On Sunday, June 25, at 19:00 at the Cluj Arena in Cluj-Napoca, the European Championship Group D match Switzerland U21 vs Italy U21 will be broadcast by TVR 2.

The European Under-21 Championship takes place in Georgia (Group A and Group C) and Romania (Group B and Group D), with the 1st and 2nd placed teams in each group advancing to the quarter-finals. competition.

Switzerland U21 and Italy U21 meet in a match that brings together Europe’s best footballers, most of whom are already playing for important senior teams.

Switzerland U21 won their first group match 2-1 against Norway U21 and can advance to the quarter-finals with a win over Italy U21.

Switzerland U21 qualified for the European Championship after finishing 2nd in a group won by Holland U21 and also featuring Moldova U21, Wales U21, Bulgaria U21 and Gibraltar U21, in which they won seven, drew two and lost (not to play in the playoffs, as it was the team with the highest result in the 2nd place of the previous groups).

The team under the leadership of Patrik Rahman, who will meet the team of the first Swiss league “Wintertour” after the final tournament, played two friendly matches before Euro-2023: 2:3 away with Spain U21 and 2:1 at home with Israel U21.

Switzerland U21’s best result in a finals tournament was the 2011 final where they lost 0-2 to Spain U21.

Italy U21 started the group with a 1-2 defeat against France U21 and another defeat would mean elimination from this phase of the competition.

Italy U21 qualified for the finals of Euro 2023 after winning their previous group with Ireland U21, Sweden U21, Bosnia and Herzegovina U21, Montenegro U21 and Luxembourg U21, in which they recorded seven wins and three draws.

Before the competitions in Romania and Georgia, the team of Paolo Nicolato, who has coached all junior and youth national teams since 2016, played two friendly games: 0:2 away against Serbia U21 and 3:1 at home against Ukraine U21.

Italy U21 has five championship titles (1986, 1998, 2011, 2013, 2019) and reached the final three more times (1984, 1996, 2017).

The last time these two teams met was in 2015 in a friendly where Italy U21 won 3-0 against Switzerland U21.

Superbet offers odds of 1.75 on the GG prediction: both teams will score in the match Switzerland U21 – Italy U21.

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