Roberto Mancini has called up 27 players to his team to face Greece and Liechtenstein in the Euro 2020 qualifiers. The big news is the arrival of Giovanni Di Lorenzo, who has received his first call up to the senior national team thanks to the strong start to the season he has had with Napoli.
The players will convene at Coverciano on Monday and will have their first training session in the afternoon. Then they will play Greece at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on Saturday and Lichtenstein on Tuesday, October 15th, at Rheinpark Stadion.
Here is the squad called up:
Goalies: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Pierluigi Gollini (Atalanta), Alex Meret (Napoli), Salvatore Sirigu (Torino);
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Cristiano Biraghi (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Alessandro Florenzi (Roma), Armando Izzo (Torino), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Alessio Romagnoli (Milan), Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma);
Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Frello Filho Jorge Luiz Jorginho (Chelsea), Stefano Sensi (Inter), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain). Nicolò Zaniolo (Roma);
Forwards: Andrea Belotti (Torino), Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina), Stephan El Shaarawy (Shangai Shenhua), Vincenzo Grifo (Friburgo), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli).
