Luciano Spalletti’s strategy for enhancing Italy after protecting area at Euro 2024

After preventing the feared playoffs, the “real work” begins now for Italy and coach Luciano Spalletti.

And that consistsof whatever from drones and smartdevice apps to suppers and tough matches.

Italy reserved its area in next year’s European Championship with a 0-0 draw versus Ukraine on Monday. A loss would haveactually consigned the safeguarding champ to the playoffs – a problem for a country that missedouton out on the past 2 World Cups duetothefactthat of playoff beats to Sweden and North Macedonia.

Qualification was the minimum that was anticipated of Spalletti when he took over following Roberto Mancini’s shock resignation less than a month before September’s worldwide matches.

However, he began his period with a frustrating draw in North Macedonia before getting Italy back on track with a triumph over Ukraine and playing like the Napoli group he had led to the Serie A title a coupleof months formerly.

“It’s not easy to come in and rightaway make the right options, some things I foundout after I began this brand-new task, and now I believe I understand a bit more,” Spalletti stated after Monday’s match. “I came here to certify, not to discover reasons if we didn’t.

“And the genuine work begins now, now I can actually get working. When I accepted the function, I understood that I had to certify.”

With something to work towards next summertime, Spalletti is preparation more modifications to the method the nationwide group runs. He has currently presented an app that will enable the gamers to watch video lectures and tactical analysis even when they are away from the Italy training camp.

He included on Monday that they will now likewise start training with a drone to guarantee the Italy personnel can upload the finest possible images.

Spalletti likewise has in mind a more standard approach for Italy to enhance: getting to understand his gamers. And he stated he will not wait till the next global break in March to do so.

“With the nationwide group we desire to shot to get as close as possible to what takesplace at a club,” Spalletti included. “We desire to stay in contact, have the possibility to talk to each other and satisfy each other anumberof times. I will go to watch group training sessions and then go for supper with them to ask for their viewpoints.

“We have major gamers in this Italy group and I desire to get to understand them without that pressure of requiring the result. Now I can get closer to them duetothefactthat they likewise have things to inform us.”

To assistance his groups still evenmore, Spalletti is hoping to schedule matches for March versus difficult opposition.

“I will ask for hard friendly matches, the most tough,” he stated. “That’s likewise because lotsof of these gamers requirement to get experience of playing versus high-level challengers, numerous of them wear’t play in European competitors and so where would they develop up this experience if not in these matches.”

The last time Italy went to the European Championship after stoppingworking to certify for the World Cup, it won the competition — pounding England in the last at Wembley Stadium 2 years earlier.

Next year it will have another possibility at redemption.

“Now comes the enjoyable part,” Spalletti stated with a broad smile.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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