The Italian national team reached the semifinals of the European Football Championship, after beating Hungary 2-0 in the capital Budapest, while Germany and England ended their season with an exciting 3-3 in the sixth and final round of matches.
The two goals of the 2020 European Cup champion, who will miss the 2022 World Cup in Qatar for the second time in a row, were scored by Napoli striker Giacomo Rasbadori (27) and Inter Federico Demarco (52).
Thus, Italy leads Group C with 11 points, one point behind Hungary, to join the Netherlands and Croatia, looking forward to completing the area on Tuesday after taking on Spain and Portugal.
After the great pressure of the blues in the first half, the Hungarian team appeared tense and repeated the defenders’ mistake in passing, and from one of them, when Adam Nagy was returning the ball to his goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi, the goalkeeper made a error in passing and the ball reaches Rasbadori, who is brought in front of an almost empty goal. The ball hits the net in the 27th minute.
Giovanni Di Lorenzo nearly doubled after four minutes with a nice shot from inside the penalty area, but passed alongside the post.
With the start of the second half the team has the opportunity to score the goal after a shot from inside the area by Dominic Shubulai, blocked by the goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, followed by Loic Nego with another shot that the defense kept out of the area .
“We needed these matches to restore enthusiasm, even if the World Cup remains an open wound and we cannot go back,” said the Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper after the victory.
“We have to start over, we have to do it for the whole of Italy,” he added.
And among the Hungarians’ comeback attempts, Demarco arrives in the 52nd minute and doubles for the Azzurri after a beautiful pass by Nicolò Barilla on Brian Cristante, who in turn passes it to Demarco, author of the goal.
Germany and England greet the draw
In another match, England and Germany exited the tournament with a 3-3 draw at Wembley Stadium.
England’s goals were scored by Luke Shaw (71), Mason Mount (75) and Harry Kane (83 from a penalty), while Germans Kai Haverts (67 and 87) and Ilkay Gundogan (52) scored.
Thus, the German national team finished their season third in Group C with 6 points, while England were at the bottom of the table with three points.
Going scoreless in the first half, coach Hansi Flick pushed Timo Werner into the second half, and the latter missed a goal after receiving a pass from Yozoa Kimmich and striking him strangely off the pitch.
However, defender Harry Maguire gave the Germans an easy goal when he mistakenly passed the ball to Jamal Musiala, who tried to cross the Manchester United defender, and tangled with him and dropped him to the ground.
The German national team players asked for a penalty kick, but the referee ordered the game to finish, before resorting to video technology and reversing his decision, then awarded a penalty kick which Gundogan translated into goal. (52).
Maguire returns to advance towards the German penalty area again, providing offensive support, but the visiting defense manages to extract the ball from it and builds a counterattack that ends with a goal with a splendid shot by Haverts (67).
England reduced the score with a powerful shot from Shaw that landed in the net (71) and increased the determination of the “Three Lions”, so Mount managed it three minutes after the equalization with a powerful shot from outside the box.
And the referee awarded a penalty for England this time in favor of Judd Bellingham after the return to the (VAR), so that Kane managed to get it successfully and the hosts took the lead with the result (83).
However, the response from the guests was not late and Serge Gnabry fired a long shot that warned Nick Bob, but was bounced off him in front of Haverts, who scored easily (87).
The British tried to snatch the victory that loomed in the final minutes, but goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen prevented it.
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