Re: The Italy Thread - Forza Azzurri! - "Il sogno è appena cominciato"
very nice start, i'm absolutely pleased with our performance. we didn't run that much (infact we tried to run as little as possible), but i'm very relieved to see our players didn't seem too tired at the end of the game (especially when compared to the english, who looked knackered). with one more week of cardio we might actually get on a good form.... besides, we won't have to play in manaus anymore.
i'm very glad for marchisio. he had a rough season and really deserves some glory. i was also very impressed with darmian! boy that kid looked like zambrotta in his prime yesterday! i absolutely love that little guy! i won't say i was impressed with candreva, barzagli or sirigu, because we all know they're awesome
instead i gotta grab a fat slice of humble pie on balotelli! he was perfect yesterday, making the most of what little opportunities he got. it was a tough game to be a lone striker for italy yesterday, given prandelli's plan, but mario handled it brilliantly, without losing his composure and always mantaining focus. bravo!
immobile, on the other side, was a disaster! he clearely felt under pressure because of mario's goal and wanted to impress prandelli in those last 15 minutes. but he was so obsessed with overdoing things he didn't do anything right. let's hope he'll loosen up a bit, because he's no use to us, if he can't control his nerves.
one last mention to prandelli, who was brilliant, as usual. seriously his grip on the players is insane. a hypnotist couldn't do a better job. at some point, during yesterday's game, it almost felt like the match was a videogame and prandelli was controlling all his players with a gamepad.
and now, to my 2 main concerns:
first of, we
need de sciglio back. badly. chiellini felt out of his comfort zone yesterday. he was shaky defensively and non-existant offensively. thankfully, on the opposite side, darmian was making baines and rooney his bitches, otherwise our formation would have been too narrow.
but my biggest issue with yesterday's game is
paletta, obviously. he shouldn't be there, he's not italy nt material, and he proved it yesterday. he was a huge liability, he forced barzagli (god bless him) to cover for him dozens of times, and whenever barzagli couldn't help him, we were in trouble.
every single scoring chance england had came from his mistakes, and some of his blunders yesterday were just unforgivable.
i don't really like this new trend ot snatching foreing players from other national teams, but for the love of god, if we must do this, at least let's get some good players. i mean camoranesi was a monster, thiago motta is a very good player, but paletta?!? what the fuck! he wouldn't even make it into argentina's defence and we're calling him up?!?!? how the fuck is that possible. i'd rather have bonucci playing on a wheelchair than this guy!
and ranocchia wasn't called up to make room for this guy??!! seriously what. the . fuck.
sorry for this rant, but i was incredibly annoyed we lined up paletta instead of bonucci yesterday. at least i hope, after this performance, we won't have to see him playing again.
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but most kids on my block tell me they like him for his hair style 
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