Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 15 November 2021
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 15 November 2021.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 15 November 2021
👉It’s worth the world
Italy need Euromagic to fly to the World Cup
Mancini in Northern Ireland seeking goals for qualification: “No bad thoughts, there are the play-offs in March”
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 15 November 2021 .
Front Page, Tutto Sport, Monday 15 November 2021
👉We are with you!
Tonight in Belfast Italy play for the World Cup qualification against Northern Ireland. A distance duel with Switzerland hosting Bulgaria to avoid the playoffs. We need to keep the goal difference advantage. pic.twitter.com/l8aQVGItZC
👉We are with you!
Tonight in Belfast Italy play for the World Cup qualification against Northern Ireland. A distance duel with Switzerland hosting Bulgaria to avoid the playoffs. We need to keep the goal difference advantage. pic.twitter.com/l8aQVGItZC
Italy Head Coach Roberto Mancini avoiding the fear factor during the press conference on the eve of the 2021 FIFA World Cup against Northern Ireland on Monday 15 November at the National Football Stadium at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland at 20:45.
Mancini knows that this is – by now – the more important game because it means the direct qualification for the World Cup in Qatar or just facing the playoffs.
Mancini saying, “We’re feeling the pressure a little bit. We know that it’s a really important game but we need to play without fear, which is what happened after we conceded against Switzerland. Three years ago, it would have been unthinkable to witness what this team has done. It’s only normal that, on any path, there are tricky times and tomorrow will certainly fall under that bracket. But the boys mustn’t forget what they’ve done and just need to play with calmness. It would be a repeat exam in March [in the playoffs] but we want to qualify now.”
👉FIFA World Cup Qualifier Group C, Italy leading with 15 points (after Matchday 7)
group c standing
Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
For
Against
Goal difference
Points
🇮🇹 Italy
7
4
3
0
13
2
11
15
🇨🇭 Switzerland
7
4
3
0
11
2
9
15
Northern Ireland
7
2
2
3
6
7
-1
8
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
7
2
2
3
6
10
-4
8
🇱🇹 Lithuania
8
1
0
7
4
19
-15
3
The Azzurri, who trained this evening at Windsor Park, have a +2 goal difference as it stands over Switzerland and know that a win tomorrow is vital to avoid being overtaken – as well as preferably scoring as many goals as possible. It’ll be anything other than simple considering that, in their three home games in qualifying, Northern Ireland haven’t conceded a single goal. What’s more, Italy have never won in Belfast and lost in the Northern Irish capital in 1958, which cost the Azzurri qualification for the World Cup in Sweden. “We need to try to win and it won’t be easy,” Mancini declared. “If we score a lot of goals, we’ll be happier and we’ll have more chances to qualify. They have conceded very little at home, defend in numbers and do so very well. We’ll need to play with tempo and try to keep the ball on the deck.”
Tomorrow too, Mancini will have to make do with affair few notable absentees. As it was against Switzerland, Italy are without European champions in Chiellini, Spinazzola, Verratti and Immobile, while, in the last 48 hours, Calabria, Bastoni, Biraghi and Sirigu have all left the camp. There will likely be the odd change tomorrow night but Barella is available, as advertised by Mancini: “He’s fit and is doing better than he was against Switzerland.” He may call upon Tonali, who “has grown a lot and might start.” He was coy when asked who would be starting up front: “It doesn’t matter whether it’s a false 9 or a proper striker, what matters is mentality.”
Lorenzo Bonucci will, once again, captain the side in the absence of Chiellini and will play his 114th game for Italy, reaching the tally of his long-term centre-back partner in sixth in the all-time appearance list for the Azzurri. His hope is to celebrate a win and qualification to the World Cup: “It will need to be the Italy that we say in qualifying for the Euros, at the Euros and in the first matches in World Cup qualifying,” he said. “We’ll need to bring home a big result, forgetting the recent past. Being the reigning champions of Europe doesn’t give us the right to win without first playing, so we need to put those thoughts and the draw with Switzerland aside. We just have to look ahead and concentrate on the game that we need to play. I’m sure that we’ll put in a great performance.”
After Jorginho’s penalty miss against Switzerland (his third consecutive missed spot-kick), Bonucci could take over the duty, but nothing is decided: “He’s taken a lot of penalties, important ones too. It was a mistake that can happen to anybody and I won’t take any penalties tomorrow evening. We’ll make a decision later.”
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Emerson Palmieri (Lyon), Gian Marco Ferrari (Sassuolo), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Davide Zappacosta (Atalanta);
The Italian National Football team training on Sunday 14 November ahead for the 2021 FIFA World Cup against Northern Ireland on Monday 15 November at the National Football Stadium at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland at 20:45. The training was open to the media during the first 15 minutes in Belfast.
👉FIFA World Cup Qualifier Group C, Italy leading with 15 points (after Matchday 7)
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Emerson Palmieri (Lyon), Gian Marco Ferrari (Sassuolo), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Davide Zappacosta (Atalanta);
UEFA announcing the match officials for the FIFA World Cup Qualifier game Northern Ireland vs Italy on Monday 15 November 2021 at the National Football Stadium at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland at 20:45.
Romanian Referee Istvan Kovacs will be assisted by Assistant Referee 1: Vasile Marinescu (ROU) and Assistant Referee 2: Ovidiu Artene (ROU). The Fourth Official will be Horațiu Feșnic (ROU). The VAR will be Bastian Dankert (GER). The AVAR will be Mike Pickel (GER) and Referee Assessor will be Robert Sedlacek (AUT).
👉FIFA World Cup Qualifier Group C, Italy leading with 15 points (after Matchday 7)
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Emerson Palmieri (Lyon), Gian Marco Ferrari (Sassuolo), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Davide Zappacosta (Atalanta);
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 14 November 2021
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 14 November 2021.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 14 November
👉Tomorrow in Belfast we play for the World Cup
Italy, change and you’ll get through
Nazionale in Northern Ireland: seeking goals to avoid the play-offs
Tonali and Berardi in
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 14 November 2021 .
Front Page, Corriere dello Sport, Sunday 14 November
👉Mancini loses more players and studies a new attack to overcome Northern Ireland
Italy, it’s a wall
Berardi with Insigne or Scamacca against a defense that is unbeaten at home
Tomorrow in Belfast the Azzurri must score… pic.twitter.com/EJSe461XG5
By Anna Italia
