Italy lose Frattesi and Cambiaghi, two men behind the France comeback, before Belgium

Italy will go to Brussels on Sunday without the two players who turned Thursday's 3-1 win over France around. Nicolò Cambiaghi left the national team camp on Saturday after Italy's medical staff found he had not recovered from the ankle injury he picked up against France, the Italian federation announced. Davide Frattesi had already gone home with a muscle problem, so Roberto Mancini loses both of them for the Group A1 finale against Belgium at King Baudouin Stadium.

France led through Michael Olise's 10th-minute goal. Pio Esposito made it 1-1 in the 26th minute when Cambiaghi beat Malo Gusto to the byline and cut the ball back. Early in the second half, Gusto fouled Cambiaghi in the box for the penalty Sebastiano Esposito put wide. A few minutes later, Frattesi finished a Federico Dimarco cross to give Italy the lead for good.

Cambiaghi, a 25-year-old Bologna winger, was making only his fourth appearance for Italy. He will return to his club to be assessed by the Bologna medical staff. Mancini also has to check on Riccardo Calafiori, whom he described as "one of the players we will have to evaluate."

The margin for error belongs to Italy. They lead the group on 10 points, level with France but ahead on head-to-head, with Belgium on nine and Türkiye on zero. According to UEFA, Italy reach the quarterfinals if they avoid defeat in Brussels, and a win would definately make them group winners. Belgium only go through if they win. France, who host Türkiye in Bordeaux at the same time, are through with a draw or if Belgium fail to beat Italy.

Belgium have reason to believe they can do it. They won 2-0 in Rome in September, the first game of Mancini's second spell, and they kept themselves alive on Thursday with a 2-1 comeback in Türkiye. Kevin De Bruyne and Charles De Ketelaere scored after Arda Güler opened the scoring.

Mancini said on Saturday that his team weren't coming to Brussels to play for a point. "Being here to fight for qualification in this group is a source of pride for what we have done so far, but now we're here, we'll play for it and we'd like to win too, knowing it won't be easy because Belgium are a very good national team," he said, according to Sky TG24.

Norway's Espen Eskås will referee the match, which kicks off at 8:45 p.m. local time (2:45 p.m. ET). Mark van Bommel's Belgium need three points. Italy now have to protect a one-point edge without the winger and the midfielder who won them the France game.