Considered to be the worst Italian team in recent history

>Considered to be the worst Italian team in recent history
>Dominating objectively the hardest group in the tournament group thus far

What went so right?

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teamwork is underrated

the spanish group is the hardest though and well belgium was just plain bad. sweden is just well sweden

>hardest group
our group is the hardest tbqh

We're missing our 2 star players as well

>beat Lelgium
>barely score against Sweden
top kek
any good attack will crush our "defense"

Conte

>hardest group
>Ireland
>Sweden
>fucking Belgium

Team spirit and belief from the manager

Our defense is literally our best aspect you cuck

>Belgium
>Not having a decent squad on paper

Finland please.

This

>What went so right?
Coordinated defense

Wrong, the defense is good you fuckin "muh juventus shit block ruins everything" moron.

The problem is Pellé and Eder are just shit and barely shot on target against Swedes who literally can't defend

we're fucked then

I'd say B and C are the hardest groups in this tournament.

>italy has already made 11.5m eurobucks in this tournament
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2016#Prize_money

See

Meh. Show me a year where Italy are not underrated.

They pretty much always perform. Stop acting so surprised when they do. Sick of it.

What went right?

Italy have 5 world class players and all if them are defensive players(Buffon, back 3, De Rossi)

>they pretty much always perform
except in the last two wc

>They pretty much always perform.
2010
2014

the problem that belgium have and they have always had is that it's hard for the players to feel any sense of national pride for a non country, they should rejoin the netherlands desu

>De Rossi
>world class player

Just a world class wage nowadays

It's another Italy turns up with a shit squad and gets to the final episode.

How do they keep doing it lads?

è solo culo
>english:
>it's only ass

>he rates Belgium and Sweden

>Base your teamplay on making smart fouls
>You get yellow cards for that
>Do nothing during 90 min so that you dont get booked and you dont have suspended players for Quarters
>Win anyway

So smart

They've got outstanding organization and defensive solidity and Conte is getting the most out of his attacking players too

Also Giaccherini going GOAT-mode

The problem is that parolo exists

>the hardest group
More like the memest group.

Is Conti better than Lippi?

>hardest group
It's one of the easiest ones. Sweden is a contender for the worst team of the tournament and Ireland isn't much better

>mfw no Verratti

:(

He's the best defensive midfielder in the world. What midfielder is better at defending? I can't think of any.

Stop putting your team down. Italy are the best team I've seen this tournament

Stop discussing football and go back to your usual board

mfw ur gay lmao

Lippi is a gentleman

Conte is a hitman

>Calls Cucù, Vavà, Totò, Dallì Allà, Bebè
>Thinks just because he stuffed the midfield full of educated feet chimps or semichimps the entire national team is world class
>Get exposed when facing a legit line of defense made by the guy in charge of the NT and used to face the best teams on the planet together as one block
>Cries about petty shit

Save for Germany they all suck, indiscriminately.

At his best it was De Rossi, now it's the man De Rossi is subbing in because he's injured.

hardest group
>memegium
>shitaly
>muslimden
and one decent team: Ireland.

Are you kidding?
Hardest group is easily F.

>Considered to be the worst Italian team in recent history
It is possibly the worst off all time since we are missing veratti and marchisio, but yet enough to deafeat meme countries.

you haven't watched many games then.

>What midfielder is better at defending?
Conte (Leicester one), Naingollan and probably some others.

Am i right in thinking a draw between Ireland and Belgium tomorrow more or less see's Ireland go through?

As if, no one wanted Italy from pot 2, sweden from pot 3 and Ireland in pot 4 have recent wins over Germany and Poland and always upset the big teams, only way the group could have been more difficult is if it had been Germany instead of Belgium

>The opinions of North Estonia

we actually have decent coaches, unlike you guys

>Hardest

You can't call a group where the least shit goes through the "hardest", it doesn't work that way. It's like having an UCL group with Leicester, Malmoe, Borussia Mongoloidbach and Gent and argue it's the hardest.

You field a keeper wearing his pajama

and you miss a class striker.
What happened to all your big promises from recent years?
Aquafresca, Rossi, Balotelli, Giovinco, Insigne, Berardi, El Shaarawy, Immobile, Destro, Paloschi, Cerci, Macheda, Floccari ?

Just a few names I can remember. None of them turned out to be at least an OK striker?

Implying you don't want to have comfy grey tracksuits like Király

>shitting on Kiraly for no reason

come on

How is belgium team proportion in terms of vallonia fags and flemish fags??

conte likes middlefielders more
don't ask me why

>put 10 men behind the ball
>hoof it up to lone 6ft5in frontman
>dive if someone comes within 6 inches of you
>punch and kick people when the ref isn't looking
>time waste from the first minute of the game

>Italian 'coaching'

>big promises

Desperate attempts. In order

>Legit facebook meme player le Drinkwater Freshwater xD
>Broke his leg six times and by the time he was back he had white hair
>Nigger being a nigger
>Rey Mysterio is too small for the heavyweight division so he ran to the cruiserweight leagues
>He's great and he's at the competition, maybe out of shape
>Spineless coward he'd rather wait in the big leagues for inter to pull a comeback than face the giants with Juventus. No testicles
>Available, not exactly best shape
>Fat pig
>Come on
>Fraud more than Torres ever was

And the rest of the list I won't even acknowledge

You laugh until the "shitty" Iceland will blow you out as the "weakest team ever in final16".

