A World Cup is being played without Italy there. You featured during qualification, was that failure down to overconfidence after Euro 2020?
I don’t think it was that. The Azzurri squad isn’t a group that would be satisfied with themselves Before the Euros, there was definitely a feeling – a positivity that was almost strange, it was incredible. We all knew that we would do well. I’m not saying that it wasn’t there any more afterwards, but it wasn’t the same as before, and that was something you could feel. But we still went into the qualifiers with the correct mentality and approach. We weren’t able to make a breakthrough in some of the matches that we drew, for example the two games against Switzerland. Ignoring the penalties we missed in those games, which can happen, we