A just one day after the debut at the European Championships, the National of Roberto Mancini loses another very important pawn in midfield. The Azzurri had already had to do without Stefano Sensi, now the defection of Lorenzo Pellegrini. A major loss, given the space that the Roma midfielder he had been able to cash in on it month after month. And his absence will also trigger a tactical problem for the ct.
Pellegrini had to surrender to a left flexor problem with which he fought since the final stages of last season. His recovery appeared now complete, but Wednesday evening has already made it clear that his participation in Euro 2020 was hanging from a very thin thread. Absent in the first two tests of Italy, he was regularly trained In these weeks. Up al annoyance on Wednesday he exams what did they do decide for her exclusion.
The injury is indeed one muscle injury, with which there is no need to joke. Especially since Mancini already is forced to wait for another player not at its best: that Marco Verratti who in fact handed over the keys to the maneuver to Jorginho. And that, instead, will be expected.
In place of Pellegrini, a player already attached to the national team but that he had not entered the list of 26: it is Gaetano Castrovilli. But for Mancini it will not be exactly the same.
The options in midfield for the technical commissioner, in fact, they decrease. Pellegrini compared to Castrovilli is more flexible, being able to act both as an offensive winger and a midfielder. The Fiorentina player, on the other hand, can be proposed only in a central position, thus making it almost mandatoryuse of Bernardeschi on the band.
Therefore, fewer solutions for Italy a few hours after the game with Turkey. And the awareness that one of the blue drivers of these months (Pellegrini scored twice in the last seven appearances with the national team) to the Europeans There will not be.
OMNISPORT | 10-06-2021 23:14
