Tomorrow evening (9pm) Italy will face Spain in Gelsenkirchen in the second match of group B. With the three points the Azzurri would have qualified for the round of 16 with one round to spare. He spoke in the usual press conference the day before Luciano Spalletti.
THE ANTI-SPAIN FORMATION
INSIGHTS
“This time I’ll tell you the formation tomorrow because they haven’t said anything either.”
THE MOST IMPORTANT RACE OF YOUR CAREER?
“It’s one of the most important matches of my career, but I’ve been through a lot and this has to be put among them.
There are always stories to tell and this is one of those matches that can determine one of these stories.”
SPAIN
“Spain has become like this because it has always played the same football and is recognized because it has had the courage to maintain the same idea of football over time. To get to those levels you need to be consistent in always proposing the same idea of football. With the Croatia won the match because they always have that game and that pace. We have to maintain that crazy desire to play the match, against one of the strongest football schools in the world. Of course, it will be more difficult to Albania. We are willing to get our clothes dirty if necessary. We must be able to find the balance, not only on a tactical level. As far as I’m concerned, I really like the football that Spain plays and therefore they go for it of things from them because it is an attacking football and they keep the ball high. We must be good at finding that level in a short time and when it is not there we will be forced to throw the ball at the attackers against one and from reversal of action. In the open field they are deadly. You can’t just play from the restart. We’ll try to play the game anyway. You have to be good at making speed changes. When we get in front of the goalkeeper we are already in checkers, then we also have to score a goal. It’s not a derby, they all are: they are all finals and races that will never happen to me again. We will try to do the same game again as against Albania. We want to compete against a strong team like Spain, also to measure our level. If we give them the ball in the game it will come out badly.”
THE ONLY SPAIN THAT PLAYS WELL?
“There are many nations that play beautiful and proactive football, Spain is not the only one to do so. We must take steps forward to play Spanish football.
Morata-e-Yamal
“Morata isn’t pricy, he runs a lot. A player like that attacks you the space behind the line many times. Yamal the same.”
WHO TAKES ANY PENALTY
“I think there are many penalty takers capable of doing it: Scamacca, Retegui, Barella, Di Marco, Calafiori, Jorginho. I won’t say just one or two.”
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