The AC Milan right-back has thrown his weight behind Azzurri’s progression into the finals of the European Championship, and gave his opinion on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736.
The right back has not featured regularly in this campaign for the Italians, with Cesare Prandelli opting to give the full-back and wing-back duties to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Christian-Maggio-c9098 instead of the Rossoneri full-back
He did feature against the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Republic-of-Ireland-c2987 and would be in consideration for the next match against the Three Lions. The Diavolo defender had a good season with AC Milan but Massimiliano Allegri’s men fell short of the eventual
Serie A Champions, Juventus, in the race for the Scudetto.
Italy will be contesting against the Three Lions, in what will be the fourth and last quarter-final of the tournament. The match will be played out in the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032. The Azzurri national was giving an interview
to the assembled media and was quizzed on different topics.
The defender was asked on where he felt Italy lay in the line of the favourites to lift the European Championships, and he stated:
“I don’t know. They too have great enthusiasm and an attacker like Rooney, but we are confident that we have a great squad.”
He was further asked about the styles of play adapted by the two sides, as both sides have diverted from their traditional style of play to venture into a new ideology.
Roy Hodgson has brought more organization into the team with discipline embedded into the side, which was previously lacking in English teams. Cesare Prandelli has turned http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Italy-c2926 into a more cohesive and fluent footballing side,
which is a shift away from their traditional defensive style of play.
When quizzed over the changes, he was quoted to have said:
“We have always played with the ball on the ground, starting from the goalkeeper, although it is not always easy. The English are physically strong, we must defend and attack well. They are good on the flanks and counterattack.
They have great strikers in the penalty area, we must impose our game and when we have to suffer, we will suffer.”
Chiellini would sit out the quarter-final tie between the two sides owing to a thigh strain he picked up in the Republic of Ireland match.
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