Switzerland gives the 'blow' against a timid Italy and moves into the quarterfinals of the Euro Cup

The valid champion of the Eurocopa sacked with a hard and incontestable defeat in front of Switzerland in Berlin (2-0). Italy could not find solution to the drops of Federico Dimarco (injury) and Riccardo Calafiori (sanction) and the ones of Murat Yakin emulated his good presentation in front of Germany (1-1) with a diagram a bit more offensive and a remarkable efficiency in the rival area.

The technical Luciano Spalletti entered six variants regarding the duel in front of Croatia, with the entry of Stephan The Shaarawy to the eleven like main novelty. However, the changes did not have the effect wished in the 'azzurra', since Switzerland finish controlling the party from the start thanks to the good work of Freuler and Xhaka. Ruben Vargas had the first occasion in the minute 2 with a head butt that saved Bastoni on the line.

The corners and free shots were a constant headache for the Italians, although the factor height played in his favour. The ones of Spalletti recently showed to the area helvética in the 19' with finish fallido of Gave Lorenzo invalidated by offside previous. Five minutes afterwards, Donnarumma avoided the so much of Embolo with a paradón in a hand manually where the '7' doubted if define by down or by up, opting at the end by a finish to half height.

After ten minutes in where Italy attained to match the formality of the meeting with some arrival of Chiesa by right arrived the goal that bent the scales in favour of Switzerland. In the 37', a good played collective of the red finish in a pass filtered of Vargas for an Oar Freuler that defined of left-handed in front of Donnarumma. The Italian goalkeeper avoided greater evils with another paradón to Rieder before the rest, but the 'azzurra' would not attain to replace of the initial hit.

Vargas cleared the just party after the rest

In the halftime, Spalletti put to Mattia Zaccagni in place of a disappeared The Shaarawy to look for a reaction, but was Switzerland the one who attained to mark another so much to clear the party in the first arrival of the complement. A fast triangulation of the ones of Murat Yakin left free of mark to Vargas, the one who fusiló to Donnarumma with a powerful shot crossed. Italy brushed the discount in the 51' with a finish of Chiesa that crashed in the stick, previous detour in a rival.

Nevertheless, Switzerland controlled the party with intelligence, lastimando the Italian bottom with several arrivals by the sides. Spalletti Removed to an extenuado Barella to win depth with Mateo Retegui. Scamacca Was near of the goal in the 73' with another shot to the stick and, with Lorenzo Pellegrini in the field to play the last chamber of hour, the 'azzurra' attained to install in contrary field, although without the necessary lucidity to break the zero.

To the equal that in the Euro 2020, Switzerland attains to give the hit deleting to one of the favourites in eighth of final (the past edition deleted to France). Now, the helvéticos expect by England or Slovakia, a key that will define this Sunday in Gelsenkirchen. For Italy, remains the feeling to having completed a tournament very underneath of the expectations and the doubts grow regarding the main aim of Spalletti: avoid remain out of the World-wide by third consecutive time.