{"id":31858,"date":"2024-06-20T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/spain-1-0-italy\/20\/06\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:44:05","slug":"spain-1-0-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/spain-1-0-italy\/20\/06\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain 1 &#8211; 0 Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>A Riccardo Calafiori own goal sent Spain into the Euro 2024 last 16 as Group B winners with a 1-0 victory over Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Spain impressed again having thrashed Croatia 3-0 in their opening game and should have won in Gelsenkirchen by a bigger scoreline had it not been for a mix of superb saves from Italy&#8217;s Gianluigi Donnarumma and poor finishing.<\/p>\n<p>They dominated from the start with Donnarumma called into action within two minutes, spectacularly tipping over Pedri&#8217;s close-range header.<\/p>\n<p>Nico Williams terrorised Italy right-back Giovanni Di Lorenzo and should have scored with a header from inside the six-yard box before Donnarumma saved twice more from Alvaro Morata and a long-range blast from Fabian Ruiz.<\/p>\n<p>Spain picked up from where they left off in the second half with Pedri side-footing a golden chance wide within minutes of the restart, but Italy did the hard work for them when defender Calafiori turned into his own net from Williams&#8217; low cross.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-factbox\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text-wrapper\">\n<p><h4 class=\"sdc-article-factbox__title\">Team news:<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sdc-article-factbox__list\">\n<li class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\">Spain made one change from their victory over Croatia with Aymeric Laporte coming in at centre-back for Nacho. <\/li>\n<li class=\"sdc-article-factbox__text\">Italy stuck with the same XI that beat Albania in their opening game.  <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Calafiori nearly scored a second, Andrea Cambiaso hacking his team-mate&#8217;s rogue header at a corner off the goal line while 16-year-old Lamine Yamal and Williams both continued to dazzle, the former sending a shot inches wide of the top left corner and the latter hitting the crossbar with a delicious curler.<\/p>\n<p>Italy were simply outclassed, mustering just one shot on target, with Donnarumma keeping them in it until the final minute with a late save from substitute Ayoze Perez when one-on-one.<\/p>\n<h3>Star performer: &#8216;Williams pure quality&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><em>Sky Sports&#8217;<\/em><strong> Roy Keane <\/strong>on <em>ITV<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was pure quality. That real pace, you can&#8217;t coach that. It&#8217;s a threat. When he gets one-on-one with the full-back, there&#8217;s trouble for the defender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can go left or right. His shooting power and his crossing is excellent. He showed great strength at times and his attitude was spot on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was the best player on the park.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Stats: Story of the match<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>So far in Group B&#8230;<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/spain-vs-italy\/report\/500396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Riccardo Calafiori own goal sent Spain into the Euro 2024 last 16 as Group B winners with a 1-0 victory over<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/spain-1-0-italy\/20\/06\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[197,303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31860,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31858\/revisions\/31860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}