7-0 and 9 points out of 9: Italy finished brilliantly in the group stage

Midfielder Matteo Pessina opened the scoring against Wales in the 39th minute with a light blow to the far bottom corner.

The Italians were also allowed to keep the winning score by sending them off on the 55th - Ethan Ampadu received a red card.

True, towards the end of the game, Bale, left unattended in the Italians' penalty area, hit from 5 meters, but for some reason missed the target.

However, the Welsh are happy to make it to the playoffs from second place in the group anyway. Switzerland also scored 4 points but finished third with the worst goal difference. Turkey (0) is the last.

The final statistics of the Azzurra squadra are amazing. Seven goals scored, zero conceded and nine points out of nine possible! None of the grandees of European football at this Euro have anything like that. After all, even the French could not beat the Hungarian national team, conceding a goal. The British, we recall, drove a goalless draw with Scotland, while the Germans lost to the French. There is no need to talk about the difficulties of the still reigning European champions - the Portuguese - after yesterday's defeat from the Germans - it would be good for them to just get out of the group stage, in which they recorded an anti-record in the form of two own goals scored in one match.

As for the Italians, they had a series of 30 victories only in the 30s of the last century.