On July 6, the semi-final match of the European Championship 2020 between the national teams of Italy and Spain will take place. The forecast for this game is offered by the expert of Spanish football Alexander Vishnevsky.
This is a classic confrontation, no other two national teams have played each other as often as Spain and Italy. For a very long time it was a one – way fight-Spain constantly lost to Italy. Whole generations of Spanish football players and fans have grown up in fear of meeting with the Italian national team. Everything was broken in 2008, when the team of Luis Aragones defeated the Italians in the quarterfinals of the European Championship. After that, Spain breathed a sigh of relief, after which it won the title. Four years later, at the European Championship, these teams again met twice – first in the group, and then in the final. In the final, Spain defeated Italy 4-0.
Vishnevsky believes that it is possible that it will come to a penalty shootout, and for the Spaniards this is a real scourge. They did not score five consecutive 11-meter goals during the regular time of matches. In the penalty shootout with Switzerland, they won, but there were also misses. He thinks that Italy will reach the next stage.
