Italy, the defending champion, straightened its path to Euro 2024 thanks to its victory (2-1), the first with its new coach Luciano Spalletti, against a Ukraine who were relegated on goal difference from second place in group C behind rest of England. Davide Frattesi, Inter player, is determined on his double at San Siro.
Italy, who lacked a game, Ukraine and North Macedonia, who won 0-2 against Malta, have 7 points, six less than England. The first two in the group qualify directly for the European Championship in Germany.
Despite the absences in the first list of Pellegrini, Chiesa, Mancini, Politano and at the last minute of Tonal, Italy were more dominant in the first half but were only able to translate their vast dominance (61 percent) and consistent chances into two goals against a Ukraine with no escape route.
The performance of Italy, in need of a victory after drawing against North Macedonia in Spalletti’s debut (1-1), recalls the times of Naples that prevailed last season in Serie A under the leadership of the current coach of ‘ azzurra’.
An Italy like Naples
Constant pressure, high speed of play and quick circulation of the ball with attacks on the right of Giovanni Di Lorenzo and a wonderful Nicolò Zaniolo, supported among the field of interests Davide Frattesi and Nicolò Barella, who played at home, San Siro.
Ukraine gave up 1-0
Di Lorenzo and Giacomo Raspadori, who was in his 9 position, wasted good chances, opening the scoring before Frattesi opened the scoring. The game was born from an inappropriate slip on the right wing by Georgiy Sidakov that Mattia Zaccagni took advantage of to pass to Frattesi, who from the edge of the area put the ball into the net with a low shot that hit the post (12′ ) .
2-0 thanks to VAR
After half an hour, the Inter player himself increased the advantage thanks to VAR as the referee initially disallowed the goal but ended up confirming it as, in a strange carom, he received the ball, alone in front by the goalkeeper, after defender Sergei Krivtsov rebounded. The kick of Zaniolo first hit Frattesi and then on Krivtsov.
At 2-0, Ukraine finally got out of their field in the 36th minute. Artem Dovbyk, Girona forward, forced to intervene Gianluigi Donnarumma to deflect a kick from outside the area.-
Dimarco gave it 2-1
The Milan goalkeeper was greeted by whistles and applause after he was criticized for his error in the goal that allowed North Macedonia to draw (1-1) on Saturday. Before the break, he did well to take a point-blank shot from Dovbyk, but Federico Dimarco He failed the clearance and gave the goal to Andriy Yarmolenko to an empty goal (41′).
The second half started with another threat for Italy when Giorgio Scalvini God blocked a blow from Viktor Tsygankov, the other Ukrainian from Girona.
Italy secures a crucial victory
The game opened up, with arrivals in both places and the ‘azzurra’ seemed to resurrect recent ghosts by not closing games. As the minutes went by, he kept control of the game and, although he scored again Scraper there was a cross shot that he took with the tips of his fingers Bushchan and has a high header Scalvini In one corner, he got three golden points to straighten his path to Euro 2024.
ITALY
21
UKRAINE
Italy: Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo, Scalvini, Bastoni, Dimarco (Biraghi, d.58); Frattesi, Locatelli, Barella (Cristante, d.84); Zaniolo (Orsolini, m.72), Raspadori (Retegui, m.72) and Zaccagni (Gnonto, m.58).
Ukraine: Bushchan; Konoplya, Zabarnyi, Kryvtsov, Mykolenko; Stepanenko (Sydorchuk, m.84), Zinchenko (Buyalskyi, m.75); Tsygankov (Vanat, m.75), Sudakov, Yarmolenko (Mudryk, m.58) and Dovbyk (Yaremchuk, m.58)
Goals: 1-0, m.12: Frattesi. 2-0, m.29: Frattesi. 2-1, m.41: Yarmolenko.
Referee: Hernández Hernández (ESP). Yellow cards were shown to Mykolenko, Konoplya, Stepanenko and Zabarnyi for Ukraine.
Incidents: Match corresponding to the sixth day of group C of the qualifying phase for the German Euro 2024 held at the San Siro stadium in Milan. Before the start of the meeting, a minute of silence was observed in memory of the victims of the Moroccan earthquake.
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Source: La Verdad
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