At the start of the 2020/2021 season, Ilya Zabarnyi was an unknown player in Europe who had not played a minute in a senior competitive match, but now he is well-known around Europe and is labelled as a wonderkid. He was a starter for both Dynamo Kyiv and Ukraine, which tells us a...
After a month of constant football viewing, we can collectively catch our breath. With the days equally split between Euro 2020 and Copa América, we've seen football go to Rome and Argentina break their 28-year title drought. With all the games in the book, we have a full data set...
EURO 2020 came to the end and Italy won it on penalties which sums up this tournament quite well after so many extra-times and penalty shootouts. It was pretty good tournament with a lot of excitement and surprising results. Denmark surprised us all by reaching semi-final while some teams like...
The EURO 2020 final saw Italy face England at Wembley Stadium in London, with 60,000 fans allowed to attend this showpiece event. The crowd was understandably in support of the English, with a tiny Italian contingent, and England were hoping to use this to end 55 years of hurt and...
The EURO 2020 final saw Italy face England at Wembley Stadium in London, with 60,000 fans allowed to attend this showpiece event. The crowd was understandably in support of the English, with a tiny Italian contingent, and England were hoping to use this to end 55 years of hurt and...
So Euro 2020 has officially come to an end and the Italians reign as the champions of Europe. Across the tournament as a whole, it is difficult to argue that Italy are not deserving champions. Their coach Roberto Mancini has removed the shackles of tradition that so often surrounded the...
On Sunday evening at Wembley Stadium, England will take on Italy in the final of Euro 2020. Italy successfully navigated their way through a difficult knockout stage, beating Austria, Belgium and Spain, all after topping a group made up of Wales, Switzerland, and Turkey. Italy had managed to outscore every...
Another EURO 2020’s semi-final between England and Denmark was played at the Wembley Stadium. Before the game, both sides had huge expectations as they thought they had the qualities to win the battle. Although Mikkel Damsgaard scored a stunner from a direct free-kick to open the scoring, England managed to...
Italy faced Spain at Wembley in what promised to be an epic semi-final at EURO 2020, and it did not disappoint, as we got arguably the best game of the tournament so far. Spain had a third straight game go to extra-time, and while they had prevailed on penalties against...
Italy vs Spain, one of the semi-finals at EURO 2020, was billed as the 'final before the final', and it did not disappoint, as we were treated to a fantastic display of football from both sides, with Italy eventually managing to make it to the final of the tournament after...
Italy vs Spain, one of the semi-finals at EURO 2020, was billed as the 'final before the final', and it did not disappoint, as we were treated to a fantastic display of football from both sides, with Italy eventually managing to make it to the final of the tournament after...
The EURO 2020 quarter-final matches were all very close and tense encounters, other than England vs Ukraine, which finished with an emphatic win for the Three Lions. We saw some great performances across these matches, which once again made it quite difficult to pick just 11 players for our best...
England are the big favourites against Denmark in their Euro 2020 semi-final battle, but they should not underestimate the inspired Danish team as we saw many of the big teams surprisingly withdrawal from the tournament in an unexpected turn of events. The fact that England reached the semi-finals with “no...
Italy take on Spain in the semi-finals of EURO 2020 at Wembley, with this match being a rematch of the EURO 2012 final, which Spain won convincingly by a 4-0 margin. More recently, these two sides also faced each other at EURO 2016, with the Italians prevailing 2-0 on that...
The Euro 2020 knockouts have featured some brilliant clashes that have been both entertaining from a visual as well as a tactical point of view. With three teams already having booked their semi-final berths, the final spot will be battled by Ukraine and world-cup semi-finalists England. This tactical analysis will...
On Saturday evening, the Baku Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan hosted the third semi-final of Euro 2020. The game was disputed between the Czech Republic and Denmark with the Danes coming out as narrow winners in a 2-1 victory. The match was quite evenly contested for the most part and Denmark...
England cruised into the EURO 2020 semi-finals for the first time since 1996 after defeating Ukraine 4-0 in Rome, and they will now face Denmark back at Wembley. England manager Gareth Southgate brought back Mason Mount into the side after he was forced to isolate due to close contact with...
Denmark's fairytale run at EURO 2020 continued, as they defeated the Czech Republic 2-1 to progress to the semi-finals for the first time since the 1992 tournament - when they went on to win the whole thing. This is the fourth time that Denmark have made it to the semi-finals...
Belgium vs Italy was a true heavyweight clash in the EURO 2020 quarter-finals, with the Azzurri coming out on top to progress to the last four of the tournament. Belgium manager Roberto Martinez was without Eden Hazard after he picked up an injury in their round of 16 win over...
Switzerland took a knockout match to extra-time and penalties for the second game in a row at EURO 2020, but unfortunately came out on the wrong end this time, as Spain held their nerve (only slightly) better to go through to the semi-finals of the tournament. Switzerland made one change...
