Luciano Spalletti Disappointed, Italy Should Not Lose To England

Italian striker Gianluca Scamacca was overshadowed by England player Kalvin Phillips in the Euro 2024 qualifying match. (Twitter @Azzurri)

JAKARTA - Italy came to Wembley Stadium to beat England as he did in the Euro 2020 final. What happened was that Italy was even killed 3-1 in the Euro 2024 qualifying Group C duel, Wednesday, October 18 in the morning WIB. The results that disappointed coach Luciano Spalletti because Italy did not deserve to lose to England.

Italy did come with confidence. They showed their best performance when they beat Malta 4-0 in the previous qualifying match.

The victory that became Gli Azzurri's valuable capital when competing at Wembley. Moreover, the Italian national team when Giorgio Chiellini was still strengthened successfully beat Harry Kane et al and won the Euro 2020 trophy.

Italy's confidence is getting thicker because the team started well. They managed to lead first through Gianluca Scamacca. And this is Scamacca's first goal for the national team

But the situation immediately changed after Kane equalized the score from the penalty spot. Italy is getting more and more involved because Marcus Rashford then successfully beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.

Kane then scored a brace after taking advantage of the player's mistakes. The final score for England that brought them to the Euro 2024 finals. Meanwhile, Italy and Ukraine still have to fight for a ticket.

"It's hard to say anything because we made mistakes that should have been avoided. We also created a lot of good chances and should have scored a lot of goals," Spalletti said in response to his team's poor results.

According to Spalletttti, Italy should not have conceded two goals from Rashford and Kane. However, he admits that Italy is struggling with the speed and physicality of England players.

"The team didn't deserve to concede two goals. It just had to be admitted that England really made it difficult for us," said Spalletti.

"This is certainly disappointing because we lost in this way. We learned a lot from this defeat and have to improve ourselves so that we can be better against physical duels," said the former Napoli coach.

"We actually played well throughout the match. We also have the quality to face any team," he said again.

The defeat to England made Italy down the rankings. Now, Italy is in third place with 10 points. Three points adrift of Ukraine which rose to second place after winning 3-1 over Malta.

However, Ukraine is just finishing one more game against Italy. Meanwhile, Italy still has two games.

Before being visited by Ukraine, they won the match against North Macedonia to keep their chances of qualifying for Germany.