Italy-Portugal 1-zero, Azzurrini Under-19 European champions

20 years after their simplest victory, the Under 19 countrywide team has now not misplaced the risk to go back to the throne of Europe. The Azzurrini coached by way of Alberto Bollini defeated Portugal 1-0, overturning the defeat inside the group level. At the National Stadium, Italy right now took the lead with a header from 19-yr-old Michael Kayode, following an assist from Luis Hasa.

A lucid first half of for the Azzurrini who had numerous possibilities to stretch while the Lusitanians constrained themselves to attempting from a distance. In the second one 1/2 Portugal turned into extra incisive, with the ultimate scare some seconds from the quit on a shot from Herculano just huge.

Portugal had reached this final while not having lost a match among the Elite Round (the Portuguese had skipped the Main Round by using rating) and the final degree. With nowadays’s result, captain Giacomo Faticanti made up for the disappointment of the other very last performed this summer time, the only that simply over a month in the past saw the Azzurrini lose in the Under 20 World Cup in La Plata in opposition to Uruguay.

The Under 19 European Championship became installed through UEFA within the 2001-02 season, as an evolution of the equal match held in view that 1982 for the Under 18 country wide teams. In the 19 editions (it changed into now not played because of Covid in 2020 and 2021), Italy it received only as soon as, in 2003, beating Portugal in Vaduz (2-0, Della Rocca and Pazzini), then gathering three second places. In reality, in the 4 finals played, three knockouts came: in 2018 with Portugal himself (4-3 after greater time, after the blue victory three-2 within the group degree); in 2016 with the France of the Mbappè phenomenon who won with a clear 4-zero; in 2008 with Germany (3-1).