Italy edged Bosnia 1-0 on Sunday as midfielder Davide Frattesi scored a shocking first-half objective of their closing warm-up match forward of the European Championship beginning in Germany subsequent week.
It was one other largely disappointing efficiency from Italy who took the lead within the thirty eighth minute when Frattesi scored with an excellent first-time end into the roof of the web from a Federico Chiesa cross.
“There’s room for enchancment. If we wish to be prepared, we now have to place in one thing extra and we are going to get there,” Frattesi advised Rai.
“We created the alternatives, however we have to handle them higher as a result of we may have fewer of them within the group. Nevertheless, we noticed some good issues.”
Italy are in a tricky Group B on the Euros the place they may face three-times champions Spain, Croatia and Albania.
It was one other stellar efficiency from Frattesi, who’s the Azzurri’s high scorer since his debut in June 2022, having discovered the web 5 instances in 15 video games.
The outcome, nonetheless, leaves supervisor Luciano Spalletti with lots to consider forward of the Euros because the defending champions typically appeared blunt in entrance of objective with striker Gianluca Scamacca losing numerous alternatives.
Additionally they went near falling behind within the opening minutes, however Gianluigi Donnarumma made a effective save to disclaim a low strike by Bosnia midfielder Haris Hajradinovic.
The Italy keeper made one other save within the 18th minute when Bosnia, who’re ranked 74th and didn’t qualify for Euro 2024, had one other good probability by way of Jusuf Gazibegovic, whose free kick was heading just below the bar.
“We did what we needed to do,” Spalletti advised Sky Sport. “We’re satisfied that we now have a very good workforce, we are going to simply should get into the ambiance of an actual match.
“We had two nearly fully totally different groups play, to see all of them a bit, as a result of at the least we now have the chance to inform them one thing that must be discovered to enhance issues. We do not have a lot time.”
Spalletti made 9 modifications from Tuesday’s 0-0 draw towards Turkey, retaining ahead Chiesa and midfielder Jorginho within the beginning lineup.
Italy begin their Euro 2024 marketing campaign on Saturday towards Albania earlier than dealing with Spain on June 20 and Croatia 4 days later.
