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UEFA Euro 2020: Result ITALY 3 – 0 SWITZERLAND, Wednesday 16 June 2021

Italian National Team, UEFA EURO 2020

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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

 

UEFA Euro 2020: Italy vs Switzerland, Official Starting Lineups, Wednesday 16 June 2021

Italian National Team, UEFA EURO 2020

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    Italy – Switzerland  

Here are  Italy vs Switzerland official starting lineups – formations for the UEFA Euro 2020 Group A Matchday 2 on Wednesday 16 June 2021 at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium in Rome, Italy at 21:00.

🏆🇮🇹 👉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

Serie A Players called up for Switzerland:

  • Torino defender Ricardo Rodríguez
  • Atalanta midfielder Remo Freuler

UEFA Euro 2020
Group stage – Group A, Matchday 2

Italy – 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)

Front Pages, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Wednesday 16 June 2021

AC Milan, Front Pages Newspapers, Inter Milan, Italian National Team, Juventus, Lazio, UEFA EURO 2020

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Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Wednesday 16 June 2021.

La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Wednesday 16 June 2021.

Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Wednesday 16 June 2021.


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Tutto Sport, Front Page, Wednesday 16 June 2021.


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“We will have to play an almost perfect game to get a good result.” Italy Head Coach on facing Switzerland

Italian National Team, UEFA EURO 2020

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Italy Head Coach Roberto Mancini is ready for the UEFA Euro 2020 Group A Matchday 2 facing Switzerland at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium in Rome, Italy at 21:00.   Italy is leading Group A with 3 points after defeating Turkey on Matchday 1.

Italy to face Switzerland at the Olimpico: “A side that have historically always given us problems”

Coach Mancini said during the press conference on the eve of the game that “Switzerland are a side that have historically always given us problems, with a coach that knows a lot about Italian football: there is a reason their position in the Top 15 of the Fifa Rankings has been so stable. Tomorrow, we will have to play an almost perfect game to get a good result.”

Surely, Mancini is not taking things for granted, “They are a team that deserve the utmost respect and that have a clear identity in how they play. Especially up top they have players that can change the game at any moment” said Leonardo Bonucci, echoing his manager’s thoughts as the two of them faced the press in the usual press conference ahead of tomorrow’s game. At Stadio Olimpico, the Azzurri will take to the pitch (with kick-off at 21:00) for a challenge that could mathematically guarantee them first place in Group A after only two games. For this to happen, Mancini’s men would need to win and, first, in the 18:00 game, Wales would have to fail to beat Turkey.

Last Friday against Turkey, Leonardo Bonucci made his 103rd appearance for the Azzurri: “We cannot wait – declared the centre-back – to get back out there tomorrow. I am part of an amazing group here; it is a cohesive bunch, with everyone pulling in the same direction: the good results we have had are a consequence of the great togetherness and spirit that we have.

We have continually repeated since Friday that humility is the secret ingredient for top performances. I am sure that this team will be capable of resetting, putting aside that very good first game and starting again. I am also sure that that is what we will do until the very end of the tournament.”

In their UEFA Euro 2020 opener against Turkey, the Azzurri recorded their 28th consecutive game without defeat and a ninth win in a row: these are incredible numbers, and it’s a streak that Mancini wants to continue: “Our squad is full of players of starting XI quality. So, if there are changes to the team compared with Friday – said the coach – it will not reduce the quality on show. Swapping one player with another will not change how we play or how we approach the game. Verratti is doing well and has trained with the group for three days now: tomorrow, we will assess whether he can be on the bench. Shaqiri? I coached him at Inter and so I can tell you he is one of the best Number 10s in the whole tournament.”

Italian Serie A Schedule

Wednesday 16 June
21:00 – Italy vs. Switzerland at the Stadio Olimpico. Press conference/media duties after full-time.

Thursday 17 June
*17:00 – Training (behind closed doors)

Friday 18 June
** 14:00 – Players meet media
*17:00 – Training (behind closed doors)

Saturday 19 June
11:00 – Transfer Florence-Rome
**16:45 – Press conference, Coach + 1 player at Hotel Parco dei Principi
*19:15 – Training at the Olympic Center Giulio Onesti (behind closed doors except for first 15 mins)

Sunday 20 June
18:00 – Italy vs. Wales at the Stadio Olimpico. Press conference/media duties after full-time.

N.B. Timetables are subject to possible change
* photos will be taken and shared by FIGC 
**media access will be limited to reduced numbers

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UEFA Euro 2020: Italy vs Switzerland, Match Officials, Referee Sergei Karasev, Wednesday 16 June 2021

Italian National Team, UEFA EURO 2020

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    Italy – Switzerland  

Here are the match officials for the UEFA Euro 2020 Group A game Italy vs Switzerland for Matchday 2 on Wednesday 16 June 2021 at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium in Rome, Italy at 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)

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UEFA Euro 2020
Group stage – Group A, Matchday 2

Italy – Switzerland
Stadio Olimpico
Rome, Italy

21:00