UEFA European 2024 Qualifiers: Result MALTA 0 – 2 ITALY, Sunday 26 March 2023

Italian National Team, UEFA EURO 2024

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31% Ball Possession MALTA and 69% Ball Possession ITALY

            Malta 0 – 2 Italy 
.                                  15′ Mateo Retegui
.                                  27′ Cain Attard (own goal)
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🏆👉   Italy won the UEFA European 2024 Qualifiers  Group Stage – Group C against Malta on Sunday 26 March 2023 at the National Stadium – Ta’Qali. The Azzurri, after the bitter debut in the 2-1 loss against England, got their first 3 points. The victory thanks to the goals from Mateo Retegui and the own goal by Cain Attard.  Surely, the team needs to improve and see more goals in the upcoming games.

The Italian national team will return in June for the Nations League Final Four.   UEFA Euro 2024 qualifier will resume on Matchday 3 with North Macedonia vs Italy on 9 September. Forza Azzurrri!

UEFA European Championship Qualifying Standings – Group C after Matchday 2
POS TEAM GP GD PTS
1 England 2 +3 6
2 Italy 2 +1 3
3 North Macedonia 1 +1 3
4 Ukraine 1 -2 0
5 Malta 2 -3 0

Italy opened the score in the 15th minute. Good path for Mateo Retegui defeating Malta goalkeeper Henry Bonello from very close range with a headed shot to the high center. The assist is by Sandro Tonali following a corner conceded by Bonello.

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In the 27th minute, Italy gained another goal after the own of by Cain Attard.

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Stats before the game: Malta is the team against which Italy has played the most matches, always finding victory: the Azzurri have in fact won all eight matches, with an overall score of 21-2. Italy faced Malta four times in Euro qualifying, twice ahead of EURO 1988 and twice for EURO 2016: the Azzurri have always kept clean sheets, scoring a total of nine goals. Malta scored only one goal against Italy in the four matches played in Attard, on 19 December 1992, when Arrigo Sacchi sat on the blue bench (match ended 2-1 for Italy). After the defeat against Austria last November, Italy could lose two away games in a row for the second time under Mancini’s management (after those against France and Portugal in 2018, at the beginning of the coach’s mandate).

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Football Tickets2024 European Qualifiers
Group Stage – Group C
Matchday 2

🇲🇹   Malta 0 – 2 Italy
Sunday 26 March 2023
National Stadium-
Ta’ Qali, Malta

20:45

Referee: Georgi Kabakov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 1: Martin Margaritov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 2: Diyan Valkov (BUL)
Fourth Official: Nikola Popov (BUL)
VAR: Christian Dingert (GER)
AVAR: Dragomir Draganov (BUL)
Referee Observer: Milorad Mažić (SRB)

⚽️ Goals: 15′ Mateo Retegui, 27′ Cain Attard (own goal)

🟨 Yellows: 36′ Giovanni Di Lorenzo (I), 54′ Giorgio Scalvini (I)

Official lineups – formations – tabellino:

Lineup Malta (3-4-2-1) –  Bonello; Apap, Borg, Attard (64′ Z. Muscat); Mbong, Yankam, Guillaumier, N. Muscat (76′ Teuma), Corbalan; Jones (76′ Dimech), Satariano (64′ Nwoko).

Subs: Grech, Formosa, Micallef, Brown, Paiber, Kristensen, Camenzuli; P.Mbon.

Coach: Michele Marcolini.

Lineup Italia (4-3-3) –  Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo (46′ Darmian), Scalvini (82′ Toloi), Romagnoli, Emerson; Pessina, Cristante, Tonali (67′ Verratti); Politano, Retegui (67′ Scamacca), Gnonto (21′ Grifo).

Subs: Meret, Carnesecchi, Spinazzola, Acerbi, Jorginho, Frattesi, Berardi.

Coach: Roberto Mancini.