Ukraine 0-0 Italy: Azzurri seal the qualification in the goalless draw

Italy secured a place in the Euro 2024 finals in Germany courtesy of a goalless draw against Ukraine in Leverkusen.

Match Report

Ukraine will feel aggrieved for not being awarded a penalty deep into injury time when Mykhailo Mudryk went down after receiving contact from Italian substitute Bryan Cristante in the penalty area, but the referee felt it was not a penalty and VAR did not see enough to overturn the decision.

This was far from a vintage Catenaccio-type defensive display from the Azzuri and they could have put Ukraine out of the game in the first half.

Federico Chiesa had a great chance in the seventh minute but he blazed over after Nicolo Zaniolo had headed the ball into his path.

Just after the half-hour mark Chiesa played a fine through-ball but Davide Frattesi saw his effort blocked by Anatoliy Trubin.

Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma also was called upon to make big stops denying Georgiy Sudakov's long-range effort in the first half and then spreading himself to block Mykhailo Mudryk's close-range effort in the second half.

Both teams finish with 14 points from Group C, behind winners England.

Match Events

0' The match is about to start!

5' SAVE! Fine stop from world-class Donnarumma

7' Chiesa misses a good chance!

7' Yellow Card! Buongiorno booked

17' AGAIN! Donnarumma makes decent save

31' CLOSE! Di Lorenzo's header too straight

32' CLOSE! Dimarco’s shot wide out

51' Scamacca fires his shot into the sky

65' What a save from Donnarumma!

74' CLOSE! Mudryk’s shot wide out

78' Scamacca nearly scores for Italy！

79' Yellow Card! Yukhym Konoplya booked

Line-ups

Ukraine XI: Taras Stepanenko, Zinchenko, Viktor Tsygankov, Oleksandr Svatok, Artem Dovbyk, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Anatoliy Trubin, Yukhym Konoplya, Mykhaylo Mudryk, G. Sudakov, Ilya Zabarnyi

Subs: Sergiy Sydorchuk, Georgiy Bushchan, Malinovskiy, Roman Yaremchuk, Mykola Matvienko, Oleksandr Zubkov, Oleksandr Tymchyk, Oleksandr Pikhalyonok, Vladyslav Dubinchak, Danylo Sikan, Valeriy Bondar, Dmytro Riznyk

Italy XI: Acerbi, Jorginho, Di Lorenzo, Dimarco, Barella, Donnarumma, Frattesi, Chiesa, Giacomo Raspadori, Zaniolo, Buongiorno

Subs: Darmian, Bonaventura, El Shaarawy, Biraghi, Cristante, Politano, Ivan Provedel, Guglielmo Vicario, Scamacca, G. Mancini, Kean, Federico Gatti