Roberto Mancini evokes Mario Balotelli

Roberto Mancini sounds the charge

Roberto Mancini, on the eve of the match between Italy and Lithuania, took stock of the situation.

To hold the spotlight, once again, Ciro Immobile’s troubled relationship with scoring goals when he is in the Azzurri. And so the national team coach showed some annoyance. “It seems to me that we are back to Mario Balotelli,” he pointed out. “We won the European Championship in 26 and Ciro has always been a starter: in two games he scored goals, other times he came close. Sometimes the ball doesn’t go in: I have to tell him, of course, to make certain movements but I don’t see a big problem. He has always scored goals, maybe at the World Cup he scores eight and we win it.”

“We are calm, we are just sorry for losing four points that it was not fair to lose. A little bit of luck helped us during the European Championship, though, and now a little bit of luck has disadvantaged us. Now we know we have to win the next three,” added the helmsman of the Azzurri.