The Spain-Italy slate: Spalletti bans PlayStations and De la Fuente works on imbalances

Spain faces Italy in a match that Luis de la Fuente’s technical staff has worked a lot on the board. LThe Spaniards will encounter a “different” Italyan Azzurra who will discuss possession like the Croatians did. An issue that has taken a backseat after De la Fuente’s boys lost possession for the first time in a match after 136 consecutive games winning it. Something that was not an obstacle for them to achieve a resounding victory over Croatia (3-0), exhibiting notable verticality and forcefulness.

Spalletti, the leader of Italy

The Spanish staff focuses on the Italian coach Luciano Spalletti. “Spalletti is a super experienced coach. They have a clear leader and he is the coach. He is guiding the process of change that Italy is experiencing with a different proposal than what we were used to,” De la Fuente’s second, Pablo Amo, told El Periódico de España from the team’s concentration in Donaueschingen.

“We have analyzed them in different games and we are going to see why they propose because they have alternatives and can play with two systems. But above all if there is something that defines them, it is their competitiveness. They are going to adapt to the game context and compete with tremendous intensity because they have players with profiles for it. We have to match the intensity and put our football above. He will be a formidable rival,” adds Amo.

Set pieces are one of the strong points of the transalpine team, which has focused attention on the video sessions. Especially after having a tough time against Northern Ireland in Mallorca. Everything indicates that Nacho and Le Normand will be the starting centre-backs, although Laporte already worked this Tuesday behind closed doors with the rest of the team, but everything indicates that he does not yet have the rhythm to start against Italy.

Videos of all kinds

Amo places emphasis on managing the unbalanced situations that will be experienced during the match: “They have unbalanced players who are going to unbalance us at some point because they are very good, but that is where the team has to appear and it always has. The moment a duel is lost, and that is going to happen, that is where the team should be to help. And in that we are top. It is wonderful to see all the help situations and the communication that exists to be close to each other. Then football has a lot of unpredictable variables, but what is not going to happen in Spain is that we leave a teammate alone.”

For this match the players They have seen individual videos of players they will face, videos by lines and rival videosin addition to studying the behavior and the most recurrent patterns, to which De la Fuente and his assistants have provided solutions based on the game model proposed by the team. The man from Haro has insisted a lot on maintaining balance and not losing distance in occupying spaces in order to be able to put intense pressure on the Italians after losing the ball.

Goodbye to the PlayStation

A trait that characterizes this Spain and that I was talking about Giacomo Raspadori, striker of Italy and Napoli, who assured that Italy can hurt Spain.“The danger for Spain is their pressure after a loss. We have to put the ball safely once we recover because they look for quick steals to create a chanceis one of their greatest dangers,” added the player raised in Sassuolo, who spoke from the town of Iserlhon, 40 kilometers from Dortmund, Italy’s concentration camp.

Luciano Spalletti has not only changed the team’s game dynamics, he has also altered some codes of the Azzurra’s locker room. In a recent interview in Gazzetta dello Sport he warned the following about the routines and customs of his international team: “You come to the national team to win the Euro Cup, not to win in Call of Duty. If the modern thing is to play the PlayStation until 4 in the morning when there is a game the next day, then this modernity is not good. I have to allow cell phones, but they cannot be on the massage table during treatments. Now they leave the PlayStations at home and no longer bring them to rallies. They come to see me and I give them homework to do in the afternoon if the day’s tasks have not been enough. Because in the national team you have to be at what you have to be, not to waste time.”

2024-06-19 05:01:18
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