France deceives us, Germany overturns us. The Italian Under 21's are once again defeated in a friendly, once again by a scoreline of 2-1. These are the words of the manager Luigi Di Biagio at the end of the match.
"We deserved something more. We lacked something in our legs in the second half and we fell, they had more endurance. In games of this level, the difficulties are not lacking but that's ok because we are playing well. We wanted to try to win 2-1, but we we conceded right away. Two games in 4 days at this level are not easy to play at all. The game has changed, the inertia has changed, we had too many players at risk of injury. We have to evaluate many things, Parigini and Pezzella have not played for a long time and in some ways it was also risky".
He was missing some available elements of the squad, but this does not have to be an alibi: "Players who go to the senior national team is good for the movement. These things also happen to England, Germany - across all the Under-21 squads. We work hard to get our kids to arrive quickly there quickly. We played in beautiful stadiums, we hope to fill them up for this summer".
