18 - Italy and Wales’ last encounter was 18 years ago, in a European Championship qualifier back in September 2003. On that day, Filippo Inzaghi scored his one and only hat-trick with the Italian national team (4-0).
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Italy - 6 points
Wales - 4 points
Switzerland - 1 point
Turkey - 0 points
Wales can win Group A with a victory against Roberto Mancini’s side.
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4 - Turkey have won their final group stage match at each of their last four appearances in a major tournament (World Cup and EUROs), since losing 0-3 against Denmark at EURO 1996.
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Haris Seferovic scores for Switzerland after just six minutes against Turkey.
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3 - Haris Seferović has become only the third Swiss player to score at both the World Cup and European Championships after Xherdan Shaqiri and Admir Mehmedi.
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Switzerland now lead 2-0 against Turkey through Xherdan Shaqiri.
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Xherdan Shaqiri is the first ever Swiss player to score in four consecutive major tournaments:
2014 World Cup
2016 Euros
2018 World Cup
2020 Euros
It was only a matter of time.
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6 - No player has scored more major tournament goals for Switzerland than Xherdan Shaqiri, who has just whipped in his sixth across World Cup (4) and European Championship (2) matches (level with Josef Hügi).
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Italy have now gone 1000 consecutive minutes without conceding a goal in international football.
Textbook Italy. 
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Matteo Pessina only made the Italy squad due to injuries to Pellegrini and Sesi…
He’s just scored the opener against Wales and his first competitive international goal 
That ball from Veratti was pretty special as well 
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2013 - Italy haven’t lost a competitive match that they scored in since June 2013 against Brazil in the Confederations Cup, winning 39 and drawing 12 times from such matches since then.
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Haris Seferovic
Xherdan Shaqiri
Switzerland had never scored a goal from outside the box at a European Championships since their first qualification in 1996, until today.
You wait 25 years for one, then two come along at once 
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Jorginho was the only Italy outfield player to not misplace a single pass in the first half vs. Wales:
◉ 28 passes attempted
◉ 28 passes completed
Perfection.
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Italy have now scored 32 goals in the time that it’s taken for them to concede.
Incredible. 
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Only four players have scored at the 2014 World Cup, EURO 2016, 2018 World Cup and EURO 2020:
Cristiano Ronaldo
Romelu Lukaku
Ivan Perišić
Xherdan Shaqiri
Always delivering on the big stage. 
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Ethan Ampadu sent off 
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20y 279d - Ethan Ampadu has become the youngest player in European Championships history to be shown a straight red card, aged 20 years and 279 days. Studs.
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GOAL! İrfan Can Kahveci pulls one back for Turkey!
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