Italy vs Albania LIVE RESULT: Defending champs survive scare to get campaign off to winning start in group of death
DEFENDING champions Italy got their Euro 2024 campaign off to a winning start – despite suffering an almighty early scare.
Group B is arguably the toughest in the competition and the Azzurri would have been keen to get three points on the board with games against Spain and Croatia coming up.
Albania tore up the script just 23 SECONDS into the match, Nedim Bajrami scoring from a tight angle, but Alessandro Bastoni levelled and then Nicolo Barrella put Italy back in charge within 20 minutes.
- Kick-off: 8pm BST
- TV channel/ live stream: BBC One
- Italy XI: Donnarumma, Di Lorenzo, Calafiori, Bastoni, Dimarco, Barella, Jorginho, Frattesi, Pellegrini, Chiesa, Scammaca.
- Albania XI: Strakosha, Hysaj, Ajeti, Djimsiti, Mitaj, Asllani, Ramadani, Bajrami, Asani, Seferi, Broja.