An experimental Italy side thrashed
Estonia 4-0 in Florence on Wednesday, despite coach Roberto
Mancini not being on the bench, taking the national team's
unbeaten run up to 20 games.
SC Freiburg midfielder Vincenzo Grifo scored his first and
second goals for the Azzurri while Federico Bernardeschi and
Riccardo Orsolini were on target too.
Stand-in boss Alberico Evani was on the sidelines as Mancini has
tested positive for COVID-19.
Many of the players Mancini has called up are also currently
unavailable because of positive tests or because they are in
isolation due to cases of the coronavirus within their club
teams, as with Fiorentina, Roma and Lazio.
It is hoped that Mancini and most of those players will be able
to come back before Italy's Nations League games against Poland
and Bosnia Herzegovina on November 15 and 18.
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