Italy remained without enthusiasm

However, as the defending champions, Italy's performance did not remain that way. On the contrary, Italy has been eliminated from the tournament after being defeated by Switzerland 2-0 on Saturday.

"It's all my responsibility," Spalletti said. Who to blame? In the end, Italy is broken once again, the performance of the football-crazed country has not lived up to its former reputation. There was no shortage of surprises when Italy won the Euros in 2021. At that time, the team had largely recovered its football reputation.

Now the team stopped in the last 16. Italy's remarkable success three years ago came amid two World Cup qualification failures. In the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, Italy lost to Sweden in the play-offs. Four years later, a similarly incredible defeat came against Macedonia in the play-offs. Just as luck favored Italy in the final at Wembley three years ago, it was believed that it would be the same this time.

Italy could not defend the title they won earlier. All those Italian dreams have been dashed at the stadium where the team beat France in the 2006 World Cup final to win the title. In that stadium, Italy could not score a single goal this time and was forced to suffer its first defeat in 31 years against Switzerland.

I say again, all responsibility goes to my head. However, now Italian football is going through a process. So I claimed that this will happen, that will happen. But I didn't have enough time. With other coaches, the big tournament would come after playing 20 games. Some even got the opportunity to play 30 games.'

He adds, 'I have played only 10 games so far. But, everyone is criticizing me. I think, this team needs more time to understand well. Last year, under his leadership, Napoli won the Serie A title in Italy. It was a success that was achieved after the days of Diego Maradona. He left Napoli at the end of that season.

The opportunity fell on Spalletti's shoulders after previous coach Roberto Mancini suddenly left the team last August. He wanted the same enthusiasm that had returned to Napoli to return to the Italian team. However, in Germany, no such cuts were seen. He says, 'Our performance was extremely poor. At least we deserved to reach the knockout stage.'