Inside today’s edition of Corriere della Sera there is a comment from the journalist Alessandro Bocci who has his say on the moment of the Italian national team. These are some excerpts: “Spalletti slept very little thinking back to what could have been and wasn’t, to the beautiful and merciless Italy of the first 40 minutes, the same one that had crushed France in Paris in September. With the victory over Belgium, the qualification for the quarter-finals of the Nations League would have been safe and, above all, the place as top seed in the draw for the World Cup qualifiers would have been safe. […] Now we are here wondering if the Azzurri threw away two points in Rome or if they instead snatched one in difficulty. In the end they chose to stay with Spalletti: it wasn’t a wasted opportunity.
We want to see the glass half full glass half full, Italy has turned the corner after a despairing European Championship. […] But we are no longer at the bottom of the pit of despair. It’s a different national team compared to June. Now we have to insist. Continuity, the most precious asset, is measured in the long term.”