At 3:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 12, the final of the 2020 European Championship was contested at Wembley Stadium in London, with Italy playing against England. In this match, Italy competed for the first European Championship title in 53 years, while England attacked the first Delaunay Cup in the history of the team.
The two teams have met 27 times in the history of A-class matches, with Italy having the upper hand with 11 wins, 8 draws and 8 defeats. Italy have lost just two of their last 14 encounters, the last time coming in a warm-up in August 2012, when they lost 2-1. It was also the only defeat in the last eight meetings of the Blueshirts, including the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 and the group stage of the 2014 World Cup, in which Italy won first on penalties and then won 2-1.
In the starting line-up, England were played by Kane & Sterling, Foden missed the roster due to injury, and the Italian side, Inmobile continued to play, with Emerson topping the left-back position.
Just 1 minute and 57 seconds into the game, Trippier sent a cross, Luke Shaw responded with a push to break the goal, England opened the record, and was confirmed by the official UEFA website that this goal was the fastest goal in the history of the European Cup final!
In the 35th minute of the match, Chiesa showed his personal ability to break through the defense and his left-footed low shot was unfortunately slightly off target.
At the beginning of the yibian re-battle, Sterling burst into the goal with the ball and fell, and referee Kuipers did not show any indication!
In the 62nd minute of the match, Chiesa fired several shots with his feet and England goalkeeper Pickford single-handedly saved the ball!
In the 67th minute of the game, Italy launched a corner attack, the English penalty area was in chaos, Bonucci seized the opportunity to score, Italy equalized!
The two teams drew 1-1 in regular time in 90 minutes and entered the 30-minute extra-time match, which was the seventh time in the history of the European Championship final since 1960, 1968, 1976, 1996, 2000 and 2016.
In the 22nd minute of extra time, Jorginho and Glalis stepped on each other when they were scrambling, referee Kuypers showed Jorginho a yellow card warning, the two teams attacked and defended each other in extra time, but neither scored, and the championship must be determined through penalties!
In the penalty shootout, the first round of Berardi's main penalty hit, Kane's main penalty hit, the second round of Belotti's main penalty was saved by Piccford, Maguire's main penalty hit, the third round Bonucci hit the main penalty, Rashford hit the upright and popped up, the fourth round Ofnadsky's main penalty hit, Sancho was saved by Donnarumma, the fifth round Jorginho was saved by Piccford, Saka's main penalty was saved by Donnarumma, and finally Italy won the championship by 4-3 on aggregate!
The lineups of the two sides are as follows:
England line-ups: 1 Pickford, 6 Maguire, 2 Walker (119 minutes, 17 Sancho), 5 Stones, 3 Luke Shaw, 12 Trippier (70 minutes, 25 Saka), 4 Rice (73 minutes, 8 Henderson (119 minutes, 11 Rashford)), 14 Phillips, 10 Sterling, 19 Mount (98 minutes, 7 Graeth), 9 Kane
Italian line-up: 21 Donnarumma, 2 Di Lorenzo, 3 Chiellini, 19 Bonucci, 13 Emerson (117 minutes, 24 Florenzi), 8 Jorginho, 18 Barrera (53 minutes, 16 Crisante), 6 Villatti (95 minutes, 5 Locatelli), 14 Chiesa (85 minutes, 20 Bernardsky), 10 Insigne (90 minutes, 9 Belotti), 17 Immobile (54 minutes, 11- Berardi)