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Switzerland vs Italy live updates: Euro 2024 match team news, predictions and line-ups
Follow all the action as Switzerland and Italy meet in Berlin for the first last-16 tie at Euro 2024 today
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Michael Bailey
June 29, 2024 at 9:03 PM GMT+6
Switzerland vs Italy live updates: Euro 2024 match team news, predictions and line-ups
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Michael Bailey
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Italy: starting XI
And here is the starting XI named by Luciano Spalletti, to take on Switzerland:
Gianluigi Donnarumma Capt (PSG) // Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Matteo Darmian (Inter) // Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Nicolo Fagioli (Juventus), Nicolo Barella (Inter), Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma) // Gianluca Scamacca (Atalanta), Federico Chiesa (Juventus).
It’s a load of changes here from the 1-1 draw with Croatia that rounded off Italy’s group stage, with the likes of Jorginho, Di Lorenzo, Pellegrini, Raspadori and Retegui stepping back down to the bench and Bologna’s Riccardo Calafiori suspended.
Michael Bailey
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Michael Bailey
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Switzerland: starting XI
Cue the teams here in Berlin. Here is the confirmed Switzerland starting XI from Murat Yakin to take on Italy:
Yann Sommer (Inter) // Fabian Schar (Newcastle United), Manuel Akanji (Manchester City), Ricardo Rodriguez (Torino) // Michel Aebischer (Bologna), Remo Freuler (Bologna), Granit Xhaka Capt (Bayer Leverkusen), Fabian Rieder (Rennes) // Ruben Vargas (Augsburg), Breel Embolo (Monaco), Dan Ndoye (Bologna).
With Silvan Widmer suspended, it’s Vargas who comes into the XI after the 1-1 draw with Germany that completed their group stage.
Michael Bailey
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Michael Bailey
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Michael Bailey
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Team news on the way shortly
Team news on the way shortly
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We’ve not got long until the two teams are confirmed ahead of kick-off here in Berlin.
We’ll bring you those XIs — and analysis of them — as soon as we get them. Don’t go anywhere.
Michael Bailey
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Michael Bailey
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Early team news: Italy
Early team news: Italy
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As for Italy, their suspension comes in the form of Riccardo Calafiori. Roma’s Gianluca Mancini is a likely replacement.
Bryan Cristante, goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, Nicolo Fagioli and Lorenzo Pellegrini are the Italy players heading into this game with one booking. Those tallies are reset after the quarter-finals.
Michael Bailey
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Michael Bailey
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Early team news: Switzerland
Early team news: Switzerland
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It’s more about suspensions than injuries for both Switzerland and Italy this afternoon.
Switzerland will be without Mainz defender Silvan Widmer, who is serving a one-game suspension for collecting two bookings. Stuttgart’s Leonidas Stergiou is a primary candidate to come in on the right side of Murat Yakin’s midfield.
Remo Freuler, Dan Ndoye, Ricardo Rodriguez, Vincent Sierro and Granit Xhaka all go into today’s round of 16 tie on one booking. A second today will see them miss any potential quarter-final.
Michael Bailey
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Michael Bailey
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Less than two hours to go
Less than two hours to go
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Berlin’s Olympiastadion is gleaming in the summer sun. What a setting for the start to these Euro 2024 knockout stages.
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Oliver Kay
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Forget all you’ve seen – the real tournament starts now
Forget all you’ve seen – the real tournament starts now
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Here is Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva, speaking to The Athletic on Wednesday after his team — already confirmed as winners of Group F — lost 2-0 to Georgia in their group finale:
💬 “It’s just about getting through the group. And then after that, from my experience — not just as a player but as a fan — what happened in the group stage doesn’t mean that much.
“Sometimes, the teams that play better in the group stages are not the (eventual) winners. You need to be stable in the knockout stages. You need to have a bit of luck in these tournaments as well.”
In some ways, Euro 2024 starts now with the first of the last-16 ties.
That sounds contradictory when we are already 36 games into a 51-game tournament and the joys of watching three or four matches in a single day give way to rest days with none at all.
But this is where the stakes are raised, the pressure is ramped up and one slip — a goalkeeping error, one player suffering a loss of nerve in a penalty shootout — can prove decisive.
Forget everything you’ve seen at Euro 2024 – the real tournament starts now
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Italy vs. Switzerland odds, pick, live stream: Predicting Euro 2024 online, where to watch, TV channel, time
The two sides meet for the first match of the round of 16 in Saturday, June 29 action
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After making it out of the group stages at Euro 2024, Switzerland and Italy now meet Saturday in Berlin for the first game of the round of 16. Luciano Spalletti’s side won their opening game against Albania, but then struggled and lost 1-0 to Spain and drew 1-1 against Croatia thanks to a last minute goal of Mattia Zaccagni which secured their qualification for the knockout round. Switzerland, on the other handed ended up second in the group with Germany. Here’s what you need to know:
How to watch and odds
Date: Saturday, June 29 | Time: 12 p.m. ET
Location: Olympiastadion — Berlin, Germany
TV: FS1 | Stream: Fubo (try for free)
Odds: Switzerland +240; Draw +195; Italy +145
Team news
Switzerland: Murat Yakin’s side will have to deal with the absence of Silvan Widmer, who is suspended and will miss the Italy game on Saturday. Widmer will be replaced by defender Leonidas Stergiou while Breel Embolo will lead the attacking line alongside Ruben Vargas and Dan Ndoye.
Possible Switzerland XI: Sommer; Schar, Akanji, Rodriguez; Stergiou, Xhaka, Freuler, Aebischer; Ndoye, Vargas; Embolo.
Italy: Spalletti will be forced to make some changes as Bologna defender Riccardo Calafiori is suspended and will be replaced by AS Roma’s Gianluca Mancini. Both Federico Chiesa and Gianluca Scamacca are expected to start after they were rested in the beginning of the game against Croatia.
Possible Italy XI: Donnarumma; Darmian, Mancini, Bastoni; Di Lorenzo, Barella, Jorginho, Pellegrini, Dimarco; Chiesa, Scamacca.
Euro bracket and round of 16 schedule
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All times Eastern
Saturday, June 29
Switzerland vs. Italy, 12 p.m. on FS1
Germany vs. Denmark, 3 p.m. on Fox
Sunday, June 30
England vs. Slovakia, 12 p.m. on Fox
Spain vs. Georgia, 3 p.m. on Fox
Monday, July 1
France vs. Belgium, 12 p.m. on FS1
Portugal vs. Slovenia, 3 p.m. on Fox
Tuesday, July 2
Romania vs. Netherlands, 12 p.m. on FS1
Austria vs. Turkiye, 3 p.m. on Fox
Prediction
Italy struggled in the first part of the tournament, but the last minute goal against Croatia restored them new motivations for the upcoming game. Pick: Italy 1, Switzerland 0.
