Luciano Spalletti relief after Italy score last gasp equaliser against Croatia to progress into last 16
24/06/2024
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Leipzig Stadium, Germany
24/06/2024
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Leipzig Stadium, Germany
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00:00Welcome everyone to the press conference of the head coach of Italy, Luciano Spalletti.
00:22Please raise your hand if you want to ask a question and wait to get the floor and then
00:26identify yourself with your name and your organisation. Thank you.
00:56I don't get it. It's easier said than done.
01:15I think it's a formation that has thought a lot about the players.
01:23I think they said that to him and it's good to say it again.
01:27No, no, no. Nobody said that to me. I thought about it.
01:31How old is he?
01:3451.
01:3551. He's still 14 years younger than Pippe before he turned 65.
01:40I'm 65 so they said that to him. I talk to the players.
01:46I need to be able to listen with their ears and see with their eyes.
01:51So I talk to them. What's the problem?
01:53No, no.
01:54What did he do it for? Did he do it for the others? Did he do it for us?
01:59In fact, that's how I interpreted it.
02:01No, no. They said it to him.
02:04He didn't interpret it. They said it to him.
02:07It's good to say it again but don't take licenses that aren't yours.
02:16Weaknesses of those who talk about things.
02:19Weaknesses of those who talk about things.
02:22There's an internal environment and an external environment.
02:24If there's an internal environment and someone who talks about things outside,
02:28it's someone who hurts the national team.
02:31What he told them is what hurts the national team.
02:34But I talk about it in every game.
02:35Honestly, he didn't tell me anything.
02:37Yes, yes. Honestly, I'm sure of that.
02:40But I always talk about it with the players.
02:44I talk about it in every game.
02:45What does it mean?
02:47What's the quality of discovery in this case?
02:54Please.
02:56It's a very normal thing.
02:59How can I not talk about it?
03:00Of course.
03:01At four, when there are teams that play well like them,
03:06you can't go down.
03:08You never know who's going to go down on the defensive line.
03:11That way, we have them in front of us and we recognise them.
03:14I gave a speech at Coversano on the 5-3-2.
03:17I'll show you later.
03:19So it's normal to talk about it with the players.
03:24Why a deal?
03:25Because they score and because you don't know how to shoot a ball
03:29in very normal moments of the game.
03:33You become too normal for what's at our level.
03:37There's nothing to see between the deal and the system.
03:41Last time, we were very attacking.
03:43We had six attacking players on the pitch,
03:47with three defenders on their own,
03:49and yet they kept it in balance.
03:51Those who came on were giants for what they showed.
03:55Also because in such a difficult competition,
04:00those who play even for ten minutes are fundamental.
04:05Tonight, those who came on kept the game in balance.
04:09They did some perfect things,
04:13because they kept the team in balance.
04:16Despite being very attacking,
04:18the team took responsibility for having to cover 60 metres in three.
04:26They did that well.
04:29The fact that it's a deal,
04:32in the sense that you've come to a compromise
04:37to damage the team,
04:39because that's what I think it alludes to...
04:47We've already played like that.
04:49We've played like that at Empoli.
04:51We've played like that in America.
04:54It's clear that we deserved to qualify tonight.
04:58We deserved to qualify,
05:00given what we saw on the pitch.
05:02It's true that we were tenacious at times.
05:09We didn't play at our best.
05:12But we deserved to qualify,
05:14given what we saw in the first and second half.
05:19It was a difficult qualification,
05:22because you told me that it was a game of death.
05:29I didn't say that.
05:31It's a very difficult qualification,
05:33because there are strong teams,
05:35because Spain are very strong,
05:36because Croatia are very strong.
05:38There are people who are used to this type of football,
05:41to this type of game,
05:42to this type of tension.
05:44For me, when you go down to that minimum level,
05:49the way it happened to us in some situations in the first half,
05:54is because you can feel the pressure and the importance of it.
06:00Otherwise, I can't give you an explanation.
06:03I can't give you an explanation, because it's not possible.
06:07But up to this point,
06:10they've always done what they've done.
06:15That's my point of view.
06:17Then, more than a pact,
06:20I go back and talk to the players
06:22and I feel that there's room for change from one game to the next.
06:26There's room for change.
06:28So I tell them, look,
06:30I have this requirement here.
