Italy national football team 2015

Dark horse

Italy are not considered as Euro’ favorite for now due to alternation of generations. Though, in last competition of the continent, Le Azzurri were believed to have weaker squad than Spain and Germany, but they managed to reach final. What are Antonio Conte’ side capabilities and which results it will be able to achieve in the competition?

Unexpected rotation

Antonio Conte took numerous wins in Serie A with Juventus, but failed to get back team’ reputation of the top European club. Team made mistakes in Champions League being eliminated far from late rounds. Coach expressed his wish to strengthen the squad in 2014, bot bosses had another opinion on the issue, which forced Conte to leave. Juventus’ board didn’t make too many efforts to make him stay and invited Massimiliano Allegri. It is clear for now, that such decision was much better than it had been considered earlier. Team won the league reaching Champions League final. Antonio Conte, in turn, tried to achieve another success taking charge of Italy.

Italian rebuild

After setback in Brazilian World Cup, which was unexpected even for football experts who give predictions, Italy had to make significant changes. Conte had tough task, as he had to build squad, choose tactics and define style of football, which could allow showing solid results and qualifying to Euro final tournament. As a result, Le Azzurri didn’t suffer a single defeating in qualifiers ending on first position, but their play wasn’t too confident.

Unknown potential

Conte called up numerous performers to national team. It negatively affected team play, but there was no other choice. Serie A has tough times, so head coach doesn’t have so wide choice as it was several years ago. At the moment, Conte can’t build squad full of stars with several young promising performers, so he has to search players capable of strengthening Italy. It is hard to define team’ strength. History proves that national team can achieve better results than fans can expect. Will it help Conte in France? Time will show. For now, specialists from bet4rate.com consider Italy as dark horse of upcoming competition.