Gli Azzurri - La Nazionale, Italy National Football Team

FNF said:

It's the exact opposite to what you're saying - We have the players to beat teams like Croatia who have maybe 3 players who could start for us over other players available when we're at 100%. It's when Conte starts two wing backs (one as a CB and one as a WB), one full back as a wing back, one striker who is barely getting a game, one striker who relies on having the support the team couldn't offer and maybe only one or two players who have any real pace going forward when we look average at best. Regardless, when SeS/Pelle got on and a few players got their shit together, we looked the better team.

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Torcida said:

Yeah you can say that over and over again, but your words won't make italy better. Italy didn't look better because of those two but because the game was stopped cause of the flares. And even then weren't better just not shit like the rest of the game. I'm not saying that because im from Croatia, because I don't even support this team with kovac and other idiots running croatian football but am just realistic. Croatia is a better team than italy as germany or spain are better then croatia. And it's funny that you say for belgium that is shit, yet by your standard of looking who is better on which position belgium would beat both italy and croatia by a mile. I like Italy, always was my second favourite NT, but not a fanboy like you to talk nonsense over and over again.

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milan_swagger said:

and yet italy have struggled to beat croatia in their past 3 attempts. even in 2006, italy found it difficult to beat croatia. I am not saying croatia is better but they are a dangerous team and can certainly trouble the big sides if they decide to show up when it matters most. Italy have a weak attack, manzukic is better than all italian strikers barring rossi who is perennially injured. defense is pretty overrated imo and croatia isnt anything special in that department either. So it all comes down to their midfields. If italy utilizes the right players out wide to support their midfield, i can see them dominate croatia. Problem right now for italy is that conte is finding it tough to decide his ideal formation. Italy needs wingers to adapt to the pace of the modern game and until conte finds the right combination to deploy his best wide men, i dont see italy troubling any of the big sides again.

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FNF said:

Pseudo objectivity just like 'Milanista'... I say this again - Italy looked better than Croatia BEFORE the second round of flares. Furthermore, the FIGC are suggesting that UEFA are convinced that Croat 'fans' were trying to suspend the game. Why would they try to suspend the game if they were so much better like you totally unbiased, paragons of neutrality are suggesting?

All of what I said is true in the last post and the same can easily apply to Belgium. Two, three or at the very most four superior players do not make them better than us.

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Senatore_M84 said:

i mean didn't use close to his best 2 attackers

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Torcida said:

Us? You are Italian or? It was explained i the previous posts why and who threw the flares, fans who are in war with croatian FA and management of some clubs in Croatia. Again I will say that I don't think Croatia is a very strong NT, nor will we win any major competition, just that Italy is worse than Croatia currently, that can change in a year or so, but that is just the fact. And Italy never beat Croatia since the independence. You say I am not being objective, maybe you are the one who isn't. And this about belgium I don't even have to discuss.

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FNF said:

But there is zero reason to say that Croatia is better than Italy at 100% when you look at the talent they have at their disposals. As swagger said, they are a dangerous team but it doesn't make them better or anywhere close. We're Germany's jinx team but at the moment that doesn't make us better than them just as Croatia and the Czechs are our jinx teams and they aren't better either.

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Conte blasts clubs and media
By Football Italia staff

Antonio Conte had a fiery Press conference after Italy’s 1-0 win over Albania, slamming clubs and media obsession with Mario Balotelli.

“You know full well that I don’t hold back when I have something to say. After six games in which we won five and drew one, some people bury their heads in the sand and don’t want to see what is obvious.

“There is work to be done in a very, very difficult moment for Italian football – more difficult than I expected, as I honestly thought there would be more participation from everyone.”

Conte complained that he wanted another get-together before the next games in February and March, but clubs could not find the room in the calendar.

“I saw little desire to collaborate with the Nazionale. I always experienced this as a club Coach and admittedly there you think about your club and little else. Now I am on the other side, forced to have these lads for at most eight or nine days a month. Now I’d have the chance to see them again in four months.

“I am asked to do great work and transform the Italy team. So give me the chance. Put me in the conditions to achieve that.

“We have to work to qualify for the Euros and then in that month create a solid side. In a day and a half we prepared against a fine Albania team that had beaten Portugal and drawn with France.
“I am not angry with anyone in particular. I just feel after three months in the job, our third Nazionale get-together, I am starting to get a clear idea of the situation.

“Everyone says we need to do this, that and the other for Italian football, then I turn round and I am alone!

“When are we going to show some love for the Nazionale? Instead everyone goes ‘oh he can’t play, he has to do this, he has to do that.’

“People ask the players to create a team with determination, organisation, unity, etc all in eight or nine days. And people actually sneer at those eight or nine days.”

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Bird86 said:

This guy is such a whiner. When he was coaching ladri, he got into verbal fights with Prandelli for overusing ladri players and once even refused to send Chiellini because Conte said he was injured even though the Azzuri medics cleared him.

Now he is complaining for the same reason but sitting on the opposite chair.

Whine, whine, whine. I remember him complaining about the ladri schedule in Serie A before the season had even started in his first year there.

I promise you that if he were to receive support from clubs now and 3 years later when he coaches in Serie A again, he would complain and cause headlines concerning the Azzuri coach overtaxing his players.

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SpartanMilan said:

a Serie B title, and a Serie B runner up.

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Polo said:

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Mattia Perin (Genoa), Salvatore Sirigu (Paris Saint-Germain)

Defenders: Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci, Andrea Barzagli (Juventus), Emiliano Moretti (Torino), Andrea Ranocchia (Internazionale), Luca Antonelli (AC Milan), Matteo Darmian (Torino), Manuel Pasqual (Fiorentina)

Midfielders: Marco Parolo, Antonio Candreva (Lazio), Claudio Marchisio (Juventus), Alessandro Florenzi (Roma), Andrea Bertolacci (Genoa), Roberto Soriano (Sampdoria), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain), Mirko Valdifiori (Empoli).

Forwards: Alessio Cerci (AC Milan), Ciro Immobile (Borussia Dortmund), Simone Zaza (Sassuolo), Graziano Pell? (Southampton), Eder (Sampdoria), Manolo Gabbiadini (Napoli) en Franco V?zquez (Palermo).


Seriously WTF is this shit???

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milan_swagger said:

Wtf are these names i am reading??? Btw where is dybala, thought he has decided to play for italy? Seriously? Eder and gabbiandini?

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