Italy lined up like at Wembley, except Chiellini tired. Azzurri 90 minutes from Spain’s unbeaten record
SENT TO FLORENCE
In the midst of the most varied ways to achieve success, Roberto Mancini’s has the flavor of suggestion. Ball possession and courage, possession of the ball and fun: something similar happened to Spain and they were fireworks because the Red Furies reached 35 spotless races from February 2007 to June 2009 and that magical journey was enriched, over the years, by two European Championships (2008 and 2012) and one World Cup (2010).
The Italy of Wembley can go to 35 duels in a row without knockout tonight if they do not stumble upon “little” Bulgaria and the coach of the rebirth can think of a booty on the Spanish style. “If we can open a cycle? We are working for this and Qatar is only a little more than a year away: at the next World Cup – says Mancini – a potentially stronger national team will arrive because our many young players will be stronger and more experienced ».
The champions return to the field and Mancini relies on the champions of 11 July for the first of three close crossings with a view to the World Cup: beyond Bulgaria there is Switzerland (Sunday) and beyond Switzerland there is Lithuania (Wednesday) , up for grabs points to secure the first place in the qualifying round. Excluding captain Chiellini, a bit tired, in Florence we start from them: Donnarumma in goal, Di Lorenzo and Emerson outside in defense, Bonucci in the center, Barella, Jorginho and Verratti in midfield, Chiesa, Immobile and Insigne in the trident. They who, at Wembley, kicked off the semifinal with Spain and the final act with the hosts. If you have fun you win and if you win you have fun: for Mancini everything starts from here and here everything must come back. To our coach, not being a surprise anymore, but the team to beat does not create dizziness because, he says, “we have room for improvement, we will know how to remain unpredictable and, above all, ours is a way of interpreting the races now acquired. “. Thus the horizon broadens and the prospects do not change: this Italy aims to win the 2022 World Cup.
From Wembley to Florence, sixty million graces in between. It is not by chance that there will be about ten thousand spectators to applaud the boys of the company and Italy will play with mourning on the arm to remember Francesco Morini. Thirty-five duels without ever falling is a magical number, because it is a European record for unbeaten, just 90 ‘from the world record in the hands of Brazil in the three-year period ’93 / ’96. In a few hours we can reach Spain in the special ranking and that Spain has made history. “Sooner or later it will happen to lose, hopefully after 2022,” says Mancini. In Florence, the European champion coach will draw to the same formation as the European semifinal and final not out of gratitude, but because everyone is doing well except the aforementioned Chiellini, replaced by Acerbi or Bastoni. Gratitude has not brought us luck in the past and the triumphs of our history did not have the same perspective as success at Euro 2020: a European or a World Cup is never won by chance, but because you are the strongest. The last, and our second European title, was won ahead of schedule: the goal was and will remain Qatar. –
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