Euro 2024, Italy faces Swiss test to fly to quarterfinals

The Azzurri are expected, tomorrow at 6 pm in Berlin, to take the Swiss exam to understand if the lessons taught during the group stage have been useful or if we will be “sent” home by the red-crosses. It will be the 62nd match between Switzerland and Italy and the balance is clearly in our favor given that only on eight occasions, the last 31 years ago, have we left the field defeated. Although history, as important as it is, is reset at the kick-off, Sisal experts believe that Italy, for these round of 16 of Euro 2024, is favored at 2.45 against Switzerland’s 3.30 while it drops to 2.90 for a draw. The balance also tips in favor of the Azzurri for the passage to the quarter-finals, 1.75 compared to the Swiss’ 2.10. It is not excluded that the challenge could continue beyond the ninetieth minute, extra time options at 2.90 while the odds go up to 5.00 for a solution to penalties. In the 15 most recent matches, only on three occasions have more than three goals been scored overall: it is normal that the Under, at 1.47, is much preferred to the Over, offered at 2.50. In the last European Championship, Italy closed the challenge with Switzerland with a clean sheet: another clean sheet by Donnarumma is given at 2.45. Details often make the difference in make-or-break games: a goal from the bench, at 2.25; a VAR call, at 3.00, but also a penalty offered at 2.75.

If Donnarumma, and a good part of the defense starting with Calafiori, absent due to suspension, and Bastoni, were the added values ​​in the group stage, it is normal that from the round of 16 onwards a leap in quality is expected from the other departments. Starting from the attack where Gianluca Scamacca and Mateo Retegui, both offered at 4.00 to enter the scoreboard, are looking for their first goal in the competition. Federico Chiesa will also try to be the protagonist, goals or assists at 2.70, while Davide Frattesi dreams of giving displeasure to his friend and teammate Sommer: the Inter midfielder’s goal would pay 6 times the price. Switzerland, which has a large group of players who play in Serie A, has Breel Embolo, a very fast winger from Monaco, who scores at 4.50, and Dan Ndoye, a winger from Bologna who is also a protagonist with goals or assists at 3, 50, the two players with the greatest offensive weight.