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Italy vs Spain 1-1 (PEN 4-2) Stream, Highlights Download: EURO 2020 Semi Final Result – July 6th, 2021. #ITAESP #EURO2020 #ITA #ESP.
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
A 60,000-strong Wembley crowd, making one hell of a racket, greet Italy in their azzurri shirts. Spain play in second-choice white, the only nod to Real Madrid in this squad. We’ll be off in a couple of minutes!
Both Italy & Spain started the match with full attacking forces. Spain later got the control of the game but Italy defended well.
The first foul is whistled after a mere 30 seconds, Verratti coming through the back of Olmo. The referee wanders across and tells him to calm it down a bit.
This game was coming to life but it was Spain threatening to get the breakthrough. Instead, it’s a terrific Italian counter-attack that has broken the deadlock.
Insigne plays a wonderful outside of the boot pass in behind for Immobile and though Laporte makes a crucial tackle, Chiesa picks it up, cuts inside, and bends an absolute stunner into the far corner. Magnificent goal.
Italy make one enforced change to the XI sent out to blow Belgium away in the first half of that whirlwind quarter-final in Munich. The brilliant, unfortunate and much-missed Leonardo Spinazzola’s place is taken, as it was on the evening he pulled up with a ruptured Achilles, by Emerson of Chelsea.
Spain make three changes to the side named for their quarter-final scrape past Switzerland in Saint Petersburg. Dani Olmo, Mikel Oyarzabal and Eric Garcia step up; Pau Torres and Alvaro Morata are benched, while Pablo Sarabia is injured.
The Squads
Italy: Gigi Donnarumma-GK, Emerson Palmieri, Leonardo Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini (C), Giovanni Di Lorenzo. Marco Verratti, Jorginho, Nicolo Barella, Lorenzo Insigne, Ciro Immobile, Federico Chiesa.
Spain: Unai Simon-GK, Jordi Alba, Aymeric Laporte, Eric Garcia, Cesar Azpilicueta, Pedri. Sergio Busquets, Koke, Dani Olmo, Mikel Oyarzabal, Ferran Torres.
