2024-06-16 10:24:20
Albania shocked reigning European champions Italy by taking the lead within the twenty second second with the quickest aim within the historical past of those championships.
The earlier greatest was Russia’s Dmitry Kirichenko in 2004 in Portugal towards Greece when he opened the scoring within the 67th second.
The match is performed at Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion, in any other case referred to as Sign Iduna Park, however UEFA and FIFA ban sponsor names.
The 25-year-old midfielder of the Italian “Sassuolo” Nedim Bayrami took benefit of a mistake after a contact and opened the rating with a ravishing diagonal shot underneath the crossbar.
The Italians shortly rallied and within the eleventh minute, the central defender of “Inter” Alessandro Bastoni equalized with a header, and after one other 5 minutes, his membership teammate Nicola Barella made it 2:1.
The Azzurri missed fairly a number of of the so-called clear scoring probabilities, however after the sixtieth minute they began to brazenly guard the profitable outcome for them.
This might have value them dearly, as a result of on the very finish the Albanians had two unhealthy alternatives to attain.
Ultimately, the favorites obtained their means and within the different recreation they face Spain, who thrashed Croatia 3-0 additionally with solely first-half targets earlier on Saturday.
Listed here are the beginning lineups.
Italy: Donnarunma, Di Lorenzo, Bastoni, Calafiori, Dimarco, Jorginho, Barella, Fratesi, Pellegrini, Chiesa, Scamaca.
Albania: Strakosha, Hisay, Djimsiti, Ayeti, Mitay, Aslani, Ramadani, Bayrami, Asani, Broja, Severi.