Euro 2024: Highlights of Spain's victory over Italy
With the victory in the fateful match, coach Luis de la Fuente's team quickly won a ticket to the round of 16.
Spain deserved to win
The match between Spain and Italy is one of the most fateful matches in the Euro finals, as this is the 5th consecutive time they have met. Before this match took place, the head-to-head record of the 2 teams was equal with 2 wins for each side (each side has 1 victory on penalties).
However, this balance changed when the Spanish team won the last match. The only goal of the match was scored by defender Riccardo Calafiori's own goal.
This was a worthy result for coach Luis de la Fuente's team after their relentless attacking efforts. The Spanish team launched a total of 20 shots towards goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma's goal. And only the excellence of the goalkeeper who plays for Paris Saint-Germain helped the Italian team not to lose more heavily.
With this victory, the Spanish team is the second team to qualify for the round of 16 and will be one of the strong candidates for the championship of this year's tournament.
Meanwhile, the Italian team will wait until the last match to get a ticket to the round of 16.
The talented wing duo of the Spanish National Team
The most miserable last night was the full-back duo Federico Dimarco and Giovanni Di Lorenzo of the Italian team. And the ones who made this duo miserable were the young wingers Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal.
The youth, agility and confidence of Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal helped Spain to have open attacking situations on both wings. And it was from the cross situation on the left wing by Nico Williams that helped La Roja get the only goal of the match.
At the age of 16 (Lamine Yamal) and 21 (Nico Williams), this duo promises to go even further in the Spanish national team's colors.
Gianluigi Donnarumma "turns on National Team mode"
8.2 points is the score of goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma in the last match (as rated by Sofascore). This score is completely deserved when this 25-year-old goalkeeper had 8 saves, including 4 saves from shots in the penalty area.
This performance reminded fans of Gianluigi Donnarumma's excellent performance at Euro 2020, where the 25-year-old goalkeeper was voted the best player of the tournament after helping the Italian team win the championship.
It can be said that with an Italian team without many stars in the squad, coach Luciano Spalletti's team will have to rely heavily on the brilliance of goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma in defending the Euro championship./.