Wow did Italy seriously just lose to the U.S at home? I'm embarrassed to be Italian right now, we played like crap and if we play like this in the Euro it's a certain early departure just like the World Cup.
Pathetic loss. That American team isn't as good as any team we'll be facing in the Euro's. I've been a big supporter of Prandelli, but tonight he was a disaster tactically.
"After 8 Billion Years... USA have FINALLY won the World Cu.... wait it was just a friendly?! ****! Oh well, let's see what Lin is up too."
It's a friendly. My disappointment will likely last for about 5-10 minutes. Good thing about it is that most Americans could care less as well.
LOL... already watching the meltdown happen. We seriously must have the most pessimistic fan base in the WORLD.
attack was dead after matri sub why ogbonna on for 90 min?? and no balzaretti? embarrasing result to KLINSMAN, a crappy coach, at home! prandelli got lots of work to do....this is another game he loses when he had control of the game...and just like the ireland and uruguay game, US scored on their one and only chance
come on now...today and uruguay game were TERRIBLE. 90 min of full attack and u cant get 1 goal in? and thats ^ with multiple subs in a friendly...not 3 limited like in euro
We shouldn't be losing to teams like the USA at home. Plain and simple. We had injuries, so did they... even if ours were much better players, it can't be an excuse. We've dominated Ireland, Uruguay and now the States but can't finish these teams. That's a big problem going forward. Not to mention Prandelli was a mess tonight.
Italy have now officially become a team of the past, like Hungary or Austria thanks to Prandelli's idiocy. They should admit that this generation is a total failure and scrap this whole team b/c most of these losers are not even fit to play for Chivas USA. In the meantime they should either call teams totally made of oriundi or players from Serie B until they at least learn to play at the level of MLS and can beat New Zealand.
You do realize that it's a friendly and that most coaches tend to expirement in matches such as these, right?
A few months before the Euros you should be giving your team some practice.. not experimenting still.
It's not the first time we've lost to a far inferior opponent. In fact, we've lost much more IMPORTANT matches than this one to far inferior opponents. The "home" argument really means very little to me right now. It's not like they had an overwhelming fan turnout anyways (which is usually the case for home friendlies), so I don't really see where the "home advantage" really is in this case aside from the travel time. Some of you guys really need to take a break from following the NT for a while I think.
We have one friendly left before the Euro, not three or four, one. This is not the time to experiment, it's time to prepare and see how the final squad performs, experiments shouldn't be done 3 months before a major tournament.
Cassano and Rossi are out, Di Natale just returned from injury, and Balotelli was rightfully left behind for disciplinary reasons. $hit happens. You deal with it, learn from it, and move forward.
It's being overblown, just like every time Italy loses. Like I said earlier, I'd be upset if Italy didn't play well. They just didn't finish. IMO, that's much easier to fix than if they played crap football.
This is basically it. We looked MUCH worse heading into WC 2010, but people hardly blew things out of proportion like they are right now. Personally I have more confidence in our current crop of players as well as our brand of football than I did back then, or even during the Donadoni era for that matter. I can pretty much assure you that the finished product will look much better than what we saw here today. The fact that the players looked rather disinterested and lathargic for most of the match didn't help much either. People are honestly making a fuss for no reason.
No its not. Ask Falvo the voice of reason and he'll say the same thing he has said for years. Where are the goals?
The fact that we're only 100 days away from the start of Euro 2012 and we're still lacking any identity as a team is very troubling. How many of us have pointed to the win against Spain, and the tough away draw against Germany as signs of our improvement under Prandelli. I know I have, so its only fair that we don't just ignore the bad results because they are "friendlies".
Some of you guys are way too hysterical over nothing. When does Italy shine in friendlies? It was an off game where things didn't go our way. Big deal. The USA got a lucky break scoring that goal and then just sat back and defended extremely well. It's not the end of the world. The only negative I see is that Prandelli seems to have had his plans destroyed by Rossi and Cassano's injuries. In my opinion this was not the time to exclude Balotelli. Especially over nothing. He's got to our man going into this tournament, there is no one else. Tonight he should have been there and been tested with Giovinco. Also in my opinion Ogbona was one of our best players out there over the course of 90 minutes.
Can everyone else agree that Ogbonna really doesn't belong on the team. We had a shitload of offside's, hopefully Prandelli can really stop experimenting. Is Italy scheduled to play any more friendlies before the EURO?