06:33Then, in the second half,
06:35the difficulties in the penalty area increase,
06:40because they have several strong players
06:45in front of them,
06:47as forwards,
06:49and as three-quarters,
06:51who know how to play between the lines.
06:54So they prepare me for this.
06:57They have two full-backs who push.
06:59I was expecting Perisic from the start.
07:02So they have two full-backs who push a lot.
07:05There's always room for one to make the fifth,
07:08because then, involuntarily,
07:10it happens like this,
07:12psychologically speaking,
07:16when there are these games.
07:18Because when you have two results,
07:22it's like this.
07:24You go out on the pitch,
07:26knowing that it's good for you to draw,
07:29and you do things more timidly.
07:32So, we talk,
07:34we set things up,
07:36because I have the requirement,
07:38and Raspadori played a good game,
07:40close to the forward.
07:43We were on the pitch well.
07:45Sometimes,
07:47because they didn't have forwards in the first half,
07:50they didn't have Perisic on the left,
07:54we fell,
07:57even though we didn't need them,
07:59and we gave them space,
08:01even though we didn't need them.
08:03From a tactical point of view,
08:05we could have stayed higher,
08:07despite the way we played.
08:11Then,
08:13there are the episodes,
08:16where you concede a goal,
08:19and you can see that,
08:21at that moment,
08:23we give them space,
08:25and we're timid,
08:27and I don't know why it happens,
08:29because I still need to understand it.
08:31Then, when he conceded,
08:33even without changing anyone,
08:35the team started to do better,
08:37and they were doing much better.
08:39At the end,
08:41Bastoni had two headers,
08:44and that's where you can score.
08:46The first one is there,
08:48as long as you don't catch the keeper.
08:51He made a good save,
08:53but if you put it at that height,
08:55it's an easy save,
08:57because of the choice you make.
08:59But the whole ball that Chiesa put in,
09:01when there were two on the goal,
09:03it was too much for this level of football.
09:09So, it's all normal.
09:15Good evening, coach.
09:16Simone Malagutti, Mediaset.
09:18I wanted to ask you,
09:20given your first free-spirited celebration,
09:23what was your biggest joy at ACT?
09:27And the other one,
09:28after every game,
09:29you said,
09:30we made too many mistakes.
09:32Giorgino said the same thing today.
09:34Do you think you have the quality
09:37to make fewer mistakes?
09:40Thank you.
09:41In my opinion,
09:44I trained a few times,
09:46it happened to me by chance.
09:49But in my 26-27 years,
09:52I trained a few teams,
09:54and I can see in training
09:56if you have the quality or not.
09:58Because,
09:59as the ball travels in training,
10:01everything should travel.
10:02Because when we train against each other,
10:06we have a level of opposition,
10:11of teams around us.
10:13So,
10:14as the ball travels,
10:15you can see.
10:16By chance,
10:17it's on this clean-up,
10:19when there's this ping-pong,
10:21my ball,
10:22your ball,
10:23nobody's ball.
10:25There are moments,
10:26every time Donnarumma throws,
10:31every time there's a kick-off,
10:33every time there's a side-kick,
10:35there are moments of nobody's ball,
10:38where there are always duels,
10:40and you need to be able to clean up that ball,
10:43you say,
10:44and make it open for one.
10:48You play in the narrow,
10:49in the tight,
10:50then one who manages
10:51to make a speed exchange,
10:53and you manage to get that beautiful girl
10:56with the green shirt on,
10:58and she's three or four metres away
11:02from the opposition,
11:04and she has the chance to see,
11:06to have the game open.
11:08In these phases,
11:11we don't take one home.
11:14One, never.
11:15Never.
11:16As there's a duel,
11:17as there's a clash,
11:18you never take one home.
11:19So,
11:20in this respect,
11:22it's not a matter of technique,
11:25it's a matter of experience,
11:28to make these physical contacts,
11:31to make this dirt,
11:35to be available for this dirt,
11:37which allows you to find quality.
11:42Because in there,
11:43there can't be any.
11:44There's only the duel to win
11:47and to make a ball possible.
11:52So,
11:53in this respect,
11:54we need to improve.
11:57In the second half,
11:58we did it.
11:59There were five of us
12:00in the open field
12:01against the whole team,
12:02because we kept five up there.
