The Italian national football team lost 2-0 against Switzerland in the round of 16 of Euro 2024 and was eliminated.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Sports Service: At the beginning of the round of 16 of Euro 2024, last night (Saturday) at 8:30 Kabul time, the national football teams of Switzerland and Italy lined up against each other in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. It ended with the advantage of Switzerland 2-0, so that the Swiss will be the first to advance to the quarter-final stage and Italy will finish the mission of defending its championship title unsuccessfully.

Italy, like its previous two games in the group stage, appeared disappointing, especially at the end of the first half, when the disastrous mistakes of the players of this team in keeping the ball gave Switzerland more courage to intensify its attacks, and in the end, Murat Yakin's students paid for their much better performance. They took it with Remo Froehler's goal in the 37th minute.

Not only did Switzerland score, but it was much better than Azzurri in possession, positioning and attacks.

The Italians did not have a single shot on target in the first 45 minutes. In the second half, the situation for Italy not only did not improve, but also worsened; Because in the first minute, Vargas hit the ball from the left side of Italy's penalty area and scored the ball into the net of the Azordifans.

As in the first half, Italy had no plan to compensate for the lost goals, and except for one time - which was the result of a mistake by the Swiss player Fabian Schar - none of the shots fired at the opponent's goal were inside the frame.

In this way, following his disappointing performances in the 17th edition of the European Nations Cup, Luciano Spalletti's Italy stopped defending the title and returned home. The Swiss, however, were the first team to advance to the quarter-finals and now they have to wait for the result of the battle between England and Slovakia to face the winner of that game.

In the second game of the first night of the round of 16 matches of Euro 2024, last night (Saturday) at 11:30 Kabul time at the Signal Iduna Park Stadium in Dortmund, the German national team defeated its opponent Denmark with a score of 2-0. give and according to his calculated and imperfect game in defense and attack issue a championship signal. This is Germany's first quarter-final appearance since 2016.

Kai Havarts in the 53rd minute from the penalty spot and Jamal Musyala in the 68th minute scored the goals of the team led by Yulian Naglesman in this game.

In this way, the Germans became the second team after Switzerland - the team they were grouped with in the previous stage - as the second team on the way to the quarter finals, and Denmark, like Italy, withdrew from the competition.

Germany's opponent in the quarter-finals will be one of the two teams Spain and Georgia, who will face each other tonight at 11:30 in the fourth game of the round of 18.