2023-09-07 00:39:11
“It’s not really a spirit of revenge that drives us, because we want to focus on us first, but we know what an important game it is and what happened against this team in the time, “said the Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper, during a streaming of the Italian Federation broadcast on YouTube.
“We are still a little angry,” he continued, referring to the “Palermo disaster” of March 2022 in the Europe zone dams.
Second in their group after finishing with two draws (1-1 at home against Switzerland, 0-0 in Belfast against Northern Ireland), Italy lost 1-0 in front of their home crowd against Macedonia du Nord and had missed the World Cup for the second consecutive edition.
“We want to do well and win this game, but it won’t be easy. We know that it is difficult to play on this ground”, insisted “Gigio” (24 years old, 54 selections). Italy had indeed won with difficulty its only match played in North Macedonia (3-2) in October 2016 as part of the qualifications for the 2018 World Cup. The former doorman of AC Milan also returned to the first no Luciano Spalletti at the head of the Nazionale which faces North Macedonia in Skopje on Saturday and Ukraine in Milan three days later.
“I didn’t know him, but we all know what he accomplished with Naples, especially last year, I had a positive preconception and now that I’ve worked with him, I’m convinced that we’re going to do something good,” explained the 2021 European champion. “We are happy and optimistic, we have the ambition to accomplish great things and that starts with winning the two games to come,” he said. concluded.
Before these two games, Italy are 3rd in their qualifying group for Euro 2024 with 3 points, nine behind England (1st) and three behind Ukraine (2nd) who have played two games respectively. and one more game.
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