Switzerland vs Italy live updates (2024)

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Croatia 1-1 Italy (Modric; Zaccagni)

Italy arrived at their third game knowing that they needed a result to progress to the last 16 and, for most of the first half, they looked happy to play for a draw.

But their opponents, Croatia, needed to win and they had a golden opportunity to hit the front after winning a penalty within 10 minutes of the second half starting. Gianluigi Donnarumma came up big to deny Luka Modric from 12 yards but the Real Madrid legend had the last laughed as he then opened the scoring with a hammered left-footed strike less than a minute later.

It left Italy pretty desperate for an equaliser and it looked like they wouldn't get one, until the eighth minute of stoppage time. The ball rolled perfectly for Mattia Zaccagni just inside the penalty area and he wrapped a sublime right-footed effort into the top corner.

Despair for Croatia, but ecstasy for Italy whose knockout place was confirmed.

Spain 1-0 Italy (Calafiori OG)

If Italy were unfortunate not to add to their lead in game one, they were exceptionally lucky to only leave Gelsenkirchen with a 1-0 defeat to Spain.

Luciano Spalletti's men were played off the park by a very impressive-looking Spain team and an unfortunate 55th-minute own goal from Riccardo Calafiori was enough to consign Italy a first defeat of the tournament.

After their narrow victory against Albania, this performance didn't do much to settle any Italian nerves.

Italy 2-1 Albania (Bastoni, Barella; Bajrami)

Italy's European Championship defence started badly. Very badly.

Facing Albania, they conceded the fastest ever goal in tournament history when Nedim Bajrami smashed in from close range after just 23 seconds.

Fortunately, that was the extent of the bad news on opening night as they were soon level — through Alessandro Bastoni — and then in front, thanks to a brilliant Nicolo Barella volley from the edge of the penalty area.

Italy had chances to extend their lead but had to be content with a 2-1 win.

Switzerland 1-1 Germany (Ndoye; Fullkrug)

In their third and final Group A game, Switzerland nearly caused one of the shocks of Euro 2024.

Dan Ndoye put the emphatic finishing touch to a well-worked attacking move to give his side an unlikely lead in the 28th minute. And the scoreline remained 1-0 to Switzerland for over an hour.

But, in the second minute of stoppage time, substitute Niclas Fullkrug headed in from six yards to bring the tournament hosts level and to take them back to the top of Group A.

Scotland 1-1 Switzerland (McTominay; Shaqiri)

Switzerland might have expected to secure a place in the last 16 with a win in their second match, but they were a shadow of the team that beat Hungary when they faced Scotland in Cologne.

The Scots, fresh off a 5-1 drubbing from Germany, made a strong start and opened the scoring when Scott McTominay's goalbound effort was accidentally steered into the top corner by Fabian Schar.

But, fortunately for Swizterland, Chicago Fire's Xherdan Shaqiri had some more major tournament magic stored up in his left boot. 13 minutes after Scotland took the lead, he took advantage of Angus Gunn's poor positioning and sent a missile of a strike into the very top of the top corner.

Chances came and went for both teams in the second half — including a disallowed Embolo goal — but 1-1 it finished.

Hungary 1-3 Switzerland (Varga; Duah, Aebischer, Embolo)

Switzerland could not have wished for a better start to their Group A campaign.

Facing the Group A dark horses, they took the lead early when Kwadwo Duah finished nicely for his first international goal in the 12 minute. And they asserted their dominance further with a brilliantly struck Michel Aebischer effort from range on the stroke of half-time.

Hungary improved in the second half and halved the deficit courtesy of Barnabas Varga's close-range header but Switzerland would regain their two-goal lead in stoppage time. Breel Embolo capitalised on a mistake at the back and lofted the ball over Peter Gulacsi's head to make it 3-1.

You will notice from that list of players that there is no Cristiano Ronaldo and no Kylian Mbappe.

There is no Harry Kane or Romelu Lukaku.

And there is certainly no obvious frontrunner for the Player of the Tournament, although Jamal Musiala has been excellent for hosts Germany.

The Athletic's James Horncastle wrote about why the biggest stars at Euro 2024 have struggled to find their feet so far and it is brilliant — check it out below.

In terms of goals, it was a group stage dominated by players putting the ball in the back of the wrong net.

There were seven own goals during the group stage!

When it comes to players putting the ball in the right net, only six did it more than once and only one player managed three group-stage goals.

Top goalscorers

• Three goals – Georges Mikautadze
• Two goals – Niclas Fullkrug, Cody Gakpo, Razvan Marin, Jamal Musiala, Ivan Schranz

And the other three groups looked like this:

Group D

1. Austria – 6 PTS
2. France – 5 PTS
3. Netherlands – 4 PTS
4. Poland – 1 PTS

Group E

1. Romania – 4 PTS
2. Belgium – 4 PTS
3. Slovakia – 4 PTS
4. Ukraine – 4 PTS

Group F

1. Portugal – 6 PTS
2. Turkey – 6 PTS
3. Georgia – 4 PTS
4. Czech Republic – 1 PTS

The good news is that we've got through two days without any European Championship football.

And now we've got four uninterrupted days to look forward to.

