Six rookies and unprecedented game principles: Mancini is leading the national team towards the future
Take a step forward from the match with theArgentina it wasn’t really complicated, but Bologna’s equalizer against Germania it brings with it other considerations that go beyond result and performance. Mancini gave the most important signal: with the Wembley Final a cycle was closed, now we start again. New interpreters and new game solutions. If it is not a revolution, we are close and the coach has shown that he has the courage to leave the road which led Italy to conquer the European Championship (but also not to qualify for the World Cup, let’s remember) and to look for alternative solutions.
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In Bologna they took the field you are rookies (Frattesi, Gnonto, Pobega, Ricci, Cancellieri and Dimarco) in a team that has overturned consolidated concepts. The dribbled possession, with high outside players, an intermediate and a playmaker in the half spaces and the pocketed for the attacker’s cut, in the offensive phase, as well as the team pressing once the ball is lost, have left room for other principles, more in line with the characteristics of the new interpreters. There presence of a true center forwardScamacca, made it logical to focus on search for depth, with vertical throws (sometimes so hasty as to favor the offside tactics of the Germans). It is also logical to limit the dribble and try to take advantage of the jolts of players accustomed to the insertion, such as Frattesi and Tonali. Even in the defensive phase, there was a greater search for individual pressure, compared to collective pressure. The idea ofoffensive left winger moving to center positioneven if without Insigne and with Pellegrini, it is normal to expect more vertical assists for whoever dictates the pass or enters from behind.
The coach has understood that it is possible to start again from different concepts and interpreters, the insiders (or hatreds) that you can continue with Mancini without necessarily having to start from scratch (who then?). There Gnonto bet, protagonist of the final 25 minutes, in which he provided the assist of the blue advantage after a good action on the right and always gave the impression of being able to create problems for the Germans, is the umpteenth victory of Mancio, who reiterated the concept already expressed in the past with Zaniolo: you can also fish semi-unknown players, just have a long eye. In short, Italy can leave again with confidence. We will see the World Cup on TV, but at least we have some reason to hope for a better future.
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