Austria take on the visitors Italy in a friendly international match. The match will be played on Sunday, November 20th.
Austria has been looking pretty decent lately. Which should not be particularly surprising, after all, the backbone of this team is formed by the players who played or play, and actively, for clubs from the German Bundesliga 1. Interspersed with the type of eccentric, but extremely talented Arnautovic and the all-rounder Alaba, who also shone in Bayern and in Real Madrid. So it was not in vain that the national team left the group at last year's Euro and then gave battle to Italy. Rather, it is surprising that in March the Austrians managed to lose to Wales in the playoffs for entering the World Cup. After that, they had a new mentor, Rangnick - and Ralph needed to restore his reputation after the failure at Manchester United. They started well with him: the defeat of Croatia on the road, 1-1 at home with France. Then, however, there were 3 defeats in a row and a fall to 4th place. Yes, and 1-0 with Andorra is not the best result.
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Italy is trying to find themselves and their game again. Last time, after a failure in the form of absenteeism from the 2018 World Cup (losing to the Swedes in the playoffs), Roberto Mancini and his wards rehabilitated perfectly by winning the Euro. But the maximum triumph was replaced by a series of failures: defeat in the first match of the "home" "final of 4" of the League of Nations, only 2nd place in the qualifying group, behind Switzerland and, most importantly, a shocking defeat at home to North Macedonia in the first round of playoffs - and to whom, North Macedonia, an obvious outsider! At least partial, but revenge was taken in the new cycle of the Nations League. There, Azzurri also did not succeed, but in the end, due to the September breakthrough, with a couple of victories, it managed to get to the 1st place. In the quartet with Hungary, England and Germany, the Italians were able to score 11 points! The series of victories continued in November, winning 3-1 with Albania in their field.
National teams have been playing head-to-head for 110 years, and only the very first match, at the 1912 Olympics, was won by Austria. Then there were 5 victories for Italy in 8 matches, and at last year's Euro after 0-0 in regular time, Azzurri won 2-1 in extra time. Bookmakers believe that the field factor will not help the Austrians now.
Prediction for the match: Italy to win.
