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LIVE: Italy vs Austria

LIVE: Italy vs Austria

18' CHANCE! It's a wonderful pass over the top from Sabitzer to pick out Arnautovic's run between the two defenders and he lets it bounce in front of him before hitting the shot. Donnarumma rushes off his line and the shot flies over the crossbar.

17' GOOD SAVE! It's another great run down the left for Spinazzola and he pulls it back into the box. It's behind Immobile and Insigne, but it falls for Barella on the edge of the area. He hits it with the outside of his boot and Bachmann sticks out a leg to deny him.

15' Austria are sitting deep in their own half, but Barella manages to thread a ball through to Insigne on the edge of the box. He doesn't have much space but has a go anyway, and his shot is blocked by Dragovic.

13' Austria are keeping possession well at the moment and Sabitzer plays it out to Lainer on the right again. He curls a cross back to the edge of the box for Arnautovic, but it's blocked by Bonucci.

11' WIDE! Berardi sees his shot blocked by Schlager on the edge of the box, but Italy keep hold of the ball and work it back out to Spinazzola. He cuts inside from the left before having a go from a tight angle and his effort swerves wide of the near post.

10' Italy have won all four of their meeting with Austria at major international tournaments, with all four such games coming in the World Cup: 1-0 in 1934, 1-0 in 1978, 1-0 in 1990 and 2-1 in 1998.

8' Sabitzer switches play out to Lainer on the right and he plays a good pass down the wing for Lainer. He gets caught on his heels and can't catch it though and Acerbi is there to clear the danger for Italy.

6' Verratti does really well to keep hold of the ball and get around Grillitsch before laying it off to Barella on the right. He plays an early throughball forward for Immobile to chase, but the keeper rushes off his line and gets there just before the striker.

4' It's patient play from Italy as they try to open up the space in behind Austria and Acerbi is allowed to carry the ball a long way upfield. He tries to pick out Insigne's run into the box with a throughball, but it's overhit and rolls harmlessly out for a goal-kick.

1' Sabitzer gets the game underway for Austria! 

The teams are out on the pitch, the national anthems have been sung, and kick-off is just moments away!

Italy have kept a clean sheet in each of their last 11 matches in all competitions, going 1055 minutes (17 hours and 35 minutes) without conceding since a Donny van de Beek goal for Netherlands last October. 

Franco Foda was clearly impressed with his team's win over Ukraine last time out, so he names an unchanged line-up today. Baumgartner is fit to start despite going off with a head injury in that match.

Roberto Mancini rested a lot of his players in the win over Wales having already qualified for the last 16, so he makes seven changes to his side. Di Lorenzo, Acerbi, Spinazzola, Barella, Berardi, Immobile and Insigne are all brought back in.

AUSTRIA SUBS: Andreas Ulmer, Stefan Ilsanker, Pavao Pervan, Julian Baumgartlinger, Stefan Posch, Philipp Lienhart, Christopher Trimmel, Sasa Kalajdzic, Alessandro Schopf, Michael Gregoritsch, Louis Schaub, Alexander Schlager.

AUSTRIA STARTING XI (4-2-3-1): Daniel Bachmann; Stefan Lainer, Aleksandar Dragovic, Martin Hinteregger, David Alaba; Xaver Schlager, Florian Grillitsch; Konrad Laimer, Marcel Sabitzer, Christoph Baumgartner; Marko Arnautovic.

ITALY SUBS: Rafael Toloi, Matteo Pessina, Salvatore Sirigu, Alessandro Bastoni, Manuel Locatelli, Emerson, Federico Chiesa, Andrea Belotti, Alex Meret, Federico Bernardeschi, Giacomo Raspadori, Bryan Cristante.

ITALY STARTING XI (4-3-3): Gianluigi Donnarumma; Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Leonardo Bonucci, Francesco Acerbi, Leonardo Spinazzola; Nicolo Barella, Jorginho, Marco Verratti; Domenico Berardi, Ciro Immobile, Lorenzo Insigne.

Italy were the first team to qualify for the round of 16, topping Group A with nine points and without conceding a single goal. They're unbeaten in 30 games in all competitions, winning their last 11 on the bounce and keeping clean sheets in all of those matches. As for Austria, they're in the knockout round for the first time at the European Championships. They finished second in Group C, behind Netherlands, after winning two and losing one of their three matches.

Hello and welcome to live coverage of the Euro 2020 round-of-16 meeting between Italy and Austria at Wembley Stadium!

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