People rated Portugal and Austria as secret contenders of the Euros, and they also took it for granted that Iceland & Hungary will be their punchbags.

>wait in the small leagues with Sassuolo

>Rossi
he could've been better than messi(no jokes here) but his knee broke several times and now he's but the shadow of himself.

> El Shaarawy
He's still young , but he has played very well in rome and could become a star iin the years to come

>Balotelli
Simply a dickhead who wasted his talent

> Insigne, Berardi
Young but they are growing stronger and stronger

The rest are meme players
This generation was super fucked up mainly because serie a had a crysis between 2006 and 2012

Everyone also thought we would have been Belgium's punchbag, and tell for the Ibrahimovic meme

kinda sucks then. I got most of it, but onw. Who is the Fat Pig according to you?

Paloschi?

not me.
From the beginning I said Italy is a strong contender. Best defense, solid midfield, well the lack of attackers can hit back, but you will 0-0 and 1-0 your way to the semis I bet.

Destro, he is getting it together in Bologna, but until few months ago he was a meatball. He has to regain quite a bit of trust, and keep in mind Conte kept people who scored way more than he did (Pavoletti) out.

>back 3
reminder that the current back 3 were the reserve of the back 3 who won the world cup

Grats. I must admit that basically all Italy thought Belgium would have shat in our mouths, me included.

Yes, and reminder that 2006 was 21 years ago.

Coaching too desu

Bonucci went to the world cup in 2006? Wasn't he like 17 at the time?

if it is so hard, why isn't any English coach applying it to the NT?
oh right, because they're shit

with el shaarawy, insigne and berardeschi still on the bench

he didn't
user is too young

Should've called up Giovinco tßh

Italians are criminally underrated desu. Were 21/10 on the betting against memelgium

>Aquafresca
dem feels

don't take him seriously, he's just telling bullshit.
Barzagli was the only one that went to the 06WC, he even was the sub for Materazzi (another sub)

>implying you wouldn't

Is it a tactical hole in his pants or...?

>this shit AGAIN
choosing to play in the current MLS means retiring from relevant football just to cash in on a fat paycheck, nothing more

i was exxaggerating. But bonucci was the reserve of cannavaro and barzagli for a long time. Although he had no yet reached his prime, so whatever

If you see WC 06 final they show Chiellini in the crowd. Barzagli was a reserve and Bonucci's nowhere to be seen.

tfw the nineties were 50 years ago

>hardest group in the tournament
The what now?

>who is Conte

Yes well as long as Gonde insists with this stupid 352 playing those three would be insane. The defense is pressured enough by the invisible midfield without you let the opponent overload the sides too.
You can't even play them instead of Eder, because they're all three shit tier as second strikers.

Conte is great at getting the best from literal shit players, but he still managed to lose against Galatasaray.
He also values more his tactics than his men, which means he didn't call great players much better than Motta or Giaccherini because they don't fit his vision.

Lippi always had great teams, can't compare him.

I doubt Conte, with Italy 2010 NT, would have got eliminated by fucking slovakia, paraguay and new zealand.

Calling Lippi again was a big mistake

>he didn't call great players much better than Motta or Giaccherini
Giaccherini >>>> Bonaventura

True.
I feel he would still have managed to fuck up the convocations tho.

he'd pretty much call the same players of Lippi
do you actually see Gonde calling Cassano and Balotelli in the NT, even if it was 2010?

Hahahahhahahah can't even win a fucking contrast with SWEDEN defenders, imagine him against Germany.
Just like his Juventus, Italy offensive options are shit with 0 technique because he cares more about the tactics.

>He also values more his tactics than his men
Which is hilarious considering that his tactics at Juve worked more due to his men (dat Marchisio-Pirlo-Vidal midfield) than due to the tactics themselves. Now he insists with having Giaccherini-De Rossi-Parolo play the same roles and we can see the results. This midfield worked as much as Buffon today, what wa fucking shamble.

>do you actually see Gonde calling Cassano and Balotelli in the NT, even if it was 2010?
No but I could see him calling some seghe immonde just because they fit his schemes better than some still serviceable senatore.

Bonaventura couldn't even dribble a lamp post

Bonaventura is an excellent dribbler.

>post yfw Eder pulled a Roberto Baggio on fucking sweden
youtube.com/watch?v=c47T0SUoxk0

>Conte does well with the worst Italian talent pool in history
>some Italian flags STILL shitting on him
Why? Are they just butthurt at him for turning Serie A into juvewinslol?

Di calcio non me ne intendo, ma ho l'impressione che bastava un attacco frontale per rompere la Svezia, non tutti questi attacchi e passaggi alle ali

>He's the best defensive midfielder in the world
Is this some kind of dank meme or something?

>does well
No shit, the opposition played so bad I was feeling second hand embarrassment.

>bastava un attacco frontale per rompere la Svezia
E chi lo fa? A centrocampo c'è il vuoto siderale, e gli attaccanti hanno i piedi da lebbrosi.

u wot
Lippi dominated football with the likes of torricelli, pessotto, birindelli, tudor, iuliano, etc
his best defenders were old ferrara and the butcher montero
tacchinardi and jugovic were his starting midfielders for years, vialli and ravanelli weren't great either

He's still living in 2012 or earlier, when he actually was the best dm in the world.