Prandelli wanted one more goal but content with overall performance of the team: Euro 2012 news
Italian National team manager, Cesare Prandelli, believes that his team should have attacked more after taking an early lead against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Serbia-c3002.
The Azzurri were held to a 1-1 draw by Vlado Petrovic’s men in a Euro 2012 qualifier at the Crvena Zvezda Stadion on October 7, 2011. Juventus midfielder, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Claudio-Marchisio-c9312, continued his wonderful goal-scoring form and took only
two minutes to get himself on the score-sheet. The host’s equalised thorough http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Branislav-Ivanovic-c7994 in the 26th minute to secure a point from the game.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Northern-Ireland-c2972 pushes them to the 3rd spot in the table albeit with a game in hand.
Prandelli believes that his team should have attacked more after scoring almost immediately after the kick-off. However, the manager is happy with his team’s overall performance and believes that they did well to remain focused
in difficult conditions.
While talking to the reporters, Prandelli said, “It wasn’t easy and we tried to always play football, sometimes over-doing it, but the lads were very smart and concentrated.”
The 54-year-old added that his team played extremely well in the opening 20 minutes of the game and should have scored another goal. The former Fiorentina boss insisted that he had some new faces in his team so it takes time for
them to gel in the system.
“When the team plays the way it does in the opening 20 minutes, it has to go for the second goal. We were ‘content’ with fancy footwork and nothing more. The midfield had to do a certain type of work, as we wanted to spread the
play wide rather than go through the middle and did it well. Obviously with little time, the new players have to wait a little bit and have patience.”
Prandelli has urged the players to forget the result against Serbia and they must shift their focus to the game against Northern Ireland.
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