Euro 2020 Highlights, Italy vs Austria: It’s the second match of the Round of 16 as the knockout stages of the European Championships kicked off with Wales vs Denmark on Saturday. Italy reach the quarter-finals after beating Austria 2-1 in extra time. Federico Chiesa and Matteo Pessini scored in quick succession to put Italy 2-0 up. Austria pulled one back through Sasa Kalajdzic but Italy had done just enough. Austria put up a monumental performance but Italy had the quality to take them through.
Story of the Match: Italy go through. Sasa Kalajdzic pulls one back for Austria with a few minutes remaining for them to keep themselves alive in this. Matteo Pessina scores Italy’s second. Federico Chiesa scores in the 95th minute to put Italy in the lead. We are going into extra time at the Wembley! Austria did so well to hold out Italy, who were the easy favourites for this game and now we will have 30 more minutes of football. If we don’t have a clear winner even after that, the match will go to penalties. Italy dominated the first half but were unable to score and in the second half, Austria came out with more attacking intent and yet an organised defence to shut out Italy. Austria had a goal disallowed for offside as well.
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Substitutes Federico Chiesa and Matteo Pessina struck in extra-time as Italy beat battling Austria 2-1 to reach the quarter-finals of Euro 2020 at Wembley on Saturday. The two teams were locked at 0-0 after 90 minutes in London, with Italy enjoying the better of the first half but Austria rattling Roberto Mancini’s side in the second period. Chiesa struck early in extra-time to calm Italy’s nerves and another goal from Pessina set up a quarter-final against the winners of Sunday’s tie between Belgium and holders Portugal, despite late drama.
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Having emerged as Group A winners with a 100 percent record after playing all three of their games in Rome, Italy were on the road for the first time in the tournament.
The match went to extra-time but it did not take long for Italy to make their mark.
The impressive Spinazzola found Chiesa, who controlled the ball and smashed in from close range five minutes into the extra half an hour.
Italy effectively ended the tie 10 minutes later when the ball fell for Pessina, and he drilled home before racing towards the corner flag and throwing himself on the turf.
But there was still time for late drama when Austria’s Sasa Kalajdzic stooped to head the ball in at the near post from a corner with a little over five minutes to go but their frantic final efforts were in vain.
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