C'there is disappointment on the face of Luciano Spalletti and the players of theItaly after the 1-1 draw at home to Northern Macedonia. And there is the awareness that Tuesday's match with theUkraine is – words of the captain Ciro Immobile - “now fundamental”. For the coach, in his debut on the Azzurri bench, his team had “the possibility of going to do harm” ma “the final pass was missing, the one that should have made our technical superiority count in those four or five situations in which we had built well: all that was missing was choosing which of the right passes to make”, Spalletti's words.
An Italy with the syndrome of the arm, in short, but the coach must also admit the difficult moments. His Italy has suffered “on the second balls where - points out - we were not ready". "There was suffering in terms of these rebounds - adds - The rejections were won back by the opposing midfielders who came to support”.
Spalletti defends his boys: “The team played a good game. We didn’t give up much.”, he also states whether he will review the match for “go and try to find improvements” in view ofUkraine. Then, in the conference, he underlines that “we lacked the right pass to make our technical superiority count, the final pass after having created play and dangerous situations. Even after the equaliser, we could have managed the situations on the edge of their area better”.
Then the answer to a question about his emotions for debut: “Slept little? I always sleep little. It doesn't depend on the debut. It's not that when you coach Italy you only play in the stadium; you play all over the world because we're watched from all over the world”. The captain Property, with tears in his eyes at the end of the match, is shaken by the draw, after having already experienced the disappointment of Palermo with Macedonia. "It's a time when we need to be even more united. It feels a bit like this... At this point we'll have to make up for it on Tuesday." “We even managed to play our game despite the bad pitch.”
Article published on 10 September 2023 - 10:47
