The Squadra Azzura lost this Saturday in the 8th finals of the Euro against the Nati (2-0).
Switzerland, long attractive and full of control, easily took the measure of a poor Italy team (2-0), the defending champion, on Saturday in Berlin to become the first team to reach the quarter-finals of the Euro.
Remo Freuler (37th) and Ruben Vargas (46th) were the torturers of a transalpine team which displayed the same shortcomings as during the matches of the first round: a lack of offensive creativity and a crumbly defense which, however, was able to count again on a good Gianluigi Donnarumma in goal.
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Sluggish, Luciano Spalletti’s team broke down for the first time shortly after the half-hour mark. Isolated at the penalty spot by Vargas, Freuler pulled off a nice technical number (control and volley) to put the Nati in control (37th).
Vargas in shape
An action that highlighted the nice mechanics of the Swiss who managed a sequence of 33 passes and a possession of 1 min 25 sec before this opening of the score. Donnarumma then avoided the 2-0 shortly before the break by pushing back a shot from Fabian Rieder on the left post of his goal (45+1). Initially a decisive passer, the excellent Vargas turned into a scorer with a shot brushed into the top corner of the opponent’s goal, only 33 seconds after returning from the locker room.
Fabian Schär almost put the Italians back in the match by coming close to an own goal with a header that hit the frame of Yann Sommer’s goal (50th). But the Italian revolt was far too timid to claim anything other than an early elimination of a soulless team, even if Gianluca Scamacca found the left post of Sommer’s goal a quarter of an hour from time. A sad outcome for the Nazionale, absent from the last two World Cups and qualified at the last minute for the round of 16 of this Euro. In the quarter-final, Murat Yakin’s men will face the winner of the match between England and Slovakia on July 6 in Düsseldorf.
