Spain wins the group – hailed by the king
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Huge Spanish benefit.
But it surely took an unlucky Italian to attain.
– Nobody is healthier than us, says Spain’s nationwide group captain Luis de la Fuente.
Italy had large issues with Nico Williams.
After just below an hour, he tricked Giovanni Di Lorenzo on the sting and slotted the ball into the penalty space.
Then it went by way of each Alvaro Morata and Gianluigi Donnarumma – earlier than Riccardo Calafiori steered the match’s solely objective into his personal cage.
John Guidetti as interpreter
Afterwards, the Italian nationwide group captain was dissatisfied that the group didn’t come as much as par.
– I’ve to make the gamers perceive the significance of taking part in on equal phrases. Simply defending ourselves and letting the opponents have the initiative, I do not like that. I’m not the suitable man for that kind of soccer, says Luciano Spalletti in line with Courier.
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full display Alvaro Morata and teammates have fun the objective Photograph: Andreea Alexandru / AP
Spain’s dominance was seen, amongst different issues, within the shot statistics. 9 Spanish photographs on track – none Italian.
One of many Spaniards who had bids for extra was Nico Williams, who was concerned within the objective.
– I’m enormously happy with the group, we labored like animals, says the 21-year-old afterwards, in line with visitor knowledgeable John Guidetti, who additionally needed to act as an interpreter within the studio.
Spain’s King Felipe VI, who just lately celebrated ten years on the throne, watched the match in situ and waxed lyrical.
– We dominated. The end result will not be proportional to the standard of the sport. We will do nice issues within the European Championship and I inform Luis de la Fuente (the nationwide group captain) that we’ve to proceed like this, he says.
De la Fuente himself:
– Nobody is healthier than us. We should keep that perception.
Fifth personal objective
Calafiori joins an undesirable, however comparatively giant, crowd. The centre-back’s personal objective was the match’s fifth up to now – and is thus the “capturing league chief”, if you’ll.
The victory was Spain’s second in a row and, along with the spherical of 16, they safe the group victory even earlier than the final spherical in opposition to Albania.
That is as a result of Italy is second on three sticks and that head-to-head matches weigh extra closely than objective distinction.
“Gli Azzurri” face a Croatia that’s whipped to win within the final group stage match.
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full display Photograph: Frank Augstein / AP