Wembley Macrobottle and vandalism
Southgate Fatal Error
The Renaissance arrives at Wembley, a second Renaissance, now football, for this exemplary Italy, emerged from the ashes of a champion, rebuilt with judgment, with good form and with ambition.
He has taken a step forward in his game without forgetting the best of his DNA, his competitive capacity, his stamina and his faith, exemplified in
Chiellini, a war veteran
, but also in the young Donnarumma, standing like a Tuscan cypress, hero from Turin to Sicily.
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This Italy that was not in the last World Cup, comes out of purgatory with a title, capable of resisting the best of an emerging Spain, surviving two penalty shootouts and silencing a drunken Wembley before lifting the cup.
Boris Johnson
had announced a holiday if he won. Football always recommends waiting, being prudent, even with a goal in favor, like the one England found in their brilliant start. From then on, however, he did not want to be imperial. The azzurra dreamed it. Força Italy !!
A worthy champion for this Euro as England could have been, the two most stable teams, well led by
Roberto Mancini and Gareth Southgate
.
In the final pulse the second was better.
Even the changes made for penalties, Rashford and Sancho, failed for the pros.
Trippier and shaw
Southgate started with three centers, something he already did at the World Cup in Russia. He has the tools: center-backs of the highest level, hugely deployable and quick to anticipate, and long, precise wings with his foot. They are the lanes, specialists with a special role in this Euro. Once in the final, Southgate sharpened his team, lining up Trippier on the right and giving
Shaw
flight
on the left
. A risky decision on D-day, liable to be branded a conservative if something went wrong. Two minutes made her bold: Trippier's center, measured, was hunted by Shaw on the left to beat Donnarumma and turn Italy upside down.
Before Roberto Mancini could adjust the performance of his team to the maneuver of his counterpart, he was in the most difficult situation of the entire tournament, behind on the scoreboard. It had never happened to him in the Euro.
Luis Enrique
also surprised the Italian coach, by turning Olmo into a false nine, but Spain failed to score in the time of confusion from Azzurro. On the other hand, it was achieved by the team that had not conceded more than one goal in the entire tournament. The situation turned a hilarious Wembley, turned into the battlefield of a national cause, into an eight thousand for Italians. The way of attacking him was exemplary.
The prelude to the English goal had revealed the activation of a key piece. It was
Harry Kane
, a nine who started out of the box, a fact that puzzled Bonucci and Chiellini. If they went after Kane, they left the area; if they stayed, the striker found cracks between the lines. Kane would either connect with Sterling, willing to try it all, or swing to the risers, where Shaw started unleashed. This side for whom United paid record numbers when he was a youth has exploded this season in the Premier and with his national team.
England had, therefore, the opportunity to take advantage of an Italy that was out of their coordinates, Mancini's team was very long, with space behind
Verratti and Jorginho
.
Instead, he preferred to ensure, with the slogan of not giving spaces to Italy's opposition, one of the teams with the fastest transitions.
Don't run, it was Southgate's mandate, supported by Rice and Phillips, two emerging midfielders.
It would have been better to send his people to keep running.
He was wrong.
The price was to give the initiative to his rival.
Chiesa, the spring
Italy, really, became of the situation could change thanks to Chiesa. It was the necessary spring. To put it bluntly, Chiesa made a living on her own, as she did against Spain, to release the first threat, a flat whip. He repeated it in the second half to provoke the best of
Pickford
and offer goal assists. The Juve striker, who did not start as a starter, has been key in the worst moments his team has gone through: he scored against Austria or Spain, and, yesterday, he bared his teeth when his team looked like a lamb on its way to slaughter. Not finishing the final due to injury was an undeserved punishment.
The momentum of Chiesa and Insigne's movements caused England to give ground and allow Italy to evolve in the three quarters.
Mancini did not wait and made decisions, by taking
Berardi and Cristante
to the field
.
He was faster than Southgate, slow to change.
Donnarumma stops Saka's final penalty.PAUL ELLISAFP
What was vital, however, were not the substitutions, but the intentions, the dynamics, which became entirely the responsibility of the Italians.
Sterling and Kane, from protagonists in the first half, to unprecedented in the second.
Southgate called Saka
and moved to the four line, but there was no way to reverse the trend.
Italy came to the area with everything it had, its centrals included.
With Chiellini and Bonucci in Pickford's bedroom, the first called for a penalty and the second found the goal, just with the demonstration of will made by Mancini's men.
England, overwhelmed, was relieved by the extension, divided between the two teams.
Penalties, no.
Only Kane and Maguire scored
.
Donnarumma stopped Saka in fifth and Wembley fell silent.
The outbreak was in the Mediterranean.
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