Il Capitano Alessandro Del Piero (96 Viewers)
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Del Piero On Fire In Training
Del Piero did not feature at all during Tuesday’s 2-0 win over France that booked Italy’s place in the quarter finals of Euro 2008.
The Golden Boy impressed as a substitute during the 3-0 defeat to Holland, but was disappointing after starting the 1-1 draw against Romania.
The Italy squad resumed training today after being given yesterday off, and Del Piero was the star performer during a mini-game between ranks.
The Juventus captain scored a hat-trick and looked in peak condition. Antonio Di Natale also impressed, scoring four times.
However there was some bad news for the Azzurri as Andrea Barzagli was forced to pull out of the session with injury, limping off the pitch before receiving treatment from medical staff.
Barzagli was not expected to start against Spain anyway, as the two centre backs are almost certain to once again be Christian Panucci and Giorgio Chiellini.
Del Piero did not feature at all during Tuesday’s 2-0 win over France that booked Italy’s place in the quarter finals of Euro 2008.
The Golden Boy impressed as a substitute during the 3-0 defeat to Holland, but was disappointing after starting the 1-1 draw against Romania.
The Italy squad resumed training today after being given yesterday off, and Del Piero was the star performer during a mini-game between ranks.
The Juventus captain scored a hat-trick and looked in peak condition. Antonio Di Natale also impressed, scoring four times.
However there was some bad news for the Azzurri as Andrea Barzagli was forced to pull out of the session with injury, limping off the pitch before receiving treatment from medical staff.
Barzagli was not expected to start against Spain anyway, as the two centre backs are almost certain to once again be Christian Panucci and Giorgio Chiellini.
Del Piero On Fire In Training
Alessandro Del Piero is pushing for a starting place against Spain on Sunday after impressing hugely in training, while Andrea Barzagli limped out with an injury.
el Piero did not feature at all during Tuesday’s 2-0 win over France that booked Italy’s place in the quarter finals of Euro 2008.
The Golden Boy impressed as a substitute during the 3-0 defeat to Holland, but was disappointing after starting the 1-1 draw against Romania.
The Italy squad resumed training today after being given yesterday off, and Del Piero was the star performer during a mini-game between ranks.
The Juventus captain scored a hat-trick and looked in peak condition. Antonio Di Natale also impressed, scoring four times.
However there was some bad news for the Azzurri as Andrea Barzagli was forced to pull out of the session with injury, limping off the pitch before receiving treatment from medical staff.
Barzagli was not expected to start against Spain anyway, as the two centre backs are almost certain to once again be Christian Panucci and Giorgio Chiellini.
Alessandro Del Piero is pushing for a starting place against Spain on Sunday after impressing hugely in training, while Andrea Barzagli limped out with an injury.
el Piero did not feature at all during Tuesday’s 2-0 win over France that booked Italy’s place in the quarter finals of Euro 2008.
The Golden Boy impressed as a substitute during the 3-0 defeat to Holland, but was disappointing after starting the 1-1 draw against Romania.
The Italy squad resumed training today after being given yesterday off, and Del Piero was the star performer during a mini-game between ranks.
The Juventus captain scored a hat-trick and looked in peak condition. Antonio Di Natale also impressed, scoring four times.
However there was some bad news for the Azzurri as Andrea Barzagli was forced to pull out of the session with injury, limping off the pitch before receiving treatment from medical staff.
Barzagli was not expected to start against Spain anyway, as the two centre backs are almost certain to once again be Christian Panucci and Giorgio Chiellini.
Del piero may easilly get the first team call-up if Donadoni plans to change his tactics against Spain. He probably will with Pirlo and Rino out. He can't expect the same result from an AMbro-Aquilani pairing therefore I think it will be very likely for him to play with a 4-3-3 formation, a formation Ale doesn't like nonetheless.
I think in a stage like this, his experience is critical and despite lacking the flair and speed of Cassano at the moment, he is much more experienced than Antonio. In my opinion, particularly against a team like Spain, the experience and leadership qualities of Del piero will be far more important than the speed of Di Natale or Cassano.
I also think Di Natale deserves another chance to prove himself. He wasn't bad against the Netherlands and he couldn't have had worse luck playing with an incompetent defense that really didn't allow him to do much. I know most of you would disagree with me here, but I think Di Natale should start ahead of Cassano. If things don't work out, Cassano can replace him and he does seem a lot more dangerous coming off the bench.
As for Del piero, I hope he starts although I still have my doubts. I wish he and Di Natale can play together as I think they could make a great partership behind Toni.
----------Camo-----De Rossi-----Aquilani--
------------Del piero-------Di Natale-------
----------------------Toni-------------------
I think in a stage like this, his experience is critical and despite lacking the flair and speed of Cassano at the moment, he is much more experienced than Antonio. In my opinion, particularly against a team like Spain, the experience and leadership qualities of Del piero will be far more important than the speed of Di Natale or Cassano.
I also think Di Natale deserves another chance to prove himself. He wasn't bad against the Netherlands and he couldn't have had worse luck playing with an incompetent defense that really didn't allow him to do much. I know most of you would disagree with me here, but I think Di Natale should start ahead of Cassano. If things don't work out, Cassano can replace him and he does seem a lot more dangerous coming off the bench.
As for Del piero, I hope he starts although I still have my doubts. I wish he and Di Natale can play together as I think they could make a great partership behind Toni.
----------Camo-----De Rossi-----Aquilani--
------------Del piero-------Di Natale-------
----------------------Toni-------------------
Nicely put.
how much longer do we have to stick to a tactic of feeding goalless Toni the ball? Really. Not capitalizing on chances is one of those things that could fek you up in a game. I don't know how long Don is planning to be patient with Toni. It's a knockout stage now, and we can't afford mistakes. To be fair Toni I really do think he's just unlucky. But the whole team can't wait for his luck to come around. Plus our defence is absolute crap and Spain's attack should be able to toy with them easily .... which makes scoring for the Azzurri all the more important.
how much longer do we have to stick to a tactic of feeding goalless Toni the ball? Really. Not capitalizing on chances is one of those things that could fek you up in a game. I don't know how long Don is planning to be patient with Toni. It's a knockout stage now, and we can't afford mistakes. To be fair Toni I really do think he's just unlucky. But the whole team can't wait for his luck to come around. Plus our defence is absolute crap and Spain's attack should be able to toy with them easily .... which makes scoring for the Azzurri all the more important.