Tonight’s challenge with Switzerland in Basel crossroads for the primacy Riecco Chiellini and Di Lorenzo, Verratti in doubt, in front of Immobile
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A matter of centimeters and at the first crossroads after the night of Wembley, Italy will take the right path. Roberto Mancini, Italian coach, has no doubts and counts. “Four or five are enough from the foot or hand of the Swiss goalkeeper and the match will be ours: against Bulgaria – says Mancio – we shot twenty-seven times, but for nothing we were unable to score the second goal and it ended in a draw. … ». Thursday’s draw in Florence went wrong and gave us back, let’s hope only for a few hours, the cards of the group: Italy is in the lead, but Switzerland played two games less and tonight’s intersection at Basel can direct the race to first place, the only way to avoid the world play-offs at the end of March.
Inside the St Jakob Park, the model facility for the Munich Arena, Mancini will want eleven players without engine hitches and, for this reason, the work that the group will carry out a few hours from the starting whistle of the duel will take on an importance. basic. If Chiellini and Di Lorenzo return to defense, in the middle of the field, spotlights on Verratti’s left knee: just a hard blow taken by the Bulgarian cleats, but just enough to put the young Juventus player Locatelli in early warning, who scored two goals against the Swiss in the second match of our European Championship. «We will have to run …», underlines Mancini. And once again there will be Ciro Immobile at the center of the attacking trident: there is no absolute certainty about the use of the Lazio attacker, but there is more than one clue that leads us to think how the blue coach is not waiting Switzerland to give life to the delicate revolution ahead.
A little less than two months after the triumph in London, Italy runs into a challenge that forces it to immediately put on the dress of the appointments from inside or outside: in Basel there can be no adrenaline and the suggestion of July , but, from Basel, there are points that if not taken, or lost, can get you in trouble. «What did the draw with Bulgaria leave me? The certainty that we can win against Switzerland, on the contrary: I am convinced that by repeating what we did on Thursday, we will win », so Mancini. The national team of the blue renaissance has not lost the desire to have fun and to take risks because only for a matter of centimeters the 35th consecutive useful result was not accompanied by a success: after reaching Spain at the top of the European unbeaten ranking, with another 90 ‘without blemish will be the turn of Brazil in the three-year period ’93 / ’96 on the top of the world record.
At the Olimpico, on the evening of June 16, it ended in glory (3-0) for us: Switzerland got up to a step away from challenging us in the semifinals and failed to do so due to penalties in favor of Spain in the quarterfinals . That Switzerland is no more. Technical commissioner Petkovic gone, investiture for Yakin, who grew up 200 meters from the St. Jakob Park stadium. And Yakin will have to do without five of the Roma holders: Xhaka, Shaqiri, Embolo, Freuler and Mbabu. The first crossroads after Euro 2020 can be blue. –
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