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Italian Soccer Serie A
49% Ball Possession ITALY and 51% Ball Possession SWITZERLAND
Italy 3 – 0 Switzerland 
26′ Manuel Locatelli
52′ Manuel Locatelli
89′ Ciro Immobile
Italy leading Group A wining the UEFA Euro 2020 Matchday 2 against Switzerland on Wednesday 16 June 2021 at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium in Rome, Italy. The victory secures Italy with 6 points to become the first team to reach the EURO 2020 knockout stage Round of 16. The Azzurri have won both their first two games in just two of their nine previous European Championships, in 2000 and 2016. Italy continue 29th unbeaten match.
✅ Serie A Players called up for Switzerland:
- Torino defender Ricardo Rodríguez played all game
- Atalanta midfielder Remo Freuler, played 84 minutes and replaced by Djibril Sow
Italy scoring in the 19th minute with Captain Giorgio Chiellini and it is disallowed after consulting the VAR. Chiellini, 36 years old, battling and is replaced for injury in the 24th minute by Francesco Acerbi.
Italy opening the score in the 26th minute and this time no excuses for “review”. It is Manuel Locatelli to defeat Switzerland goalkeeper with a right footed shot to the center. The assist is by Domenico Berardi.
Italy increasing the score for the 2-0 in the 52nd minute. It is again Manuel Locatelli to delight the fans pushing Italy’s bandwagon to victory!!! Locatelli with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Nicolò Barella.
Sealed with a kiss!!! Ciro Immobile adding the cherry on top of the ice cream with this goal in the 89th minute. Immobile with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
🏆🇮🇹 👉Lineup ITALIA (4-3-3): Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo, Bonucci, Chiellini, Spinazzola; Barella, Jorginho, Locatelli; Berardi, Immobile, Insigne.
🏆 👉SWITZERLAND (3-4-1-2): Sommer; Elvedi, Schar, Akanji; Mbabu, Freuler, Xhaka, Rodriguez; Shaquiri; Seferovic, Embolo.
- This is the first meeting between Italy and Switzerland at the European Championships. However, the two teams have precedents in two major international tournaments: at the 1954 World Cup (Switzerland – host team – won both matches: in the group stage and a play-off) and at the 1962 World Cup (Italy won 3- 0 in Chile, in the group stage). Switzerland have not won any of their last eight games against Italy (4N, 4P) – their last success against the Azzurri was 28 years ago, a 1-0 win in Bern in a World Cup qualifier. Current Italy coach Roberto Mancini was on the pitch that day. Italy have lost only one of 24 matches against Switzerland on Italian soil (18W, 5N): a friendly in October 1982 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome (0-1), in the first match played by the Azzurri after being crowned world champions three months earlier. Switzerland have drawn all of their last four European games – no nation has ever recorded a longer streak of this kind in the history of the competition.
Italy have kept clean sheets in each of their last nine games in all competitions, spending 875 minutes without conceding since Donny van de Beek’s scoring against the Netherlands last October. The last time the Azzurri missed a goal for 10 matches in a row was between November 1989 and June 1990. Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma could become the second youngest goalkeeper in European history to keep clean sheets in consecutive appearances (22 years, 111 days on match day), after Russian Igor Akinfeev in June 2008 (22 years, 71 days).
UEFA Euro 2020
Group stage – Group A, Matchday 2
Italy 3 – 0 Switzerland
Stadio Olimpico
Rome, Italy
21:00
Referee: Sergei Karasev (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Igor Demeshko (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Maksim Gavrilin (RUS)
Fourth Official: Michael Oliver (ENG)
Reserve AR: Stuart Burt (ENG)
VAR: Bastian Dankert (GER)
AVAR 1: Marco Fritz (GER)
AVAR 2: Christian Gittelmann (GER)
AVAR 3: Pawel Gil (POL)
Referee Observer: Darko Čeferin (SVN)
Goals: 26′ Manuel Locatelli (I), 52′ Manuel Locatelli (I), 89′ Ciro Immobile (I)
Official lineups – formations – tabellino:
🏆🇮🇹 👉Lineup ITALIA (4-3-3): Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo, Bonucci, Chiellini, Spinazzola; Barella, Jorginho, Locatelli; Berardi, Immobile, Insigne.
Subs: Sirigu, Meret, Belotti, Pessina, Emerson, Cristante, Chiesa, Acerbi, Bernardeschi, Raspadori, Bastoni.
Head Coach: Roberto Mancini
🏆 👉SWITZERLAND (3-4-1-2): Sommer; Elvedi, Schar, Akanji; Mbabu, Freuler, Xhaka, Rodriguez; Shaquiri; Seferovic, Embolo.
Subs: Mvogo, Kobel, Widmer, Zakaria, Vargas, Zuber, Sow, Fassncht, Benito, Mehmedi, Gavranovic, Comert.
Head Coach: Vladimir Petković
