DORTMUND: Italy recovered from conceding the fastest goal in the competition’s history to get their defence of the European Championship title off to ...
Italy recovered from conceding the fastest goal in the competition’s history to get their defence of the European Championship title off to a winning start on Saturday as they came back to beat Albania 2-1 in front of a partisan crowd.
From then on Luciano Spalletti’s team looked much more assured, although they really should have won by a greater margin rather than face an anxious finale as Albania pushed for an equaliser. “You need to be aggressive, hungry to create more and try to score that extra goal,“ he told broadcaster RAI. Only five of Italy’s line-up at kick-off here started the final of the last Euros three years ago, with a new-look team featuring Bologna centre-back Riccardo Calafiori winning just his third cap.Albania, though, are appearing at just their second major tournament having also gone to Euro 2016.
Italy’s Federico Dimarco took a throw from the left-back position but played it loosely back into his own box. Bastoni was caught on the back foot, and Bajrami -- who plays in Italy for Sassuolo -- pounced to control and fire past Gianluigi Donnarumma at the goalkeeper’s near post. Italy had regained their composure and soon went in front on 16 minutes, a Jasir Asani clearance dropping straight to another Inter player in Barella, who made the cleanest of contacts at the edge of the area to send a first-time shot past goalkeeper Thomas Strakosha.
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