‘It will be emotional’: Italy's Domenico Berardi

Reigning champions Italy eased to a 40 victory over Malta in Euro 2024 qualifying on Saturday while Denmark strengthened their position and dented the hopes of outsiders KazakhstanGiacomo Bonaventura curled in his first Italy goal and Domenico Berardi produced a fine strike of his own to double the lead in BariBerardi scores braceBerardi struck again in the second half before Davide Frattesi rounded off a comfortable evening for Luciano Spallettirsquos side who kept hold of second place in Group C ahead of next weekrsquos showdown with England ldquoThat match is where we will really see how much potential we haverdquo Spalletti told broadcaster RAIItaly with a game in hand closed to within three points of England going into their clash at Wembley ldquoIt will definitely be emotional I have amazing memories from that stadiumrdquo said Berardi who played in Italyrsquos Euro 2020 shootout final win over EnglandldquoWersquoll go there trying to do what we did today play our own game and look to winrdquoUkraine are level with ItalyUkraine are level with Italy after a 20 win over North Macedonia in Prague Georgiy Sudakov put Ukraine ahead on 30 minutes and substitute Oleksandr Karavaiev sealed victory deep into stoppage time ahead of their visit to Malta next weekAlso Read lsquoWe achieved our objectiversquoDenmark avenged their shock loss to Kazakhstan in March as Robert Skov netted twice in a 31 win in Copenhagen Jonas Wind set the Danes semifinalists at Euro 2020 on their way before Skov scored a quickfire double either side of halftimeDemark win at homeKazakhstan pulled one back via Yan Vorogovskiy but they fell four points off the pace in Group H ldquoFirst of all we must be happy about a victory in a European qualifier at home It hasnrsquot been plain sailing in this grouprdquo Denmark coach Kasper Hjulmand told broadcaster TV2 ldquoIt was an extremely important home game and we were forced to win The pressure was there and we got the victory we had tordquoSesko propels SloveniaBenjamin Seskorsquos brace powered Slovenia to a 30 win over Finland in Ljubljana Seskorsquos first came from the penalty spot and the RB Leipzig forward added another with a clinical finish taking him to eight goals in his last 11 international appearances Defender Erik Janza grabbed a late third for Slovenia who lead Denmark at the top on goal differenceThe two countries meet in Copenhagen on November 17 Slovenia are away to Northern Ireland next week and Denmark will be almost certain to beat San Marinomdashlosers in all but one of 82 previous Euro qualifiersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever