The thrilling Euro 2020 final between Italy and England successfully hooked the cricket fraternity with their thrill as it ended in a penalty shootout. And, cricketers around the world started reacting to the nail-biting finale which Italy won after Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka missed from the spot. Legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Kevin Pietersen, Jofra Archer, Ravichandran Ashwin, and England women cricketer Tammy Beaumont took to Twitter and wished both teams for the remarkable game.
Sachin Tendulkar congratulated the Italian side and wrote, “Congratulations to @azzurri Flag of Italy on the hard-fought victory to become the #EURO2020 Champions! Trophy And well done @England for reaching the finals & keeping the game alive until the very end. What a sport packed and refreshing weekend this has been!.”
It’ll come home at The World Cup! We love this England team.
Chins up! 🙏🏽— Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) July 11, 2021
Sport can be cruel. Well played #eng and congrats to #ita
— Mask up and take your vaccine🙏🙏🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) July 11, 2021
Heart breaking ..
— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) July 11, 2021
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England Women player Tammy Beaumont wrote, “Congrats Italy. So proud of our @England boys! Such a good tournament for us! You can all hold your heads up high. Let’s all get behind them now! #EURO2020.”
Congrats Italy.
So proud of our @England boys! Such a good tournament for us! You can all hold your heads up high. Let’s all get behind them now! #EURO2020 #eng— Tammy Beaumont (@Tammy_Beaumont) July 11, 2021
Extremely proud to be English supporting this team @England ❤️ https://t.co/WKtIRjVXKR
— Chris Woakes (@chriswoakes) July 12, 2021
The picture speaks a thousand words. Football can be so cruel. I hope that Rashford, Sancho and Saka don’t suffer racial abuse.☹️#Euro2020Final #EnglandvsItaly pic.twitter.com/hKmHyRaO0p
— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) July 12, 2021
Only if it was a Bollywood movie 💔#EURO2020 #GarethSouthgate #Italy #ItsGoingRome 🏆 pic.twitter.com/tvmmZ06kun
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) July 11, 2021
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However, England started quite well as full-back Luke Shaw helped them to have the upper hand in the second minute of the game. But Italians returned in the second half through defender Leonardo Bonucci’s 67th-minute goal which equalled the game as well.
And, then both teams failed to score any more goals and the game went into extra time and then into penalties as well, where Italy beat England by 3-2.
