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Speaker: Spain awaits in the semi -final for the Azzurri. How are you feeling? What do you think? I said before the Belgian game, I was confident of beating Belgium. I actually was more worried, maybe irrationally, about Spain than I was about Belgium, that we still have that really special three players in central midfield. They're fantastic. They're absolutely magnificent. All three of them, Giorgino, Verratti, Barella, they're wonderful. And the way that they dominate the ball and they keep possession and that will be important against
Speaker: The following is a clip from this week's Italian football podcast.
Speaker: I believe you are giving too much praise to the midfield because, as some individual wrote in an ESPN article,
Speaker: The Italian national team does not have a single world -class midfielder. Now, you'll have to excuse me if I reserve a bit of judgment, because I believe this is the same region where they got mad at Sarri for not playing Kante as a regista, while Giardugino is getting hammered because he doesn't do goals.
