Italy getting owned by Ireland Reserves

Hilarious stuff especially after all the wankfest on here because of a routine win against Estonia.

friendly excuse coming 3....2.......

it's a friendly.... but it sure came unexpected for me

Um... You know that our reserves played aswell... We had our second team playing out there. Only regulars were Rossi, Pazzini and Pirlo...

how could they slip like this?

Ganso wrote:friendly excuse coming 3....2.......

I applaud you.

I'll give it to Ireland who played fantastically with their defensive tactics. I'm not surprised because Trap is a genius. However we played with our reserves aswell, our second team, if it was our first team, then there would be something to talk about... I congratulate Ireland however this result shouldn't be taken serious or any precaution for Italy because it was just a friendly and we used experiments with no intentions in winning this game.

The Madrid One wrote:how could they slip like this?

Heavy rain fall.

This Irish is not a bad side by any means. Trap has done a good job with us. And we did play one regular in Andrews

I guess no one here saw Italia against Germany.... or even the actual match against Ireland.

Sad.

oh no, why?? is rossi playing?
edit: rossi only played 45 minutes. no excuse but the game cant be serious.

italy dominated but their strikers werent able to decide the game.


ireland's defense was pretty good and physical tbh

Ganso wrote:italy dominated but their strikers werent able to decide the game.


ireland's defense was pretty good and physical tbh

Well, we did dominate however, it was our fullbacks which failed to produce any support on the flanks. Every cross either long or blocked and mostly short by Cassani.

Ireland closed all the spaces... Nothing for us to do there...

Look let's not get ahead of ourselves Italy had around 70% possession...

The fact is, and I've said it many times, this type of game is Italy's weakness.

Physical and pacey, look for the aerial battle and just sit with two banks of four. Trap knows this better than anyone! No doubt he played in defeats like this and he certainly coached them.

I wait intently for the Spain game which we will find easier to adapt to than Ireland, Ivory Coast, Slovakia, New Zealand...

Losing to Ireland isn't like losing to San Marino.

Trap has us playing well in his system and we are hard to breakdown. St.Ledger had a good defensive performance tonight.

I'm just disappointed that Prandelli's experiments in my opinion made no sense. He should of started with Matri from the beginning, fine gave Monto another chance in TQ, failed, but it took him until his last sub to put on Giovinco which is again a poor choice to do. I don't understand what Prandelli expected from Matri when Rossi went off. Now don't get me wrong, he did good, but I mean, you actually expect Matri to be a better SS over Rossi? Pazzini should of been subbed off.. but whatever.

sciacca wrote:

The Madrid One wrote:how could they slip like this?

Heavy rain fall.

oh well no wonder.... they do come from a place shaped like a boot...

makes their possibility of slipping grow ever so slightly.

The Madrid One wrote:

sciacca wrote:

The Madrid One wrote:how could they slip like this?

Heavy rain fall.

oh well no wonder.... they do come from a place shaped like a boot...

makes their possibility of slipping grow ever so slightly.

haha very true.

and Ireland has an unlimited supply of rain

does this mean they slip alot too?

The Madrid One wrote:does this mean they slip alot too?

Nah, because it never stops raining here, we are accustomed to it. Our secret weapon.

Irish_Catalan_Scouser wrote:

The Madrid One wrote:does this mean they slip alot too?

Nah, because it never stops raining here, we are accustomed to it. Our secret weapon.

home advantage, hehehehe why dont you host a european cup or world cup?? with some luck you could make a south korea or was it nord?

Italians like the rain like the British like hot weather

I-no wrote:

Irish_Catalan_Scouser wrote:

The Madrid One wrote:does this mean they slip alot too?

Nah, because it never stops raining here, we are accustomed to it. Our secret weapon.

home advantage, hehehehe why dont you host a european cup or world cup?? with some luck you could make a south korea or was it nord?

good idea. all we need to do is bribe FIFA.

Wait no, that can't happen now that Blatter has appointed Placido Domingo to hlp clean up the game. (where is facepalm smiley)