At 00:00 Beijing time on June 21, the final round of The European Championship Group A, Bale only had one shot in the whole game, Pesina set a foot, Wales lost 0-1 to Italy, but still with 2 goal difference advantages, pushing Switzerland to qualify as the second in the group.
The last round against Turkey had just been a comeback, with 31-year-old Real Madrid superstar Bale losing himself in the top-of-the-table clash against Italy. As was the case with Switzerland in the first round, Bale had just 1 shot on goal and 0 shots on target. Bale scored just 5.9 points on whooscored's rating, the second-lowest score of the game and only higher than reddish-leaving centre-back Ampadu.
Bell had made a bold statement before the game that he wanted to win Italy and win the first place, but he did not use practical actions to achieve the bull he had bragged about.
Of course, Bale is great enough for Welsh football because he has accomplished things that even the legends of Ian Rush and Giggs can't do. Bale led Wales to Euro 2016 for the first time in their history, when he reached the top four as a new recruit; now his best helpers Ramsey and Joe Allen are 5 years older, but he can still lead Wales to the final of the European Championship as captain and reach the knockout stages of the European Championship twice in a row.
After Welsh qualified as second in the group, they reached the bottom half of the round of 16, in the same half as the first Dutch team to qualify for the top spot. Wales' top 16 opponent is Second in Group B and will be formed between Russia, Finland and Denmark. If Wales can reach the quarter-finals, the opponent is likely to be the Netherlands.
Italy are in the top half, and they are also the first team to spend the current top half. Their opponents will be group C second, which will be produced between Ukraine and Austria.
Italy kept a clean sheet in the Euro 2020 group stage and were only shot twice in total in three games, suffocating their defence. In the final round of Group C, Ukraine will definitely qualify as second in the group as long as they do not lose to Austria, then they will face Italy in the round of 16 with 11 consecutive wins and 30 unbeaten games in all competitions.
Mancini rotated eight main players in the final round, leaving only Donnaruma, Bonucci and Jorginho in the starting lineup, and later he replaced Bonucci and Zoginho, and also replaced Donnarumma in the last minute, allowing Wannian substitute goalkeeper Sirigu to also play to feel the atmosphere. Even if the second team was sent, it was still able to crush Wales, and it felt like everything was under Mancini's control.