{"id":519708,"date":"2026-11-12T17:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T21:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=519708"},"modified":"2026-11-12T17:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T21:59:36","slug":"italy-hand-zidanes-first-defeat-as-france-head-coach-in-milano","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/italy-hand-zidanes-first-defeat-as-france-head-coach-in-milano\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy hand Zidane\u2019s first defeat as France head coach in Milano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy completed a comeback to triumph 3-1 vs. France and moved to the top in Group A1 of the Nations League, as a Pio Esposito brace and a goal from Davide Frattesi handed Zinedine Zidane\u2019s 1st loss as boss of the national team.<\/p>\n<p>A fantastic individual run from Michael Olise in the 10<sup>th<\/sup> minute gave France the lead.<\/p>\n<p>However, Italy tied it in the 26th minute when Francesco Pio Esposito scored, and the two nations were level at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>In the 60<sup>th<\/sup> minute, Italy had a fantastic chance to secure the lead for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time, but Sebastiano Esposito missed a penalty. Despite that, only 3 minutes later, Davide Frattesi scored to secure the lead for Mancini\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>In the 75<sup>th<\/sup> minute, the home team received 2<sup>nd<\/sup> penalty, and this time Francesco Pio Esposito converted it to make the result 3-1 with his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal in the match.<\/p>\n<p>That was 1<sup>st<\/sup> defeat for Zinedine Zidane since he became the head coach of the French national team as he was without superstars like Kylian Mbappe and Dembele against Italy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Italy beat France on home soil for the first time in 64 years with a 3-1 come-from-behind win in the Nations League \ud83d\ude24\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 https:\/\/t.co\/OTIQMtyvi5<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brfootball\/status\/2120996223863889988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">November 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy completed a comeback to triumph 3-1 vs. France and moved to the top in Group A1 of the Nations League, as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":519709,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17142,18393],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17862,18440],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Italian team with prestigious triumph against Les Bleus.","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\/519708"}],"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=519708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519710,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519708\/revisions\/519710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519708"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=519708"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=519708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}