12:04Frattesi started to be
12:06Frattesi's striker,
12:08while he was asked
12:10to be Fagiolino's midfielder,
12:14Barrella's left midfielder,
12:16Frattesi's right midfielder.
12:17They allow us to turn well
12:19when we push the ball back.
12:20The four top strikers were up there.
12:23There was a balance.
12:25They were perfect.
12:26They didn't let us down.
12:28It was a very difficult game
12:29from a mental point of view,
12:31because there had to be this balance.
12:34And they had this balance.
12:36So,
12:37it's an extraordinary thing
12:40what they did.
12:42At some point,
12:43Darmian put himself up there
12:45in the traffic
12:47to be the striker.
12:49You have to do your job well,
12:52because no matter what the result was,
12:56we didn't have to give up
12:58because of what could happen in the future.
13:01We didn't have to take the risk
13:03of conceding the second or third goal.
13:06So, we stayed in order.
13:08And they did that very well.
13:10They were very good at that.
13:12Those who came on
13:14were very good.
13:16Why?
13:17Because they gave us a big boost.
13:20Scamacca was good.
13:21Fagioli was good.
13:23Zaccagni,
13:24just look at the quality of his goals.
13:28Chiesa was very good,
13:29because he scored two goals
13:31and we just had to beat him.
13:34So,
13:35tonight,
13:36I have to congratulate them.
13:38Of course,
13:39there are still things to work on
13:41and we have to get on with it quickly,
13:43because if we don't,
13:44we won't be able to get the most out of each of us.
14:15and what you thought of that.
14:28Worries are part of this job,
14:34because there are thousands of children
14:39every time we go back to the hotel
14:41to wait for the chance
14:47to look at us from two meters away.
14:50They are there for hours
14:52waiting for the chance
14:56of a five-second moment
14:58to look at us.
15:00I am someone who loves everything.
15:03I love all the people I meet.
15:06I love them in general.
15:09If I see that there are people
15:12who look at me
15:15then I become a beast.
15:17But if I don't, I love them in general.
15:19This love
15:21makes it difficult for these people
15:24who love us
15:26and are there,
15:27poor people,
15:28suffering for a result.
15:30I am always under pressure,
15:32I am always in trouble,
15:34because there is all this stuff behind it.
15:37But the difficulty is not now,
15:40it is from when we played against Macedonia
15:43that we are under pressure.
15:46We had to win against Albania,
15:48then against Spain,
15:50a difficult game,
15:51but we can qualify.
15:53Against Croatia,
15:54or in or out,
15:55against Croatia.
15:57When we were there
16:00at the draw,
16:02when these teams came out,
16:04we were all there
16:06to say that we were not lucky.
16:08So we went to play the third game
16:11and it becomes fundamental,
16:15but you have two results.
16:17We did what we had to do.
16:19Then,
16:21but if you go out?
16:24What question is there if I go out?
16:26What question is there?
16:28Now you have to go out.
16:30What question is there?
16:32You have to go out.
16:34But are you afraid?
16:36What am I afraid of?
16:38Otherwise I would come like you to see the games.
16:41If I was afraid,
16:42if I didn't want to be afraid,
16:44I would do another job,
16:46I would come to see the games.
16:48And I wasn't afraid.
16:49I have the opportunity to pay a ticket,
16:51in fact, they give it to me for free,
16:53because now I know so many people.
16:55So it is necessarily tension,
16:58it is necessarily that there is responsibility,
17:00it is necessarily all these things here.
17:03But you go to play.
17:05It's not that I'm afraid before I lose them.
17:08I've lost so many in my life.
17:10I've collected situations like this.
17:15Since I took Empoli,
17:18that I had to save the play-outs from the C2,
17:22since I won the Serie B championship,
17:24I won the Serie A championship,
17:26that I didn't sleep at night,
17:28I was around Parma,
17:29when there was the draw,
17:31like a zombie.
17:32It's normal,
17:33it's the level of football you play,
17:35it's normal.
17:36But why anticipate what can happen next?
17:41You can win against Croatia tonight,
17:44because it's a strong team.
17:46Anyone can win playing football at this level.
17:50One does the analysis,
17:52then says,
17:53you were a bad coach,
17:56because of this, this and this.
17:58And you accept it,
18:00because it's right,
18:02it's part of your job.
