This Wednesday the Italian national team wants to break that run of bad results when it receives the visit of a tough Ukrainian team, in a friendly game to be developed at the Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris of the city of Genoa.
Italy:
The debut of Roberto Mancini at the helm of the Azurra team can be said to have been positive, since they defeated Saudi Arabia 2-1 in May of this year, but after that it has been very negative for Italy, and is that they add a streak of four games without knowing of triumphs and here we have to include the games of the UEFA League of Nations last month.
And it is that Italy started with a draw to a goal against Poland at home and then came a 1-0 defeat in his visit to Portugal, which places him in the last place of the group and care that can descend to League B.
Thus, at the moment the selection of Italy is in crisis and even more when it is taken into account that it could not qualify to the recent World Cup disputed in Russia 2018, so it is expected that this Tuesday before his fans achieve a victory that allow to give confidence to the squad, although for this it is also important to make some adjustments in defense, since he has received ten goals in his last seven commitments, receiving goals in each of them.
Ukraine:
Meanwhile, those led by Andriy Shevchenko also failed to get into the Russia 2018 World Cup, but unlike the Azurri, the Ukrainian team has been able to recover from that hard blow and has known how to improve their actions and thus have achieved very interesting results .
At the moment Ukraine are unbeaten in 2018, after losing none of their 7 games since the end of their World Cup qualifying campaign, and they even come from winning their two games of the League of Nations, after beating 1 -2 in their visit to the Czech Republic and 1-0 at home against Slovakia, thus placing them in the first place of their group. With these results add a streak of three consecutive victories, where the best has been an offensive block that has been present with seven goals in the three games played.
These results give great confidence to Ukraine that hopes this Wednesday to break that negative streak of not being able to beat Italy in the seven direct confrontations against Italy, where six of them ended up in defeats, the last four being consecutive.
Of course, as a point to keep in mind, is that in the last decade they have only met once and it was in a friendly in March 2011, that is a little over seven years.
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / NO @ 1.72
