From the Coverciano press room, Luciano Spalletti presented Italy’s next two matches: Thursday in Brussels against Belgium, Sunday at San Siro against Italy (the last of the Nations League group stage). Many topics were touched upon in the conference by the Azzurri coach, including the state of farewell of Italian football: “This morning I complimented the boys on how they are conducting the season, they are showing good football and there is this competitiveness which is good a bit for everyone. We see beautiful matches, very tight and uncertain like Inter-Napoli, and lower-level teams that give the better-equipped teams a hard time: this makes the movement grow and allows us to take more. footballers. We are happy with the two strikers, they are showing what we hoped for. In the morning Kean was with Comuzzo and I said to the latter: ‘Be careful, he scores for you too…’ He is in great shape, he has obvious and very small qualities. critical issues. We are very happy.”
What gathering is this?
“It’s the follow-up gathering, we have to give continuity to what we’ve seen so far. This morning when we met the kids, since there’s little time, I immediately highlighted something that is the synthesis of everything and we brought them of the graphs regarding what we experienced during the European Championship and what we experienced during the Nations League. This change depended above all on them, Buffon told him that an important quality that has been seen is the recovery of awareness of the their quality and strength. Now we can see it who are calm and aware of their strength: through these characteristics they have also become a team. We don’t say anything, we compliment them and we are certainly happy with the fact that they have absorbed this new tactical system in a total way. Now since football is continuous evolution, there are different methods of being on the pitch and they know how to adapt to what the other team offers. I told them that we are happy to have perfect undisciplined players.”
Read coach Luciano Spalletti’s full press conference here
THE LIST OF CALLED PEOPLE
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain), Alex Meret (Napoli), Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham);
Defenders: Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Alessandro Buongiorno (Napoli), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Pietro Comuzzo (Fiorentina), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Federico Gatti (Juventus), Caleb Okoli (Leicester), Nicolò Savona (Juventus), Destiny Udogie (Tottenham);
Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Niccolò Pisilli (Roma), Manuel Locatelli (Juventus), Nicolò Rovella (Lazio), Sandro Tonali (Newcastle);
Attackers: Moise Kean (Fiorentina), Daniel Maldini (Monza), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Atalanta).
*CLASSIFICATION
Italy 10 points, France 9, Belgium 4, Israel 0
*The first two classified will qualify for the quarter-finals. The third-placed team will play a playoff against relegation with one of the runners-up from League B, while the fourth-placed team in the group will be relegated to League B.