Spain had 20 shots but had to settle for a narrow win thanks to Riccardo Calafiori’s own goal, as they beat Italy 1-0
, a game that could easily be a final; watching this, he might have been half right. The team he coaches beat Italy by an own goal, scored by Riccardo Calafiori, to win the Group of Death with a match to spare but that doesn’t tell the story, nor begin to express the way they took Italy apart. The surprise was not that Luciano Spalletti’s side had lost here but that they did so narrowly, somehow alive to the last.
The game was only 85 seconds old when Nico Williams raced past Giovanni Di Lorenzo and delivered a glorious cross from which Pedri jumped and headed at goal. A few centimetres either side and it would surely have been the opener, but Gianluigi Donnarumma threw up a hand and pushed it over the bar. Williams had gone outside that time. He would come inside the next time, flying into the area, an opportunity to shoot momentarily opening up. The third time, he went back outside.
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