ESPN FC’s Julien Laurens joins Gab Marcotti on The Gab & Juls Show to discuss Italy’s qualification for Euro 2024.

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  1. Italy better hope they draw Belgium from Pot 1 as their seeded opponent when the draw is made. They'll get toasted and eliminated early if they end up with any of the other 5 seeded opponent groups. They're not beating Germany, France, England, Spain or Portugal.

  2. Is this Italy full of talent? No. Are they in great form? No. Are they so horribly bad that they can’t win the Euro? No.

    Top 5 GK (Donna), top 5 LB (DiMarco), top 5 CM (Barella) , top 5 LW (Chiesa) when fit. And one of the better Managers at the tournament who just recently brought Napoli their first scudetto since Maradona’s title win 30 years ago.

    We go through this every tournament, Italy are never favourites, pundits never rate them whether they’re good or not. Partly because the pundits don’t watch Serie A, partly because Italy rarely beat up on teams. But before 2020, nobody thought Italy had a chance – because of missing out on WC and they said our squad was average. And Italy won.

    France was supposed to destroy everyone and lost to Switzerland.

  3. there is always hope but this italy side you look at the centre back partnership of acerbi and gatti it is not top draw it seems unlikely bastoni, scalvini and buongiorno are capable of replicating the defence of chiellini and bonucci it is a obvious flaw. par dimarco the fullback options don't really impress which is key for italy as they will have to make up for a lack of midfield creativity. than you consider the midfield jorginho is past his best verratti is out of the picture tonali is banned plus pellegrini is being used a attacking option there is a weakness. they also alluded to the attack you have a decade old problem in which italy have not had a top quality striker probably the last quality striker they had was di natale. scamaca is probably the best striking option at the moment it seems a lot of pressure to put down upon a young player who has just come back from a series of setbacks.

  4. The biggest issue for Italy is that we don't have a sticker to finish the chances created. Scamacca came on against Ukraine and although he held the ball up somewhat, his finishing and link up play was bad. There's plenty of time for the Euros so hoping we get some inform stickers by then

  5. Love Italy but I dont think its possible for them to win it back to back. Only Spain have managed to do that in history of euro with a super squad. This euro is likely between France and England, since no one else is that good at the moment

  6. No matter what, Italy have a huge disadvantage already. Who is their pot 1 team going to be, and then they'll have another one in the round of 16. Netherlands/Croatia in pot 3. They need to avoid a lot to get a fortunate draw.

    Secondly, Italy should be in the playoffs, but UEFA favoring richer teams. It's a sad fact.

  7. they should not be in the tournament my team has to go to the play offs thanks to ufea prioritising bigger teams over those who deserves it. a few days before the game ufea came out and said it would be a shame for Italy to miss out so why wouldnt it be a shame if ukraine missed out we been in 3 tournaments in a row and are currently at war and obviosuly have a better team as if var did their check we win 1-0. do not understand how the result was allowed to stand was clear and blatant error or cheating has to be one and with the stakes as high as they were the game should be replyed from the 92nd minute with ukraine having a penatly and if miss italy go throu or if score itally has 2-3 mins to equalise

  8. The 5 teams i think have the chance of winning are
    France has the highest chance winning
    2nd would be germany just because of there home advantage
    3rd Portugal
    4th england
    5th Netherlands

  9. Just give France the trophy. Their head and shoulders above the rest. The standards of the European international teams at minute is embarrassing. Only teams that can challenge France are Portugal and England maybe.

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