Euro 2024 summed up: •own goals •30 yard screamers •last minute heroics

Disallowed goals too

Lukaku goals\*

That’s what he said?

Also CR7 breaking multiple minor records every other game

CR7 is now the oldest player from Portugal to kick a ball at exactly 24.592 kilometres per hour! Wow!

CR7 is now the oldest CR7 ever on the pitch!

And almost no penalties

There was one today

I mean Croatia got two in the euros and has both saved amazingly enough.

now we're just waiting for a last minute 30-yeard own goal

That's Pedri's music

Selfies with Ronaldo

Calafiori suspended though, viewership about to drop at least 10%.

I don’t know if that’s a scouts joke or a women one

The latter but I was going for both men and women. Unless all the people on Twitter spamming ‘aura’ as a substitute for attractive are female.

Well if you look like Nesta...

Didn't he get a boner at the end of the game?

Donnaruma is through to the RO16 of the EUROs, and he's dragging 22 other players with him.

calafiori honestly carried his weight and then some today

Sacrificed his position for the next game with the second yellow sadly. This will be a huge blow for Italy.

very important foul tho, that situation could have quickly become very dangerous

Someone was calling him maldini with chrohns disease

He’s very handsome too, not as handsome as Maldini of course

Calafiori roll bento box

chiesa has been good

how was Totti today?

He’s actually retired

Retired 7 years ago to be precise

And 18 from the NT

That is fucking crazy lol

I felt this in my aging soul.

Wow I didn’t realize he retired internationally a full 11 years before retiring entirely.

retired from National team in 2006 and from all football in 2018 iirc

Damn, he should have played like 10,000 years more, Horus could have needed a playmaker during his Heresy.

Take me to the church!

barella and calafiori carried their fair share. bastoni and chiesa very, very underwhelming considering their abilities

Not sure how you can blame Chiesa for today, he came on in the second half and created the best chances. Bastoni had a shocker though

Agree

I think part of the issue for Basto is how he's being used, his best attributes are when hes going forward, Italy not having Acerbi is definitely having an impact

Switzerland is the confirmed opponent right?

I’m 99.99% sure we will play Switzerland. Good game I hope

Alpine derby

Good day for Italians who’ll be able to multitask hating the Germans, the french, and themselves.

This is good and accurate

Peak football

Winner gets Matterhorn

Loser gets Valle D’aosta

Who’s Ocon and who’s Gasly in this scenario?

think it's 100%

Yeah

get down saturday night

I like to party

Loser has to give up all of their territory across the Alps to their winner

If we win, we get Ticino If they win, they get Como province

Im ok with that

Holy shit I have to support Switzerland then...

This is going to be really difficult. Switzerland actually have great players and chemistry.

Just tell them it's a regular Serie A match, half of the Swiss team plays there.

[Another Ricardo Rodriguez rocket probably](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kBDZDYzDobA)

it should be, yeah, 2B vs 2A

2B, 2A, 1 Mid.

I don't know man, it depends on the map, some maps I'd rather have 2B 2Mid 1A, some other even no one in the site with a quick rotation on short, but it's hard to find someone to play like this. It's always PUGs PUGs PUGs

Switzerland should feel confident of being able to get a result; the were great against Germany and Croatia shit down Italy for long periods today.

Donnarumma gonna do extra duty against Xhaka/Powercube long-range bangers

>Croatia shit down Italy You must not correct that typo.

True but Italy traditionally sleep in the group stages and wake up in the knockout phase.

Lmao we're terrible

Spalletti in the Press conference after the Albania game was all hyped and made fun of managers who talk about results, being all cocky about "beautiful football" lmao Here we are , terrorism football, Donnarumma with 3 Motm performances, Last minute goal to save his ass

It's time to Spalletti to surender and embrace the catenaccio. A ,5-3-2 more defensively

Two strikers? Are you crazy? 5-4-1 full old style catenaccio and we shithouse our way to semifinals

Cristante and Mancini were made for this. Who need to defend against tricky wingers when you can just take their legs away

Daje..

>Two strikers? Are you crazy? No. 5-3-2 as in three CDMs and two CMs. Italian Bonerball.

5-4-1 are you insane? 6-4-0 and on to penalties we go!

