The blue goalkeeper: “We are Italy, it is not possible to play these games”
“Unacceptable defeat. We are Italy, we cannot play such games”. So he spoke Gigio Donnarummawho at the end of the game, in the rain, protected by the umbrella, commented on the 3-0 defeat against Norway in Oslo. The debut in the qualifications for the 2026 world championship. “I can’t explain what happened to me – said the PSG goalkeeper -, our fans do not deserve such games”.
And how do you start after a blow like that? How do you continue to dream of a vital milestone for the whole national movement if you already have to arm yourself with hope after a race to try a business? Under the deluge of Oslo, Italy has discovered small small, swept away by Oragano Norway. Brighter, physically stronger, more convinced. And now more than 9 in the standings, with a direct clash that seemed more a friendly of the end of the season than a playoff for direct access to the next World Cup. Italy is rearranged in a nightmare and in this dark limbo will now have to learn to live for the next few months. Luciano Spalletti, on the other hand, has already put the role of the psychologist to revive his morality, to convince himself that he can build a comeback that appears to the limits of the impossible. Needless to hide, the disappointment is enormous and the hope almost vain. Now there is to be reconstructed, put a brick at a time thinking at least of conquering the playoffs.
little quality Italy
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Spalletti was unable to convey his determination. His desire to go beyond the obstacle. And perhaps not even his tactical wisdom, his belief of being able to make a great performance. He remained in the rain to shake his head, with his eyes wide for those who could not accept what he was seeing. “We made mistakes, already the first goal could be avoided, everything was born from our ball in which we searched a change of game instead of finding an easier solution -the bitter comment of Spalletti -. Then in the large spaces they were good at enhancing their individuality that put us in difficulty. Of course, once they passed at the disadvantage it was all more difficult, we lost too many balls on the trequarti, we had to take advantage of the support on the fifth and situations “. Once we were masters of tactics and the defensive phase. Many have “studied” with us and now nobody leaves more spaces. “After their doubling they pulled back and they closed -still the coach -they waited in their half of the field and we found all the closed spaces. Normal that without players good at going strong in one against one it became everything more difficult. Then we must be more determined and bad behind”.
Defense of the National Group
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Now in the Italy laboratory there will be an antidote against bitterness. And also something special to try to believe in this project again. “I am headed to this group and go on with this group, we know that we must improve in many aspects and on this we have to work so much”. Woe, however, to attack the group. “No, you go on with this group, it is the best solution. Then I will talk to Gravina about everything, on the intention that I have and on the choices I have made and will do. I don’t feel alone, but even if I were I am the responsible. No compassion, what bored me is one who can tell you ‘I’ll come to you because you can’t do it alone …’, send me in the beast”. It will be, but yesterday the group was not up to the race that the future could direct. Only one shot, in the final. “We have to analyze the facts, we were not very concrete, a little light, with wrong reading and attitudes with little determination. We were sub -level”, closes Spalletti. The road to the World Cup is already damn complicated. And another world championship without Italy must not be a possibility in any case.
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