Early morning on June 25, Group B of EURO 2024 ended with two matches between Albania and Spain and Croatia and Italy. While the match between Albania and Spain was just a formality, all attention was focused on the remaining match.
The match between Italy and Croatia.
In this match, Croatia was held to a 1-1 draw by Italy. Luka Modric opened the scoring for Croatia in the 55th minute but Italy equalized thanks to Mattia Zaccagni in the 90+8 minute. With this result, Italy won a ticket to the round of 16 as the second place in Group B. Their next opponent was determined to be Switzerland.
Italy have had a tough group stage journey, going through all sorts of emotions. They came from behind to beat Albania 2-1 in their opening game, then lost 0-1 to Spain and finally held Croatia to a dramatic draw. What Italy has shown so far has not satisfied their fans. However, Italy still achieved their goal of getting out of the group stage and now they have exciting knockout matches ahead.
The joy of victory of the Italian team.
Meanwhile, Switzerland qualified for the round of 16 as the second-placed team in Group A. They beat Hungary 3-1 in their opening match and then drew Scotland and Germany with the same score of 1-1. Switzerland have yet to suffer a defeat in this year's tournament and they promise to cause many difficulties for the Italian team. These two teams also have many outstanding stars in their squads, which will create an attractive match at 23:00, June 29.
Head-to-head history calls for Italy, the team has won 29, drawn 24 and lost only 7 out of a total of 60 encounters with Switzerland. However, Switzerland is not an easy team to play against if you look at the last 6 matches between the two sides when Italy has only won 1 time, the rest are 5 draws.
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