Greece vs Italy LIVE: Game is underway! (0-0)

After both national anthems were played, Greece and Italy are now underway in this friendly.

Follow the live minute-by-minute coverage here on Bolavip.

Everything is set for the start of the friendly between Greece and Italy. 

The home team will wear blue, while the visitors will be in all white.

For this match, goalkeeper and captain Donnarumma stands out as a key figure, following the major squad overhaul after Italy’s elimination in the latest qualifiers.

Gennaro Gattuso is no longer the head coach either, having resigned after the match against Bosnia.

Both teams are going through their pre-match warm-ups, awaiting the start of the game.

The head-to-head record between the two teams favors Italy. In 12 meetings, the Azzurri have won seven times, with four draws and just one victory for Greece.

The last meeting between the two sides took place on October 12, 2019, in a UEFA European Championship qualifier. On that occasion, Italy secured a 2–0 victory.

Silvio Baldini, manager of the Azzurri, has selected the following starting XI to begin the match:

Gianluigi Donnarumma; Honest Ahanor, Pietro Comuzzo, Fabio Chiarodia, Davide Bartesaghi; Niccolò Pisilli, Luca Lipani, Cher Ndour; Luca Koleosho, Sebastiano Esposito, Jeff Ekhator.

These are the 11 players Ivan Jovanović will send onto the field to start the match:

Odisseas Vlachodimos; Pantelis Hatzidiakos, Konstantinos Koulierakis, Panagiotis Retsos; Giorgos Kyriakopoulos, Georgios Vagiannidis, Christos Mouzakitis, Nectarios Triantis; Christos Tzolis; Giorgos Masouras, Anastasios Douvikas.

The match will be played at Pankritio Stadium in Heraklion. Fans in the United States can watch the game live on Tubi, Amazon Prime Video, Fubo, and ViX.

The officials for this match are all from Israel. Yigal Frid will serve as the referee, assisted by Rostislav Talis and Tuval Koltunoff, while Dimitrios Moschou will be the fourth official. Daniel Bar Natan will oversee VAR duties, with Nati Dotan serving as the assistant VAR (AVAR).

Welcome to another Bolavip live blog, where we’ll bring you minute-by-minute coverage of everything that happens in the international friendly between the Greece and Italy.

Neither of these teams managed to qualify for the next World Cup, so this match could serve as a test for the coaches to try out players and think about what lies ahead.