Gennaro Gattuso warns Italy ‘will get nowhere with quality alone,’ so they must rediscover the fighting spirit that they were ‘masters’ at over the years.

It was a radical shift from the Luciano Spalletti era, embracing a 4-2-3-1 formation with Kean, Retegui, Mattia Zaccagni and Matteo Politano starting together.

“We knew that we had to take some risks, leaving one-on-one situations on the counter-attack, as we had so many forwards on the field,” Gattuso told Sky Sport Italia.

“As I always said, this team has quality, but you get nowhere with quality alone. This team has to do everything vehemently, attack the ball, press hard, show hunger, and I think we saw all of that today.”