Italy vs Albania LIVE: Euro 2024 team news, line-ups and more from Group B fixture

What a chance! Sallai had time and space, but he blasts over!

It was fine work down the right from Fiola, excellent start fro Hungary: fast, aggressive and sprinkling in quality at times.

Now Switzerland able to settle, passing it from side to side at the back, Xhaka dropping in to dictate.

It’s a lively atmosphere in Cologne, Hungary perhaps the more composed on the ball so far and looking to establish a spell of possession.

Freuler beaten by Schafer with a tidy dribble across the width of the pitch.

And Rossi’s side press high, four against four, not handing Switzerland much time to settle.

Hungary looking to test Switzerland with long balls into their box early on here.

It’s Kwadwo Duah up top for the Swiss today, who have a question mark over their striker. It’s a live opening with the Ludogorets star putting his weight about.

Yellow! Widmer lunges in from the back of Kerkez, an early card sets the tone here.

“If I have to say the truth knowing Dominik I don’t think he will arrive depressed,” manager Marco Rossi told M4 Sport in Hungary. “I think that he’s thinking that in the time that he’s not spending on the pitch with Liverpool will give him more power and more freshness for our matches. I hope for this.

“But I think that he’s already focused on what he would like to do and he will do [at the Euros] because in this moment, yesterday [against Aston Villa] he played 20 minutes so it was just a warm up for him. Probably the next match will be the same.

“He’s already focused on the European Championship. He will arrive fresh and this is good overall for us. I think also that he will not suffer under the psychological aspect of this situation.”

Granit Xhaka plans to spend a long time at Euro 2024 with Switzerland, but had to play down reports of a rift with head coach Murat Yakin ahead of Saturday’s Group A opener with Hungary.

Former Arsenal captain Xhaka enjoyed a remarkable season with Bayer Leverkusen after they won a domestic double and now turns his focus to international football.

Switzerland take on Hungary in Cologne, but Xhaka was asked to cast his mind back to September when he was critical of the team’s preparation before a 2-2 draw with Kosovo.

Xhaka told a press conference: “We are glad to have a coach who listens to us and who wants to talk to us. We have never had problems. We are adult enough to clarify everything. I have a great relationship with the coach.

“The last six or eight months, he came to see me many times. We met in Dusseldorf, we had dinner together and drank a lot of wine together. Everything is going fine. We are both ambition and we want to be successful.

“Those who know me, know I don’t like to talk about ifs, buts and hypothesis. I packed my luggage to spend here a lot of time.”

“Let’s see this time what happens,” Hungary boss Marco Rossi said. “We qualified not by chance but because we deserve to and we’re here and we would like to be the protagonist.

“We would like to give joy and happiness to our supporters.”

While Hungary midfielder Bendeguz Bolla adds: “I feel we’ve prepared perfectly for tomorrow’s game. We have no reasons to fear.”

“We have clear aims and we want to achieve them, but tomorrow is the first game, the first aim,” Switzerland captain Granit Xhaka says.

“We want to give our best and hopefully get the three points.”

• It’s 70 years since Switzerland hosted the World Cup and Hungary lost to West Germany in the final. That loss marked the end of an era when Hungary‘s “Magic Magyars” were one of the world’s best teams.
• It’s 43 years since Hungary beat Switzerland in a competitive game. Their last meeting was a 5-2 win for Switzerland in World Cup qualifying in 2017.
• Opening games have been a problem for both teams at the Euros. Switzerland has one win from five, against Albania in 2016. Hungary has one win from four, though two of its opening games were also semifinals because only four teams qualified for the tournament in 1964 and 1972.
• Switzerland captain Granit Xhaka can play his 126th game for his country, extending the team record. Vice-captain Shaqiri is close behind on 123 games.