Turkey vs Italy at Euro 2020: The lowdown
Five years on from the last European Championship, the competition returns this week a year after the fact than expected. The Group An opener today sees Turkey face Italy, the first of 51 matches occurring across 31 days in eleven distinct urban areas.
The Italians won the competition on home soil in 1968 and will be hoping to recover those brilliance days while Turkey would be extremely thankful for a rehash of the run that saw them arrive at the semi-finals in 2008.
Here is all you require to know in front of the primary installation of Euro 2020.
The rudiments
The game starts off at 8pm BST on Friday, June 11 and, in the UK, will be broadcast on BBC One or through the BBC iPlayer.
The match will happen in Rome at the Stadio Olimpico, home ground of both Roma and Lazio.
The motivation to observe
The worldwide pandemic methods this is the longest hole between global competitions we’ve at any point experienced and that ought to be sufficient to have each football fan in expectant disposition.
For the individuals who need more motivations to watch, Italy haven’t surrendered an objective in 2021 and haven’t lost a game since 2018 — yet this is in no way, shape or form a convention.
The Italians are facing a youthful Turkey side by and by oversaw by Senol Gunes, the one who engineered the nation’s hurried to the 2002 World Cup semi-last, and numerous eyewitnesses accept he has a more skilled gathering of players available to him this time around.
Any set of experiences?
In the ten past games between the sides, Italy have won 7, drawn 3 and never lost.
While that probably won’t look good for Turkey, the two latest gatherings between the groups finished in 1-1 draws, albeit the latest of those was back in 2006.
Number one detail
Roberto Mancini’s Italian group won each of the ten of their qualifiers, one of just eight sides throughout the entire existence of the opposition to qualify with an ideal record.
Our forecast
67.5 percent of The Athletic’s newsroom have tipped Italy to win, with one only individual from the group backing Turkey.
The key inquiry
Would turkey be able to oversee something they never have and rout Italy in a football match?
