Lautaro, Di Maria and Dybala sink the Azzurri

L’Argentina beats 3-0 l’Italia to Wembley and conquer the Final 2022. The champions of South America unlock the match in the 28th minute with a paw of Lautaro Martinez and find the doubling just before the interval with a flash of Of Maria. In the second half the Azzurri get very nervous and disappear from the field. Donnarumma keeps them afloat with his saves, but in full recovery also comes the trio signed by Dybala.

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THE MATCH

And’Italy off and waxed collapses under the blows of a much more brilliant team and, above all, capable of expressing one quality far superior to that of the Azzurri. Chiellini and his teammates try, at least at the start, but they pay for thehuge technical gap, and end up stunned by the plays of the opposing champions. The second half of the race is one albiceleste show and a festival of the blue nervousness. The final result is the mirror of a truly one-way race.

Mancini chooses the trident Bernardeschi-Belotti-Raspadoriwhile Scaloni keeps Dybala on the bench and he too relies on 4-3-3con Messi, Di Maria and Lautaro forward. Argentina holds possession and joins the ball well thanks to the extraordinary qualities of its interpreters, but the first good chance is for Italy, with a right from the edge of Breakers well checked by Martinez. The Azzurri are still close to the advantage twice around the 20 ‘: first Romero anticipates Belotti two steps from the goal line, then Martinez is attentive on the header of the Gallo. The Albiceleste seems to struggle to find the right spaces, but at the first real opportunity he unlocks it: Bernardeschi naively loses the ball at the exit, Messi overtakes Di Lorenzo and puts in for Lautaro, which from zero meters must only place on the net. Mancini’s boys go out, get nervous and just before the break they capitulate: Bonuccias soon as he is warned, he lets himself run away Lautarothe Nerazzurri serves Of Mariawho burns Chiellini at speed and anticipates a Donnarumma uncertain in output.

At the beginning of the second half Mancini keeps Belotti, Bernardeschi and Chiellini in the locker room, inserting Scamacca, Locatelli and Lazzari. The national team’s game continues to lack tears and inventiveness, after 10 ‘ Bonucci and Donnarumma also risk a sensational mess, with the PSG goalkeeper saving the Juventus back pass on the line. The goalkeeper then has to overcome twice on as many conclusions as a wild one Of Maria and later thanks Lo Celso for a lopsided conclusion from an excellent position. Italy is completely in the ball, they can no longer pass their own half and the match turns into a sort of target practice towards Donnarumma’s gatewho engages (and wins) a duel with his teammate Messi. At the last minute, however, the new entry Dybala punishes the former Milan with a surgical left from the edge, which ends a game without history.

REPORT CARDS

Bonucci 4,5 – He risks the red for an elbow on Messi and immediately after, with the weight of the yellow card on his shoulders, Lautaro runs away on the occasion of the 0-2. In the second half he also goes one step away from his own goal. Bad night.
Chiellini 5.5 – He closes his career in blue with a good first half on Messi, but also with a heavy uncertainty about Di Maria’s goal.
Bernardeschi 4.5 – In attack his presence is not felt, on the other hand from his mistake in the disengagement phase the action that leads to the 0-1 scored by Lautaro is born.
Donnarumma 6 – Undecided about Di Maria, he makes up for it with a series of non-trivial saves in the second half, which in any case do not prevent the collapse of the national team.

Messi 7 – You need the assist that unlocks the match, then drags the team with his dribbles and plays, even if he loses the personal duel with Donnarumma. He also inspires Dybala’s late goal.
Lautaro 7.5 – A goal and an assist that certify his pivotal role in the attack of the Albiceleste national team.
Of Mary 7.5 – A goal scored, others close by and a series of eye-pleasing plays, which send Wembley fans into raptures.

THE TABLE

Italy-Argentina 0-3
Italia (4-3-3): Donnarumma 6; Di Lorenzo 5.5, Bonucci 4.5, Chiellini 5.5 (1 ‘st Lazzari 6), Emerson 5.5 (32’ st Bastoni 6); Barella 5, Jorginho 4.5, Pessina 5 (17 ‘st Spinazzola 6); Bernardeschi 4.5 (1 ‘st Locatelli 5.5), Belotti 5.5 (1’ st Scamacca 5), ​​Raspadori 5.
Ct: Mancini 5
Argentina (4-3-3): E. Martinez 6; Molina 6.5, Romero 7 (40′ st Pezzella) sv, Otamendi 6, Tagliafico 6; Lo Celso 6.5 (45’+1 st Dybala 6.5), Rodriguez 6, De Paul 6 (31′ st Palacios 6); Messi 7, L. Martinez 7.5 (40′ st Alvarez sv), Di Maria 7.5 (45’+1 st Gonzalez sv).
Ct: Stairs 7
Referee: Maza
Markers: 28 ‘L. Martinez (A), 45’ + 1 Di Maria (A), 45 ‘+ 4 st Dybala (A)
Ammonites: Otamendi (A), Bonucci (I), Di Lorenzo (I), Barella (I)
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THE STATISTICS

– Giorgio Chiellini has reached Daniele De Rossi, with 117 games, in fourth place in the ranking of the most present players in the history of the national team: in front of him only Paolo Maldini, Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluigi Buffon.
– Italy have lost three of their last seven games (2W, 2N), as many defeats as those recorded in the previous 45 matches.
– Italy have conceded ten goals in their last seven games, as many as in the previous 29 matches.
– Italy have not found the goal in the last two official matches, as many times as in the previous 32 matches under the management of Roberto Mancini.
– Italy conceded three goals in a match for the second time under the technical guidance of Roberto Mancini (last time in the friendly against France in June 2018 – 1-3 in Nice).
– Italy have conceded at least two goals for two consecutive games for the first time under the technical guidance of Roberto Mancini.
– Argentina have won their last four games against Italy: in the 21st century only Spain (six) and France (five) have inflicted more losses on the Azzurri.
– Paulo Dybala found the goal with Argentina for the first time since July 2019 against Chile in Copa America.
– Leonardo Spinazzola returns to play a match with Italy 334 days after the last against Belgium (2/7/2021) of Euro 2020.
– Leonardo Bonucci and Jorginho are the two players most used by Roberto Mancini at the helm of the Italian national team: 39 games both (including tonight’s match).
– Excluding the friendlies, this is Italy’s third defeat in London: the latest to come 0-2 against England in the 1978 World Cup qualifiers.
– Italy conceded two first-half goals for the first time since their match against Spain in the UEFA Nations League in October 2021.
– Before that of Lautaro Martinez, Argentina’s last goal against Italy was in March 2018 in a friendly match in Manchester, signed by Manuel Lanzini.

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