Rebuilding The Azzurri for Euro 2024 and beyond

Acerbi had it out for Italy. I've never seen a CB dribble up the field relatively unmarked and then pass to absolutely nobody, immediately putting his own team into chaos.

 

Dear God, you're not one of those, are you?

 

I was holding my breath each time.

 

Hope not

 

Italia-Inghilterra, le pagelle del Maradona | Sky Sport

 

There are still 7 games left to be played.

I doubt war torn Ukraine will mange a few wins .

Same goes for Malta.

Unless North Macedonia has another miracle from Aleksandar Trajkovski, Italy should be qualify.

 

My God he sucks. I could lay a turd in the middle of the pitch and get more out of it than Jorginho.

But noone should be surprised. FIGC zero accountability culture has lead to that. and Mancini now touting look at the second half! what,so you can play one of the most garbage first halves in Nazionale history and then one shot on target in the second half changes everything? Best if we fail to qualify and get rid of this guy. He lost his mind after the euro win.

The of course there's Pengland. They can't score unless they flap around like headless chickens in the penalty box and force the ball in or win a freak penalty. They played against a garbage lineup coached by an a$$clown and Italia still scored the most beautiful goal of the game. Even when Pengland beat us they are even a bigger joke than when they lose. The whole field should have just been covered in clown noses.

 

Almost impossible to not qualify

 

Mancini accepts your challenge

 

There's just no way unless they lose to malta. Then he must go, get pirlo or someone younger. Maybe even gattuso.

 

Both of England's goals came off TERRIBLE corners. The corners were so poorly taken and the ball floated up in the air. On the first one McGuire was surrounding by 3 Italians and they all missed it....Acerbi looked like he couldn't get 2 inches off the ground. SHAMEFUL.

On the penalty, I'm not sure what the D was doing. DiLorenzo normally is better in the air than that, but he muffed that up...even though I'm still not sure how that is a PK.

Mancini need to figure out central defense IMMEDIATELY.

 

Haha, ok listen I know this is an important moment for you. Enjoy it.

 

His benefit of doubt period has ended.
I'd even be in favor of bringing Conte back to stabilize this team. He liked a big target and small poacher playing between the target line in his first stint and can at least keep them respectable until and hopefully Ancelotti is ready to take over in two years time. Mancini is stuck in the past.

 

England played a very old school Italian game with little class, period. As bad as Italy was in the first half, in the second half the time wasting tactics and the amount of times an English player cleared into open field was embarrassing, just admit it. The time wasting started at the 30th minute. How sad is that? The penally call completely non existent. That was off Kane 100%

The only positive take home was for as bad as Italy played they still managed to do enough to earn a tie, even with Jorginho doing his best to lay one off for Grealish who had some humility kicking it wide.

 

I thought Bellingham played well and showed some talent & good strength. I typically find myself in the camp of Rossonero and am rather underwhelmed with the English mids that are deemed gods by the football world.

We have enough good players to choose from. Gotta get the backline sorted out and find the right fits in attack. I have been consistent in saying that I find Berardi to shrink away when he puts the blue shirt on. Ample quality in our midfielders, but we have to play the right players. Today was an excellent example of choosing the wrong mix of players.

In the short time they were on together, I saw glimpses of real desire for Gnoto and Spina to link up on the left side and were very positive in their play. I think that partnership is worth building on. Their final touches were both off tonight but they had the right ideas together

 

During the game I saw a Kane handball. I watched again tonight and saw it deflected off of DiLo's arm into Kane's arm.

 

Like Kane and Shaw faking injury, and all the time wasting?

Perfect summary. I want to add that with or without Bonucci, this team needs to play 3 CB's. The quality and consistency is just not there. Not with Bastoni, Baschirotto, Okali or any of the others. If Mancini continues then it's a gven that Ascerbi and Bonucci will continue to be fielded and then with maybe one of the other three or whatever other CB is in form, add Romagnoli to that list.

 

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

 

How about when Kane was time wasting... realized he was outside the pitch.. so he started to crawl back in the field so that more time could be wasted.

Kane should give Vince McMahon a call... he "sells" better than anyone in the world.

 

I can't believe there was only 5 minutes of extra time after all that time wasting, not that it matters because we wouldn't have done anything anyway.

Mancini should have done the right thing and stepped down after failing to qualify for the WC. I said it a couple of days ago that Conte would be perfect for Italy, thank you Mancini for the cup but it's time to go.

 

Agree 100%! Mancini is not a bad manager but his tactics and philosophy just do not suit our team. In all honesty, I didn’t feel they suited us well in the Euros but at least we did have Insigne which was a huge help at the time.