Roberto Mancini’s Italy is really scary for Spain. This can also be understood from the countryside “We need you”, which the Iberian Football Association has organized to invite Spaniards residing in England to go to Wembley: the quarantine prevents arrivals from Spain and Italy and therefore the focus is on “expats” to support the Red Furies against the Azzurri!
Consideration towards Giorgio Chiellini and companions also clearly emerges from an article by the authoritative “Sport”, which states that “Italy has always instilled fear in its rivals. His four World Championships, won in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006, attest to this. But while before he was able to win with football that was as cheap as it was effective, now the blue team is offensive, brilliant and spectacular. A transformation that has a name and a surname, that of Roberto Mancini, and which goes hand in hand with the change, even for the better, of football itself. Serie A this past season has scored an average of 3.06 goals per game when, for example, the Spanish league remained at 2.51. To reflect”.
Second “Sport” September 10, 2018 “marked a before and after. Italy lost to future champion Portugal 1-0 in the Nations League. It was the last time that Roberto Mancini, who had taken the reins of the Azzurri after the humiliation of being excluded from the World Cup, played with a double pivot in a 4-4-2 and worried more about his rival than himself. He saw the light in the Lisbon stadium and from here on, a stratospheric streak of 32 straight games without defeat, including 27 victories”.
“In fact, Italy has already accumulated 13 consecutive victories before tomorrow’s match against Spain in the semi-finals of the European Championship. The detractors recall that a team of his same level has not yet measured itself in this path, even if in the quarter-finals, his last game, beat a Belgium who arrived at the Allianz Arena from number 1 in the Fifa rankings”, Continues the article.
“If they beat Spain, Italy will become the first team in history capable of scoring six victories in a final stage of the European Championships, and even in a row.. These are all records of these Azzurri, but what is really significant is that the new national team reaches them by burying that team for good. ‘catenaccio’ that has accompanied him for many decades. Mancini’s Italy wins and convinces, takes the initiative in matches and does not hold back when he scores the first. A fearsome rival ”.