Team News

Cristiano Ronaldo missed an 11-meter penalty in the 105th minute in the duel against Slovenia, as his shot was stopped by goalkeeper Oblak. However, fortunately for him, the Portuguese star managed to celebrate at the end, where his national team triumphed from the penalty spot. CR7 took over the first penalty, but this time he turned it into a goal.

Speaking after the match, Ronaldo said: “I felt sadness, but in the end joy! This is football. I experienced incredible and inexplicable moments, I could have given my team the lead, but I couldn’t. Oblak made an incredible save, I don’t think the penalty was that bad, but I was wrong anyway.

I felt sad, but the most important thing is to enjoy the passage to the next round. The team did an outstanding job and fought very well: Slovenia was well positioned and made it difficult for us. And then our goalkeeper made three wonderful saves”, declared Ronaldo.

Nedim Bajrami scored in the first minute of the game, bringing the numbers to 0-1 against Italy.

The midfielder of the Albanian national team thus entered the history books of the European Championships, scoring the fastest goal in this competition.

The 25-year-old midfielder needed only 22 seconds to punish the Azzurri, thus setting a record that will be remembered for a long time.

The Albanian national football team plays tonight against Italy, at the “Signal Iduna Park” stadium in Dortmund, the first match in “EURO 2024”.

The coach of the national team, Silvinjo trusted Strakosha and Ajeti, who won the run-offs with Berisha and Ismajli, while he entrusted the attack to Asan, Seferi and Broja.

In Italy, Spalletti trusted the Inter block with 4 black players in the formation, while Barella, who was in doubt, played from the first minute.

Albania will start its journey to Euro 2024 in 10 days, where it will seek to make a performance worthy of the expectation it has created after the qualifying phase that finished first in its group.

It will be a little different in Europe, also due to the fact that the red and black have fallen into the “group of hell” as it is called by everyone, that B, where Spain, Italy and Croatia are next to them.

A trio of teams that have no small claims to reach the final stages of this tournament.

The prediction of how Albania’s tournament could be was given by the supercomputer of the statistics giant, “OPTA”.

Through a sophisticated data program, the entire tournament has been simulated 10,000 times and the percentages of every possible variant of its conclusion have been determined, of course, including Albania in every calculation.

According to the supercomputer, the biggest possibility is for Albania to finish the group in last place, as this happens in 56.4% of cases.

The third place of the Reds and Blacks is in 25.7% of the cases, the second place in 12.3% and the first place in the group is 5.6%.

In the simulation of qualification in the phase with direct elimination, Albania’s chances of going to the round of 16 are 33.4%. The percentage drops to 11.6 for quarter-final qualification and 3.2 for semi-finals.

The Reds have a 0.8% chance of reaching the final of the tournament and only a 0.2% chance of winning Euro 2024.

Novak Djokovic submits.

The Serbian tennis player “raised the white flag” and withdrew from Roland Garros due to a knee injury, simultaneously surrendering the first place in the ATP rankings.

Serbia hands over the first place in the ranking to the Italian talent Jannick Sinner, who is impressing with his performances this year.

Despite Sinner’s performance in the remainder of the French tournament, the Italian will take Djokovic’s place, as the Serbian needed to reach the Roland Garros final to retain the lead.

This is undoubtedly a great achievement for the 22-year-old Sinner, who thus makes his dream come true, climbing to the top of the tennis rankings for the first time in history.