Match facts

  • This is the first match between Italy and Wales at a major tournament. The Azzurri have won seven of the nine meetings, with Wales winning the other two.
  • The most recent encounter was a European Championship qualifier in Milan in 2003, which the hosts won 4-0. Robert Page started for Wales as Filippo Inzaghi scored an 11-minute hat-trick.
  • Italy are unbeaten in their past 29 games. If they avoid defeat, they will equal their all-time longest unbeaten run of 30 games between 1935 and 1939.
  • They have gone 965 minutes without conceding a goal.
  • If Wales avoid defeat, they will have made it out of the group stage in all three of their appearances at a major tournament, having also done so at the 1958 World Cup and Euro 2016.
  • Wales have lost just one of their past 15 competitive games, March's 3-1 defeat by Belgium in a World Cup qualifier.
  • Aaron Ramsey has been involved in six of the 13 goals Wales have scored at European Championships, scoring two and assisting four.