The Netherlands and Italy seek to get on the podium

2023-06-18 07:00:00

Netherlands and Italy They play this Sunday at the Twente Stadion the match for third and fourth place in the Nations League. The selection that directs Ronald Koemanhost and eliminated by Croatia In the semifinals, he seeks to climb at least to the podium in front of his own fans. Like the Italy of Roberto Mancini will try to finish third in a difficult year.

It is the final consolation call, the one that perhaps nobody wants to play, although it would be unfair not to give value to the fact of having participated in this Nations League Final Four. It is never easy to reach the final phase of a tournament.

Netherlands-Italy

Twente Stadium, 15.00 (Teledeporte)

Netherlands: Bijlow; Dumfries, Geertruida, Botman, Malacia; Wieffer, Veerman, De Jong; Lang, Gakpo and Simons
Coach: Ronald Koeman
Italia: Donnarumma; Darmian, Acerbi, Toloi; Di Lorenzo, Fagioli, Tonali, Pellegrini, Dimarco; Raspadori and Retegui
Coach: Robert Mancini
Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

The ‘oranje’, which has 3 defeats in 4 games in the second stage of Koeman on his bench, where he relieved Louis van Gaal after the World Cup in Qatar 2022. His first stage as coach of Netherlands It ran from 2018 to 2020.

With the loss of key players like De Ligt y Memphis Depaydue to injury, Koeman it will give occasions in front of the ‘azzurri’ to numerous youngsters. You have to remember that Netherlands fell in the quarterfinals of the Qatar 2022 World Cup on penalties against the later world champion, Argentina (3-4 after a 2-2).

In a year in which there has been an Italian in every European club final and they have all lost (the Inter against him Manchester City in Champions, the Roma against him Sevilla in the Europa League and the Fiorentina against him West Ham in Conference League), after the defeat against spain in semifinals Mancini It will also take the opportunity to see young values ​​in action. Italia She is the current European champion, but she did not participate in the last two World Cups, Russia 2014 and Qatar 2022.