Azzurri Thread (59 Viewers)

[Halabalu]

I don't like this 3 5 2 formation. Giacherini as a strater? For the sake of God... its seems insane. A 160cm guy as a fullback which has no any national team experience at all. It looks very desperately. I would rather prefer 4 3 3 with Baldzaretti as LB, De Rosi Pirlo Marchisio, and Cassano Di Natale, Balotelli.

 

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[Trequartista]

I don't like this 3 5 2 formation. Giacherini as a strater? For the sake of God... its seems insane. A 160cm guy as a fullback which has no any national team experience at all. It looks very desperately. I would rather prefer 4 3 3 with Baldzaretti as LB, De Rosi Pirlo Marchisio, and Cassano Di Natale, Balotelli.

Maggio is a disaster waiting to happen in 4-3-3.

3-5-2 is the way to go, just play Balzaretti instead of Giaccherini.

 

[JuveJay]

Maggio in a back four is ok if Italy are going to dominate possession.

 

[Halabalu]

I am not sure... maybe it was because of Spain, but there were no any threat from both fullbacks. And if I anderstand correctly It has to be according to 3 5 2 !

 

[ZoSo]

Balotelli, what a man!

J that would be pretty funny.

 

[JCK]

What jersey number does Barzagli have?

 

[Klovn]

15.

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

I love old school by Ireland team - their starters has numbers from 1 to 11

 

[Seven]

I am still amazed by Italy's performance. Much of it comes from wanting to show that they aren't dead yet, no doubt. But still..

---------- Post added 11.06.2012 at 14:54 ----------

Maggio in a back four is ok if Italy are going to dominate possession.

Maggio's always okay. Cool player.

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

 

[Trequartista]

Croatia will be a very tough test, good team.

 

[Halabalu]

I guess I will break my vocal cords during Croatia clash. According to some significant features of Ukrainian championship and relationships between Croatian and Ukrainian nationa team I HATE THEM WITH ALL MY SOUL !!!

 

[sallyinzaghi]

we definitely need DDR back in midfield which is why Barza needs to return ASAP (also because he's a beast). I still think DDR was our best defender compared to Leo and to an extent Chiello yesterday. That is not to say he should continue as the azzurri's defender.

 

[Red]

Pretty good showing from Italy.

They were excellent up to the point Spain scored, but struggled quite badly after that.

Cassano-Balotelli allowed Italy to keep the ball and the held it up well to relieve pressure. Unsuprisingly, they didn't offer much penetration, since neither is really interesting in running in behind a defence.

Midfield functioned pretty well, with Motta the standout. Managing to avoid being completely dominated in this area of the pitch when Spain were playing about 43 midfielders gave Italy the platform to really compete in the game.

The back three did well, even if there were a few understandable errors caused by not having played together before and De Rossi making the sort of mistakes a midfielder is always likely to make when playing in defence (not that De Rossi didn't have a good game).

Goal was fairly preventable. Giaccherini, ideally, would have tracked Fabregas better, but it's a lot to ask of a player isn't a defender at all. The space that the ball was played into should not, to my mind, exist when you are playing with three CBs. De Rossi was possibly ball-watching slightly when Chiellini stepped out to close Silva, so wasn't shuffling back into a sweeper type position to provide cover. Tough stuff to do for a midfielder, though.

Think Italy's problems late in the game came about due to the midfield tiring after working hard to compete despite being outnumbered through the game, combined with Torres attack the space behind the defence with Spain's midfielders relatively free to pick passes due to Italy's fatigue. For that reason, I think that Nocerino probably needed to come on 10-15 minutes earlier than he did.

The slow pitch helped Italy quite a lot, I think, as it made it really tough for Spain to play with any real tempo.

Promising signs for Italy, but tough to learn much about Italy's capabilities of doing something in the tournament since playing Spain is so different to playing anyone else.

 

[baggio]

I think Italy might put up q good show at the tourney but dont know if they're enough of a unit to win it.

 

[DIECI]

“The combinations between Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas are useless you don’t HAVE MESSI.”

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---------- Post added 11.06.2012 at 07:23 ----------

Maggio is a disaster waiting to happen in 4-3-3.

3-5-2 is the way to go, just play Balzaretti instead of Giaccherini.

exactly play Balz in stead of Giac and we're solid, Maggio in the 3-5-2 looks much better as its more of a traditional Napoli style formation. If Balz played yesterday instead of Giac I think we would have won. Fabregas gol was Giac's fault, he lost him and Fab got free.

 

[Lapa]

Motta is a useless piece of shit. Just like our beloved Motta was.

 

[Juventino[RUS]]

 

[baggio]

 

[DIECI]

Pique's a bitch, just like the whole Spanish team.