Unavailable for the match against Lithuania, the two midfielders return to their respective clubs as a precaution
Italy’s Mancini loses two important pieces in view of the qualifying match for the World Cup against Lithuania scheduled for Wednesday evening. Due to some physical problems and a non-optimal condition, Marco Verratti and Lorenzo Pellegrini have left the blue retreat. Unavailable for the last match of this round of the national team, the two midfielders they will immediately return to their respective clubs, PSG and Roma, as a precaution.
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With Verratti and Pellegrini, therefore, Mancini did not want to take risks and preferred to make them go home earlier than expected. The conditions of the two medians, after all, are not 100% and keeping them in retreat would have been of little use given the impossibility of deploying them in the match against Lithuania.
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