2023-11-20 22:01:35
Italy was hot, but it qualified for Euro 2024. In Leverkusen, the Transalpines conceded a 0-0 draw once morest Ukraine. Czechia and Slovenia are also qualified.
Italy, the reigning European champion, will thus defend its trophy won in the summer of 2021. Ukraine will, for its part, have to win its play-off at the end of March with Israel, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Finland to compete in the 4th Euro of its history.
Italy thus spares itself the stress of a decisive play-off which was fatal to it in November 2017, in a round-trip format once morest Sweden, and in March 2022, in a Final 4 format, beaten in the semi-finals by North Macedonia.
These setbacks had deprived it of the last two World Cups, in 2018 in Russia and last year in Qatar, a trauma for a country which had until then only missed the World Cup twice, in 1930 and in 1958.
The Squadra Azzurra knew that a draw was enough for them and they did not really try to win the match. Luciano Spalletti’s players still had a few cold sweats at the end of the game when the Ukrainians pushed and almost got a penalty.
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