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Teaser - Italy Beat Belgium, Spain Awaits in Euro 2020 Semifinal (Ep. 138)
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Building Anticipation: Spain vs Italy Semi-final
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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.
Concerns Over Spain: Italian Podcast Insights
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The following is a clip from this week's Italian football podcast.
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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
Italy's Midfield Strengths
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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
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I
Debating Italy's Midfield: Are They World-Class?
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believe you are giving too much praise to the midfield because, as some individual wrote in an ESPN article,
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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.