"Games like these can change your history". Spaletti shared expectations from match against Croatia

Italy's head coach Luciano Spaletti shared his expectations from the final match of the Euro 2024 group stage against Croatia.

"Experience is an important factor in games like this, but we also have some. And we are fresh, we have youngsters, we have our own ideas. Obviously having played games like this in the past gives you a certain calmness in terms of the football you have to play.

We will need change our attitude, we will need more intensity and resilience. We will try to be more solid and not risk giving them chances to hurt us. But it won't be easy because there are many ways they can.

Games like these can change your history. We selected players that we believed were eager to be here and compete, and ready to play in important games like this one. Obviously, I did not like our performance against Spain. Even if it was painful, I will hope to see that we have learned from it.

We wasted too much energy chasing the ball against Spain. We played a completely different game against Albania. We had the same game plan in both matches, but in one game we managed to do what we wanted, in the other we simply didn't." quotes coach UEFA.com.

Italy has 3 points after 2 rounds, Croatia has 1 point. The match starts at 21:00 CET. In parallel, Albania and Spain will start their game.