Video: Albania scores the fastest goal in the history of the Euro Cups

Albania is facing Italy in what is the second match of group B of Euro 2024. All the predictions and bets give Italy as a clear favorite for this confrontation, and it must be taken into account that they come as current champions of the competition, after their triumph in 2021, but after a turn of events, in just a few seconds, everything has changed for the Albanians.

There have been few seconds that have separated Albania from taking the lead in the match, and only 22 have been needed by the striker to take advantage of an error in a throw-in by Dimarco, where there was no understanding with the center back Bastoni, and in a masterful robbery, he managed to score the first. Merits also go to the exquisite ball-hitting that has served to put an Italy on the ropes that now has to respond a goal down after Spain’s victory, if it wants to be first in the group.

This goal, 22 seconds into the match, has made it, to the surprise of few, the fastest goal in the history of the Euro Cups. This record breaks the statistics that were certified in the last Euro Cup, and that is, in 2021, 3 of the 5 fastest goals to date in the Euro Cups were scored.

Emil Forsberg would be the one who held this record until this goal, with a goal in one minute and 21 seconds against Poland in the last European Championship. Goal that surpassed that of Yussuf Poulsen, who did it just 17 seconds later, in 1:39, to a Thibaut Courtois who could not do more to prevent the Danish goal against his Belgium.