Italy takes on the visitors Argentina at “Etihad Stadium” in a friendly tackle. The match will be played in Manchester on Friday, March 23rd.
The last qualification cycle for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia turned into a complete disaster for Italy. The Italians did not manage to promote to the final round of the Mundial, having lost to Sweden in the Play Offs clashes. Moreover, “Squadra Azzura” won only one out of four recent official fights and even the only successful game it had shown extremely pale football. As a result, the side dropped down to the 14th place in the FIFA Rankings. Therefore, Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio was forced to dismiss Gian Piero Ventura from a position of the head-coach, but what is strange it didn’t appoint the regular one, preferring to use the interim trainer. It looks like Luigi Di Biagio has undefined targets and his main task is to change the legendary and victories Italian generation into talented youth. However, at the moment that rotation surprises greatly because of wide engagement of quite average performers from the Italian Serie A.
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In their turn, Argentina currently occupies the fourth position in the FIFA Rankings. “La Albiceleste”
had also suffered much and faced numerous difficulties on its road to the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia final stage, still it managed to earn a pass to the final round in the very last qualification match. As for friendly encounters, the side celebrated 1:0 triumph over Russia and lost 2:4 to Nigeria recently. It is rather curious that the team’s major weak point is its attack and Jorge Sampaoli must find a decision very quickly, however, it has enough resources and players to do it.
Italy and Argentina participated in 14 head-to-heads in their history which cover six victories of “La Albiceleste”, five draws and three triumphs of “Squadra Azzura”. Still it should be noted that the upcoming hosts have lost two latest battles with the same 1:2 scoreline. The Italians have failed to beat Argentine across 35 years even when they needed it badly, besides, the Europeans don’t like the useless tackles like the forthcoming one in Manchester which turns Argentina into the favourite on Friday evening.
Prediction for the match: Argentina to win.
