Giuliani warns his Italy: “Eye that with Portugal will not be easy”

“It is the most difficult game, precisely because the statistics make it seem within reach.” Laura Giuliani, on the eve of Italy-Portugal, explicit the theme: the great opportunity of Geneva (9 pm on Rai2) can become a great trap, is to the blue-which have all the means to do it-to scan it safely. Winning tomorrow (Monday) evening can mean the landing in the quarterfinals of the European Championship with the weight of the intersection of 11 July with the champions of the Spanish world. It would be a big deal like this. “Portugal we know him well – he frames the CT Soncin on the eve – tries to always play under pressure, in a very vertical way because it goes to exploit the characteristics of the offensive players. They have qualities, considering the game from which they arrive I certainly expect a reaction”. The reference is to the noisy 5-0 that the girls of Francisco Neto-twenty-two of the ranking, Italy is thirteenth-have remedied the debut precisely against Spain, with a technical gap already wide and emphasized probably also by the emotional impact of the tragedy of Diogo Jota (“an open wound-commented the Portuguese CT-, but now we will try to honor passion and dedication national team jersey “).

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It is difficult to hypothesize great changes in Italy’s eleven – net of any fatigue -, if not forward where they change and Piedmont advance their candidacy for a shirt. “In the initial phase against Belgium we did not express our best football for various reasons – Soncin analyzed -, but in the second half we occupied the field differently, with another attitude”. You can start from there, in the awareness of having to take advantage of the fragility of others (speaking only of the field, for Kika – star of Barcelona – and companions 5 goals scored and 21 conceded in the recent Nations League, a prerequisite for the defeat of the European beginning). Trend that surprises, given the brilliant qualifying path that brought Portugal to Switzerland. The numbers, however, Giuliani dives to Pararli at the intersection: “I don’t want to look at them, because they distract me from reading the situations in the field. With Belgium we broke the emotional wall, now we can assert our qualities”. In the Servette stadium, about 20 thousand spectators were expected including the FIGC President Gravina.