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Atalanta midfielder Pessina on being Italy matchwinner - again: I'll remember this forever

Atalanta midfielder Mattia Pessina is full of pride after producing Italy's winner against Austria.

Pessina ame off the bench in the second half and scored the Azzurri's second goal in the extra time of the last 16 stage of Euro 2020 at Wembely.

“I haven't realised I scored the goal against Wales, imagine this one. The most important thing is that we qualified for the quarter finals, I will remember this night forever," Pessina told Sky Italia.

“We are a great and united group, we are showing it to everybody, you can see it from the outside and that's the best thing.

"It gave me great joy to score the second goal after such a difficult game, it was amazing,"

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