Just in case you have forgotten anything that happened in the group stage, here is how Groups A, B and C finished.

Group A

1. Germany – 7 PTS
2. Switzerland – 6 PTS
3. Hungary – 3 PTS
4. Scotland – 1 PTS

Group B

1. Spain – 9 PTS
2. Italy - 4 PTS
3. Croatia – 2 PTS
4. Albania – 1 PTS

Group C

1. England – 5 PTS
2. Denmark – 4 PTS
3. Slovenia – 4 PTS
4. Serbia – 2 PTS

Would it really be a major tournament without some ranking and rating along the way?

We brought you kits and managers (when they were players) before the tournament and, now, the anthems. Jacob Whitehead was the man trusted to do it and there are very few, if any, that I disagree with him on.

Check out his ratings below — and listen to the anthems along the way.

It is all fun and games looking at the knockout bracket, but spare a thought for those teams that have already jetted out of Germany.

With four third-place teams making it through, there was not much room for any shocks. And there weren't too many major shocks.

Croatia not making it through would be considered by many as surprising, but their squad is far from what it was once was.

Here are all the eliminated nations:

• Group A – Hungary & Scotland
• Group B – Croatia & Albania
• Group C – Serbia
• Group D – Poland
• Group E – Ukraine
• Group F – Czech Republic

Instead of making a mess of explaining who is set to play who in the next round, I'll let our bracket do the talking.

The winner of this game will face either England or Slovakia in the quarter-final.

We know which two last-16 fixtures are on the menu today, but what is the full line-up?

Here is every match from the first knockout round with all the dates and times that you need:

Today

• Switzerland vs Italy – 6pm local time / 5pm BST / 12pm ET / 9am PT
• Germany vs Denmark – 9pm local time / 8pm BST / 3pm ET / 12pm PT

Tomorrow

• England vs Sloavkia – 6pm local time / 5pm BST / 12pm ET / 9am PT
• Spain vs Georgia – 9pm local time / 8pm BST / 3pm ET / 12pm PT

Monday

• France vs Belgium – 6pm local time / 5pm BST / 12pm ET / 9am PT
• Portugal vs Slovenia – 9pm local time / 8pm BST / 3pm ET / 12pm PT

Tuesday

• Romania vs Netherlands – 6pm local time / 5pm BST / 12pm ET / 9am PT
• Austria vs Turkey – 9pm local time / 8pm BST / 3pm ET / 12pm PT

What a day we have in store at Euro 2024.

Happy Knockout Day to all who celebrate.

Up first, this game then the hosts are in action in Dortmund against Group C runners up Denmark — here is the line-up with all the relevant timings.

• Switzerland vs Italy – 6pm local time / 5pm BST / 12pm ET / 9am PT
• Germany vs Denmark – 9pm local time / 8pm BST / 3pm ET / 12pm PT

Hand up if you're excited, Toni!

This is something truly special. Our correspondents and data experts here at The Athletic have pulled together our Euro 2024 edition of The Radar.

It’s a database of the 50 players to watch at this summer’s tournament, with at least one representative from each of the 24 nations competing in Germany.

Some of those were eliminated in the group stage, but there are still plenty of active players in there.

There are established stars and rising talents, bespoke data visualisation for every player and magnificent insight from our writers.

So go give it a visit, have a play and see what you discover.

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG), Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham), Alex Meret (Napoli).

Defenders: Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Matteo Darmian (Inter), Alessandro Buongiorno (Torino), Gianluca Mancini (Roma), Riccardo Calafiori (Bologna), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Raoul Bellanova (Torino), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Federico Gatti (Juventus).

Midfielders: Nicolo Barella (Inter), Davide Frattesi (Inter), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Nicolo fa*gioli (Juventus), Jorginho (Arsenal), Michael Folorunsho (Hellas Verona).

Forwards: Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Genoa), Gianluca Scamacca (Atalanta), Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio), Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma).

Goalkeepers: Yann Sommer (Inter), Yvon Mvogo (Lorient), Gregor Kobel (Borussia Dortmund).

Defenders: Ricardo Rodriguez (Torino), Fabian Schar (Newcastle United), Manuel Akanji (Manchester City), Nico Elvedi (Borussia Monchengladbach), Silvan Widmer (Mainz 05), Cedric Zesigner (Wolfsburg), Leonidas Stergiou (Stuttgart).

Midfielders: Granit Xhaka (Bayer Leverkusen), Xherdan Shaqiri (Chicago Fire), Remo Freuler (Bologna), Denis Zakaria (Monaco), Michel Aebischer (Bologna), Fabian Rieder (Rennes), Ardon Jashari (Luzern), Vincent Sierro (Toulouse).

Forwards: Breel Embolo (Monaco), Steven Zuber (AEK Athens), Ruben Vargas (Augsburg), Renato Steffen (Lugano), Noah Okafor (AC Milan), Zeki Amdouni (Burnley), Dan Ndoye (Bologna), Kwadwo Duah (Ludogorets).

• Kick-off time: 6pm local time / 5pm BST / 12pm ET / 9am PT
• TV/stream info: BBC (UK), Fox (US)
• Team news: Expected around an hour before kick-off

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