SPAIN-ITALY 1-0
The Iberian national team dominated the match and flies to the round of 16. Captain Azzurro saves Spalletti on several occasions, then Calafiori is unlucky
20 giu 2024
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The Spain he got the better ofItalia on the second day of Group B of Euro 2024, in Gelsenkirchen the Azzurri were beaten 0-1 by Roja. Game dominated in large stretches by de la Fuente’s team, capable of challenging Donnarumma on more than one occasion throughout the entire ninety minutes. The Azzurro captain denied the goal Pedri, Ruiz e Morata already in the first half, thanking the crossbar on Nico Williams’ racing car in the second half. However, he could do nothing on the unfortunate deviation of Calafiori in the 54th minute which caused thedecisive own goal. Spain qualified for the round of 16.
THE MATCH
In the ninety minutes in Gelsenkirchen there was no story. It is useless to mince words, theories, alibis and so on, the truth of the pitch is one and unquestionable: on the pitch the technical, physical and tactical gap was clear and evident and the final 1-0 in favor of Spain takes on an acceptable connotation only and exclusively for the quality between the captain’s posts Donnarumma. The Red Furies dominated the field for the entire ninety minutes, maintaining an unsustainable pace for theItalia forced to play in their own half of the pitch all the time and to attempt, practically always making mistakes, restarts interrupted after a series of two or three passes no more. All this while the Azzurro goalkeeper, MVP of the last European Championship, flew left and right to repel the opponents’ shots. A mockery, certainly for Gigiothat he only got the goal due to Calafiori’s unfortunate deflection.
The trend was clear from the first minutes Pedriin the second minute, enhanced the reflexes of Donnarumma from the small area with a central header but in the mirror deflected for a corner by the goalkeeper, all after a play by Nico Williams on the left, immediately uncatchable for Di Lorenzo. After the incident with Albania, those who hypothesized a wrong approach to the match for the second time in a row soon changed their minds. It wasn’t the first minutes that were a problem for Italy, but the entire match. There Spalletti’s national team who on the eve of the game had proposed and hinted at another type of tactical attitude, was annihilated by Spain’s aggressiveness combined with a quality and precision in dribbling that blew up the blue team from all sides. Yamal on the right, Williams on the left, but also Ruiz on the attacking midfield – good at attacking Donnarumma on two occasions from distance – they rained danger from all sides, also taking advantage of Morata’s insertions in depth.
For Italy, however, no shot on target at the Spanish goal before the break, only a couple of potentially dangerous counterattacks in the first twenty minutes badly wasted with the choices of the wingers, then the shot that broke the balance – unlucky, but somehow inevitable. After an error by Pedri along the lines of the first half from the edge of the six-yard box, the 1-0 arrived again starting from the left with Nico Williams’ cross deflected twice before falling against the Calafiori’s knee – put slightly out of time by Donnarumma’s intervention – and from there to the bottom of the bag. The spaces left in midfield in Italy’s timid attempt to press to try to straighten out the match gave Spain other chances, all of which were returned to the sender by Donnarumma – or Cambiaso on the line or from the crossbar – when the blue giant found himself powerless .
Something out of desperationItalia he tried to do it in injury time, but it was to no avail. Spain won 1-0 to qualify for the round of 16, for the Azzurri the match against Croatia will be even more delicate and important.
SPAIN-ITALY REPORT CARDS
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THE SCORESHEET
SPAIN-ITALY 1-0
Spain (4-3-3): Unai Simon; Carvajal, Le Normand, Laporte, Cucurella; Pedri (26′ st Baena), Rodri, Ruiz (49′ st Merino); Yamal (26′ st Ferran), Morata (33′ st Oyarzabal), N. Williams (33′ st Perez). Available: Raya, Remiro, Nacho, Vivian, Joselu, Olmo, Grimaldo, Zubimendi, Navas, Fermin Lopez. Ct.: de la Fuente.
Italia (4-3-2-1): Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo, Bastoni, Calafiori, Dimarco; Barella, Jorginho (1′ st Cristante), Pellegrini (36′ st Raspadori); Frattesi (1′ st Cambiaso), Chiesa (19′ st Zaccagni); Scamacca (19′ st Retegui). Available: Vicario, Meret, Buongiorno, Gatti, Darmian, Bellanova, Mancini, Fagioli, El Shaarawy, Folorunsho. Coach: Spalletti.
Referee: Vincic (Slovenia)
Markers: 10′ st aut. Calafiori
Warned: Rodri, Le Normand, Carvajal (S), Donnarumma, Cristante (I)
Expelled: Nobody
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