This game is a crucial one for the both teams which will be definitive on who's to leave or stay in the Euro... This year Euro, Croatia team has quite fallen below expectation with just a point in their group B after two games. On a current stats, Croatia don't stand a better chance to win their next game against Italy who were very unlucky after a tough battle in the meeting with Spain narrowly winning that game with an own goal from Calafiori. Same Spain that had a cool time beaten Croatia 3 nil.
Except history decides to repeat itself by favouring Croatia against Italy. In all of their 9 meetings record has it that Croatia has won 3 games while Italy won 1 with 5 draws. So probably if Croatia can show a bit of improvement in that match come 24th June they could light up their chance of surviving the group stage, but a draw won't be of any good for them at all.
Italy focused on defense, and they could do almost nothing in attack, only 1 shot on target in the entire game, which is too little to count on even a draw. And Spain made 20 shots on goal and 8 of them were on target, perhaps the beginning of the match was more or less even, but then Spain controlled everything and they had opportunities to score more. Perhaps Italy will try not to lose to Croatia, because this result will be enough for them, and Croatia will only need a victory.
Italy has always been known for their amazing defense, even before 90's they were known for their defense and grew just better and better. So their hope was that they would defend very well, tire Spain out, because they would run around trying to score, and eventually when Spain is tired, they would use their fast wings and striker to just counter attack and find a goal and keep parking the bus.
This did not happen because Spain knows tiki taka better than anyone else, and they just attacked without tiring themselves out, which made it impossible for Italy to execute their plan, and instead Spain just tired Italy out and eventually a mislap in judgement caused the goal. Spain seems like a good team this tournament, they may go further than I expected.