Italy puts the past three unthinking Turkeys into Euro 2020

Turkey 0 — Italy 3

Italy came to the fore in the first match of the 2020 European Football Championship in Rome on Friday night and became a strong contender for the championship. Their coordinated pressure game exhausted the Turks and scored three goals in the second half-this was the biggest gain of the Azzurri in the Champions League.

The disappointing and over-defensive Turkish team has almost no chance of scoring. What is ominous for other teams is that Italy has remained unbeaten in 28 games since September 2018.

There are only 16,000 spectators in the stands, the stadium is not exactly a boiling pot, and Turkey has not come to enhance the atmosphere. Their tactic is to keep 9 men behind the ball and hope to counterattack through their 35-year-old burly center and captain Burak Yilmaz. Turkey has more things to offer, but their old coach Senol Gunes doesn’t believe they will try it here.

In contrast, Italy has been consistent with the orthodoxy of the world’s leading team in recent years, playing an offensive oppressive game in the opposing half. They are best at pressing, almost always snatching the Turkish ball within five seconds. However, despite the Naples teenager Lorenzo Insigne (Lorenzo Insigne) is good at observing the space between the lines, but Italy lacks players that can break the world-class creativity of the Turkish team. The first half was anticlimactic-in fact, the pre-match rendering of Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” by tenor Andre Bocelli eclipsed him, which is reminiscent of the 1990 World Cup in Italy, when Luciano · Luciano Pavarotti sang this song memorably.

Finally, in the 53rd minute, Italian winger Domenico Berardi performed poorly in the game and broke into the Turkish penalty area with a cross. Central defender Merih Demiral was not skilled enough to get out of the way and the ball bounced from his chest into the net. This was the first European Championship to start with an own goal-this was the start of monotonous football at the time.

But then Italy gained the usual benefits of passing the ball and oppressing the team: the opponent was exhausted from chasing the ball, especially on a hot Rome night, and frustrated by a missed goal, and began to leave open spaces. In the 66th minute, Italy passed the ball and broke through the Turkish defense. The Italian Marathon left back Leonardo Spinnazzola made a layup. Goalkeeper Vulcan Kakir pushed the ball away and Lazio’s center Immobile. Grab a rebound.

The Roma crowd chanted his name, reminding people of the advantages that the nine teams playing in their own country will have in this tournament, using the entire Continental Stadium in an unprecedented format.

Once the Italians lead 2-0, they can maintain possession of the ball through the skilled players Insigne, Jorginho and the young Sardinian Nicolo Varela. Sometimes in the second half, Italy looked more like a good Spanish team than the old Azzurri. In the 78th minute, an amateur pass by Kaguire was intercepted and Immobile found a completely unmarked Insigne. He scored the goal he deserved-so he was immediately taken by the head coach Ronald. Berto Mancini replaced, he knew he needed to keep him alive before the end of the game. game.

With the home games against Switzerland and Wales coming, and given that three of the four teams will be promoted from four of the six groups, Italy is now almost unable to advance to the round of 16.

The Turks had no ideas, and there were no threatening shots throughout the game. In the rare cases where they came forward, they were suppressed by the ancient Italian Juventus centre-backs Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci, leaving the 22-year-old goalkeeper Gianluigi Donna. Ruma became the mildest starter in major events.Turkey can still pass easily, but their president The eager football player Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Recep Tayyip Erdogan) hopes to make more nationalists Capital withdrew from this team.