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Know your Euro 2020 Groups: Group A – Are Italy favorites?

By Neelabhra Roy

Ciro Immobile of Italy (Photo by Claudio Villa/Getty Images)
Ciro Immobile of Italy (Photo by Claudio Villa/Getty Images) /
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Stefano Sensi of Italy celebrates with team-mates
Stefano Sensi of Italy celebrates with team-mates (Photo by Claudio Villa/Getty Images) /

GROUP A – ITALY

The Azzurri won all of their qualifying matches to make it to their 10th European Championship.

One of the elite powerhouses in world football, Italy, unfortunately, haven’t had the kind of success in the Euros as they’ve had in World Cups.

Their only triumph came in 1968 where they beat Yugoslavia in the only final in the competition’s history that had to be replayed.

Italy also had a chance of winning Euro 2000 but a late equalizer from France’s Sylvain Wiltord and a David Trezeguet golden goal prevented that from happening.

ITALY TEAM INFO

  • Manager – Roberto Mancini
  • Captain – Giorgio Chiellini
  • Key Players – Ciro Immobile, Marco Verratti, Gianluigi Donnarumma
  • FIFA Ranking – 7th
  • Prediction – Quarter-finals at least
  • First match of the tournament – vs Turkey on June 11

Italy’s 26-man squad for the tournament

Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan), Salvatore Sirigu (Torino), Alex Meret (Napoli), 

Giovanni di Lorenzo (Napoli), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma), Emerson (Chelsea), Francesco Acerbi (Lazio), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter Milan), Alessandro Florenzi (PSG), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta)

Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo), Marco Verratti (PSG), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Jorginho (Chelsea), Matteo Pessina (Atalanta), Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Nicolo Barella (Inter Milan), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus)

Andrea Belotti (Torino), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Giacomo Raspadori (Sassuolo)

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