Italy won this Sunday, for the second consecutive time, the bronze of the League of Nations in soccer, by beating the Netherlands, host of the competition, 3-2, in the match for the attribution of third and fourth place.
At the De Grolsch Veste stadium in Enschede, Federico Dimarco, in the sixth minute, and Davide Frattesi, in the 22nd minute, scored the first two goals for the European champions, who reconfirmed the third place achieved in 2021, when they won by the minimum to Belgium. 2-1.
The Netherlands, eliminated by Croatia after extra time (4-2) in the semifinals, closed the gap with a goal from Steven Bergwijn, in minute 68, but, in minute 73, Federico Chiesa, who had entered the game shortly before, put the result of the match in 3-1, which the transalpines almost always dominated.
In the 82nd minute, the Dutch team, led by Ronald Koeman, who previously led Benfica, closed the gap again, with a goal from Wout Weghorts, which was annulled by VAR for offside.
Playing at home, the Dutch scored again in the 90th minute, through Georginio Wijnaldum, shortly before the Swedish referee Glenn Nyberg indicated that nine more minutes would be played, in which the locals always looked for a tie, which did not come .
Still this Sunday, at 7:45 p.m., in Rotterdam, Spain, the winning finalist in 2021, and Croatia, decide the successor to France in the history of the League of Nations, a competition that Portugal won in 2019, in its first edition .
Source: TSF
