Euro 2024, Granit Xhaka’s broadsides shake up Italy

Xhaka puts his finger on the sore spot

At home in Switzerland, the talk is back about the Swiss’s victory over Italy: a Saturday that is leaving numerous aftershocks and could lead to a mini-revolution in the group of the confirmed Luciano Spalletti.

In Berlin, even the captain of the Red Swiss team, Granit Xhaka, immediately noticed that something was wrong with the blue eleven he was facing. "We are hungrier than ever, we want to win at all costs. I have never seen Italy so struggling on the field as against us, we won before we even took the field, just like they did with us three years ago" he stressed.

"We still felt the defeat of three years ago, when Italy beat us 3-0, the pain was still there. We showed great team spirit and therefore what we achieved è a more than deserved" goal, he added, as read in the Corriere del Ticino.