Lol nothing would ever convince you when you already decided on what you are going to harp on regardless of what was said, but here, another excuse for you to rip into Azzurri:
“It’s too soon to be talking about the Spain friendly in August,” the Coach said at Coverciano on Saturday afternoon.
Say, if Italy does indeed end up playing like Spain, and hence like Barcelona, what will some here say about that? Don't most Azzurri fans hate Spain and Barcelona? Are the tides turning a bit? Hmm. That's an interesting proposition.
Thus far, I have not seen any objections to Italy striving to the game like Spain, which is very weird. Or maybe it isn't. After all, whatever Italy does it Ze Best, so we'll shove our own opinions in the trash bin and nod our heads like ze puppets we are...
“It’s not possible to compare us as they have been working together for some time. Hopefully we can get to their levels in a shortly.
But this is the sort of irrational and arrogant quote that I abhor from the Italians. Prandelli says they are not at Spain's level simply because they haven't worked with the same team for several years. You know, I really don't like Spain, not just because of the match today. But Italy's players, tactics, and overall personality on the pitch are not anything like Spain's, even if they try to emulate them. It's not just because this Prandelli side hasn't played together. That's nonsense.
What I don't understand is why I'm not seeing more rejection of this whole Spain talk. To the purists out there, I'm sure that deep down they hate throwing away the Italian identity and becoming willing imperial slaves to their rivals in Spain.
“We are looking for our players to grow and a lot of them won’t be playing in Europe next season which is a handicap.”
According to Opta statistics, Prandelli’s team completed 829 passes against Estonia, the most by a team in a Euro 2012 qualifier so far.

I guess after the last World Cup, that's a nice accomplishment for the Azzurri, so I'll give credit to them and Prandelli.
"The performance chart yesterday showed good balance,” continued the former Fiorentina boss.
“When you can interpret the game well, every challenge becomes easy, but no match is won before it is played. Our ability yesterday was that we gave our opponents hardly anything.
“There was pessimism around us at the start of my spell, but we still can’t think that we can beat anyone. We are working hard and the results are helping us.”
Giuseppe Rossi opened the scoring last night with a wonderful goal after Prandelli opted to play without a centre-forward in a 4-3-1-2.
“Rossi proved himself to be a complete striker yesterday. He was excellent, combining technique with speed of execution.

“He is a great professional, now mature, and it is a shame that he left Italy to play his club football elsewhere. Some people didn’t believe in him…
“We can use yesterday’s system again, but only if every player does their job. There are no sure starters in this team. Healthy competition can help players to give their best.
“It’s now up to us to get closer to the best national sides, but, I repeat, we have achieved nothing yet.”
/rant
