Quote from: Cryptoprincess101 on Today at 08:46:21 PM

Italy and Israel turned their match today into a goal scoring festival as the match ended in a 9 goals thriller. I think Gattuso looks like who's going to revive Italy because this is his second game in charge of the team and he could get two wins despite that this game against Israel they conceded many goals but if Gattuso can work on the defense, he won't have many challenges since they are good at goal scoring. Israel tried to score the first goal but Italy equalized before half time then coming to the second half Israel was ahead again before Italy equalized and won them by a score of 4:5.

I commend Israel for making the game to be entertaining and not allowing Italy to dominate the game all through. They took the game to Italy in a manner that you will not know that the difference in quality and ranking of the teams is so much. Italy ranks 11th and Israel ranks 75th. If Italy had to dig deep to win this game, should that be something to worry about? This should have been a game they won easily, but at a point where they had the two goal advantage, they lost it very easily and the game quickly became 4-4. Against a better side than Israel, Italy may not be able to do better because it looks like they have a lot of defensive challenges, that is something clearly that Gatuso will need to work on. Retegui center forward play was excellent, Tonali's confidence got them the win.