Ricardo gave Spain the gift of victory by scoring an own goal

Three-time European champions Spain defeated defending champions Italy 1-0 to enter the knockout round of Euro Cup Football 2024. In the 55th minute, Italy's Ricardo Calafiori scored an own goal to give Spain the win. Spain's performance was excellent throughout the match.

With this, Spain has won its third consecutive win against Italy in the Euro Cup for the first time. Earlier, Spain defeated Italy 2-1 in October 2021 and 2-1 in June 2023. Italy has lost for the first time since 2016 in the European Championship. They last lost 1-0 against Ireland in 2016. With this, Italy's tradition of remaining unbeaten for 10 consecutive matches also broke. In these ten matches, Italy got seven wins and three draws. Spain has won its first two matches in Euro Cup history. Earlier in 2016, Spain defeated the Czech Republic 1-0 and Turkey 3-0 in its first two matches. In the last three World Cups, Spain has been eliminated in the preliminary stage itself. In the semi-finals of the last European Championship, Italy defeated them in a penalty shootout.

England played a 1-1 draw against Denmark in Group C. Captain Harry Kane scored a brilliant goal for England in the 18th minute to make the score 1-0. Denmark's Morten Julmund scored in the 34th minute to level the score at 1-1. Harry Kane has become the third English footballer to score for England in four different major international tournaments. Earlier Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney had achieved this feat. So far 13 goals have been scored from outside the box in Euro Cup 2024, which is more than the number of goals scored in the entire group stage of the 2020 event.