Who's running this competition? They got the greatest player that will probably play A-league and he's sitting at home for the finals series. FFS they got 6 out of 8 teams playing anyway, they might as well have all of them playing off for the Cup.
What's worse is that AFL and Rugby just...
I saw the BD vs Man City game (2nd leg) and when Balo came on, the whole crowd was booing and whistling every time he went near the ball. Don't see how that gets ignored but a few fans in Italy make a chant and the whole country's racist.:sergio:
What position is Veratti playing as? Hoping he gets closer to goal like xavi/iniesta. Doesn't matter really, the ship has sailed for us.
And Diamanti will probably get used as SS. Vuci is losing mobility and Gio, hmmm.
If Totti's in this form next year, he'd be guaranteed a spot in the squad. Only issue will be that him and Pirlo probably can't both be in the midfield at the same time... but that's ok, neither should play every minute in a tournament anyway.
http://www.football-italia.net/32263/azzurri-adopt-4-3-3-malta
Prandelli trying the 4-3-3 again for Malta:sergio:
I've never seen it work for Italy, because there's no WC wing-forward.
I don't know. The first half was pretty good. Marking Pirlo gave DDR plenty of time and he made some great passes. Thought we created more in the 1st half, but Osvaldo (mostly) messed it up. The goals are deceiving.
Defense isn't great but Italy don't have the squad to play good catennacio so CP has to play daring. It's still good enough to take care of the likes of Germany.
Do all Italian Brazil-citizens support Brazil? In Aus, we mostly consider Italy to be no.1, Australia 2nd. I guess the situations are a little different.