Overview
- Kickoff is Sunday at 16:45 Brasília time at San Siro with live coverage on ESPN and Disney+.
- Norway top Group I with 21 points and qualify with a draw, remaining safe even with a defeat by up to eight goals.
- Italy enter on a six‑match winning run under Gennaro Gattuso but trail heavily on goal difference after a 3–0 loss in Oslo in June.
- Norway boast the qualifiers’ most prolific attack with 33 goals, including 14 by Erling Haaland, while Martin Ødegaard remains out.
- Italy report absences including Calafiori, Sandro Tonali, Moise Kean and Niccolò Cambiaghi, with a sellout crowd of about 60,000 expected and a Spanish officiating crew led by Alejandro Hernández.