Wales placed second in Group A despite losing 0-1 Italy. Switzerland placed third after beating Turkey.

Italy made eight changes but still managed to beat their opponents, with only goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, Leonardo Bonucci and Jorginho maintaining their place in the team.

Wales also made three changes from the last game as Ben Davies, Chris Mepham and Kieffer Moore making way for Chris Gunter, Ethan Ampadu and Neco Williams.

Italy remained the more threatening side before and after Matteo Pessina gave Italy a deserved lead 39min, Federico Bernardeschi free-kick hit the woodwork in the second half.

The Azzurri’s almost doubled their lead before the half time, with Verratti and Pessina again looking to combine, although the midfielder was unable to make a clean connection. Roberto Mancini’s team still showed their strength in depth to beat their opponent.

However, Gareth Bale had moment to claim a draw but he wasted the chance to equalise for his side.

Elsewhere Switzerland were two up against Turkey in the first half and were just two-goal away from levelling the goal difference between Wales

The visitors’ task then got a whole lot harder two minutes later, when Ethan Ampadu came down on Bernardeschi’s ankle with his studs in the middle of the pitch and was shown a straight red card in the 55mins of the game .

A goal for Turkey improved Wales’ position in the group but on the pitch they were becoming stretched, with Chiesa skipping past Williams and teeing up Belotti to fire at Ward before Rafael Toloi headed the resulting corner narrowly wide.

News of another strike for Switzerland was followed by a second bad miss in two games from Bale. He had sent a penalty way off target against Turkey and horribly miscued his left-foot volley unmarked eight yards out against Italy, to his disbelief and that of the Wales coaching staff.
That could have proved costly, with the Swiss hitting the woodwork late on and Ward saving well from Belotti in the final moments.

Group winners Italy will play the runners-up of Group C on Saturday at Wembley at 8pm, while Wales will face the runners-up of Group B on the same day in Amsterdam at 5pm.