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A cagey start to extra-time saw Daka force a good save from Brodersen before Shemmy Mayembe put Zambia back in front, this time holding out – just, with Serdar fluffing a fantastic chance – for that first ever ticket to the last eight. | A cagey start to extra-time saw Daka force a good save from Brodersen before Shemmy Mayembe put Zambia back in front, this time holding out – just, with Serdar fluffing a fantastic chance – for that first ever ticket to the last eight. | ||
=== Italy 3-2 Zambia === | |||
Ten-man Italy beat Zambia 3-2 after extra-time in a thrilling encounter to advance to the semi-finals of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea | |||
Republic 2017. | |||
Patson Daka scored his second goal of the | |||
tournament inside the first four minutes to give the Junior Chipolopolo an early lead. Emmanuel | |||
Banda found Daka with a carefully-weighted and perfectly-timed through pass, and the forward finished the move with aplomb, | |||
chipping his shot past Andrea Zaccagno. | |||
The Italians responded with wave after wave of attack, but failed to find the crucial breakthrough. The match then took a significant turn right before half-time when, after a video assistant referee review, Giuseppe Pezzella received a straight red card for a shove on Edward Chilufya that denied an obvious goalscoring opportunity. | |||
Against all odds, Italy scored an equaliser within five minutes at the start of the second half. Riccardo Orsolini scored his fourth of the tournament when he guided home a header from the back post after a cross by Giuseppe Panico Fashion Sakala then matched Orsolini with his fourth of the tournament in the 84th minute with a well-placed strike into the top corner | |||
from 12 yards. | |||
Zambia thought they were through, but substitute Federico Dimarco had other ideas. | |||
The substitute curled in a superb free-kick | |||
inside Zambia's left post to send the match into extra-time. Zambia nearly scored in extra-time when substitute Kenneth Kalunga fired just wide of goal after neatly juggling the ball past Italy's defence. The Africans would be made to rue that missed opportunity. | |||
In the 110th minute, two substitutes combined to score the winning goal as Dimarco's corner | |||
kick found Luca Vido eight yards from goal | |||
and he headed in from close range to send the Italians into the U-20 World Cup semi-finals | |||
for the first time. | |||
==References== | ==References== |