18:04But don't get angry,
18:05because you lost a game.
18:09That's not good.
18:11That's not good.
18:12I'm sorry if I lose a game.
18:14I give everything for the national team.
18:17Just like I give because I love people.
18:21I'm not jealous of the quality.
18:24I can't be a journalist.
18:26I'm not jealous of a journalist
18:28who writes a good article,
18:30because I can't write it.
18:33It would take me a month.
18:35I'm not jealous of someone else
18:37who makes results,
18:38and I'm not.
18:40I just want to do my job well
18:42and I don't want people to
18:44put even more pressure on me
18:46than is right,
18:47or even more pressure than is right,
18:50and that people already put on me.
18:52I already have poison on me
18:55from everything that surrounds us.
18:59And when they don't give it to me,
19:01because they don't let me see it,
19:03I inject poison into myself,
19:05because I have to be at the level
19:07to be able to react to these situations.
19:10And I react.
19:12Don't worry that I react.
19:14Like I did tonight.
19:15I try to put the team on the pitch
19:17in a way that can have a logic.
19:20And I tell them,
19:22even in the 95th minute,
19:24bravi, state bene in campo,
19:26continuate così, con questo equilibrio,
19:28guardate che ci si fa, guardate che ci si fa.
19:31Ho detto sempre questo qui stasera.
19:33Forza, ci si fa, dai, forza.
19:35Tutti in panchina.
19:37Perché si vedeva che si poteva sbloccare
19:39da un momento all'altro la situazione.
19:42Però è una cosa normale,
19:44tutto normale.
19:49Tutto normale perché c'è tutto
19:51l'amore qui.
19:52È bellissimo ricevere tutto
19:54quest'amore di queste persone qui.
19:56Stasera il presidente Gravina
19:58giustamente è venuto dentro e mi ha detto
20:00vieni a salutare perché tu sei andato via subito.
20:03Ha ragione, bisogna andare a salutare,
20:05bisogna star lì con loro, perché sono lì,
20:07tutti ad aspettare una cosa,
20:09hanno pagato biglietti, mangiano per la strada.
20:12È una roba imbarazzante.
20:16Last question.
20:18Buonasera, ministro.
20:20Senta, lei prima dell'Europeo ha battuto molto
20:22il tasto dei giocatori che dovessero
20:25sentire molto la maglia azzurra,
20:27l'attaccamento proprio per tutta questa gente
20:29che segue la nazionale.
20:31Diciamo che questa sera,
20:33specie nell'assalto finale,
20:37si è visto tutto il cuore di questi giocatori.
20:40Ci tengono molto a questa maglia.
20:42Questa è stata una prima notizia vera
20:44che è arrivata da questa gara.
20:46Sono d'accordo con lei.
20:49Hanno fatto vedere tante cose.
20:52Hanno fatto vedere tante cose.
20:58E probabilmente
21:00quegli errori a volte
21:03troppo banali che si fanno
21:06è forse per quello che dice lei,
21:09cioè che il troppo attaccamento
21:11e la troppa voglia che hanno
21:15che poverini a volte vengono frenati
21:18perché non si ha quell'esperienza.
21:21Noi non abbiamo, come abbiamo detto
21:24più volte questi calciatori
21:27che giocano queste competizioni internazionali
21:30dove poi ti danno questa sicurezza
21:34e ti diventa normale.
21:36Questa competizione qui è stata
21:38una competizione sofferta
21:40fin da quando abbiamo cominciato
21:42perché c'era da qualificarsi.
21:47E non era banale perché l'Ucraina
21:50è una buona squadra.
21:52L'Inghilterra è una squadra forte.
21:54Si cominciava, si aveva un po' di delusioni addosso
21:58e naturalmente
22:00se gli si dà sempre il carico extra
22:04di quella che è l'importanza
22:07e non siamo di quel livello lì
22:10ci sta che questo ci pensi ancora di più
22:13un pochettino.
22:14E probabilmente quello che ha detto lei
22:16è perché in alcuni momenti
22:18non si sa fare delle cose normali
22:20per quella che è la nostra squadra.
22:23Anche perché poi quando sono stati liberi
22:26perché non c'era altra soluzione
22:30si è visto quello che hanno fatto.
22:33Grazie.