Mancini on the eve of Italy-Spain: “Losing? Yes, but after December 2022 "

The push of San Siro for an Italy that does not want to stop.

After the victory of the European Championships last July, the Azzurri coach Roberto Mancini are now aiming for the second title, the Nations League: however, Spain will still be on the path of Chiellini and his teammates.

This time, the 37,000 of the Meazza (still open to 50%) will also be giving the charge to the national team, who tomorrow will embrace Italy again almost three years after the last time (0-0 against Portugal in the Nations League groups).

"Luis Enrique is right, sooner or later we will lose. But we would like to go on like this until December 2022, but we know it will not be that simple", Mancini said in the press conference on the eve, "we always want to win and continue to improve the record of 37 consecutive useful results, we know that it will depend a lot on us. But now we have to think that we want to win tomorrow's game to go to the final, also because the Nations League is an important competition ".

It will not be easy, also because Luis Enrique's national team is the one that has most troubled Italy in the last European Championships. "We suffered with Spain in the European Championships, it was a semi-final and it put us in trouble on possession, they have been doing it for twenty years and on this they are ahead of us. We need to improve this game situation, be faster", added the technical commissioner.

For Mancini the biggest problem remains the attack, considering the absence of Immobile and Belotti: "We miss the two European center forwards who are at home due to physical problems. We have Kean and Raspadori, and then many attacking players. it will be the best solution. Chiesa? I don't know if he can play the center forward, probably over time he will also be able to do it as happened with Chelsea ".

The Insigne or Bernardeschi hypothesis in the false nine version in the now classic 4-3-3, with Chiesa and Berardi on the flanks, also remains in the background.

Among the doubts also Chiellini and Verratti, with Bastoni and Locatelli who could find space from the beginning in the challenge.

(Unioneonline / F)