REUTERS: Italy manager Roberto Mancini expects a"typically British" Northern Ireland team to cause his side problems when they kick off their World Cup qualifying campaign on Thursday, four months after their last game.
“Physically they are Anglo-Saxons, but their game is a little different. They are a team that always defends very well and doesn’t give away much space and they’re good at counter attacking.”Juventus and Italy captain Giorgio Chiellini was also wary of the threat posed by Ian Baraclough’s men, despite their failure to win a competitive game in regulation time since a 1-0 Euro 2020 qualifying victory over Belarus in June 2019.
Mancini’s ability to keep his players fresh will be put to the test, as his team is in the unusual position of playing three games in a week.
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