Overview
- Italy’s official XI is a 3-5-2 with Donnarumma in goal and Retegui alongside Pio Esposito up front; Norway start Haaland with Sorloth in a 4-4-2.
- The match is underway at San Siro and reported at 0-0, with more than 66,000 tickets issued.
- Italy must win by at least nine to take Group I and avoid the playoffs, a scenario Gattuso called “unthinkable,” while Norway are virtually through.
- Haaland said Norway will do everything to qualify and praised Donnarumma as among the best goalkeepers in the world.
- Separately, San Marino retain a remote Nations League–linked route to the playoffs that hinges on other results, notably involving Romania and Northern Ireland, and their 18 November trip to Romania.