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05 September 2019Continuous blue thread in Euro2020 qualifications. In Armenia comes the fifth victory in five games in Group J for Mancini's troop, with a 3-1 comeback. Not all convincing the 90 'of Italy, a result that must however be seen in its usefulness to reach the goal. The condition will improve during the season.Confirmed the forecasts of the eve for the Azzurri: Bernardeschi in the trident instead of the injured Insigne, in midfield Barella and not Sensi. Gyulbudaghyants confirms Karapetyan (to sign in the last two races) single tip in front of the line of midfielders, in which the neo-Romanist Mkhitaryan stands out. The September recovery is always difficult for the national team and the Yerevan match is no exception. Armenia presses with conviction and goes 11 'on the counterattack with Barseghyan who runs for 40 meters and serves the Karapetyan cut, good at guessing the razor diagonally. Italy takes a few minutes to find itself and manages to react well. Bernardeschi plays the charge with a great endorsement on which Airapetyan performs with a great intervention. The equal to 28 ': Emerson shines on the left and crosses for the deviation of Belotti. Blue loads. Stolen ball in midfield, Bernardeschi part going from left to right: splintered crossbar. Then Barella cocks Belotti who ends the flight, just wide. In the recovery a key episode: Karapetyan hugs and hits Bonucci deserving the second yellow card (he had been warned for having lit a fight following a squabble with Verratti). Immediately afterwards, the Church centers on doubling for the very free Belotti.
Recovery to be managed with the extra man, but superiority is not immediately obvious. Armenia compacts and also proposes a couple of dangerous counter-attacks. At the quarter hour Mancini alternates Church (in the shade) with Lorenzo Pellegrini. Italy remains cumbersome. Hovhannisyan (often impregnable when he goes at speed) 'broke two contrasts on the left wing and opened for Mkhitaryan, good Emerson to close on the shot. The evident offensive embarrassment of the Azzurri erases him at the 77 'Pellegrini who is ready to head over to Bonucci's cross. It is the first goal of the Roma midfielder in the national team. Once the advantage was found, everything worked well in Mancini's team. At 80 'control and turned in the area of Belotti, carom between pole and goalkeeper and ball in the net to be assigned as an own goal to Airapetyan. Another occasion for Pellegrini, favored by a suicide back pass but walled by Airapetyan. At the start of recovery, the goal canceled (unjustly) for offside to Belotti.