{"id":470371,"date":"2023-11-20T17:43:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470371"},"modified":"2023-11-20T17:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:54:30","slug":"italy-advance-to-euro-2024-after-goalless-draw-vs-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/italy-advance-to-euro-2024-after-goalless-draw-vs-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy advance to Euro 2024 after goalless draw vs. Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine and Italy finished 0-0 at BayArena in Leverkusen, and Italy advanced to the European championship next year in Germany after finishing 2<sup>nd<\/sup> with 14 points. Italians must thank the referee who refused to give a clear penalty against Mykhailo Mudryk in the 92<sup>nd<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Italy played better in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half but failed to score. The Italians had 10 goal attempts, 2 shots on target, and 1.29 xG, but the fans saw no goals after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes of the crucial match for both nations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Italy are heading to Euro 2024 to defend their title \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xj0XwfuvzX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Xj0XwfuvzX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1726716954948595979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, both nations played poorly and didn\u2019t take any risks, making the clash very hard to watch. The most interesting moment in the match came in the extra time when Mykhailo Mudryk went down after a collision with an Italian defender, but the referee refused to give a penalty, and VAR didn\u2019t send him to rewatch the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wowww Ukraine should\u2019ve had a 93rd minute penalty to qualify for Euro 2024 at Italy\u2019s expense<\/p>\n<p>How is this not given? Stonewall \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/siomp96rTH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/siomp96rTH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rory Talks Football (@Rory_Talks_Ball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rory_Talks_Ball\/status\/1726717559721066567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine and Italy finished 0-0 at BayArena in Leverkusen, and Italy advanced to the European championship next year in Germany after finishing 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":470372,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17082,18393,17071],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18422,18440,21306],"acf":{"announce":"The referee helped the Italians after refusing to give a penalty to Ukraine in the extra time.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470379,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470371\/revisions\/470379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470371"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470371"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}