It was absolute suicide to put the team out there like that tonight. Ridiculous.
----buffon----
Darmian--Barzagli--Bonu--Spina
---verratti-De Rossi-Pellegrini---
-------------Bernardeschi----------
----------Belotti---Insigne------------
As things stand Bernardeschi offers nothing tbh. He was on the pitch for 20 minutes and did nothing at all. He's out of form, yet he hides behind Spain's midfielders, lol.
If I was Ventura I'd have mirrored Spain's 433 just to (at least try to) fight back in the midfield. It's beyond me why Berardi doesn't get a chance tbh, he might be grumpy but the kid has very good numbers. Instead you're forced to watch the likes of Candreva and Eder, lol.
As someone here said it's a suicide to play a 2 man mid vs Spain, add to that a Verratti - DDS pair. Italy needed a pure B2B runner there so it'd be easier to cover some ground and press from time to time.
Ventura is a retard but it has to be said that these Italian players are vastly overrated. No movement, no passing, no willingness to sacrifice, anything. Everything so slow. They don't look like a team, unlike Spain.