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Impossible to even rate Italy, but gotta laugh. Score 4 goals while playing absolute rubbish. We must be the unfittest team in world football.

Usually Pirlo takes the first 2 (on goal) then Balo the 3rd FK. Anyway, fun game once Italy woke up. Diamanti must've pissed of Prandelli because he was in ok form leading up to this tournament.

Haha this defense worse than the U21's.

Players are coasting because of the heat but the 4 deep lying type mids is not helping lol.

Who made the back pass?

Yeah true. He did play 1 plus 5 defenders though. But in general, very few clubs (maybe Fiorentina/Catania/Roma) set up with attacking systems that give opportunities for creative type players. So overall, someone like Insigne would've got much more playing time at a comparable team in Spain...

Isn't that kind of the problem. That the coach only wants one type of that player? Why can't they both play... because too many coaches still have a DM fetish.

Woooo Classy play by Insigne in the lead-up. He really needs to be in midfield. A bit of Iniesta about him.

~60%-40% possession. Haven't been able to make more than 5 passes. Pretty sad really.

Should've been the 90's but players like Baggio and Zola weren't allowed to play together.

Dude, Italy don't produce speedy wingers though. There's more chance of just imitating Spain's style and developing creative, technical mids.

I'd like to see Insigne become an attacking mid. Without quality mids, we can't keep possession enough and will never beat the Spanish system.

Commentators saying its a clear penalty GTFO

FFS don't we produce any CB's no more.

Yeahhhh nice.

WTF is this shit.

Seems logical but it's going to be uncomfortable for Marchisio with half the fans calling for Pogba to start the moment Claudio has a quiet game. He probably thinks 'fuk it, it's not worth it when I can be appreciated somewhere else'.

Yes which brings us back to the original problem. He wants a midfield set-up where his position isn't under threat and I think he holds the cards here... Sure, we can get rid of him and do without next year or two, but then risk a Dortmund scenario where Pogba/Vidal leave us for the big $$. So...

Not really. They changed to 3-5-1-1 with Marchisio as the 1, that made him look terrible and the most expendable. He wants to be central midfield.

It seems pretty clear that he wants a guaranteed starting spot, which kind of means a 4 man mid, so he isn't forced to compete with Pogmania. This is all for Conte to sort out. I'm not his biggest fan but think we should keep him because Pogba or Vidal will get offered crazy money by an oil...