Gennaro Gattuso apologizes to fans but saves first half

Rino Gattuso spoke hotly after the 1-4 suffered by Norway in the last match of the 2026 World Cup qualifying round: “I want to apologize to our fans, 4-1 is a heavy result”;

“Too bad, after a very good first half, as a real team… – commented the ct of the’Italy to the microphones of Rai Sport -. The biggest disappointment is the second half. We lick our wounds and congratulations to them. We have to restart from the first half that we did, the team stood up but in the second half we struggled so much”.

“In what did Italy lack? In distances, in the first half we were more compact. We gave them the field, in the first half they didn&#8217t have it. The game was this”.

“I restart from the first half, we played as a team, compact – concluded Gattuso -We have to improve, the game changed when they took the first shot on goal in the second half and we got scared”.