{
  "id": 19996426,
  "title": "What Mancini told Seba Esposito after missed penalty against France and Pio’s goal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/what-mancini-told-seba-esposito-after-missed-penalty-against-france",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-14T15:01:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mancini-told-seba-esposito-missed-150100478.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Roberto Mancini, the Italy coach, expressed his dissatisfaction after Sebastiano Esposito missed a penalty against France. The Azzurri had intended for Pio Esposito to take the spot-kick. Mancini became particularly upset when Sebastiano was substituted immediately after his missed penalty. Mancini addressed Sebastiano both directly and through his assistants, Leonardo Bonucci and Gabriele Oriali. In a seemingly jovial moment, Mancini asked Sebastiano, sitting on the bench, \"Did you want to take this one too?\" \"",
  "summary": "La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that Roberto Mancini didn’t hide his frustration at Sebastiano Esposito’s missed penalty against France and then joked with the Sassuolo striker after Pio’s goal:...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}