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After the third goal, someone asked me sincerely: “Maybe they don’t pay you?”
After the fourth goal, an exclamation was heard: “But what about your safety? There is some?
After the fifth, which was accidentally scored by Napoli defender Giovanni Di Lorenzo, the Italian tifos began to speak with surprise from Tomas Ražanauskas, who played the role of coach in Emilia-Romagna: “It’s calm, look! It does not change, it does not scream, it does not remove hair from its head. A calm, calm, static coach and his players ”.
After the final whistle, one of the spectators of the match came over, handed me a glass of wine and tried to reassure me: “Yes, it was your football tragedy. But it’s not very disappointing: you didn’t lose to anyone but the European champions! Thank you for your correct sympathy.
The Emilija Redžas stadium is a lovely place for Lithuanian football. In this capital of Parmesan cheeses, Lithuania is not only experiencing painful defeats, but is also seeing the evolution of our football. In 1995, the team coached by Benjaminas Zelkevičius and Valdas Ivanauskas lost 0: 4 to the Italians in attack.
26 years have passed, Lithuania (coached by Valdas Ivanauskas) (true, obviously) has lost one more goal in the same stadium.
And yet, what is the disgusting thing that the Italian media has written about the health of our football?
World Cup Selection: Italy – Lithuania
I checked the most important Italian sports newspapers: La Gazzetta dello Sport in Milan, Il Corriere dello Sport in Rome, the main national newspapers La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera.
I have to admit: “fair play” – The rules of fair play exist not only in sports but also in sports media. Italian journalists did not scoff. He didn’t laugh. He did not prescribe playful insults, although Italians are quite capable of doing so.
Of course: not only Lithuanian football was hit hard, but also the overall image of Lithuania. After two hours of games, the commentators keep repeating “modest Lithuania “ – modest Lithuania, then – “Little Lithuania” – a little Lithuania, and finally – “little little “ – Very little wants to shrink, rebuild his chest and shout: “We have basketball, we have theater, we have so many boletus in the forest that you do not dream.”
La Gazzetta dello Sport’s total score for Lithuania: 4.5. Comment: “Zero points in the group, and you see it. “Little thing” – It is difficult to accurately translate this expression into Lithuanian: “little thing”. Next: “Too many errors, the attack does not exist. He was under pressure and was no longer recovering. Italy does not donate. “
Review of Italian and Lithuanian parties in the Italian press
The Milan sports newspaper wrote 7.5 to his family: “Well, only Lithuania was there, but we saw the real Italy: play, ball control, attack.”
The Corriere dello Sport critic, who named the Lithuanian national team, was a bit offensive, but only analyzed lightly.nobody“We didn’t play against anyone, but we still enjoyed the youth, which was ‘caught’ by Mancini.”
Italy did not want to ridicule the contempt of Lithuanian football, because it was in this match that they not only stood up after two fierce draws, but also showed themselves, us and the world: they are European champions. He showed this in the second lineup, he showed that, in addition to the main aces, Bonucci, Chiellini, Insigne, Immobile are infinite talent pools. Like Moise Kean, who returned to the national team two years later, or the 21-year-old rookie, the Sassuolo player Giacomo Raspadori.
It was this guy who demonstrated those attacking qualities that were much more experienced by the more experienced Lithuanians: anger, cynicism, stubbornness. Corriere dello Sport recognized the Italian national team player as the best and gave him the highest score: 7.5.
Review of Italian and Lithuanian parties in the Italian press
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, it is not so much the Italian win, the number of goals, but the qualitative indicators of both national teams that show the type of football gap between them and us.
Italy took the reins of this time with 72% possession of the ball. match time, Lithuania – 28 percent. Italy made 720 successful passes and Lithuania 277. Italy scored 5 times, Lithuania 1. Italy lost 110 balls, Lithuania 126.
How does the oldest European sports newspaper, La Gazzetta dello Sport, rate our selection?
Coach T. Ražanauskas – 5 points: “Although the head coach was stopped for the fight, the impression is that nothing changed significantly. The aggravating factor of Lithuania: do not fight, do not squeeze, do not spit blood like, for example, the Bulgarians. She entered the square already condemned. “
Vykintas Slivka – 6 was recognized as the best player of the Lithuanian team: scars. He tried to stop Pessina, it was he who thought for a while. But in the desert. “
The worst is Arvydas Novikovas, he scored 4 points: “The choice of the worst players in Lithuania is wide. It was this player who created the situation for the first goal, then again, only ours did not take advantage. The worst podium belongs to him. “
Review of Italian and Lithuanian parties in the Italian press
Corvere dello Sport recognized Ovidija Verbickas as the best Lithuanian player – 6: “The only real player on the Lithuanian national team, not only because he got it right two or three times”.
Corriere named goalkeeper Ernestas Šetkus the worst players, especially for the last fifth goal. And Martynas Dapkas: “I should work with the ball. I should … ”For both players: 4, extremely low and uncommon score in the Italian soccer classification system.
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