Game 4: Italy vs Albania from the BVB Stadion Dortmund LIVE on BBC1 8pm

[The Amazing Dale Watkins]

1 minute ago, Constantine said:

Weakest half of the championship so far...

yeah that was painful, and somehow I'm not surprised that it involved Italy.

[Darren Moores Mum]

Terrible attempt

[CFuller]

Italy scrape a win. Hardly looking like champions.

Decent performance from Albania, but they could've pushed forward a bit sooner, I think.

[DJ]

That was an unwarranted arrogant second half from the boys in blue. Almost paid the price for it. 

[georginho_juventusygr]

Unconvincing.

But still three points, good on the way to winning the Euro!

[Darren Moores Mum]

Albania could have pushed forward with more urgency towards the end. It was so slow and plodding.

[GunmaN1905]

Just now, georginho_juventusygr said:

Unconvincing.

But still three points, good on the way to winning the Euro!

Corto muso!

[LincolnCanary]

Thought Albania exceeded my expectations. Italy ok, but would expect them to get better. 

[Klimowicz]

2 hours ago, Klimowicz said:

This is either gonna be some underwhelming 2-1 Italy win or the upset of the tournament.

Coulda been one, turned into the other.

[Smallen]

man, that was such a poor game after the opening 10 minutes. Italy just stopped.

[EnterUsernameHere]

Yeah as said by everyone else, awful 2nd half. Italy aren't beating Croatia or Spain on that performance so might be relying on other groups.

[Federico]

Spain is going to rip us apart.

I spoke. 

[Yuko]

8 hours ago, Federico said:

Spain is going to rip us apart.

I spoke. 

I'm not sure on that. 

 

I think Spain will just have the ball a lot more but not do much. Unless the defense brainfarts. It's all down to how Spalletti & co can handle not playing with the ball. A proper Italia team doesn't care about all that.

Don't see Spain as some clinical side that Italy should fear, but it's definitely a side than can slice open most defenses.