Gattuso: Northern Ireland is an opponent we can handle, the loss to Norway was not due to formation or tactics

After the results of the European play-off draw for the World Cup qualifiers were released, Italian coach Gennaro Gattuso accepted interviews from many media.

He said: "We focus on the first game first. Northern Ireland is an opponent we can deal with. It is a team with its own style, very strong, good at fighting for the second offensive ball, and the physical confrontation is very fierce. We need to play a good game. But we have a chance to play against them."

About the training session

"So far, we have not played against them The players are in contact. I haven't bothered them these days. We need to recover from the embarrassing defeat at San Siro last week. "

"Our league has just reached the 11th round. When the 30th round, we will get together again. I will go to various places to communicate with the players. It will be important to have one or two days to focus on training, and at the same time arrange the league game dates in advance. Montella told me that the Turkish team will make a similar request to the Italian Football Association and we will see."

Regarding the 1-4 loss to Norway

"I feel sorry for the game in the past few days... Psychologically we thought we had made progress, but the loss of 4 goals was very heavy. I think it exposed our vulnerability. Nonetheless, I will remember the first half. performance, but we shouldn't have completely disappeared from the game like that."

"The real problem is not the formation or tactics. If we do well and stay competitive, we should not make mistakes like we did in that game. Next we will look at Northern Ireland and see how to deal with it and minimize the mistakes."