Luciano Spalletti responds angrily to Paolo Condò after Italy’s last-gasp equalizer against Croatia
Certainly not a quiet evening for Luciano Spalletti. L’Italy sees the elimination up close, then a network of Zaccagni in full recovery he gave the Azzurri qualification and made the coach breathe a sigh of relief.
A Spalletti who became the protagonist of a heated exchange with Paolo after the match I condo, present in the ‘Sky’ studios to comment on the meeting. The journalist is the first from the studio to ask the coach a question: “I think and hope that this evening is a birth date for his national team because he has seen first-hand how much more can be achieved with courage, driven by desperation.” than with the caution that was the dominant note until the opening goal.”
A question to which Spalletti he replied angrily: “In the middle there is always the behavior one has. But what prudence? If the limit is not knowing how to play on the way out, as we weren’t able to do in the first half, you can play in any way or with any research. We need to do more in some moments: in the first half we are below our standard of performance, as in the second half we are above, we are at the highest level. In the first half, balls were lost that we cannot lose, which must be managed better.
Spalletti against Condò, angry response on TV
The technical commissioner ofItaly he then continues his speech and reiterates: “What does prudence have to do with it? Once you have to play with the three central players, once with four: we play both ways, we have to do better in both cases. Today we were timid in the first half, too timid: it’s not a question of form, it has to do with the fact that we are involuntarily satisfied with the result. Then we need to do more. This is my thought”.
