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3¹ An outswinging corner was turned into the arms of BORJAN by DI LORENZO. 5¹ POLITANO booked for gamesmanship. 9¹ POLITANO clipped the ball through a crowd of players but BORJAN was a match for it as he dived to his right. 10¹ DIMARCO headed wide. 16¹ The ref yellow cards BARELLA for an off-the-ball incident against OLUWASEYI. 19¹ SHAFFELBURG's shot beat the Italian 'keeper but rebounded off the Italian upright. 23¹ CORNELIUS receives a yellow card for a clumsy foul. 25¹ GOAL!! A great ball from ORSOLINI left POLITANO in the clear, he made the 'keeper commit himself before squaring the ball to RETEGUI to score. (1-0 Italy) 26¹ A lovely pass from SHAFFELBURG was knocked goalbound by OLUWASEYI only for the Italian 'keeper to claw away. 29¹ POLITANO flicked a simple chance past the far post. 38¹ A free-kick from BASTONI floated inches wide. 7² The Canadian 'keeper parried a clever shot from RETEGUI. 9² GOAL!! An inswinging corner headed out by JOHNSTON was fired into the back of the net by POLITANO. (2-0 Italy) 10² The motionless MERET was all agog as a backpass from BARELLA dropped just over. 12² SHAFFELBURG's shot was well held by MERET. 16² DIMARCO was put clear by LOCATELLI and he dummied the Canadian 'keeper but glanced his shot just beyond the far post. 19² ORSOLINI knocked the ball to LOCATELLI who touched it just beyond the near post. 21² BARELLA made space on the left and touched the ball to ESPOSITO who rasped the ball over. 25² POLITANO ran onto a delightful ball from BARELLA but fumbled his shot wide of the lefthand post. 31² A accurate pass found LOCATELLI and his looping effort went narrowly over. 36² GOAL!! BARELLA hit a glorious twenty yard shot past the bemused Canadian 'keeper. (3-0 Italy) 46² ESPOSITO shot over.

Canada

Line-ups (c)Milan BORJAN 5½ 1 6  Alex MERET Alistair JOHNSTON 7  2 8  Giovanni DI LORENZO(c) Tajon BUCHANAN 7½ 3 8  Federico DIMARCO STEPHEN Antunes EUSTÁQUIO 6½ 4 8  Manuel LOCATELLI Derek CORNELIUS 6  5 8½ Alessandro BASTONI Moïse BOMBITO 6  6 7  Alessandro BUONGIORNO Ballou TABLA 6  7 7  Riccardo ORSOLINI Jacob SHAFFELBURG 6  8 7½ Matteo POLITANO (p)Tani OLUWASEYI 6  9 6½ Sebastiano ESPOSITO(p) (f)Promise DAVID 5½ 10 7½ Nicolò BARELLA(f) Jonathan DAVID 6½ 11 8  Mateo RETEGUI Manager Scott Sevrance Kamal MILLER    12    Bryan CRISTANTE Maxime CRÉPEAU    13    Marco CARNESECCHI Sam ADEKUGBE    14    Vincenzo GRIFO Niko SIGUR    15    Lorenzo LUCCA Theo BAIR    16    Riccardo CALAFIORI

Italy

Statistics

Canada 0 Italy 3 (Half-time: 0-1)   Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Retegui 25¹, Politano 9², Barella 36²         Cornelius 23¹ Politano 5¹, Barella 16¹ 2 8 10 8 3 3 5 10 1 13 6 23 5 7 37% 63% ¶ Man of the match: Alessandro Bastoni ¶