Totti doesnt play for italy?
Hopefully we can take advantage of this.
Toni, Gilardino, Gattuso, Camoranesi, Perrotta, Bonera, Legrottaglie, Cassetti and Aquilani are all ruled out through injury.
Pirlo, De Rossi and Chiellini will miss the Ireland game if they get booked in Montenegro.
Full squad below.
Goalkeepers: Marco Amelia (Palermo), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Morgan De Sanctis (Galatasaray)
Defenders: Salvatore Bocchetti (Genoa), Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Andrea Dossena (Liverpool), Alessandro Gamberini (Fiorentina), Fabio Grosso (Lyon), Marco Motta (AS Roma), Gianluca Zambrotta (AC Milan)
Midfielders: Matteo Brighi (Roma), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), Pasquale Foggia (Lazio), Riccardo Montolivo (Fiorentina), Angelo Palombo (Sampdoria), Andrea Pirlo (Milan)
Forwards: Antonio Di Natale (Udinese), Vincenzo Iaquinta (Juventus), Giampaolo Pazzini (Sampdoria), Simone Pepe (Udinese), Fabio Quagliarella (Udinese), Giuseppe Rossi (Villarreal).
Totti doesnt play for italy?
They look weak in midfield. If De Rossi or Pirlo gets a booking they're in trouble.
I'm sorry. if De Rossi got booked on Saturday Italy will probably start with Brighi and Palombo in midfield. Forget our level for a second. I'm talking about Italy. That is a huge step down from their first choice level. Roma even agreed to let Brighi go to Celtic in the summer but he turned them down.
If Pirlo or De Rossi are missing next Wednesday I won't fear Italy at all.
Yeh, I agree with you. Would have loved to have had a fit Stephen Reid in their against Italy, could have made a real difference. However, that said it is perhaps our best chance to take anything against Italy. With that many injuries and potential suspensions, their starting 11 may be far weaker than when they come to Dublin.
That Italian squad is the probably the worst I've seen in my lifetime.
I can't help but think this is our best chance to get valuable points in what, certainly theoretically, is our most difficult qualifying match.
we're still playing Italy in Italy - irrespective of the merits or otherwise of their current crop, its still an intimidating fixture and i for one think that one point would be a major achievement.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Not even gonna think about Italy until 10pm saturday night.
with all the injuries we should be looking to win this game but at the very least get a draw. with berba out aswell for bulgaria if by best case scenario we get 6 point...here we come south africaaa
I think that is the weakest Italian squad I have ever seen. Still a good squad but by Italian standards its pretty cat.
agree, poor enough. im glad lippi isnt going back to his older players but is he crazy not picking inzaghi and del piero. good for us tho.
cassano is a playmaker not a lone front man.
Draw would be excellent, regardless of who's missing...
a bit of reality needed here. i doubt they are too worried about our squad. just because we dont recognise some / most of that squad as being decent players doesnt mean they aren't. a draw away to the world champions would be one of our best ever results
A draw would be a good result but wouldnt it be great if we could get the attitude of the rugby players into the soccer squad... go out and have no fear of beating whatever team is put in front of u and dont be worrying about reputations. Simple fact is that Italian football is on a low ebb now compared to years gone by and while no doubt they will get back to being one of the best in the world, right now they are there for the taking. Look at France in the last Euros, big team reputation and yet they didnt score one goal.
I would definately take a draw right now and be delighted but I really thing we can top this group with the right attitude
Its really not that complicated!!!
lol cassano a target man lmao..totti has played up front for roma quite often in a lone role...it doesnt make him luca toni...lol ciaran
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