DBasia.news – The coach of the Italian national team, Roberto Mancini, believes that his team is not worthy of being a candidate for the 2020 European Cup.
Italy’s run at Euro 2020 so far has been convincing. Italy beat Turkey and Switzerland with identical scores, 3-0.
Not surprisingly, Italy has sealed a ticket to the round of 16. Now, Italy’s mission is to win Group A against Wales.
Gli Azzurri began to be predicted as one of the teams with the most potential to win the title. However, Mancini rejected the assessment.
“France, Spain, Germany and Portugal are used to winning. They have extraordinary players. France remains the favorite even though they drew with Hungary,” said Mancini as reported by Goal.
“Then, there is Belgium. In my opinion, the map of the championship title competition has not changed,” added the tactician.
Francesco Acerbi More Confident
Meanwhile, Italy defender, Francesco Acerbi, is more daring to express his belief than Mancini. Acerbi has a feeling that Italy can go a long way in this edition.
“I’m interested in winning. Even if we conceded, it’s irrelevant as long as we keep winning,” said Acerbi.
“We tried to attack and defend as a team. That’s the reason we scored a lot of goals and conceded only a few. Everything has been going well so far.”
“Maybe, there are three or four teams that have better individual talent than us in this tournament. However, as I have said before, I feel we can go far,” said the defender.