ROMA (AP) – Edin Dueko’s goal helped Bosnia and Herzegovina keep Italy in a 1–1 draw in the UEFA Nations League on Friday, ending Azzurri’s record-breaking 11-year winning streak.
Deeko, who plays at his football club with Roma and is no stranger to Italy, put Bosnia at the helm almost an hour away.
“I’ve played against all those boys a couple of times, ” said Deko. “We know others well. “
Stefano Sensi tied 11 minutes later with a deviant shot from a defender.
“I was right when I said that neither Bosnia nor Italy were 100 percent fit,” D-eko said. “You may see the lack of sharpness, but it was a pretty balanced game, I think both groups nevertheless had one or two chances. “
Also in the A-League, Holland beat Poland, while Steven Bergwijn scored his first goal abroad, giving Oranje 30 goals in his last 10 home games.
In Florence, either hit the pole at the beginning of the moment.
First, Bosnian Armin Hodai outperded goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma by hitting the wood from the sharpest angles.
Italian Lorenzo Insigne then discovered the frame of purpose with a headbutt.
Two minutes later, he had time after a corner to let the ball bounce before scoring from six yards.
It is the 59th target of the 108 games for Bosnia, either a record.
Sensi’s tie came after a center of Lorenzo Insigne, and then Bosnian goalkeeper Ibrahim ‘Eehi’ scored a goal by Alessandro Florenzi.
In the last match, Italy failed to win a goalless draw with Portugal in November 2018, also in the League of Nations.
“The winning streak had to end faster or later,” italian coach Roberto Mancini said. “We are pleased that it is a draw and a defeat.
With the return of foreign football for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the 54 games scheduled to take a position on the continent for six days are being positioned with strict hygiene measures, adding the exclusion of the fans. pass the mandatory pre-match tests for COVID-19.
In League B, a Czech member tested positive for coronavirus, the such moment in the team this week, before a 3–1 win in Slovakia.
Also in League B, they were: Romania 1, Northern Ireland 1; Norway 1, Austria 2; and Scotland 1, Israel 1.
In League C, Kazakhstan won 2-0 in Lithuania and Albania won by the same scorer in Belarus.