Italy: Everything must change! Italy: Everything must change! – Hassan Moustakawi

** Germany’s victory over Denmark was understandable, but Italy’s loss to Switzerland was a surprise. The elimination of the defending champions in the round of 16 is a question mark, as is the elimination of Italy, the defending champions in the history of European football. Murat Yakin, the Swiss coach, leaves Luciano Spalletti with a third question mark. The Italian newspapers did not remain silent and fiercely criticized the exit: “A cowardly team.” “Everything must change.” “The worst performance.”

** Of course, Italy coach Spalletti admits responsibility, the players of the team apologize for leaving, in the phenomenon of football and the new sports world apologizing for the activity, champions, teams, coaches used to play, win, lose, not exaggeratedly raise the flag of victory, and the losers did not bow their heads to apologize, as now. The calculations changed, the audience changed, and the idea of ​​the influence of victory in the sports field took precedence over the idea of ​​national pride. This development established another very old sports idea, that of “legitimate war” or honor war. And victory represents the instinct of human beings in this war? !

** Italy had been slow since the start, enough to recall the Swiss’ pressing and speed of movement. This deprived the Italian players of active and effective attacking opportunities. As Spalletti himself admitted, he described his players as weak in starting speed and movement. His six changes during the game did not succeed in instilling spirit, physicality and athleticism in the team compared to the previous game against Croatia, where they equalized in the 98th minute and gave Croatia a real dramatic shock (Spalletti’s changes included a change in the starting lineup at the start and five changes during the game).

** For Murat Yakin, this match was a tactical victory with a strong pressing system. The third defender on the left, Ricardo Rodriguez, often advanced from the midfield to form a front line with Michel Abisher and Vargas, causing chaos for the Italian team, and Federico Chiesa’s two goals came from this. The offensive threat of the Swiss team was also basically neutralized. The Swiss team was not only braver, but also faster and more technical.

** Spalletti defended what happened, saying that the team lacked suitable, prepared players, and that the heat, fatigue, physical deficiencies and even the level of talent production in Italian football had been significantly affected. He caused problems for today’s and tomorrow’s games. The obvious result of the Italian defensive position facing the Swiss attack was that the Italian defense constantly pointed at each other and one attacker did not touch the ball once in the opponent’s half until the end of the game. In the 48th minute, the midfield seemed confused and did not know what to do? Nicolo Fagioli, who was assigned to the midfield position of Jorginho, did not succeed, nor did defender Gianluca Mancini, and Stephan El Shaarawy played 45 minutes and did nothing.

** Germany’s win over Denmark was due to the movement, dribbling and creation of space by Havertz (penalty) and Djamal Musiala (second goal), while Fritz did not start and Niklas Volkrug played both in the second half. On the other hand, the Danes criticized the handball law that awarded the Germans a penalty. In fact, it was reported at the end of the European season that many coaches were unhappy with the handball law, but in the end, the thunder and clouds above the stadium showed that today was Germany Day. Danes, you are hard, Eriksen!