The draw with the Croatia relaunches the Azzurri’s ambitions Euro 2024. A last second goal by Zaccagni it has rekindled an entire nation already ready to put players and coaches on trial. But this is modern football, speed of execution, turning heads, bitter tears and uncontainable joy in a few seconds. Modric returns home, Gigio and his men move on.
But Spalletti knows well that the national team seen against Croatia is not the best. And so the post-race period after thanking the public turns into a real score-settling. On TV Spalletti it’s unleashed. Paolo Condò asks a question about the possible rebirth of Italy after this result, for an overly cautious team. Spalletti blurts out: “The issue is always what we manage to do and the behavior we have. But what prudence, if the limit of not knowing how to play a ball out like in the first half is this, you can play in any way and do any research and it doesn’t work.”
Then the explosion of anger: “It’s just that we need to do more in some moments. We are below our standard level, as in the second we are above, we lost balls that we cannot lose, which need to be managed better. What does it have to do with prudence, then once you have to play with three central defenders, once with 4: we play both ways.” Finally he added: “It’s that we need to do more in some moments. We are below our standard level, as in the second we are above, we have lost balls that we cannot lose, which must be managed better. What does prudence have to do with it, then once you have to play with three central defenders, once with 4: we play both ways.”
