Monday, June 27, 2016

Italy unchain their attacking hearts (Reuters)

By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Forget Italy's image of Catenaccio (or "door chain defence"). Antonio Conte’s Italy showed in a 2-0 defeat of Spain at Euro 2016 on Monday that they can do unchained attacking football too. The Azzurri, who will take on world champions Germany in a fascinating quarter-final on Saturday, had promised they would not be afraid to go forward against Spain.

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