Under 21, Italy-Germany 2-3: Azzurrini eliminated by the European Championship

The heroes dressed in blue still exist. The Under 21 touches a sensational undertaking, eliminated only to the extra time played in nine against eleven after taking it back to the last useful ball, a spectacular punishment by Ambrosino, who plays in Serie B. Pass Germany, will challenge France in the semifinal, but the audience of Dunajska Strada sings only “Italy, Italy”. If Rino Gattuso in the stands with Buffon takes home a message, it is that these young people have a big heart and keep us crazy from the national team. They sacrifice themselves, they give everything and more. It was not enough to enter the top 4, where we miss from 2017.

the moves

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The 3-4-2-1 Italian on paper soon becomes, on the field, 5-4-1, because the Azzurrini, perhaps intimidated or perhaps educated at a start of containment, give the ball to Germany. It looks like an admission of inferiority and instead it is precisely strategy: pressing the German action start and then closing all the spaces with a five -line line that does not give spaces in front of Desplanches. For this reason, Nunziata chooses a muscle team for nine eleventh and agile in Gnonto and above all Koleosho, who did not play the first game. Just the Burnley’s blue striker is the most lively in Italy’s trembling start: his first shot in the mirror of the match, central, after 6 ‘. The first 20, however, are all Germans, at least in possession, because the Azzurrini are too wrong. Germany is however slow in the circulation, the Woltemade threat becomes alive with a centralization from the left and a wide closure on the first post, but Coppola and Ghilardi make the roughness of Serie A taste him and Tresoldi After half an hour our own took altitude and create: Prati Scodella for Zanotti, Autbolu comes out badly and Gnunto goes on the fly, a little wide, then in recovery Alto Koleosho active gnonto and then meadows, stopped. On the overturning, the only true risk we run: Woltemade breaks through, Gruda passes through Nebel, Desplanches closes on the first post.

red

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Italy grows, trusted and ball. And if it takes it out, Germany loses lucidity. The Azzurrini accelerate and pass: Koleosho flies on the left wing, in his role, jumps Collins (ah, pointing the man …) and kicks with kiss at the pole. I scream Italy. Di Salvo changes three quarters of the jammed attack, Rohl calls the reflection of Deanches. It’s all sacrifice. In the pressure, in the markings, in the attention. Only on the corner is missing and the advantage lasts 10 ‘: Ndour does not cover the area, Woltemade anticipates Coppola, 1-1. Nunziata refreshes with Casadei for Koleosho but loses Gnunto: the sacrifice brings him to the second yellow, Willy comes out in tears. And Germany strikes: Woltemade extends, the other giant Weiper appears on the second post. They are missing 3 at 90 ‘, and it is despair when Zanotti takes two yellows, the second for protests. And the referee Lithuanian Lukjancukas exaggerates. It seems over, but no. Punishment for us at the last assault, Ambrosino the plant under the crossbar. Another scream Italy. But there are extra time with two less men: Italy faces them with a ferocious determination, Desplanches helps with a flight on Reitz and hopes in penalties. But again 3 from the end Rohl from the edge finds the space for right-displacement. Too bad, it was great Italy.