Against Estonia the debut of the national team coach who took the place of the exemption Spalletti. Lost scamada for injury, Rino faces a business: reassembling Norway to qualify for the world championship
Estonia, national number 126 of the FIFA ranking, should not worry. And not even Israel, which is located in 75th position and which we have beaten without large worries even in recent months. Yet at the moment of the debut of Gennaro “Ringhio” Gattuso on the bench of Italy, a cold shiver runs along the back at every turn of the wind. The fault of the situation from behind to the wall in which the Azzurri hunted at the beginning of June, making themselves overwhelmed in Oslo by Norway and then just correcting the trend by trimming only two goals to the modest Moldova, who in the world ranking occupies the position 154 and which against the Norwegians (at home) has grossed five in this asymmetrical run towards a pass for the 2026 world championship.
Italy: Smartage injured, Kean and Rettegui remain
Gattuso starts and the eve of the match with Estonia immediately delivers one bad newsthat we hope will not be transformed into bad omen: Gianluca Scamacca at home for a knee problem. To the eye the coach should not lose sleep, having kept the Florentine in Coverciano Moise Kean and the top scorer last season, now ended up in the Saudi desert, Mateo Rettegui.
Both have been rodai since the beginning of the season and stirring also signed a couple of goals in the first releases with the shirt of the new club, after being one of the great cases of the summer of the transfer market. In this first phase Gattuso can certainly count on him, then much will depend on the rhythm of European football that the Argentine Italo will be able to keep in a championship far from the habits of the Serie A and the Champions League.
Italy, what is needed to qualify for the World Cup
If the good morning is seen in the morning, in short, there has been tight. Italy needs everything to go well from here to 16 November next, the day when Haaland’s Norway (and not only) will visit us. The painting is clear and worrying at the same time: we have 9 points to recover in the standings, albeit with two more games to play, and a 10 goals in the goal difference that is the first criterion in case of arrival on equal points. Only later are the direct clashes take into consideration and also here Italy is in trouble.
A pinch of luck is also needed, without being ashamed. In June, for example, Norway Cruccesassi seriously risked the bone of the neck in the house of Estonia bringing home a very heavy and not unconscious victory from the blindfolded goddess. For once, it would not be bad to even touch the blues who carry on the shoulders the weight of the obligation to avoid a humiliating third failure world participation, the De Profundis of all the movement.
National, what changes from Spalletti to Gattuso
The certainty is that Gattuso has not had time, and he will not have, to invent something of his own in the construction of the national team. Claudio Ranieri’s reverse was called by the FIGC, collected, also for this reason: avoid dangerous “games”, to be able to spend his past in the blue jersey (world champion in 2006), quickly find the connection with the group by turning on pride and character.
Italy is not scarce as values. Gattuso will draw it on the pitch with a four -way defense that in his intentions must be functional to cover the field wellhoping that Bastoni adapts from the central and recovering the Mastino Mancini: deleted Spalletti’s dogmas. The exteriors are back (Above all Orsolini), in midfield there are qualities, rhythm and physical strength – clinging to tonals and stretcher – e We should have players in front of a little goals in his feet.
Needless to delude yourself that everything can be turned immediately in a walk or in technical and tactical certainties. It starts in the dark and the most likely scenario is that Gattuso has six games, officers and to be won always and in any case, to prepare the March playoffs. Where Italy would arrive in full world psychosis, but this is another speech that in the hours that lead to the debut of the coach against Estonia it is also good to try to remove at least a little.
