Blue disaster at Euro 2024, Spalletti: “This is Italy”

“Italy cannot do more at the moment”. This is the bitter summary with which the Italian coach Luciano Spalletti takes the 2-0 defeat with Switzerland that eliminates Italy in the round of 16 of Euro 2024. “That goal at the beginning of the second half cut our legs off, we were not very incisive. What made the difference was the pace, we had a pace too inferior to them in the first half. Even in the individual players there was a different pace”, he says.

“Pace and freshness always make the difference, I changed the players making them recover and maybe At this time here we are not able to do more than this -adds the coach to Rai Sport- World Cup? A discussion that will be done later, we need more energy and more rhythm. We need continuity and sacrifice, many of us have been less consistent. We probably didn’t arrive in exceptional conditions”.

“It hurts to go out like this, we apologize to everyone. Today we disappointed and they deserved it. We struggled throughout the match, in the first half we lost too many balls, leaving too many spaces for them. It was tough, a very hard match to digest” , says Gigio Donnarumma. “Everything was missing in this match, even quality and in the first half we did badly because they always had the ball in the game. In the second half we should have started well but we conceded a goal straight away. We have to accept it, we disappointed”, adds the goalkeeper and captain on the microphone of Rai Sport.