Spalletti insists Italy deserved qualification

Luciano Spalletti believes Italy deserved their last-gasp goal against Croatia to reach Euro 2024's last 16.

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00:00We deserved the qualification for what we saw on the pitch.

00:04It's true that we were a bit shy in some moments of the game,

00:11we didn't show our level of football,

00:14but we deserved the qualification for what we saw in the first and second half.

00:20It was a difficult qualification,

00:24because you told me that it was a game of death.

00:31I didn't say that.

00:33It's a very difficult qualification,

00:35because there are strong teams,

00:37because Spain is very strong, because Croatia is very strong.

00:40There are people used to this type of football here,

00:43to this type of game here, to this type of tension here.

00:46Because for me, when you go down to that minimum level,

00:51as it happened to us in some situations in the first half,

00:57it's because you can feel the bite of the pressure and the importance of it.