Gameday in Bologna for the round 1 between Italy & Germany.

Italy will be without Marco Verratti, Jorginho, Insigne, Palmiera, Bernardsachi, Chiesa & Immobile. Chielini played his last game against Argentina, now he retired so of course he isn’t there for this game.

Spinazzola was back in the squad against Argentina.

Germany will be without Ter Stegen & Draxler.

On their last WC campaign, Italy failed of course with the elimination against North Macedonia. They made a very strong Euro were we thought that Italy was back as a strong nation but finally they showed nothing good after. They just faced Argentina and lost heavily 0-3, they got only 0,68 xG so it shows that offensively they were in trouble & Argentina got 2,1 xG. Argentina has great names but it isn’t the nation who is playing an offensive football, once they are leading usually they are going to defend so if they scored 3 goals and dominated the whole game it shows how weak Italy is at this moment.

Germany on their side qualified easily for the WC with 9 wins & 1 loss for 36 goals scored & 4 goals conceded.

Germany is just too strong compare to Italy, they have big qualities but also an amazing chemistry built since years. For this game we should see a very strong 11 with small change as Musiala & Schlotterbeck. We should see big names as Neuer, Muller, Sane, Werner etc.

I really don’t see Italy be able to put Germany in trouble, I expect a game dominated by Germany and a win at the end 0-1.