Match ends, Italy 9, Armenia 1.
Italy recorded one of the biggest wins in their history as they completed their successful Euro 2020 qualifying campaign by thrashing Armenia 9-1.
Ciro Immobile and Nicolo Zaniolo both scored twice, while Chelsea's Jorginho converted a penalty in the second half.
Nicolo Barella, Alessio Romagnoli, Riccardo Orsolini and Federico Chiesa also scored for the dominant Italians.
Edgar Babayan did manage to grab a consolation for Armenia with a stunning long-range strike.
Babayan's finish stopped Italy equalling their biggest win - a 9-0 defeat of the United States in Brentford in 1948.
However, the emphatic victory continues an impressive turnaround in fortunes under former Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini.
The Italian took charge of the national team following their failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup and led them to 10 wins from 10 in qualifying for Euro 2020 - conceding just four goals - as they finished top of Group J.
Line-ups
Italy
Formation 4-3-3
- 1SiriguSubstituted forMeretat 77'minutes
- 2Di Lorenzo
- 19BonucciSubstituted forIzzoat 69'minutes
- 13Romagnoli
- 3Biraghi
- 6Tonali
- 8Jorginho
- 18BarellaSubstituted forOrsoliniat 45'minutes
- 11Zaniolo
- 17Immobile
- 14Chiesa
Substitutes
- 4Castrovilli
- 5Izzo
- 7Florenzi
- 9Belotti
- 10Insigne
- 12Meret
- 15Acerbi
- 16Mandragora
- 20Bernardeschi
- 21G Donnarumma
- 22El Shaarawy
- 23Orsolini
Armenia
Formation 5-4-1
- 16Hayrapetyan
- 19Hambardzumyan
- 3HaroyanBooked at 34mins
- 2Calisir
- 15IshkhanyanSubstituted forSarkisovat 69'minutes
- 13Hovhannisyan
- 8Barseghyan
- 5GrigoryanSubstituted forSimonyanat 60'minutes
- 17YedigaryanSubstituted forAvetisyanat 82'minutes
- 9BabayanSubstituted forat 89'minutes
- 20Karapetian
Substitutes
- 1Beglaryan
- 4Voskanyan
- 6Manucharyan
- 7Avetisyan
- 10Danielyan
- 11Sarkisov
- 12Kasparov
- 14Hovhannisyan
- 18Vardanyan
- 22Harutyunyan
- 23Simonyan
- Referee:
- Tiago Martins
- Attendance:
- 27,752
Match Stats
- Possession
- Home71%
- Away29%
- Shots
- Home24
- Away14
- Shots on Target
- Home12
- Away5
- Corners
- Home5
- Away4
- Fouls
- Home11
- Away10
Live Text
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Full Time
Second Half ends, Italy 9, Armenia 1.
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Attempt missed. Riccardo Orsolini (Italy) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
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Attempt blocked. Ciro Immobile (Italy) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sandro Tonali.
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Offside, Armenia. Kamo Hovhannisyan tries a through ball, but Aleksandre Karapetian is caught offside.
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Edgar Babayan went off injured after Armenia had used all subs.
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Foul by Armando Izzo (Italy).
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Edgar Babayan (Armenia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Attempt missed. Petros Avetisyan (Armenia) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Edgar Babayan with a cross following a fast break.
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Ciro Immobile (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Foul by Petros Avetisyan (Armenia).
Substitution
Substitution, Armenia. Petros Avetisyan replaces Artak Yedigaryan.
Goal!
Goal! Italy 9, Armenia 1. Federico Chiesa (Italy) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Riccardo Orsolini with a cross.
Goal!
Goal! Italy 8, Armenia 1. Edgar Babayan (Armenia) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner.
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Armando Izzo (Italy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Foul by Artur Sarkisov (Armenia).
Goal!
Goal! Italy 8, Armenia 0. Riccardo Orsolini (Italy) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Federico Chiesa with a cross.
Substitution
Substitution, Italy. Alex Meret replaces Salvatore Sirigu.
Goal!
Goal! Italy 7, Armenia 0. Jorginho (Italy) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
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Penalty Italy. Riccardo Orsolini draws a foul in the penalty area.
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17 minutes ago
Isn't this the BRITISH Broadcasting Company?
There's nothing wrong with a HYS on this story, but over the Ireland match?"
What are you on about? Ireland (Eire) is a foreign country, it's not part of the UK and hasn't been since 1921. It's not even in the Commonwealth.
This Italian team is a vast improvement on the team which failed to qualify for the last World Cup.
Write Italy off at your peril next summer.
"Italy have never got out of the pool stages at a major competition - and so it’s unlikely that they will this time. There isn’t really the talent you’d expect from a country where football was invented. Sad really"
4 times world cup winners, 6 time finalists, 8 time semi finalist says they have.
And that's not counting that they have also been European champions...
Italy: Hold my Nebbiolo.
What are u on about? Italy have been in 9 (nine) major finals, that's 8 (eight) more than the so called inventors of football
Congrats Azzurri!!!!!
It's nice that you had a beautiful dream, England putting 9 goals to Italy. Very impressive dream.
No one talks about that Italy qualified with 10 games won and 30 points, with a total of 37 goals scored and only 4 conceded. That's Italy, how many points that England has?
“ Why HYS.. seriously why ??”
Be sure not to miss Argentina v. Uruguay HYS too!