It is certainly not easy to keep up with the very physical French defense. Perhaps the 3-5-1-1 formation penalizes a bit Mateo Retegui who failed to leave his mark last night. The Atalanta striker was seen little on a very difficult evening in which the Azzurri were beaten 3-1 at San Siro by the national team coached by Didier Deschamps. “He tries to keep up in the Konaté-Saliba grip – writes the Gazzetta dello Sport – but suffers from the isolation that this offensive module entails if Barella has to stay lower”. Tuttosport is clear in his analysis: “Zero playable balls and he is a spectator.”
Today’s edition of Corriere dello Sport is also along these lines: “Not a very justified absence, even if you don’t see many balls in those parts and this is a mitigating factor. Too little”. “An evening as a traveler in the desert – reports the Corriere della Sera – cloudy even when the ball hits him. It doesn’t give depth and suffers from loneliness”. This is TMW’s comment: “A little in the dark, certainly too isolated: in the first half he never touches it. More in the heart of the game in the second half, but the substance doesn’t change.”
THE VOTES
TuttoMercatoWeb.com: 5
Gazzetta dello Sport: 5
Tuttosport: 5
Corriere dello Sport: 5
Corriere della Sera: 5