"Familiar Italy is back." Fans who watched the game may have regained the feeling of the former Italian national team, but the Italian playing beautiful football at the European Championship is an illusion: slow pace, waste of opportunities, difficult to draw with opponents. Italy is the New York European Championship winner, but now that the World Cup qualifiers are underway, Mancini has to think about how to get the team back on.
Italy is obviously on a break, and the players have experienced "magic nights" like crazy children in the summer, but they can't take it anymore when the school starts. Mancini knows what it takes to win a match, and before the European Cup final, he sent a psychological hint to the players: "If you can find fun on the field, you can win the game", which is a means of reducing the pressure on the boys, but now it is the opposite, he stressed three times in a row at the pre-match press conference to Switzerland: "If the players kick out what they know, then we can win." ”
The new European champions have clearly failed to achieve this goal, and slow motion captures mancini's extremely rare outburst of the players in the opening 20 minutes, and as a typical coach, it's hard to see him so anxious on the sidelines, as if tonight was a final. Facing the camera after the game, he said: "We have too many opportunities to not grasp, we should be more hard-working, more precise, this kind of game should not not be won 3-0." ”
Mancini had a reason to be angry, and a summer passed and his players didn't seem to be able to play: Insigne's arc was no longer accurate, Berardi couldn't score a one-handed ball, Jorginho missed the penalty again, and only Inmobile wasted his chances. I have to admit that the Italian is still very superstitious, except for the absence of the seriously injured left-back Spinazzola, Mancini lined up the exact same lineup as the European Championship group stage against Switzerland, but unfortunately failed to replicate the 3-0 score.
"Switzerland's game is not easy to play", as the most confrontational opponent in Italy's history, Switzerland has always been a difficult bone to gnaw, and the victory at the European Championship is more like a special case. In particular, there are many core players in this game in Switzerland who cannot play for various reasons: Floile, Shaqiri, Xhaka, Embolo, and even their manager is newly hired. Against such a team, Italy should not miss an opportunity.
After this game, Italy 5 wins, 3 wins, 2 draws and 11 points, Switzerland 3 wins, 2 wins and 1 draw and 7 points, everything is possible, Switzerland was ready to play the play-offs before the game, and now they have rekindled confidence, it is expected that the first two places will not be determined before the second leg of the meeting between the two sides, and the home game back to Italy on November 12 will become crucial.
Italy's 36 consecutive rounds of unbeaten football national team record (currently tied with Brazil) is particularly embarrassing, and the Italian media is not embarrassed to render it after the game, after winning the European Championship, this record has become meaningless, it has not helped Mancini and his national team's historical status, but invisibly creates a lot of pressure: if next year's World Cup performance is dismal or even the second place in the qualifiers falls to playing the play-offs, the negative impact will be cliff-like.
The enthusiasm of the fans is also rapidly cooling, and Mancini must not only think hard about how to mobilize the emotions of the players, but more importantly, solve the problem of not having a stable scorer. It can be seen that Mancini is still lucky about Immobile or this championship lineup, and the huge difference between Lazio's performance in the national team and the club has become a phenomenon-level topic, and the Blues coach said before the game: "Chiro (Inmobile's name) is not immovable (Inmobile's surname means "not moving" in Italian)", which was originally a harmonic stem of Mancini's joke, but it was interpreted by the Italian media as a pun: his position is not unshakable.
Just 24 hours before the match, Mancini had just announced the decision to send Skamaka and Keane Jr. to the stands due to personnel registration problems, and Raspadori also played in the last minute of regular time, and these descendants were still marginal figures in the national team and saw no hope of being reused in the short term. With the World Cup in Qatar just over a year away, Mancini doesn't really believe that nothing needs to change in the future.
What does the Italian national team look forward to in the future?
If you really can't find a reliable striker, you may wish to give Mancini a suggestion: simply straighten out The Younger Chiesa. Allegri directly defines him as a striker who may become Juve's thigh this season. In the national team, it is not that he is simply and rudely pushed into the front line, but that he is slowly cultivated as the offensive core of the front field, giving him more tactical roles and firing rights. Obviously, Chiesa's ceiling is far superior to that of Berardi and others, his impact and dribbling are unique in Serie A, and he can often solve the battle with his own strength, just like the European Cup semi-finals to turn the tide, and there is also a breakthrough in this game that almost crosses the entire Swiss defense.
Italy will play at home against weaker Lithuania, and Mancini has admitted to rotating the squad by some extent. In fact, the dark times have passed, and few people will worry that Italy will not get a ticket to the World Cup, but if you really want to go further, you still need Mancini to work hard to make some changes, at least there is still time.
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