{"id":58168,"date":"2026-11-13T08:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=58168"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:41:17","slug":"italy-stun-france-spain-extend-winning-run-in-uefa-nations-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/italy-stun-france-spain-extend-winning-run-in-uefa-nations-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy stun France, Spain extend winning run in UEFA Nations League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, Nov 13:<\/strong> Spain continued their impressive winning run in the UEFA Nations League, while France suffered a 3-1 defeat against Italy on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat marked the first loss of Zinedine Zidane&#8217;s tenure as France head coach.<\/p>\n<p>At the San Siro in Milan, Francesco Pio Esposito scored twice, while Davide Frattesi added another goal to guide Italy to a comeback victory. Michael Olise scored France&#8217;s only goal.<\/p>\n<p>France made a flying start to the contest, with Olise opening the scoring in the 10th minute. However, Italy responded in the 26th minute as Esposito found the net to level the score at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Frattesi put the hosts ahead in the 63rd minute before Esposito converted a penalty in the 75th minute to complete his brace and seal Italy&#8217;s 3-1 victory. The striker had earlier missed a penalty in the 60th minute.<\/p>\n<p>There were no further goals as Italy secured all three points despite falling behind early in the match.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Italy moved to the top of Group A1 with 10 points from five matches, level on points with Spain, who sit second.<\/p>\n<p>In another fixture on Thursday night, Spain maintained their winning momentum with a 2-0 victory over the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Baena and Marc Pubill scored one goal each to secure the win for the Spanish side.<\/p>\n<p>The victory extended Spain&#8217;s perfect record in the competition, taking their tally to 15 points from five matches and keeping them at the top of Group A3.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech Republic, meanwhile, remain at the bottom of the group without a point after five matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Nov 13: Spain continued their impressive winning run in the UEFA Nations League, while France suffered a 3-1 defeat against Italy on Thursday night. The defeat marked the first loss of Zinedine Zidane&#8217;s tenure as France head coach. At the San Siro in Milan, Francesco Pio Esposito scored twice, while Davide Frattesi added another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58171,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58168\/revisions\/58171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}