How are Frattesi and Calafiori? This is one of the questions asked at the press conference Luciano Spallettitechnical commissioner of the National that in the post press conference France-Italy 1-3 he responded as follows: “Frattesi says he said it in time, that he asked for the substitution as soon as he felt a bit tired. Calafiori needs to be evaluated, but with our good doctors there is a chance he can recover”. The latter was inadvertently hit on the calf by Dembele while the Frenchman was falling and a few minutes later he was forced to ask for the substitution. In the case of the Inter midfielder, however, the substitution was made immediately after the player felt a bit tired. .
In the mixed zone, Frattesi himself confirmed that he had not suffered any muscular problems: “I was just a little tired,” said the midfielder who scored the 2-1 goal. “I’m happy, when goals help the team they always have something extra,” he said in another passage. “This evening should have been a restart for us. The flop at the European Championship in my opinion was a mental thing, there was a lot of pressure and we felt it too much even in the locker room. We were exhausted. Tonight we were good, we tried a few things, but they stay with you. We went in the right direction.”
Finally, a joke from Frattesi about Spalletti himself: “The coach is very strong on the pitch. Before the match, he described a game to us and that’s what actually happened. We were good at finishing.”