Italy v Austria | Euro 2020 Last 16

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Italy v Austria

Saturday 25th June 2021

Kicks off at 20:00 (BST) at Wembley in London, England. Capacity at 25%, approximately 22,500.

Coverage begins at 19:00 (BST) on BBC 1, presented by Gary Lineker, commentary from Steve Bower and Danny Murphy. No information on the pundits.

Referee: Anthony Taylor (ENG)


ITALY
The best team in the tournament so far I think most would agree, only downside is they’ve been handed quite a tough run to get to the Final. Mancini’s men have been solid at the back and lethal up front, they haven’t conceded and they’ve score 7 goals. It’ll be interesting to see how they handle their first game away from the Stadio OIimpico. They’ll have to get used to winning at Wembley if they want to win this competition.

Form at Euro 2020:
Turkey 0-3 Italy
Italy 3-0 Switzerland
Italy 1-0 Wales

Euro 2020 goal scorers:
Ciro Immobile – 2
Manuel Locatelli – 2
Lorenzo Insigne – 1
Matteo Pessina – 1
Own Goal – 1


AUSTRIA
I seem to recall Austria’s first 2 games being entertaining, so far in this tournament they’ve scored 4 goals and conceded 3. They’re decent on the attack but not great at the back, probably not a great recipe coming into this one. I think they’ll change tactics in this one though. I expect them to sit back, defend and then try and use Arnautovic and Sabitzer on the break. If they pull this off it will be a major shock.

Form at Euro 2020:
Austria 3-1 North Macedonia
Netherlands 2-0 Austria
Ukraine 0-1 Austria

Euro 2020 goal scorers:
Stefan Lainer – 1
Michael Gregoritsch – 1
Marko Arnautovic – 1
Christoph Baumgartner – 1

 

[mat]

Should be a straight forward Italian win unless Alti Fan is still butt hurt from Agueroooooooooooooooo.

 

[hertsblue]

Hard one to call with Alti in charge and the even more useless Atwell on Var

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

One thing for sure, the Austrians will kick fuck out of anyone in an Italian shirt. They are the dirtiest side I've seen since 1970's Leeds.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Let’s get it done Roberto

 

[Deleted member 87819]

Fucking hell, he put Locatelli on the bench...

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Italia Italia Italia

 

[kun]

This is a banker for Italy surely

 

[Deleted member 77198]

No Locatelli? What you playing at Bobby? He’s been the player of the tournament so far.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Italy should wallop these on current form. Their group was quite poor though, so it will be interesting to see how they fare agaist better teams. Austria not being one though. Italy to win by 2 I think.