Mattia Zaccagni scores in 98th minute as Italy draw 1-1 with Croatia to reach Euro 2024 last 16
Luka Modric had given Croatia lead seconds after seeing penalty saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma
Croatia finish group campaign on two points and unlikely to qualify as one of best third-placed teams
Group winners Spain beat Albania 1-0 thanks to Ferran Torres strike in off post
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Croatia 0-0 Italy
Danny Murphy
Former England midfielder on BBC One
Causing their own problems Croatia.
A turnover and it was a good run from Mateo Retegui.
Can they put one decent ball in the box because they have struggled so far?
Alessandro Bastoni should score.
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Italy have attempted the last five shots in this game. Croatia's last shot was taken by Luka Sucic in the fifth minute.
Croatia 0-0 Italy
Italy's initial corner isn't great but they keep the pressure on. Nicolo Barella swings in a cross which Alessandro Bastoni meets with a bullet header. Dominik Livakovic does well to palm it over the bar.
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Italy's fourth corner of the game as Mateo Retegui's deflected ball is spilled by the Croatia keeper at the near post.
Albania 0-1 Spain
Sixteen-year-old Lamine Yamal, who impressed after starting the first two games, is watching from Spain's substitutes bench. Has he brought his homework with him?
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Chris Sutton
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live
Croatia started the game in the ascendency but Italy have got a foothold in the match now.
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Croatia winger Luka Sucic trips Lorenzo Pellegrini and gets the first yellow card of the day.
Albania 0-1 Spain
Jermaine Jenas
Former England midfielder on BBC Two
Keep-ball is kind of the order of the day for Spain now that they have their goal but they do spring into action. It's a different kind of Spain and style. They are quite happy to put the ball at risk, to get in behind and put crosses in the box. But to be fair to them it's up to Albania to go after the game now.
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Chris Bevan
BBC Sport at Red Bull Arena
There has not been an awful lot for either set of fans to get excited about so far... but the Croatia supporters are going wild whenever their side win the ball back inside the Italy half. They are also pretty noisy whenever a decision goes against them or Italy have a spell of pressure like this one too, just with lots more whistles.
Croatia 0-0 Italy
More plastic cups being thrown at Italy players as they take another corner. The corner, when it comes in, sails out of play.
Albania 0-1 Spain
Not a bad finish from the former Manchester City forward.
Croatia 0-0 Italy
Italy striker Mateo Retegui is finding his feet in this game. He controls Lorenzo Pellegrini's cross and has a shot blocked by the shins of Marin Pongracic.
Croatia 0-0 Italy
Chris Sutton
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live
I just wonder how crucial it was from Gvardiol.
Retegui got up really well at the far post.
Croatia 0-0 Italy
Danny Murphy
Former England midfielder on BBC One
What a brilliant cross from Riccardo Calafiori and Josko Gvardiol just does enough to put Mateo Retegui off.
Albania 0-1 Spain
Dani Olmo, who already has an assist, goes for goal from well outside the box. It's an arrowed attempt but it falls well wide.
Croatia 0-0 Italy
Italy's best chance as Mateo Retegui heads wide from Riccardo Calafiori's cross. It takes a deflection off Josko Gvardiol actually so it's a corner.
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Spain ahead. An Italy goal and we'll have Scotland starting to feel even more sick about last night.
Chris
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Spain are playing keep-ball now they have the lead.
A reminder they have made 10 changes for this game.
The reserves as just as impressive as the first XI!
Croatia 0-0 Italy
Italy striker Mateo Retegui slips as he tries to control the ball and Marin Pongracic catches him on the back of the head. The Argentine-born frontman is fine to play on.
Albania 0-1 Spain
Group B as it stands...
Spain = nine points from three games.
Italy = four points from three games.
Croatia = two points from three games.
Albania = one point from three games.
Image source, .| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 7 |
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| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 3 |
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| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 1 |
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| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
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| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
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| 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 2 |
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| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 1 |
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| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
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| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 0 |
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| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
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| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 1 |
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| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 3 |
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| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 2 |
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| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
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Manager: Zlatko Dalic
Formation: 4 - 3 - 3
Manager: Luciano Spalletti
Formation: 3 - 1 - 4 - 2
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This will be Croatia and Italy’s third meeting at a major tournament, all taking place in the group stages. Croatia won 2-1 at the 2002 FIFA World Cup before a 1-1 draw at UEFA EURO 2012.
Since gaining independence in the early 1990s, Croatia are unbeaten in their eight meetings against Italy (W3 D5). Their last three encounters have all ended 1-1.
This will be Croatia’s fifth UEFA European Championship meeting with the current reigning champions, with each game coming in the group stages. They beat Denmark 3-0 in 1996, drew 2-2 with France in 2004, lost 1-0 against Spain in 2012, before beating the Spaniards 2-1 in 2016.
Since the group phase was introduced in 1980, Italy have lost their final group game in only one of their nine appearances at the UEFA European Championship (W6 D2), going down 1-0 against Republic of Ireland in 2016.
Croatia have conceded five goals in two UEFA EURO 2024 group stage matches so far, only conceding more goals in two major tournament group stages, shipping six in EURO 2004 and six at the 2014 World Cup.
Croatia are winless at EURO 2024 (D1 L1) but haven’t gone through a group stage without winning at a major tournament since the 2006 World Cup (D2 L1). They’ve won their final group game at three of their last four major tournaments (D1) since losing 3-1 to Mexico at the 2014 World Cup.
Italy lost 1-0 to Spain last time out, attempting their fewest shots in a UEFA EURO game on record (four). They have never lost consecutive games at the European Championship.
Croatia have already had more shots (38) and more shots on target (15) at EURO 2024 than they had in their EURO 2020 group stage (30 shots, 10 on target). Indeed, they’ve only had more efforts on target at the group stages of two UEFA EURO tournaments – 19 in 2004 and 16 in 1996.
Goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma is set to make his 10th UEFA EURO appearance for Italy – aged 25 years and 120 days on the day of this game, he will be the youngest goalkeeper to hit this milestone in European Championship history (current youngest is Rui Patrício in 2016, aged 28).
Luka Modric made his 34th appearance across the UEFA EURO + World Cup combined for Croatia against Albania, a total just six outfield European players can better. On MD2, he played 64 passes in the final third, the second-most by a player on record in a European Championship match (1980 onwards), behind Mesut Özil for Germany vs Greece at EURO 2012 (74).
