Turkey vs Italy will play at Euro 2020, the 16th european football championship in history, a competition that will start on Friday, 11th June 2021 at 20:00 (GMT+1). The match will be played at the Stadio Olimpico from Rome and will officially open the competition where the 24 teams will start.
Turkey vs Italy Match Preview
The two national football teams are part of group A, along with Switzerland and Wales. Italy is the big favorite of this group, while Turkey, Switzerland and Wales have equal chances to take 2nd place in this group. The last two games between the two teams ended in a 1-1 draw and were the only friendly matches in the history of direct confrontations.
Turkey:
Senol Gunes’ team played three friendly matches before this final tournament, recording two victories, 2-1 with Azerbaijan, 2-0 with Moldova and a draw, 0-0 with Guinea. In the last ten official matches, the only team that has beaten Turkey is Hungary, in the last game in the 3rd group of the UEFA Nations League. For this match Turkey can rely on all players.
Italy:
Roberto Mancini, the italian coach, preferred to play only two friendly games before Euro 2020. Both games were easily won by the italians who defeated San Marino with 7-0 and the Czech Republic with 4-0. Defensive is the strong point of the Italian national team, as proof that in the last eight games played, they registered as many victories and without a goal. Lorenzo Pellegrini, the player of AS Roma, is the only player unavailable for this game because of muscle injury
Turkey vs Italy statistics and possible teams
However, it is not the first time that Italy and Turkey meet at a european championship, the previous confrontation taking place at Euro 2000, in group B, and Italy won 2-1. At that european championship both teams qualified further, Italy on the first place with 9 points and Turkey on the second place with 4 points, eliminating the national teams of Belgium and Sweden.
Turkey squad for Euro 2020
Goalkeepers: Altay Bayındır (Fenerbahçe), Uğurcan Çakır (Trabzonspor), Mert Günok (İstanbul Başakşehir)
Defenders: Kaan Ayhan (Sassuolo), Zeki Çelik (LOSC Lille), Merih Demiral (Juventus), Ozan Kabak (Liverpool), Umut Meraş (Le Havre), Mert Müldür (Sassuolo), Çağlar Söyüncü (Leicester), Rıdvan Yılmaz (Beşiktaş)
Midfielders: Taylan Antalyalı (Galatasaray), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (AC Milan), Halil Dervişoğlu (Brentford), İrfan Can Kahveci (Fenerbahçe), Orkun Kökçü (Feyenoord), Abdülkadir Ömür (Trabzonspor), Dorukhan Toköz (Beşiktaş), Ozan Tufan (Fenerbahçe), Okay Yokuşlu (West Brom)
Forwards: M. Kerem Aktürkoğlu (Galatasaray), Kenan Karaman (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Enes Ünal (Getafe), Cengiz Ünder (Leicester), Yusuf Yazıcı (LOSC Lille), Burak Yılmaz (LOSC Lille)
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)
* Possible prediction: Turkey will score
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