Gabriele Marcotti

It will be Tuesday, the final between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy.

Gab, my question to you is, how do you feel that it is Bosnia and not Wales?

Did you have a preference here?

I mean, not really, because ultimately you have to take responsibility.

You're the 12th or 13th ranked nation in the world.

You're going to have better players than the opposition.

Could one be, you know, if you can't go and get it done against Wales or against Bosnia away,

You don't deserve to be in the World Cup, and you can't go and make excuses, just like you couldn't make excuses in the last two World Cup qualifying campaigns.

I think Bosnia, like I said, presents a very different challenge.

I think it's probably a cannier team than Wales.

They don't have the fast strikers like Wales made with Wilson and Brendan Johnson.

Adam Jacko though, of course, even at 40 years old, so smart.

I don't think he can play 90 minutes.

Didn't play 90 minutes on this occasion.

So I think it's a question.

The biggest risk is that you try to turn it into kind of like a patient waiting game.

If you're Italy, if you're tempted, you can't be tempted to do that.

You have to take the game to the opposition, come up, maybe risk something on the counter, try to score, and then kind of manage the game from there.

If it stays tight, I think the crowd's going to become more and more of a factor, and I don't think that's a good thing for Italy.

What are your initial thoughts, Jules, on that final in Pathé?