PALERMO – The possible ballot between center-forward in the national team that is about to have vanished in extremis face North Macedonia. She revealed it Roberto Mancini to Radiorai: “Scamacca is improving a lot, he has grown. But at the end of the finishing training he suffered from a slight muscle strain, we have to evaluate his condition”.
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Also in the stands Zaniolo and Belotti
The Sassuolo striker will watch the match from the Barbera stand. With him there will be Biraghi, Belotti, Bonucci, Gollini, Luiz Felipe, Sensi, Zaniolo and Zaccagni. The only remaining doubt in the starting lineup now concerns the captain’s armband, for which the same Property remains the favorite, even if Chiellini he has not yet resolved his doubts about his presence from the beginning: “He made himself available, we will decide together”, confirmed the coach: if the veteran were to go to the bench, the candidate to replace him, alongside Bastoni, would be the Roma player Gianluca Mancini.
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“Those who love us are close to us”
In addition to the eclectic Pellegrini, the candidates for the forward changes during the second half will also include Joao Pedro and Politano. But the technical commissioner focuses above all on greater precision in front of goal and on the team spirit of the European Championship: “No match is taken for granted, we must have serenity and confidence in ourselves. Concentration and precision will be needed. The confidence of the Italian fans in qualifying for the World Cup? it has rarely happened that we lose. Those who love us are close to us. “
The coach then addressed the issue of war and the pandemic in Raisport, which in 2019, the last time Italy played in Palermo (9-1 against Armenia), were completely unimaginable: “Of course we humans don’t we miss nothing, we are doing everything to destroy our planet. If we could take a step back, it would be better “. Less painful, but undeniable, is the risk that the national team, placed on the sidelines of the club’s interests, ends up being excessively neglected: “Now we have to think only of these playoffs. But perhaps before the national team was more” felt “, a couple of decades ago it was different from today “.
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Negative Locatelli
in the meantime Manuel Locatelli he recovered from Covid. The Juve midfielder, no longer subjected to the isolation regime, will leave in the evening to reach the retreat of the Italian national team in Coverciano.
