The national team midfielder Sandro Tonali gave a short interview to the microphones of ‘Vivo Azzurro’ at the end of Italy-Belgium 2-2: “It’s part of football to sometimes end up with ten against eleven and against Belgium it happened for a long time. But let’s look at the positive side: we are first in the group and we have shown that we deserve this first place, this is the thing that gives us the strongest “.
Then in another passage Tonali added: “Every call, every call-up is a dream. Even if the match at the Olimpico is not my first match, however, the emotions are always the same, this is a bit of the secret of all of us. It is always a source of pride and always will be , this is the nice thing about playing with the blue shirt.”
LEAGUE A, GROUP 2
Italy 7 points
France 6
Belgium 4
Israel 0
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Italy-Belgium 2-2, the scoreboard
Italy (3-5-1-1): Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo, Bastoni, Calafiori; Cambiaso, Frattesi (45′ st Bellanova), Ricci (25′ st Fagioli), Tonali (35′ st Pisilli), Dimarco (25′ st Udogie); Pilgrims; Retegui (35′ st Raspadori). Available: Di Gregorio, Vicario, Buongiorno, Gabbia, Lucca, Maldini, Okoli. All.: Spalletti
Belgium (4-2-3-1): Casteels; Debast, Faes, Theate (23′ st Vranckx), De Cuyper; Tielemans, Mangala (23′ st Castagne); Doku (42′ st Fofana), De Ketelaere (23′ st Lukebakio), Trossard; Openda (42′ st Ngonge).
Available: De Wolf, Vandevoordt, Bakayoko, Bornauw, De Winter, Engels, Ngonge, Smets. All.: German
Referee: Eskas
Markers: 2′ Cambiaso (I), 24′ Retegui (I), 42′ De Cuyper (B), 16′ st Trossard (B)
Ammonites: Donnarumma, Pisilli (I), Trossard (B)
Expelled: Pellegrini (I)