Beyond the shortness of the score (1-0 in favor of Spain), there was a wide difference between ‘La Roja’ and Italy, for example, unlike their rival, the ‘Azzurra’ never played as a team and at times, It lacked personality.
This is how the Italian coach Luciano Spaletti analyzed it:
“Against these teams it is always difficult and you have to change the team’s mentality because you have to run a lot and have more precision in your passing.”
The coach recognized Spain’s superiority and regretted not being able to teach his players to play away from the ball, since it is not part of his philosophy. Furthermore, he acknowledged that the result could have been heavier than that 1-0 loss due to an own goal.
“Today the difference was much wider than the score. We were always a very long team and they created problems for us beyond the result. When you can’t be together, without being able to play between the lines, you shouldn’t be in such a hurry to play behind the team. rival defense. We were never able to play short or fluid football and when we recovered the ball we had difficulties to play. Spain took the ball away from us and when we had possession we made mistakes in many easy passes. We lacked a good ball release and we made mistakes in passes. easy,” he analyzed.
“They were a team and we were not able to be one. They deserved to win by more difference. It is a consequence of giving players who do not measure up and everything becomes more difficult because they know how to take advantage of the spaces. If there are a couple of players who do not “They are not in the game at all, you give them a chance to completely take over the game and play the opponent comfortably. But it was the fault of the entire team, beyond a lower level of two or three players,” he said.
Italy is risking its place in the round of 16 of the Euro Cup against Croatia on Monday, June 24.
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