Fabio Caressajournalist, analyzed this way to the microphones of Sky Sports Italy’s elimination from Euro 2024: “Luciano said ‘I have to improve my knowledge’, because he understood that his way of being a coach that works very well in the long term, in the short term becomes another job. And I think he realized this because he saw the players a little confused about the demands he gave them. In the long term you have the opportunity to work on the team, in the short term you don’t and we know that this is the fundamental difference between a competition like the European Championship and one that lasts a season.
Do we have to give in the same direction? Because the World Cup qualifiers are tomorrow. It’s not like we now have two seasons to rebuild the team. Tomorrow what they will tell us in the press conference is very simple: ‘after the night of thinking, Spalletti stays or Spalletti goes’. So they will tell us and we continue on the same path with different ideas why it is necessary or if we change path again.
After the failure of a major event, who is the coach who remained? Nobody. We must thank him, acknowledge that he came after a coach had left on the August night. But the other thing must also be said. Then you can also say that maybe it’s not a failure. I’ve never seen a match like this in eighteen years of commenting on the national team.”