Italy-Belgium women, you can only win. Bertolini: “There is a desire for revenge”

From our correspondent Alessandra Bocci

July 17
– BLACKBURN

Nice reactions, great cohesion, but the Italy of girls faces another very high obstacle. Inside or out, against Belgium on the last day of the group stage of this European championship, a success without any other possible result is needed, hoping that the super France will also beat Iceland. But, while the Belgium coach has admitted that his team manager will be in charge of following the other match of the final day, the Italian coach Milena Bertolini has organized herself in another way. “We have to think about ourselves. Then we will see the result from the other side ”. In short, the focus is on the blue, who in the two previous matches, beyond the difference in value of the opponents, left the first half in the hands of the others. Option not contemplated in this third and decisive match of the group. “But I saw a great desire for revenge in my girls. There were so many expectations about us and as I always said the second year is always the most difficult. But we are ready ”.

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Ready with many variations and the topic of the day is the possibility of seeing Sara Gama sitting on the bench, the icon of blue women’s football. “I also made a lot of changes in the match against Iceland,” says Bertolini. And Sara Gama looks a bit ahead and remembers the past a bit. “Let’s remember where we started from, we are players but above all people. You ask me how I am? But I have been like this since the beginning of the retreat. We are 23 owners, the important thing is that Italy qualifies for the quarterfinals ”. Despite the negative buffer, Cernoia will not be in the game: “She is angry for not having been able to give her contribution but she is not yet in a position to take the field, even if in the last few days she has trained with great desire”.