Luciano Spalletti believes Italy are “heading in the right direction” regardless of the Azzurri ending their Nations League marketing campaign with a 3-1 defeat to France on Sunday.
Adrien Rabiot scored twice and Guglielmo Vicario put via his personal internet as Les Bleus triumphed at San Siro, with all three targets coming from Lucas Digne set-pieces.
Italy had already confirmed a top-two end by beating Belgium 1-0 three days earlier, nonetheless, so they are going to be part of France within the quarter-finals subsequent March.
Regardless of the end result, there have been loads of positives for Spalletti to take from Italy’s efficiency, as his workforce loved extra possession (53.8%), photographs (10 to 6), anticipated targets (0.59 xG to 0.39) and touches within the opposition field (20 to eight) than their opponents.
“I consider that we’re heading in the right direction, I noticed many issues we sought within the right approach, however we have been influenced by the emotion of the match, we pressured the match,” he stated.
“Within the second half the sport was managed properly, we frequently had the ball however now we have to be cleaner with our ball administration.
“The evaluation is definitely constructive, it’s clear that there’s something to evaluation. Once we return, the group will do that.”
Italy have been undone by some wonderful dead-ball taking from Aston Villa full-back Digne, although, and Spalletti is aware of they have to be extra aggressive on a bodily degree sooner or later.
“The boys needed to go and problem the opponent, there you spend vitality. The third set-piece created issues for us, then we tried to react to attain once more, however they’re bodily,” he stated.
“Now we are going to evaluation the conditions properly, they’re one of many strongest groups there’s from a bodily viewpoint.”
