Spain edged out Croatia in a penalty shootout to win this season's Nations League, while Italy finished third after beating the Netherlands.
Spain have become the new champions of the Nations League after defeating Croatia in the final at De Kuip (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
Spain beat Croatia 5-4 on penalties after the two teams drew 0-0 in 120 minutes of exciting and tense play.
Goalkeeper Unai Simon made excellent saves from Lovro Majer and Bruno Petkovic of Croatia to contribute greatly to the victory of the "Bulls."
The only Spanish player to miss in six penalty shootouts was centre-back Aymeric Laporte.
This victory helped Spain win the Nations League championship for the first time in history after two consecutive seasons reaching the final.
Notably, this is also the first title that La Roja has achieved after a long 11-year wait, since winning EURO 2012.
On the other side of the front line, the title still eludes Luka Modric and the golden generation of Croatian football. They have twice reached the final of the 2018 World Cup and the 2023 Nations League but have both fallen before the threshold of heaven.
Earlier, Italy had a 3-2 victory over the host team Netherlands to win third place overall in this season's Nations League.
Federico Dimarco and Davide Frattesi took turns shining to put Italy up 2-0 in the first half.
In the second half, Steven Bergwijn brought hope to the Netherlands with a goal to reduce the score to 1-2 in the 68th minute, but it was quickly extinguished by Italy with a goal by Federico Chiesa exactly 4 minutes later.
In the remaining minutes, the "Orange Storm" played with great determination but could only score 1 more goal against the Blue Army in the 89th minute by Georginio Wijnaldum, thereby accepting a 2-3 defeat.
Source: vietnamplus.vn
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