International football is supposed to be stodgy. Managers have limited time to work with players, and as a result the international game has moved in a different direction to that of the club game. Where the latter stages of the Champions League tend to be about pressing and cohesive attacking structures, international football is more typically about solid defensive structure enlivened by the occasional flash of individual flair.
And then you see Italy.
At least from a European perspective, Euro 2016 was perhaps the nadir of the stodginess. Far more sides attempted something more proactive in the World Cup in Russia two years later.