{"id":88154,"date":"2021-06-20T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88154"},"modified":"2021-06-20T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T18:57:59","slug":"uefa-euro-2020-italy-finish-their-group-matches-on-a-high-with-a-1-0-win-over-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88154","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Euro 2020: Italy finish their group matches on a high with a 1-0 win over Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy continued their good run in international football with a 1-0 victory over Wales in their final group stage match of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/football\/uefa-european-football-championship\/\">Euros 2020<\/a>. With this win, Italy makes it 3\/3 with victories over Turkey, Switzerland and Wales. They are through to the round of sixteen.<\/p>\n<p>The Italians now have 11 wins in a row and haven&#8217;t conceded even one. They&#8217;ve scored 32 times across these 11 games and have kept a clean sheet in all of them. That&#8217;s quite an impressive record against tough opposition like- Estonia, Poland, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, San Marino, Czech Republic, Turkey, Switzerland, Wales.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.0.1\/72x72\/1f1ee-1f1f9.png\" alt=\"??\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>  ? ? ? ? ?  <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.0.1\/72x72\/1f1ee-1f1f9.png\" alt=\"??\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.0.1\/72x72\/1f539.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> 30 games unbeaten <br \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.0.1\/72x72\/1f539.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> 11 straight clean sheets <br \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.0.1\/72x72\/1f539.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> 32 goals without reply <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZrB2irfeze\">pic.twitter.com\/ZrB2irfeze<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UEFA EURO 2020 (@EURO2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EURO2020\/status\/1406683906208944128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Italians made eight changes to the side but Roberto Mancini&#8217;s men still dominated against the Welsh. Wales also qualify for the round of sixteen having been placed 2nd in the group. Switzerland beat Turkey 3-1 in the game at Baku and can still qualify via the four best third-placed teams scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Italy took the lead in the 42nd minute via a goal from Matteo Pessina as he steered in a free-kick from Marco Veratti into the corner. Wales found them in deeper problem when Chelsea youngster Ethan Ampadu got a red card and they were reduced to 10 men. Federico Chiesa got the man of the match award.<\/p>\n<p>Italy took the lead in the 42nd minute via a goal from Matteo Pessina as he steered in a free-kick from Marco Veratti into the corner. Wales found them in deeper problem when Chelsea youngster Ethan Ampadu got a red card and they were reduced to 10 men. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/tag\/federico-chiesa\/\">Federico Chiesa<\/a> got the man of the match award.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.0.1\/72x72\/1f1ee-1f1f9.png\" alt=\"??\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Italy&#039;s Federico Chiesa takes the plaudits after an energetic display in attack <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.0.1\/72x72\/26a1.png\" alt=\"\u26a1\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heineken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Heineken<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EUROSOTM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EUROSOTM<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mDjTO499Fp\">pic.twitter.com\/mDjTO499Fp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UEFA EURO 2020 (@EURO2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EURO2020\/status\/1406680711277551620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;We knew it was going to be very difficult from the start, a lot of defending, a lot of running. We wanted to try and get a result, but I guess it makes no difference as we finished second anyway,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0said Gareth Bale.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The red card was unfortunate; we had to dig deep and make sure we didn\u2019t concede as much as we could because the five-goal swing [with Switzerland] was still there. We have to recover now; we\u2019ve got five day to patch everyone up and get going again,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Bale added.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/uefa-euro-2020-italy-finish-their-group-matches-on-a-high-with-a-1-0-win-over-wales\/\">UEFA Euro 2020: Italy finish their group matches on a high with a 1-0 win over Wales<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\">The Sports News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Italy recorded a 1-0 win over Wales ij their final group stage match of the UEFA Euros 2020 to qualify through to the round of sixteen.<br \/>\nThe post UEFA Euro 2020: Italy finish their group matches on a high with a 1-0 win over Wales appeared first on The Sports News.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88156,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88154\/revisions\/88156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}