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Federico Chiesa, carabinieri alone for an hour
The only player of the Nazionale not to fish physically in the first hour, Federico Chiesa did everything to try to bring Italy back to height.
Each of the Italian offensives came through the Juventus player Turin, who made the English defense tremble every time he took the ball.
He was the only one.
Fortunately for him, Leonardo Bonucci helped him to equalize (1-1, 67th).
Then, his teammates followed suit and dominated the end of this final.
He continued to be dangerous but had to give up his place shortly before the final whistle, injured (86th).
Federico Bernardeschi, his replacement, also brought a lot of movement.
Kane festival
The Tottenham striker has been excellent. Harry Kane sublimated in this final, confirming his ascending form in this Euro. Perfectly entered into the biggest meeting of his career, it was he who picked up, turned and reversed the game towards Kieran Trippier. A few seconds later, Luke Shaw opened the scoring (1-0, 2nd). He continued in this register by dezoning in abundance and showing a fairly impressive technical cleanliness. His passes were almost always given in the right tempo, aided by a heightened sense of the game in the London rain. Ideally placed, its positioning slightly further back than a traditional number 9 greatly hampered the Italian environment. Jorginho and Verratti struggled to muzzle the Englishman. Also inspired by the ball to the foot, it isis extirpated with class from certain situations. He suffered from the tendency of his team to retreat, to which he is not necessarily a stranger. He took his responsibility well by taking the first penalty.
Marco Verratti, with two faces
Its first hour was quite symptomatic of Italy's problems.
Short of pace, imprecise in his transmissions and a little lost on the lawn.
Conversely, his last half hour was the symbol of the renewal of Italy.
Sharp, starved and technical leader, the middle of Paris-SG completely changed face around the hour mark and the exit of Nicolo Barella.
Verratti transformed the Nazionale who really seemed to be playing with no idea and no legs.
He encouraged all his partners to go press, which put the English, installed in a rhythm in a senator, in difficulty.
He comes out at the start of extra time, unfortunately for the pleasure of our peepers.
The Luke Shaw show
Obviously, he will forever remain as England's first goalscorer in a Euro final.
The Manchester United side scored his first goal in the selection in the second minute of play, giving the advantage to his team (1-0, 2nd).
The fourth achievement of his career is even the fastest in the history of the Euro finals (1'58 '').
In addition to opening the scoring forever in the history of the Three Lions, Luke Shaw was excellent in his left lane.
Positioned in a role of piston, he took full advantage of the breaches offered by Di Lorenzo, much less inspired than the Mancunien.
A match in the image of his season with the jersey of the Red Devils: excellent.
Flops
Raheem Sterling, the match without
England's key player so far in this Euro, the Manchester City winger missed out on his final.
He is however used to playing at Wembley, he who won seven trophies with the Citizens.
Much less twirling than against Denmark, he rarely made the right choices with the ball and lacked a little skill in his passes.
His few accelerations still hurt the Italian defense and he could have obtained a penalty after being held in the box by Bonucci and Chiellini (48th).
The Italian side, close to trapping their teammates
Emerson and Giovanni Di Lorenzo are mainly responsible for opening the English scoring.
The first city was a little too passive against Trippier who had plenty of time to center towards Luke Shaw, completely forgotten by Di Lorenzo, who opened the scoring (1-0, 2nd).
A blow for the Italians.
The two full-backs suffered from Shaw and Trippier for a very long time, and were almost systematically taken behind their backs.
Fortunately for them, Italy gradually picked up the thread of the match and the duo suffered much less afterwards.
English whistles during hymns
The English supporters animated this day.
Already in tune in the early morning, social networks were full of English, often alcoholic, in funny situations.
Unfortunately, after the excesses seen before the game on the outskirts of Wembley, Three Lions fans once again distinguished themselves with a rather loathsome habit: that of whistling the opponent's national anthem.
Since the start of this Euro, each opponent of England has heard his anthem accompanied by the whistles of English rather disrespectful and whose fair play is not necessarily one of the priorities.
These same supporters who this Sunday must look grim.
Ciro Immobile is aptly named
A ghost. In the continuity of the mixed Euro that he delivered from the start, Ciro Immobile again disappointed this Sunday in London. The rare balls that he touched, he did not improve them. His calls seemed out of tune and his controls quite heavy. He had a chance in the first half in the box, but his recovery was blocked. He leaves shortly before the hour of play in place of Berardi who showed more interesting things.
