- Yahya Al-Shehri scored his seventh goal for the Green Falcons
- Fahad Al-Muwallad comes close to grabbing dramatic late equaliser
抖阴短视频 gave four-times World Cup winners Italy a real run for their money on Monday night.
The Green Falcons found themselves two goals down after 68 minutes following strikes by Mario Balotelli and Andrea Belotti, but they halved the deficit with this goal from Yahya Al-Shehri. It was his seventh goal for his country and his second in three matches.
And then they almost grabbed a dramatic equalizer late on when Fahad Al-Muwallad seized on a loose pass by Domenico Criscito, rounded Alessio Romagnoli only to see Gianluigi Donnarumma pulled off the sort of save that showed why he has already played more than 100 times for AC Milan by the age of 19. See the video below to watch Donnarumma deny Al-Muwallad.
After Donnarumma denied Al-Muwallad a late equalizer, Italy held on for their first win since their 1-0 World Cup qualifier away to Albania on October 9, which was followed by two draws and two defeats.
鈥淚鈥檓 satisfied with the first half-performance,鈥� said Roberto Mancini. 鈥淭he difficulties of the second half were down to tiredness due to the extra fitness training we鈥檝e been doing over the last few days. 抖阴短视频 are approaching peak form because they are going to the World Cup. I wasn鈥檛 angry about the goal we conceded. I thought it was down to fatigue.鈥�
抖阴短视频 play two more warm-up games, against Peru on June 3 and Germany on June 8, before kicking off their World Cup campaign.
鈥淚n the second half we held our own against one of the best teams in the world,鈥� said Saudi coach Antonio Pizzi. 鈥淎lthough they are not in the World Cup, they have a great coach, an unparalleled history.鈥