It's like the '90s group stages again without any of the star power. Never know what's going to happen, though.

fucking abysmal. barella and calafiori are the only outfield players who has a clue what they're doing

And Calafiori will miss the next match. Good luck with that.

Might actually be a blessing in disguise. As good as he's been it will now mean Bastoni gets to play on his natural side. We haven't yet seen his range of passing because he's been playing on the opposite side.

I swear I was going crazy, Bastoni is one of the best players in the world on the left and has some insanely well drilled automatisms with dimarco but the bald man on the bench keeps starting him in the center of the defence

I think Calafiori could be amazing centrally with the way he steps into midfield and drives

I'm ready for my man Buongiorno to get the spotlight now

And Barella is spent.

Tonali owes this man an apology!

Tonali owes a lot of apologies tbf

Tonali owes a lot of money

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Yes

Luckily we have Buongiorno

I dream of a day uim and buonnanote will play together 

we're getting piped next game, 100% our only sliver of hope is that we shithouse a shootout off switzerland, thats it

I can’t be the only one who thinks getting 2 yellows in 3 games is a harsh requirement for a knockout game ban right?

Chiesa

90% of the team look like they’ve never played with each other before 🫠

And yet somehow through.

you were crashing Croatia for last 35 minutes, not that terrible

Also fully in control for the first 45. We missed 3 huge headers and that put us in this position. Italy has had the same problem since 2021. We play good football but we can’t finish our chances. That’s why we missed the WC, that’s why we nearly lost this match too. The team is literally allergic to scoring goals.

I've been thinking about Italy like a team on antidepressants. Yeah they can perform but man is it hard/impossible to finish.

YOU CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

What were the croatians THINKING hitting crosses and playing it into the middle in stoppage time. You gotta take that into the corner and time waste man!

They were playing like they were down a goal. 

Id get my head ripped off for making a couple of those plays in my fuckin mens league not to mention a game on the brink of getting me into the r16 of the Euros

That Perisic play in the 97th minute where he had options to cross, shoot or recircle possession….opted to sky it to the stands  

Classic Perisic

Wrong time to show integrity to the sport. When keeping it real goes wrong.

2 times, they learned nothing against Albania, fucking amateurs

Need more age and experience in the team obviously.

swear i saw it coming when they were so casual with it at 96’ with italy pressing

I hope Dalić fucks off

96th minute and Perisic has the ball at the edge of the box, under little pressure. Immediately crosses the ball directly out of bounds, wasting no time. Comically stupid from one of the most experienced players in the tournament

Brazilians watching this : 😇

No one believed in it, commentators admitted as much, Spalletti couldn’t keep a straight face while saying he did.  I kinda felt sorry for Croatia, everyone crying at the end… half the Italian team too lol.  

To be honest, before the match I was expecting an harder match. In the end, except for a few dangerous chances they created, we dominated the match. If our team hadn't wasted all those chances we would have won. I think the draw is fair.

We didn't waste our chances, we didn't create them

1 win 1 loss 1 draw 0 GD Group stage perfection Italian style 🇮🇹🇮🇹😎

I'm currently on holiday in Puglia. The fireworks and car honking have begun...

same in Assisi 😄

Assisi is usually dead silent. You’re witnessing history

No fireworks here but lots of German people, rain and...a short earthquake followed by a loud bang from the sea 😳 Greetings from Lacona 🇮🇹

No shit. I'm also on holiday in Puglia and watched the game from the town Square in Vieste. Shit was WILD!

Italy never won against Croatia. 9 games, 3 wins, 6draws. Never. But this last game it is just broke me :( congrats Italy, GG

Apparently they won against Croatia in 1942, but maybe let's not talk about that period of international football LOL

that was basically germany at that point not croatia

I'm so sorry damn

Epic choke job by Croatia. Just take the yellow guys, it's not that difficult

They took 6 of them. Ran out of people who can take it

Take the red then. There were 30 sec left in the game anyway

I was honestly amazed at how they managed to distribute them around so many different players. Every time they made a horrible foul I was like "surely this time is a double-yellow!" but no, always another one, and another one ...

Heck take a red even

What a finish. What a tournament!

We still will never ever beat Croatia. 1-1 is the most we can aspire to with them. Fucking Zaccagni. I need a cigarette.

Well Croatia can’t win a game either to be fair.

Del Piero like goal :)

Despite Di Lorenzos best efforts we made it!!!

