Italy-USA, the goal at the end, the team's play and the performance of the newcomers: Mancini speaks

Italy won in the dying moments against the USA thanks to a goal by Politano. After the match, manager Roberto Mancini spoke about the match and 2018 as a whole for the Italian national team. Here is what he had to say: "Another goal in the dying moments just like against Poland, I would have been upset with a draw, for the players and for the Italians present in the stadium. We should have scored sooner and I thought it would finish 0-0, but football is like this, we had a ton of chances and this is important, also that the team played a good game. The guys then played together for the first time seeing all of the changed I made and for this reason we gave up more space in the second half and the squad was stretched out longer. Those who entered in the second half all did very well. The newcomers? Very good, even De Sciglio I liked. Truly, very good. When you look at our record after 9 matches I can say that we are in line with expectations, maybe even a little ahead. We play well, closing 2018 with a victory and in 2019 we must win all of the matches. We lost two games, one to the champions of the world and one to the champions of Europe, now we want only success."