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Italy coach Luciano Spalletti said the main issue with his team was the lack of intensity during games after the defending champions were knocked out of Euro 2024 with a 2-0 defeat to Switzerland in the last 16. “Recently we have tried to train players to have that intensity, the very quick recovery. In terms of that I wasn’t overly happy with our responses on the training ground,” he said after Saturday’s game. “When we were forced to play at high tempo, we were not able to combine that with our players’ attributes. If we failed, we failed. “We were not brave, we didn’t maintain a high level …

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