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Euro 2020: Italy vs England - Battle of Wembley

 After 50 matches and 140 goals, Euro 2020 will witness its final contest between Italy and England at Wembley in London on Sunday night.


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Euro 2020: Italy vs England - Battle of Wembley

A list of key elements to look forward to in the big match


After 50 matches and 140 goals, Euro 2020 will witness its final contest between Italy and England at Wembley in London on Sunday night. 


Head-To-Head  





Matches 27  


Italy 11 


England 8  


Drawn 8


Italy (4-3-3)

Possible line-up

Donnarumma, Di Lorenzo, Bonucci, Chiellini, Emerson; Barella, Jorginho, Verratti; Chiesa, Immobile, Insigne


Defence

 Centre-backs Bonucci and Chiellini have bagfuls of experience, but will their ageing legs stand up to the swift-moving England forwards? Left-back Emerson and Giovanni di Lorenzo in the right have been steady but will have 

to take more responsibility. 


Midfield

Italy’s midfielders — Barella, Jorginho and Verratti — have performed as tirelessly as clock. While ‘Professor’ Jorginho conducts the orchestra, Barella’s box-to-box play leaves oppositions breathless. 


Attack

Federico Chiesa, if fit, should once again start given his tendency to find goals. The ever-busy Insigne too is a must. There are questions about Immobile’s form, but the Lazio striker’s abilities inside the box is hard to ignore. 


England (4-2-3-1)

Possible line-up

Pickford; Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw; Rice, Phillips; Saka, Mount, Sterling; Kane


Defence

Kyle Walker has been brilliant, Maguire has stood tall and Stones and Shaw have done what they were asked to do. Barring the Mikkel Damsgaard 

free-kick against Denmark, England have not conceded a goal in this Euro. Need we say more about England’s defensive steel?


Midfield

Rice and Phillips; hard work, complemented by Bukayo Sako’s fireworks and Mason Mount’s precision, England’s midfield is a complete package. Italy’s midfield marshals have been excellent so far, but England are a different proposition altogether. A very difficult one.


Attack

With King Kane in form, the English camp will breathe easy. But it’s Raheem’s sterling show that has provided England the sharpness upfront in this Euro.  


Keepers of hope

Gianluigi Donnarumma

Penalties faced 40 

Penalties saved 14


Jordan Pickford

Penalties faced 42 

Penalties saved 9


Coach's corner

Roberto Mancini: Italy under Mancini are on a 33-match unbeaten streak

Gareth Southgate: England have lost just two of 28 Wembley home games under Southgate


Do you know?

⚫ No team has ever won two shoot-outs in a single edition of Euro. Italy have already won one, beating Spain 4-2 in the semis. England haven’t been in a shoot-out yet in Euro 2020


⚫ Italy did not qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Thrice in history have teams who sat out a preceding World Cup gone on to win the Euro — Czechoslovakia in 1976, Denmark in 1992 and Greece in 2004


Game of cards

Referee for final: Björn Kuipers (Ned), a 48-year-old supermarket owner from Oldenzaal in the eastern Netherlands, will be officiating in his seventh European competition final. Not only was Kuipers’ father, Jan, also a referee, his wife Marlies’ grandfather, Andries van Leeuwen, was a top match official who was in charge of the 1963 European Cup Winners’ Cup final

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