{"id":484245,"date":"2024-06-15T17:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T21:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484245"},"modified":"2024-06-15T17:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T21:07:03","slug":"italy-beat-albania-2-1-at-signal-iduna-park-despite-early-shock","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/italy-beat-albania-2-1-at-signal-iduna-park-despite-early-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy beat Albania 2-1 at Signal Iduna Park despite early shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy defeated Albania 2-1 at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund to extend their phenomenal streak of going unbeaten in opening games at the Euros to 9 matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Italy begin with a comeback win \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EURO2024<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ITAALB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ITAALB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/btuT9CYc7H\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/btuT9CYc7H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UEFA EURO 2024 (@EURO2024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EURO2024\/status\/1802082606512746659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was Italy\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> championship in 18 years without 1 of Giorgio Chiellini or Leonardo Bonucci in the team, and the Azzurri allowed a goal after only 23 seconds as Nedim Bajrami scored the quickest goal in the history of the European tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>But that didn\u2019t stop Italy from bouncing back quickly as Alessandro Bastoni evened the result in the 11<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Lorenzo Pellegrini\u2019s assist. Azzurri took the lead in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> minute when Nicolo Barella scored as both goals for the win tonight were netted by Inter players.<\/p>\n<p>Until the end, the match was not very interesting as Spalletti\u2019s footballers tried to control the tempo and kept the 1-goal lead until the end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ALBANIA SCORES THE FASTEST-EVER GOAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE EUROS! 22 SECONDS INTO THE MATCH VS. ITALY \ud83d\ude31 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CWr134AHG1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CWr134AHG1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1802055208492564707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Italy will play against Spain on Thursday, while Albania will face the other defeated team after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> matches from the group \u2013 Croatia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy defeated Albania 2-1 at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund to extend their phenomenal streak of going unbeaten in opening games at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484246,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22222,17082,18393],"news_category":[138,14235],"gn_keywords":[22224,18422,18440],"acf":{"announce":"Luciano Spalletti\u2019s team comeback within minutes to triumph.","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\/484245"}],"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=484245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484247,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484245\/revisions\/484247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484245"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484245"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}