APPIANO GENTILE (ITALPRESS) – “I don’t know what my balance sheet is, I think one game was wrong, the one with Switzerland. I hold myself responsible for that defeat, so we tried to do different things. It is one game, the others well or badly were games like many, then we never forget the opponents in front of us. We faced very strong teams.” This was stated by the coach of the national team, Luciano Spalletti, on the eve of tomorrow’s match against France that puts at stake the first place in the Nations League group. “That defeat doesn’t make me forget anything or anyone, not even a World Cup qualification. In some ways it’s also good to carry it around a little bit, you have to remember that if you don’t do things right the stone is always around the corner,” added the coach, like all Italians ‘in love’ with Jannik Sinner. “Who can be our Sinner? It’s good never to make comparisons, but a footballer who goes beyond this normality of dribbling — Maldini. He gives me the impression that he has the easy shot, the elegance, the substance of being able to create something super easy and exclusive.” The Azzurri only need a draw to end the round in the lead, but Spalletti asks his team to “take the field to win the game, as France will do. We must not make reflections,” says the coach, who also talks about the Retegui-Kean doubt in attack. “Kean is possible to be in the match, he is in great condition, he is good at attacking in wide spaces, he is good at being a buoy. He seemed to me in the group of those who took over well. We plan to keep the frame from the previous game.” Thursday in Belgium, tomorrow on the pitch in San Siro against the vice world champions. “Sometimes even in our league there are so many games, however, the fatigue is often mental, by now these guys have muscles that are machines. When there is a team that has a lot of injuries, it is always the team that has difficulties, that has the pressure and the rust of lack of results. The bottom line is that I am convinced that today in training we will see a ball that travels and goes hard.”
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Spalletti “My Italy made a mistake only with Switzerland.”
