The Italian selection made only a bite of Estonia this Friday, as part of the qualifiers for the World Cup.
Gennaro Gattuso brilliantly succeeded in his debut as Italian coach on Friday in Bergamo. Founded to win its direct qualification for the 2026 World Cup, the Nazionale reassured itself by dominating Estonia 5 to 0. The former OM coach asked its players to hit hard. It was heard: his team left no respite in Estonia, quickly in the strings.
But Italy stumbled for almost an hour on the excellent Werder Bremen goalkeeper Karl Jakob Hein who multiplied the stops on his line, as in front of Mateo Retagui (45th+1) with the help of his transverse and Sandro Tonali alone at the penalty point (54th). The inexorable opening of the score came from the former Parisian Moise Kean, who released the Nazional and Gattuso, over 90 minutes, taking up an acrobatic deviation from the heel of Mateo retagui.
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The former striker of Atalanta, who left this summer in Saudi Arabia, put Ko in Estonia with a double (69th, 90th), the other two goals coming from Giacomo Raspadori (71st) and Alessandro Bastoni (90th+2).
I saw a team that fought for 90 minutes.
Gennaro Gattuso
“I saw a team that fought for 90 minutes, which has always had its offensive instinct in mind. I am happy with this match, this is a first victory, we must now win the next match that will be complicated ”analyzed Gattuso, at the Rai microphone.
Despite this broad success, Italy, which has not participated in the last two World Cups, remains 3rd in group I with six points, six lengths from Norway (12 pts in four matches) and three from Israel, its next opponent Monday in Debrecen (Hungary) who dominated Moldova (4-0). The Nazionale began its qualifying campaign in early June with a rout in Oslo (3-0) which compromised its direct qualification for the North American World Cup and cost its post at Luciano Spalletti, replaced in mid-June by Gattuso.
