After a year-long delay, the Euros kick off Friday at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome with Group A favorite Italy hosting an upstart Turkey side that many pundits consider to be a dark horse this summer.
Italy enters the Euros on a 27-match unbeaten streak that dates all the way back a Nations League loss to reigning Euro champion Portugal in September 2018. However impressive, the Azzurri haven't faced any side that shares a premier international standing other than the Netherlands and will be coming into the Euros with plenty of pressure to avenge the national embarrassment of missing the 2018 World Cup.