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07 October 2020The 17th consecutive useful result for the national team in the era of Roberto Mancini arrives.
Italy beat Moldova 6-0 in the friendly match at the 'Franchi' Stadium in Florence, a test ahead of the Nations League double match, in Gdansk against Poland on Sunday and in Bergamo against the Netherlands on Wednesday.
The opponent is technically too inferior, but the coach is satisfied at the end of the game, to RaiSport's microphones: “Many interesting things, some difficulties in the first 15 ', but it was quite normal with many players changed, then they did very well.
The mentality is good even when changing players, it's a positive note ”.
Mancini with his 4-3-3: Sirigu;
Lazzari, Mancini, Acerbi, Biraghi;
Locatelli, Cristante, Bonaventura;
Berardi, Caputo (blue debut at 33), El Shaarawy.
Firat lines up 5-3-1-1: Koselev;
Platica, Craciun, Posmac, Armas, Marandici;
Rata, Carp, Ionita (from Benevento);
Suvorov;
Nicolaescu.
The German Siebert referees.
Friendly yes, but after 2 'Carp gets hard on Locatelli and gets a yellow card.
The first danger runs Sirigu, who has to stretch out on Nicolaescu's diagonal in the 7 '.
At 17 'El Shaarawy is hypnotized by the opposing goalkeeper, but Cristante finds the winning shot on the corner (18').
At 23 'Caputo wets his debut with a goal at the invitation of Biraghi.
At half an hour the goal from El Shaarawy arrives with a nice right winger.
At 37 'Posmac to anticipate Caputo packs an own goal.
Before the break a double from the 'Pharaoh' who heads a suggestion from Lazzari (46 ').
In the second half, a whirlwind of changes.
Mancini sent Emerson Palmieri for Biraghi, Cragno for Sirigu, Grifo for El Shaarawy, Sensi for Bonaventura in the 66th minute.
At 72 'Berardi scores on an assist from Grifo.
At 75 'two other substitutions for the Azzurri: it is the turn of Lasagna for Caputo and Kean for Berardi.
Italy takes possession of the ball and the game slips away until the final whistle.