Luciano Spalletti looks beyond the result

Luciano Spalletti extols the Azzurri

After the bitter expedition to Germany for Euro 2024, the Italian national team continues to take revenge in the continental arena and the qualification to the quarterfinals of the Nations League reached arithmetically Thursday night against Belgium è just the last stage, in order of time, of a process of redemption that seemed very difficult after the European Championship knockout against Switzerland in the round of 16.

Yet Luciano Spalletti confirms that he has never stopped believing in the potential of the Italy of the ball, looking beyond the result: "We are a country in which there's always the possibility of finding thirty strong players to make a national team – said the coach to the microphones of 'Rai' -. I have said it five hundred times: we had to find the right solutions and put these guys, who are very strong, in the best conditions to play".

Spalletti spares no further compliments: "The boys were good, both in the first and second half, when the pitch became heavy and we lost a little bit of clarity. When they came to our half of the field, in the last minutes, it wasnè t easy, but we resisted becauseé who was on the field è was a lion".

For Italy, todayè s fourth win in the five post-European competitions: after the 3-1 successes against France at the Parc des Princes and 2-1 against Israel on the neutral in Budapest, the only draw came in Rome against Belgium itself, 2-2, before the 4-1 win against Israel in Udine and the 1-0 win at home of the Belgians on Thursday.