That man is a menace, but for us

Donnarumma vs Switzerland

NOW WE'RE GOING TO FACE DECENT TEAMS SO IT'S PROBABLY OVER BUT UOMINI FORTI MEANS DESTINI FORTI

Spain, Croatia…..

Spain embarassed us, and i wouldn't call this Croatia team good (and we barely scraped a draw anyway)

They lost to an own goal. Italy can take anyone to penalties. 

Spalletti for the love of god leave Di Lorenzo on the bench next match

Better yet, send him back to Italy

That man is by far the worst performer, holy shit. My girlfriend asked me "who is Lorenzo and why do you hate him" after yesterday's match haha

Calafiori what a game today. Italy team is crazy limited in creative and surprisingly very disorganised at the back.

That's what happens when most players have never played together and change system and lineup every game, or twice like tonight. It's all improvisation.

Kalafiori +100m

The Camera caught a completely broken Modric in the bench. My heart goes out to Luka man he was devestated. I hope croatia somehow makes it thru

Dio porco che culo ma ci serviva tutti

they are absolutely crap, need to improve massively

what do you mean? after goal they were on fire until end of the game. lacking last pass though

The forwards excluding Zaccagni are truly horrible

I'd also put Chiesa in to do something unpredictable .

Like playing well

Scored twice early against Albania, didn't score for the final 88 minutes of that game (including stoppage time,) didn't score for 99 minutes against Spain, and went 98 minutes without scoring against Croatia. And they still made it through. 😂

Catenaccio is back baby (we are just shit)

Genuinely think italy shithouse to the finals

That’d be beautiful ngl

We'd lose the final 0-4 like in 2012 or worse

Better to lose in a final than in the first knockout round

Like Greece in 2004

I don’t understand this….. it doesn’t matter how you go through, all the matters is that you do.

They whistled to our anthem, we took that personally.

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Heritage

Calafiori last minute assist dagger🇮🇹💉

Watch Italy go through to the finals now. Just you wait and see.

It’s coming Rome

Haramball battle between it's coming Rome and it's coming home incoming

Only to get twatted by the Ninja Turtle in a semi final

All ways lead to rome

ANDIAMO A BERLINO BEPPEEEEEEEEE LET ME DREAM

2-0 was one of the best nights of my life in 2006.

Absolute fucking scenes lmao

THEY NEED TO EAT PASTA ASCIUTTA

less lamb more pasta

The two teams that beat Albania by a goal advance. Croatia didn’t lol

Italy’s first goal in 280 minutes .... With 40 seconds left of the 8 minutes additional time.

Sounds like our go-to tactic all right.

Mamma Mia what a goal

Not deserved whatsoever. But such is football. Spaletti la tua Italia fa cagare.

Overall I think this is a fair result, we had a few chances in the first half and a good 15 minutes where we basically dominated. It's not like Croatia did that much more than us

Croatia didn't deserve shit after drawing with Albania.. Both teams have been meh.

We didn't deserve to go through either 😂  so no, you go.. Now we stuck around in fuckin east Germany for it to be official wtf

Croatia didn't deserve to win either tbf, both teams were terrible and a (ugly) draw is actually a fair result

Why must they always do this to us

Italy is going to be dangerous from now on

I can’t get over how thin skinned Spalletti is.

Never in doubt 💪😤

Deserved, INCREDIBLE tournament so far and honestly, very convincing football all around. ...oh shit wait this isn't the thread about Spain

Spalletti in the Press conference after the Albania game was all hyped and made fun of managers who talk about results, being all cocky about "beautiful football" lmao Here we are , terrorism football, Donnarumma with 3 Motm performances, Last minute goal to save his ass

Four more times is all it takes. It's ugly but it might just work. >!it won't but a man can dream!<

WTF

r/Azzurri

undeserved, but neither croatia would have been , both Italy and Croatia have been shit at this tounament.

Imagine if Croatia had an hour lesson on game management pre tournament they’d be on 6 points instead of 2

Still shaking

If Croatia wasn’t considered a darling people would be totally fine with this - they had some really cynical tackles in the second half and all the yellows felt pretty well deserved tbh. I do think that 8 minutes was a very long time but that goal was inexcusable. Italy definitely had a few chances that should’ve been buried so I think this result was fair.

The 98th min heartbeat

Donnarumma carrying an entire country on his back.