Roberto Mancini is the coach and the technical director (and almost the team manager who will be Oriali and the “third man” who should be Zola), now the National Team needs to be made. Or rather, the National Team needs to be remade in the image and likeness of Roberto Mancini who will adopt a resource management identical to 2018-2023. So he will try to immediately create a backbone of leaders starting from Donnarumma and Barella to pair it with the launch of some young players who are not yet starters in their clubs, following the Zaniolo model (successful) and Pafundi (unsuccessful). So expect, at every call-up round, at least one slot dedicated to the “Mancini laboratory”.
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The playing system matters, the coach also clarified this aspect in the press conference and it is certainly not a minor thing: in the National Team it is difficult to build fluid systems, Spalletti for example crashed into it. And it is not the case to contradict one’s own beliefs, as Gattuso did who swore he did not want to play with three defenders but then showed up with a 3-5-2 in the playoffs. Spain, an example to follow, does not deviate from the 4-3-3 which evolves into a 4-2-3-1 with Olmo moving to the attacking midfield, and so will be the new Italy. Mancini said that “the strikers are there, and so are the wingers,” implying that in his mind there is a return to the offensive trident: goodbye, therefore, to the double striker and the 3-5-2, while the 4-4-2 will be seen only in case of emergency at the end of matches. It follows that the big tactical puzzle to solve is the full-backs: Dimarco and Palestra, used to playing as wing-backs, will have to be convinced to make some extra defensive effort, like Spinazzola during Euro 2021. Alternatives are not lacking: Calafiori who plays there at Arsenal, Bartesaghi is more a full-back than a wing-back, Ahanor and Bernasconi who will share the role at Sarri’s Atalanta. On the right Kayode is ready.
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Instead, the use of Dimarco as a winger is impossible: in that role Mancini will want a right winger like Cacciamani or Elimoghale, 17 years old and on the rise in Juventus Primavera or a forward like Kean or Ekhator. Up front the attack will be “composable”, with a true striker like Esposito or Camarda, one of those destined for an early launch, to be supplied with “crossing” wingers or with attacking midfielders who come inside and support. They are Mancini’s signature. So the path is clear for Vergara, Liberali, Inacio, Pafundi himself, ending with Della Rovere who is training with Bayern Munich. At the back, Bastoni will play centrally and Calafiori will be the alternative. One or the other, on this Mancini will hardly fall, knowing that this is the misunderstanding that cost us the European flop and a World Cup. On the right Leoni will be awaited, meanwhile he will enjoy Sarri’s training on Scalvini. New names are not lacking and they come from the Bundesliga: Reggiani, Mane, Chiarodia, already pillars of Baldini’s Under 21.
We will hardly see Gianluca Mancini and Gatti again, as well as Politano and Zaccagni, loyal to Gattuso but never favored by the new-old coach. The playing system will not change but, without Jorginho and Verratti, it will necessarily be a more direct Italy. It is possible to see Tonali as a playmaker while waiting for a pure regista to grow, and there are talented ones, especially in Como, see that Riccardo Cassano who recently debuted. Madness? For Mancini no. He said that “if someone is good at 18, they can play.” He did it in the past and will have to continue to do so to give meaning to his return and the new Italy.
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