Luciano Spalletti angrily shouted on the Sky Sport Italia pundits when requested if his ways had been too timid within the 1-1 draw with Croatia. ‘If we make banal errors, we’ll battle with any system.’
It was a heart-stopping remaining group recreation, because the Azzurri had been seconds away from a 1-0 defeat that will’ve left them in third place needing to attend and see if it was sufficient to qualify for the Spherical of 16.
As an alternative, Mattia Zaccagni curled a surprising right-foot end into the far high nook for 1-1 on the 98th minute, cancelling out the Luka Modric objective after Gianluigi Donnarumma’s penalty save.
“When video games are determined like this on the finish, all of it turns into extra emotional, as no one believed any extra, however the gamers did. They saved their heads clear, risked little or no regardless of being left with solely three defenders on the sphere,” Spalletti informed Sky Sport Italia.
“I can solely congratulate them for his or her response and coping with such an attacking line-up on the pitch.”
This end result means Italy will face Switzerland within the Spherical of 16 in Berlin.
As soon as once more, Italy struggled within the first half and took some time to get going, solely actually waking up after going a objective behind.
“There’s no denying it, we had been beneath our common degree within the first half. If we don’t create very a lot, we’re not going to attain very a lot. You may see we had been occupied with bringing a end result dwelling, with out actually believing that we would have liked a win. It was involuntary, however I count on extra from my gamers, as a result of they present it in flashes.
“These video games are troublesome as a result of Croatia are a really robust workforce, they’ve loads of expertise at this degree and might trigger issues for anybody they face.”
Davide Frattesi got here on at half-time for Lorenzo Pellegrini, however Spalletti’s first substitute instantly gave away a penalty along with his dealing with offence.
“We made the change as a result of we had been all the time free on the wings, so we would have liked to benefit from these areas opening up and we by no means did reap the benefits of the tactical shapes of the 2 groups.”
Spalletti livid at tactical questions and his personal gamers
When requested if Italy had been too prudent of their preliminary method with the 3-5-2, Spalletti reacted with anger and irritation, shouting on the Sky Sport Italia pundits.
“We had been completely not prudent. If the limitation is that we battle to play out from the again with easy balls, then we’ll battle with any line-up or any tactical system that we use.
“Within the first half, we misplaced the ball in methods we completely can not afford to do. That’s not prudence. If we don’t play with high quality, if we do the fundamentals and nothing extra, then we’ll battle.
“It was not in regards to the system, we had been too timid within the first half, however the system was irrelevant in comparison with the perspective and high quality seen on the sphere.”
Do Italy simply not have the standard or are they merely struggling to precise themselves?
“They do have the standard, however at occasions we make actually banal errors. Now we have higher capabilities than what we noticed in the present day,” concluded Spalletti.
“Jorginho performed nicely in the present day, so did Barella, Calafiori is a high participant who is aware of find out how to do the whole lot. Now we have methods of taking part in out from the again, however we’ve received to do higher.”
