among those we had identified. Now everyone does these re-attacks, if you can’t clean the ball in the first two, three passes it becomes difficult. I think there is the possibility of building something important but it takes a bit more time. The responsibility is always the coach’s, because I made the choices. Everyone is responsible for the teams he coaches. I don’t know if this is the most we can express, I haven’t had a lot of time to make acquaintances. I have to do some defense, otherwise it becomes tough. A few more games could have helped».
