Italy vs Spain will play at Euro 2020, in Semi-finals on Wembley Stadium, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 at 20:00 (GMT+1). This match in the semifinals can be considered the Euro 2020 final, considering the valuable players who are in the squads of the two teams.
Italy vs Spain Match Preview
Italy and Spain have met four times at the European Championships. The first clashes took place in groups, at Euro 1980 and Euro 1988. The other two games took place at Euro 2008 in the quarterfinals, when Spain won the tiebreaker, after the score was equal at the end of the 120 minutes, and the most recent confrontation took place at Euro 2016 in the eighth round, where Italy won 2-0.
Italy:
Italy is going through the best moment in the history of the national football team, accumulating record after record. The series of 32 consecutive games without defeat is unique in the history of Italy. At Euro 2020, Italy played perfectly so far and qualified deservedly in the semifinals of this tournament. In the quarterfinals, Italy sent Belgium home at the end of a very spectacular match, in which they won 2-1. After these very good matches in this final tournament, Italy is currently seen as the main favorite to win the trophy.
Spain:
Spain is also going through a good period, having only one defeat in the last 28 matches played by “Furia Rosie”. Although Euro 2020 started, with a goalless draw, followed by a new draw in the company of Croatia, Spain slowly started to grow even more in the game. Qualifying for the semifinals was emotional for the Spaniards who passed Switzerland after the tiebreaks, after at the end of the 120 minutes, the table shows the equal score, 1-1. In this semifinal, Spain starts with the disadvantage that it played two very long matches of 120 minutes each and accumulated fatigue.
Italy vs Spain statistics and possible teams
The last direct confrontation between Italy and Spain took place four years ago, in 2017 in the preliminaries for the 2018 World Cup, where Spain won the return match 3-0. Italy’s clearest victory over Spain came at the 1928 Olympic Games, 7-1, while Spain won 4-0 in the Euro 2020 final.
Italy: Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo, Bonucci, Chiellini, Emerson; Barella, Jorginho, Verratti; Chiesa, Immobile, Insigne
Spain: Unai Simón; Azpilicueta, García, Laporte, Alba; Koke, Busquets, Pedri; Moreno, Morata, Olmo
Italy squad for Euro 2020
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Alex Meret (Napoli), Salvatore Sirigu (Torino)
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Emerson (Chelsea), Alessandro Florenzi (Paris), Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma), Rafael Tolói (Atalanta)
Midfielders: Nicolò Barella (Inter), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Jorginho (Chelsea), Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo), Matteo Pessina (Atalanta), Marco Verratti (Paris), Gaetano Castrovilli (Fiorentina)
Forwards: Andrea Belotti (Torino), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Giacomo Raspadori (Sassuolo)
Spain squad for Euro 2020
Goalkeepers: David de Gea (Manchester United), Unai Simón (Athletic), Robert Sánchez (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Defenders: José Gayà (Valencia), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Pau Torres (Villarreal), Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City), Eric García (Manchester City), Diego Llorente (Leeds United), César Azpilicueta (Chelsea)
Midfielders: Thiago Alcántara (Liverpool), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Koke (Atlético), Marcos Llorente (Atlético), Dani Olmo (Leipzig), Rodri (Manchester City), Fabián Ruiz (Napoli), Pablo Sarabia (Paris), Ferran Torres (Manchester City), Adama Traoré (Wolves)
Forwards: Álvaro Morata (Juventus), Gerard Moreno (Villarreal), Mikel Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad), Pedri (Barcelona)
* Possible prediction: BTS/YES
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