Three things spotted in Italy’s first training at Coverciano

Soccer Italia was among the many accredited media for Italy’s first coaching session of the October break on Monday, listed below are three issues we noticed at Coverciano.

Monday was a busy day for Luciano Spalletti, who held a press convention within the afternoon after being named Italy’s ‘Sports activities Diplomacy Ambassador’ by overseas minister Antonio Tajani.

The coaching session began at 16:30 native time and lasted circa one hour and half-hour. Spalletti warmed up along with his gamers earlier than beginning drills with the ball, focussing on attacking strikes and defending.

Gamers concerned

It’s no secret that the ex-Napoli coach is a fan of constructing from the again, as he additionally reiterated throughout his press convention. Subsequently, he skilled his gamers on completely different strikes involving goalkeepers, utilizing a 4-3-3 formation. That is how Spalletti lined up the Azzurri on Monday:

• Vicario; Biraghi, Mancini/Gatti, Bastoni, Udogie; Frattesi, Locatelli, Bonaventura; Zaniolo, Raspadori Orsolini

• Meret/Donnarumma; Darmain, Acerbi, Scalvini/Mancini, Dimarco; Barella, Cristante, Tonali; Berardi, Scamacca, Kean.

Federico Chiesa and Giovanni Di Lorenzo watched the whole coaching session from the touchline.

Attacking

The Azzurri labored on possession drills ranging from kick-off and objective kick conditions and skilled on completely different throw-in techniques. In certainly one of these circumstances, Gianluca Scamacca scored a stunning backheel objective. Usually, Spalletti urged his gamers to maneuver the ball shortly and see passing strains connecting full-backs and attacking wingers but in addition full-backs and centre forwards.

As we already observed in a 2-1 win over Ukraine final month, when Davide Frattesi scored a brace at San Siro, central midfielders have an important function beneath Spalletti and this was mirrored in Monday’s coaching session when the likes of Giacomo Bonaventura, Nicolò Barella, Frattesi and Sandro Tonali have been concerned in attacking play and sometimes discovered themselves contained in the field to shoot or present the ultimate move.

Defending

The second a part of the coaching session was targeted on defence drills, particularly from set items. Whereas Spalletti was very talkative in the course of the first a part of the coaching session when he defined to some gamers the actions he anticipated to see to create numerical benefit, the coach’s employees members gave extra directions when it got here to the defensive half.

They primarily labored on three conditions: free kicks and nook kicks from the right-hand facet and central free kicks. Inter stars Federico Dimarco and Barella took all free kicks from the sting of the field. Barella was additionally one of many gamers defending quick nook kicks, becoming a member of Juventus striker Moise Kean who seemed very targeted and was praised by his teammates and Italy employees members. All gamers appeared in a very good temper forward of video games in opposition to Malta and England.

At the moment, Tuesday, October 10, Italy practice behind closed doorways whereas coaching periods on Wednesday and Thursday are open to the media, however just for the primary quarter-hour.