I think Italy could do with a more creative play in midfield. #The front three are moving deeper too often to receive possession.
1:1 at the end. Two points dropped because Bosnia did not look a particularly high quality opponent. Italy lacks quality across the pitch though, not just in midfield. The recovery process from more than a decade of mismanaging talent development is a long one.
These games give us an idea of what’s what so I’m not disappointed in the result. Mancini needs to change the formation. 4-3-3 was good to get us through qualifying, but we aren’t going to beat the bigs with this.
Realize these games are glorified friendlies but a disappointing result nonetheless. The current group of forwards/strikers is a concern. It's fine when facing the Euro qualifying teams of last year (your Greece, Armenia, etc) but faced with a somewhat above average opponent (this Bosnia team) it struggled to create many dangerous chances; the lack of creativity/bite in the last third is troublesome; cannot see a way out of this because the selection of available/viable strikers is poor to non-existent. Serie A seriously needs to find/groom and promote home grown strikers. Want to see what the team does against Poland and The Netherlands, both IMO stronger sides than Bosnia. Donnarumma looked shaky as well.
was really happy to get a draw with Italy, we played a lot more disciplined than usual. I would say the Italian midfield looked particularly weak and uneventful, was expecting you guys to have much more possession.
Either because of Covid, no fans or sort of no name players, it’s kind of difficult to get into this club Italia national team... Italia-Bosnia 1-1, pagelle: Insigne e Barella luci nel buio - Eurosport
This is the mentality that has screwed us time and time again "oh it's just a friendly" "oh it's a meaningless tournament" and before you know it we lose a seed spot and get grouped with death or we don't qualify at all. Every game should be taken 100% seriously.
Did you guys know Italy has yet to score a competitive goal against us 1974 loss. Euro 2000 draw. Euro 2008 loss. Anywho, good luck to you and lets hope no serious injuries
30 minutes in, pretty good performance so far. Immobile much more involved than Belotti was vs. Bosnia
Insigne and Immbolie are linking up nicely Locatelli has been solid. Spinazzola has been excellent. only question mark for me is D’Ambrosio