Mancini re-proposes the Italy of young people

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From the tensions of the post Argentina to the charge for the performances with Germany and Hungary, the Azzurri have had their fill of fatigue and emotions in the long rally for the Grand Final and the Nations League. The work in Coverciano, however, did not stop even yesterday, despite the return from Cesena overnight, and Roberto Mancini led an afternoon training in view of the next tough away matches, scheduled for Saturday in Wolverhampton with England and Tuesday with Germany. in Moenchengladbach before lowering the curtain on a very long season.

As expected after the announcement of the coach last night, Leonardo Bonucci and Andrea Belotti went directly home to start the holidays and 32 players remained, with many young players who on Saturday could find themselves living moments never imagined only eleven months ago, when the 2020 European Championship final was played at Wembley. Also on their shoulders will weigh the desire to repeat that historic success, defending it from the desire for revenge of the whites of Gareth Southgate. It is true that they will miss the goad of cheering, given that the match will be behind closed doors due to the sanction imposed precisely for the riots that preceded the Wembley final with the Azzurri, but after the bad start of the journey in Nations League there is a need especially for the coach to stop a possible wave of criticism six months from the World Cup.

Italy will not be in Qatar and its perspective is completely different. “There is a lot to grow and a lot of work to do,” underlined a Mancini post-match who, after the football lesson undergone by Messi and his teammates, risked losing the key to the problem. But the Gnonto intuition, the interest created by the various Zerbin and company and a national team, redesigned a little in yellow and red colors, which seems to have found the game are at least bringing back serenity. The Azzurri are therefore called upon to amaze once again against the English, being able to count on fixed points such as Gigi Donnarumma, very solid between the posts, Lorenzo Pellegrini and Nicolò Barella, two who dictate football in midfield and also make up for the persistent lack of finalizers d area, even if Giacomo Raspadori in Cesena did not disappoint, quite the contrary. At the center of many market rumors, the Sasssuolo striker donated his no. 22 at the Football Museum. –