In the early hours of the 25th, Italy beat Ecuador in a sweep of international warm-up matches, with a score of 2-0, after also drawing 2-2 in the United States the day before. Leader Spaletti's tweaking of the recently adopted 3421 formation was effective. This change may add a touch of color to this year's European National Championship victory.
Looking back to Spaletti's time at Napoli, his favored 433 formation helped the team win the Serie A title, however, the introduction of this tactic to the Italian national team has hit a bottleneck, and their performance in this year's UEFA Europa League qualifiers has been unsatisfactory. In this warm-up match, the "bald manager" tried to borrow the three center-backs formation of Inter Milan and Juventus, trying to meet the trend. As expected, the team won 2-1 against Venezuela, with Lorenzo Brigitte and Nicolás Valle scoring a goal each, while Ecuador ended with a "double egg".
First-time right back Binalua shone in the game and has been the biggest beneficiary of the new formation and is expected to be part of the Europa League squad.
After the match, Spalletti said that the team gradually developed a clear formation and played in a more aggressive way, but there are still some details to be optimized. The Italian team will face Turkey and Bosnia in two warm-up matches at the beginning of June in preparation for the upcoming final week of the Europa League.
