Euro 2020 Live Streaming Schedule, Saturday, 12 June

Turkey's mainstay Hakan Calhanoglu (Twitter @euro2020)

JAKARTA - The gong to signal the start of Euro 2020 will be sounded tonight. Italy is ready to start the long journey of a month-long European football party by facing Turkey.

Gli Azzurri will try to quench their thirst for the European Cup title, which they last breathed 53 years ago in 1968. They face Turkey's surprise team in the opening match of Euro 2020 in Rome at 20.00 local time which coincides with Saturday at 02.00 WIB.

The match at the Stadio Olimpico is also a symbol of the return to normality in a country that was once the epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed 127,000 lives and infected 4.24 million people.

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Italy will celebrate this inaugural match with the attendance at the stadium which is the largest in the last one and a half years. They will see the Azurri squad start their second European Cup title race.

Italy enters the Euro 2020 finals with an impeccable report card after winning all of the 10 qualifying matches of the edition of the European Cup that was postponed by a year due to the pandemic. This is a great achievement after the embarrassing thing that happened three years ago when the Azurri did not qualify for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.

Not only that, Italy also has an impressive record of being unbeaten in 27 consecutive matches, although it may not have the superstar players like defending champions Portugal or world champions France.

However, the opponent of Leonardo Bonucci cs is definitely not an arbitrary opponent. Turkey created a surprise after holding a draw and beating France 2-0 in the qualifying phase. Turkey finished second in Group H in the qualifying round with only one loss.

This is the fifth time Turkey has qualified for the European Cup finals, and in two of the previous four participations, Turkey made a surprise run to the 2000 quarter-finals and four years later in 2004 qualified for the semifinals to finally finish third.

Therefore, there is reason for Italy to be wary of Turkey even if playing at home to the roar of the crowd after for the past year and a half the stadiums have been silent from the sound of supporters.

"In every opening match there are surprises and I hope we can emit one of them," said Turkey coach Senol Gunes.

Besides Turkey vs Italy, there is also a match between Wales and Switzerland and Denmark against Finland on Saturday, 12 June. Check out the full schedule below.

Turkey vs Italy

Kick-off: 02.00 WIB

Live broadcast: RCTI/iNewsTV/Soccer Channel

Wales vs Switzerland

Kick-off: 20.00 WIB

Live broadcast: MNCTV/iNewsTV/Soccer Channel

Denmark vs Finland

Kick-off: 23.00 WIB

RCTI/iNewsTV/Soccer Channel