UEFA EURO 2024: Italy vs Albania Prediction

START TIME: Sunday 16^th June, 2024 - Kenya – 22:00 / UK – 20:00

 

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EXPECTED TEAMS

 

ITALY

 

PREDICTED XI (3-4-2-1): Donnarumma; Darmian, Bastoni, Calafiori; Di Lorenzo, Jorginho, Cristante, Dimarco; Chiesa, Pellegrini; Scamacca

UNAVAILABLE:

QUESTIONABLE: Barella (Injured), Fagioli (Injured)

ALBANIA

PREDICTED XI (4-2-3-1): Berisha; Balliu, Djimsiti, Ajeti, Hysaj; Asllani, Ramadani; Asani, Bajrami, Seferi; Broja

UNAVAILABLE:

QUESTIONABLE:

PREDICTION

Italy won UEFA EURO 2020 three summers ago but, either side of that triumph, have failed to qualify for successive FIFA World Cups. 2022/23 Serie A title winning manager Luciano Spalletti is in charge of the Azzurri and he will continue to play the same sort of progressive football that Roberto Mancini initially implemented. Albania qualified as group winners last year but ahead of two sides, Czechia and Poland, that both decided to part company with their respective coaches such was the humiliation and underperformance of that campaign. They boast some players of pedigree but not enough to challenge the Italians and the reigning champions should get off to a comfortable start.