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[DAiDEViL]

Prandelli was just thinkingering and changing things up over and over again. He inherited a team that had BBC, Marchisio, Pirlo, De Rossi, a young Verratti and a revived Cassano yet he couldn't get past Uruguay and Costa Rica.

And most importantly - he had Montolivo.

 

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[Bianconero_Aus]

Prandelli was just thinkingering and changing things up over and over again. He inherited a team that had BBC, Marchisio, Pirlo, De Rossi, a young Verratti and a revived Cassano yet he couldn't get past Uruguay and Costa Rica.

He still did a better job for the NT than Conte.

 

[DAiDEViL]

He still did a better job for the NT than Conte.

I just can't get past the utterly stupid tactics he used in the final when everyone saw how it's done in the group stages.

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

I just can't get past the utterly stupid tactics he used in the final when everyone saw how it's done in the group stages.

Not wrong at all. He over-thought it too much, but I don’t think Italy would have won that final anyway. The players were absolutely fried, and had one day less rest than Spain.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

They also missed Chiellini in the final

 

[DAiDEViL]

Not wrong at all. He over-thought it too much, but I don’t think Italy would have won that final anyway. The players were absolutely fried, and had one day less rest than Spain.

Idk if I remember correctly then, but didn't he revert back to their usual 4312 system when the 352 worked so well in the group stages? Basically trying to play open game with Spain, which was never gonna work.

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If I'm wrong - sorry. But it's been a while and i'm getting old.

 

[Dominic]

Idk if I remember correctly then, but didn't he revert back to their usual 4312 system when the 352 worked so well in the group stages? Basically trying to play open game with Spain, which was never gonna work.

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If I'm wrong - sorry. But it's been a while and i'm getting old.

I remember the same

 

[Gigiventus]

Idk if I remember correctly then, but didn't he revert back to their usual 4312 system when the 352 worked so well in the group stages? Basically trying to play open game with Spain, which was never gonna work.

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If I'm wrong - sorry. But it's been a while and i'm getting old.

It was like that. The 352 worked perfectly against Spain in the groups. De Rossi in particular was amazing in the defensive role.

For the final he changed to the 4312 with Montolivo as AM and injured Chiellini at LB. A mess.

And no, no way that Prandelli did a better job than Conte. Not even close.

 

[Juvellino]

Idk if I remember correctly then, but didn't he revert back to their usual 4312 system when the 352 worked so well in the group stages? Basically trying to play open game with Spain, which was never gonna work.

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If I'm wrong - sorry. But it's been a while and i'm getting old.

Also he used all 3 subs and then Thiago Motta got injured and Spain scored 2 of their goals with Italy being a man down.

 

[Espectro]

Mancini just call 41 players to the NT

https://www.football-italia.net/161704/italy-call-41-players

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Mancini just call 41 players to the NT

https://www.football-italia.net/161704/italy-call-41-players

His plan is to achieve covid herd immunity within Italian football. Smart

 

[JuveJay]

Looks like essentially two squads at once. Estonia would have been arranged with trialling fringe players in mind.

 

[Gigiventus]

His plan is to achieve covid herd immunity within Italian football. Smart

The large call up is precisely because of covid. A number of ASL were expected to stop players from travelling as there are covid cases in their teams and they have to be in their team's bubble. So from these 41 call ups a reduced number will come first, and a second reduced number will come later.

As of now players form Genoa, Lazio, Roma, Fiorentina, Inter and Sassuolo won't be able to travel.

 

[Ventus]

Genuine question, who here like myself have lost complete interest in international football?

 

[Alex-444]

Genuine question, who here like myself have lost complete interest in international football?

i lost it in 2006

 

[JuveJay]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54881728

I was reading this having a chuckle to myself. Scotland have a Euro playoff final coming up so they went back to some players and the manager to discuss the narrow loss to Italy in 2007 that stopped them getting to Euro 2008.

I love how they get so wrapped up in the "disgraceful" awarding of a free-kick but only begrudgingly admit that Ferguson was offside for his equaliser. Not only that, Italy had a perfectly good Di Natale goal given offside at 30' that would have made it 2-0 and killed Scotland.

Has to be said that the Spanish officials had an awful game.

People really do remember what they want to from these moments @Suns

 

[Snobist]

Italy has not lost in a single game since September 2018.

 

[JuveJay]

Who would take Orsolini in a squad of 23?

If you take the "wide forwards" on both sides of Mancini's formation you can take perhaps 5 players from a list of Insigne, Chiesa, Berardi, Bernardeschi, Orsolini, El Sharaawy and Grifo. Zaniolo also largely plays from the right when he is fit.

 

[Snobist]

Seems like Albania took another CB from Italy youth who debuted tonight. He is 17, born in 2003 had an excellent game. He scored 2 goal goals for Italy u17 and 2 goals for Italy u16. Seems like a great prospect.
Ramën Çepele, he is Inter academy who left Inter for Hanover u19.
https://www.transfermarkt.com/ramen-cepele/profil/spieler/567460

 

[JuveJay]

Italy is going to be to Albania what Germany is to Turkey.