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3¹ An inswinging corner was forced into the arms of JOAN GARCÍA by ZACCAGNI. 4¹ MIKEL MERINO waltzed past LOCATELLI and rattled a weak shot over the bar. 6¹ A pin-point pass bobbled toward YAMAL and his right foot shot flew narrowly over. 9¹ A free-kick from FABIÁN flew over the bar. 15¹ GOAL!! A shot from RETEGUI rolled through a ruck of players and bounced past the unsighted 'keeper. (1-0 Italy) 17¹ MIKEL MERINO's shot was well held by the Italian 'keeper. 17¹ LOCATELLI rushed a simple chance. 28¹ LOCATELLI floated the ball to ACERBI who headed it over. 30¹ A cross from LOCATELLI left ZACCAGNI in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot. 32¹ CHIESA shot wide. 38¹ POLITANO beat VIVIAN and fired the ball to CHIESA who blasted his shot wide. 39¹ A weak strike from AYOZE bounced agonisingly wide. 40¹ GOAL!! MIKEL MERINO rifled a penalty beyond the 'keeper after BASTONI had handled just inside the area. (1-1) 43¹ RETEGUI ran onto a wonderful ball from ZACCAGNI but toe-poked his effort wide of the goal. 45¹ A perfect strike from LOCATELLI was dealt with by a good block from the Spanish 'keeper. 1² CHIESA rifled an easy chance past the righthand post. 6² GOAL!! ZACCAGNI hit a swerving twenty yard shot past the hapless Spanish 'keeper. (2-1 Italy) 6² MIKEL MERINO fired a right foot shot inches over from twenty yards out. 10² A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming Italian 'keeper. 12² AYOZE made space on the right and pulled the ball to SANTI COMESAÑA who clipped the ball wide. 14² A penalty box scramble resulted in CHIESA driving the ball wide. 15² SAMU cautioned for a late tackle on BASTONI. 31² MIKEL MERINO's shot was well saved by the Italian 'keeper. 40² CHIESA was put clear by LOCATELLI and he pulled away from the 'keeper but rammed his shot over. 45² A header by CHIESA at the near post was comfortably collected by the Spanish 'keeper.

Spain

Line-ups JOAN GARCÍA Pons 6  1 6  Gianluigi DONNARUMMA MARCOS LLORENTE Moreno 7  2 8  Giovanni DI LORENZO Alejandro BALDE 7  3 8  Federico DIMARCO(c) FABIÁN Ruiz 7½ 4 7  Manuel LOCATELLI (c)Íñigo MARTÍNEZ 7  5 6½ Francesco ACERBI Daniel VIVIAN 6½ 6 6½ Alessandro BASTONI Lamine YAMAL 7  7 7  Matteo POLITANO SANTI COMESAÑA 6½ 8 7  Mattia ZACCAGNI (p)MIKEL MERINO Zazon 7  9 6  Federico CHIESA(p) (f)SAMU 5½ 10 6½ Mateo RETEGUI(f) AYOZE Pérez 6½ 11 6½ Nicolò BARELLA Manager Scott Sevrance Daniel CARVAJAL    12    Matteo DARMIAN Alejandro REMIRO    13    Alex MERET KOKE    14    Alessio ROMAGNOLI Marco ASENSIO    15    Sandro TONALI YÉREMY Jesús PINO    16    Andrea CAMBIASO

Italy

Italy go through to the next round

Statistics

Spain 1 Italy 2 (Half-time: 1-1) Mikel Merino 40¹ (pen) Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Retegui 15¹, Zaccagni 6²         Samu 15²   2 7 13 13 1 2 4 5 6 9 10 14 3 3 45% 55% ¶ Man of the match: Giovanni di Lorenzo ¶