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Subs give Italy 2-1 win over Austria, spot in Euro 2020 QFs

(AP) — With three exqui- controlled the bouncing ball playing in the knockout stage
site touches of control, with his right boot and then at a European Championship
technique and finishing, used his other foot to shoot for the first time.
Federico Chiesa ended 95 low into the net.
minutes of Italian frustra- “After 90 minutes we said
tion. “Usually when the ball ar- that we just had to improve
rives like this you try a first the quality of the final pass-
This record-breaking team time on the volley,” Chiesa es,” Spinazzola said, “and fi-
is off to the quarterfinals of said. “But I think the goal nally the goals arrived in extra
the European Championship came because I was com- time.”
with a defense that finally al- posed, I was relaxed and I was
lowed a goal after more than focused.” Individual skill produced the has certainly proved that he David Alaba said.
19 hours but with a national breakthrough from Chiesa. is a top player and I think he The Austrian comeback end-
team-record 12th straight The goal rolled the clock Italy’s second was more about will have a great future with ed there, however, and Italy
victory. back 25 years to when Euro- calmness in a goalmouth Italy because I think he is held on for its 31st straight
pean Championship games scramble. Pessina, who came only going to get better.” unbeaten match — another
After breezing through the were last played in England on midway through the sec- Italy was also celebrating national team record.
group stage at Euro 2020, and his father Enrico Chiesa ond half, sent the ball into the in extra time after setting a
Italy was made to fight for its scored for Italy. Euro ’96, far corner of the net in the world record for minutes Video review helped, too.
2-1 victory over Austria on however, ended in the group 105th minute. played without conceding
Saturday in a last-16 game stage for Italy. a goal in international soc- Austria took 63 minutes for
that came to life in extra time. “In this team everybody can cer. The previous record was its first shot, then found the
Now it’s onto a quarterfinal score and this is our main also Italy’s and was set with net two minutes later. Alaba
It was Roberto Mancini’s meeting in Munich on Friday strength,” Pessina said. “We goalkeeper Dino Zoff in the headed the ball across the
substitutes who made the dif- against the winner of Sun- are a great group.” team. The Italians went 1,143 penalty area and Marko Arn-
ference with the goals from day’s match between defend- minutes between 1972 and autovic nodded the ball past
Chiesa and Matteo Pessina at ing champion Portugal and The group spirit was clear in 1974 without allowing a goal. Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi
Wembley Stadium. top-ranked Belgium. the raw emotion of the goal Donnarumma. But the video
celebrations as teammates But Italy soon conceded for review showed Arnautovic’s
“We needed some fresh en- “Ideally we would like to collapsed on Pessina, a late the first time in 1,168 min- right boot was offside.
ergy,” Mancini said, “and the avoid both,” Mancini said, injury replacement in the utes, from a set piece in the
guys who came on were bril- “but it’s not possible.” squad. 114th minute when Sasa “We are disappointed and
liant.” Kalajdzic headed the ball in sad,” Austria coach Franco
After scoring seven goals “He’s not a player I have nec- from a corner. Foda said. “We need justice
An unmarked Chiesa brought without reply in the group essarily unearthed — he has in football but today it hit us.
down Leonardo Spinazzola’s stage, Italy didn’t have it so been doing brilliantly for “Maybe Italy was a little bit It was a close offside and we
high cross with his head, easy against an Austrian team Atalanta,” Mancini said. “He nervous,” Austria defender have to live with it.”

Dolberg scores 2, Denmark beats Wales 4-0 at Euro 2020

(AP) — Still riding a wave French club Nice. its worst loss in a competitive
of emotion, Denmark won Both Eriksen and Dolberg It was the second match in match since being beaten 6-1
again at the European played for Ajax, the team that a row that Denmark scored “I think we have a star striker by Serbia in September 2012.
Championship. plays its home matches at the four times, after beating in Kasper,” Hjulmand said.
Johan Cruyff Arena. Much Russia 4-1 to qualify for the “We’re all hurting. We didn’t
And they won a big one at a of the crowd of 16,000 was round of 16 after losing its Saturday’s strikes brought want our supporters to watch
stadium that means a lot to cheering on the Danes. first two matches. Denmark his tally at the Johan Cruyff us going out like that,” Wales
them. is the first nation to score four Arena to 31, with the other coach Rob Page said, add-
“It feels like a home game,” or more goals in consecutive 29 coming for Ajax. ing he believed there was a
The Danes advanced to the Dolberg said. “This stadium, matches in the history of the foul on Kieffer Moore in the
quarterfinals at Euro 2020 which is very special to me, European Championship. “Today when we were walk- build-up to the second Den-
by beating Wales 4-0 on Sat- it’s fantastic.” ing ... to the stadium I felt mark goal.
urday in Amsterdam, getting “We needed the love and sup- that it was something very,
two goals from Kasper Dol- Dolberg, who was given his port and that’s what gave us very special for me,” Dolberg The Danes will next play ei-
berg exactly two weeks after first start of the tournament wings,” Hjulmand said of the said. “Today everything feels ther the Netherlands or the
Christian Eriksen collapsed by Denmark coach Kasper crowd in Amsterdam. right.” Czech Republic in the quar-
on the field during the team’s Hjulmand, scored a goal in terfinals in Baku on Saturday.
opening match. Eriksen had each half. Joakim Maehle After soaking up early pres- Dolberg became the first
to be resuscitated with a de- scored the third in the 88th sure by Wales, Dolberg Danish player to score at least Wales had an early chance to
fibrillator and spent several minute and Martin Braith- struck. twice in a match at a major take the lead when captain
days in the hospital before waite added the fourth in in- tournament since Nicklas Gareth Bale sent a swerving
returning home last week. jury time. He took a pass from Mikkel Bendtner against Portugal at shot just wide in the 10th
Damsgaard in the 27th min- Euro 2012. minute. He shot wide again
ute and cut infield from the two minutes later as he at-
left before curling a right- With Wales increasingly tempted to break an interna-
foot shot into the far corner. ragged, Maehle made it 3-0 tional goal drought that has
He doubled the lead in the with a powerful shot when now reached 15 matches.
48th minute when he scored he had time and space to con-
with a low shot after Neco trol the ball and beat Wales Wales managed only one shot
Williams’ attempted clear- goalkeeper Danny Ward. on target in the entire match.
ance went straight to him. Braithwaite’s goal was initial- Denmark had eight.
ly ruled offside but allowed
Dolberg knows all about after a video review. “We showed real heart,” said
about scoring in Amsterdam. Bale, one of Wales’ key play-
He found the net 45 times in Harry Wilson was sent off in ers when the team reached
119 matches for Ajax from the 90th minute for a foul on the semifinals at Euro 2016
2016-19 before signing for Maehle as Wales slumped to in France.