Italy's comeback lifts them to top of Nations League Group A1
On Thursday afternoon at the San Siro in Milan (ITA), Italy overturned a 1‑0 deficit in a dramatic comeback to beat France 3‑1 on the home turf in the fifth round of Grupo A1 of the Liga das Nações in Italy.
Pio Esposito (two goals) and Davide Frattesi scored for Italy, while Michael Olise netted France’s only goal, with França missing Kylian Mbappé.
Com the result, Italy and França are level on ten points, but Italy’s superior goal difference lifts them to the top of the Liga table.
França now depend on a victory by Bélgica over Italy and a win against Turkey to reclaim first place in Grupo A1.
Yellow cards were shown to Jacquet of França and to Pio Esposito and Alessandro Bastoni of Italy; no red cards were issued.
Goals came at the 10th minute (Olise), 26th minute (Esposito), 18th minute of the second half (Frattesi) and 30th minute of the second half (Esposito).
Istvan Kovacs of Romania refereed the match.
Italy’s starting eleven featured Gianluigi Donnarumma, Kayode, Scalvini, Bastoni and Calafiori, with Barella, Tonali and Frattesi in midfield, and Cambiaghi, Pio Esposito and Sebastiano Esposito up front under coach Roberto Mancini.
França lined up Mike Maignan, Malo Gusto, Jacquet, Upamecano and Truffert, with Lucas da Cunha, Rabiot and Cherki in midfield, and Olise, Barcola and Doué attacking, coached by Zinédine Zidane.
The match report lists the French side as FRANÇA.