Davide Bartesaghi started and Francesco Camarda came off the bench again as Italy won their second game under Silvio Baldini.
While waiting to hire a new permanent head coach (which looks like being Roberto Mancini) and with a 1-0 friendly win over Luxembourg in the bag last week, Italy once again won by a one-goal margin, this time in Greece.
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Baldini has been entrusting a lot of young players in his caretaker reign so far, which meant Bartesaghi got the nod at left-back in the previous game in what was his senior debut. Camarda came off the bench too, and the same happened on Sunday night.
Bartesaghi management two successful crosses out of four attempted, and 30 successful passes out of 38 attempted. He made 60 touches and played the entire match, losing possession 14 times, but winning four duels out of five, with four defensive recoveries and two blocks as well.
Francesco Pio Esposito got the only goal in the first half, while Camarda came on for the final few minutes but didn’t manage to impact the game much.
But we were told by calcio gurus on this blog that Italy has no talent.
If they’re never given a chance, I don’t know how they’re being judged. Wait until they appoint one of the old coaches and go back to the same selection.
Italy u17 won the European cup again. So there is talent in the pipeline. The problem is developing them further into the adulthood.
“Italy u17 won the European cup again. So there is talent in the pipeline. ”
And the clubs are doing “the development” by benching them. 🙂
So we have homegrown talent with caps now…think of the added value Gerry 🤑🤑🤑🤑🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