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[Bianconero_Aus]

We know what happens if Raspadori scores tonight, don't we

Thankfully Angel scored. Hope we secure this signing ASAP.

 

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[IlCapitano]

You don't see it because you don't look. Mancini already did it at the start of his cycle. And a national team is not a club or a youth team, its pointless to cap the age at 25.

He called
Donnarumma (23), Meret (25)
Scalvini (18), Gatti (23), Bastoni (23), Dimarco (24), Calabria (25), Mancini (26)
Tonali, Sa. Esposito, Ricci, Frattsei, Pobega U23 all + Loca, Barella, Lo. Pellegrini U25
Scammaca, Raspadori, Cancellieri, Zerbin U23 all + most excitingly Gnonto at 19yo

Lol those guys don't have a 1000 minutes between them excluding Donnarumma. He can call them up to training camps as much as he wants but they are constantly benched/not called up for games in favor of mid-table Serie A jabronis.

 

[JuvePerSempre10]

I mean look at the team. That attack is literally midtable Serie A level. Midfield and defense are mediocre too. In the Euros they rode Chiesa's momentum and without him this team is simply nothing to write home about.

 

[campionesidd]

Italy looking utterly terrible. Euros were such a fluke

Not really, they really were the best team in the tournament.

 

[il brutto]

Italy looking utterly terrible. Euros were such a fluke

Italy looked/played like the best team in the Euros so would hardly call it a fluke.

Also worth noticing that Verratti, Chiesa, Insigne, Berardi, Immobile and Spinazzola are missing from the group that won that tournament. This is a very different team with even less firepower up front than they usually have. You're not going to win many games against good opponents with Belotti and Berna being tasked with producing.

 

[JuveJay]

Italy looking utterly terrible. Euros were such a fluke

You don't fluke multiple games and the long winning streak the team had. This is an irrelevant game on its own. Qualification failure was something else.

 

[Gigiventus]

Lol those guys don't have a 1000 minutes between them excluding Donnarumma. He can call them up to training camps as much as he wants but they are constantly benched/not called up for games in favor of mid-table Serie A jabronis.

I mean there 3 or 4 players on that list hat have more than 1000 minutes each, as arbitrary a measure as you chose. I understand its not about reality though, but about agenda, so it's pointless to continue.

 

[U Picciriddu]

I mean look at the team. That attack is literally midtable Serie A level. Midfield and defense are mediocre too. In the Euros they rode Chiesa's momentum and without him this team is simply nothing to write home about.

Yeah we miss important players, but Spina and Loca are on the bench aswel.

I like this concept it’s a fun game with many nice players. The contrast between Di Maria and Berna. A clutch player and our old RW who can’t score

 

[Cerval]

Italy was all about having momentum leading up to the Euros. They were a good team however with momentum on their side they were great. Then they lost to Spain in the Nations league for the first time in a long while and in free fall ever since.

 

[Juve Fanatico]

Marotta’s most costly mistake was bringing him back in 2018.

We were almost free of this nightmare.

 

[Mike-e-y]

Not really, they really were the best team in the tournament.

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Not really, they really were the best team in the tournament.

Italy looked/played like the best team in the Euros so would hardly call it a fluke.

Also worth noticing that Verratti, Chiesa, Insigne, Berardi, Immobile and Spinazzola are missing from the group that won that tournament. This is a very different team with even less firepower up front than they usually have. You're not going to win many games against good opponents with Belotti and Berna being tasked with producing.

You don't fluke multiple games and the long winning streak the team had. This is an irrelevant game on its own. Qualification failure was something else.

Disagree - Italy were in a moment during the euros, it came at the right time. They had confidence from the unbeaten streak and although they played well in the group games they struggled in the knockouts. The momentum carried them through and as I say they were in a moment.

since then they have been very poor and tonight is an example. Look at this lack of depth. That attack relies on Belotti when the internationally inefficient Immobile is out

 

[Fab Fragment]

Berna wearing the shirt that was once worn by Baggio, Totti, Giannini etc

 

[lgorTudor]

Italy was all about having momentum leading up to the Euros. They were a good team however with momentum on their side they were great. Then they lost to Spain in the Nations league for the first time in a long while and in free fall ever since.

Should have sold the top. Now bear market until Euros 2024

cc @Dru

 

[Fab Fragment]

IMHO, Balotelli needs to be given another chance.

 

[campionesidd]

Disagree - Italy were in a moment during the euros, it came at the right time. They had confidence from the unbeaten streak and although they played well in the group games they struggled in the knockouts. The momentum carried them through and as I say they were in a moment.

since then they have been very poor and tonight is an example. Look at this lack of depth. That attack relies on Belotti when the internationally inefficient Immobile is out

They were on a 35 match unbeaten run till last year. That’s not a fluke.

 

[il brutto]

They were on a 35 match unbeaten run till last year. That’s not a fluke.

Perhaps a very very long fluke?

 

[juve123]

Italy looking utterly terrible. Euros were such a fluke

They won three knockout matches on penalties so yeah they had their fair such of luck involved. Still the major problem is the attack looks toothless without chiesa.

 

[Siamak]

It’s pleasure to watch berna.

 

[maxi]

Sign Di Maria. Not emerson

 

[.zero]

Should have sold the top. Now bear market until Euros 2024

cc @Dru

Azzurri, whales , and VCs built the hype machine through the summer into autumn and then rugged all Italians when WC qualifying came and all those shorts expired