Roberto Mancini tired, happy and angry to the microphones of Rai Sport at the end of the match against Spain that brought Italy to the final at Euro 2020. Here is the sentence of his colleague Antinelli who made the Italian coach a little irritated who replied like this: “Won Italian style? Football teams attack and defend, we had opportunities to score goals like them. It was a match between two great teams.” Mancini, always in a very modest way, wanted to give credit more to the players than to himself but in reality he is the great architect of this final: “The merits are of the boys, but it’s not over yet. We have to recover the strength left. and play the final “.
The analysis of the race
“They put us in difficulty at the beginning, then we found the right coordinates and we didn’t risk too much. It was a very tough match”, Mancini’s examination of the match, who already achieved a great result. The lottery of penalties awarded the Azzurri who fly to the final at the European Championships 9 years after the last time: “These are the penalties, a very hard game. Spain is a great team and they play very well, we played a great match. good race, not as usual but we knew we would have to suffer “.
The opponent in the final
Now it will be time to know the winner between Gary Southgate’s England and Denmark, the great fairy tale of this Euro 2020 that dreams of reaching the final and winning for Christian Eriksen. The national team of the Three Lions is certainly the big favorite but the Danes have shown that they are tough, square and united towards the final goal: the conquest of the first European in its history. For Italy, however, a hypothetical victory would mean putting on the bulletin board the second European in its history after 1968. Side note: the great exultation of the Azzurri players who dedicated the victory to Leonardo Spinazzola who broke his tendon d’achilles during the match against Belgium. Italy is there and now it just wants to put the icing on the cake that would be the unexpected victory of Euro 2020.
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