Italy can't keep it clean

By Football Italia staff

Italy have now failed to keep a clean sheet in eight consecutive matches, their worst run since 1958-59.

The Azzurri played a friendly against Andriy Shevchenko’s Ukraine in Genoa this evening.

Until this meeting, Italy had only ever conceded two goals in seven games against Ukraine, scoring 14.

Ruslan Malinovskyi’s half-volley from a corner means the Nazionale have conceded in each of their last eight matches.

That is the worst run for the Azzurri since 1958-59.

The last clean sheet kept by the Italian team was the 0-0 World Cup play-off draw with Sweden on November 13, 2017.

That result saw them lose the play-off 1-0 on aggregate and fail to make it to the biggest tournament for the first time since 1958.

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