Gabriele Marcotti

So, Gab, what's Gattuso learned from this performance?

Like, will it be pure esposito in the final here?

Because it was a big difference in the second half to the first half once he'd come on.

I hope he's not tempted to go and just, you know, pick on performance.

I mean, I think having Pio Esposito as somebody who can come off the bench is a tremendous asset.

You know, Witegi hadn't played a competitive game in several weeks.

So, you know, there was some ring rust there.

But I think it was also the case that

It's hard when you don't have the ball, when you've got 25-30% possession like Northern Ireland in the first half.

Eventually, it gets hard to continue defending like that, and it's easier to play with the lead, and Pio Esposito got to do that.

So, I mean, personally, I'm not 100%.

People will ask for him to start in place of Matteo Retteghi.

I don't think that's cut and dried by any means.

And I think the big difference against Bosnia is that so many of these players play in Serie A, so many of them are familiar.

And I think they're going to present an entirely different challenge to Northern Ireland.

Props today, though, Jules, to Moise Kane and Sandro Tonali in the second half.

And next up for Italy, it is Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Wales had had the lead in this game through Dan James, but late on the 40-year-old Edin Dzeko levelled things out.

It went to extra time and penalties, and Bosnia won the game on penalties to set up that final with Italy on Tuesday.

So here's how things are looking.