G. Calvani settled this international friendly with a 63rd-minute goal, the only moment of the match to find the net. Italy U21 had made wholesale changes at half-time, sending on six players at the interval, and it was from that reshaped second-half lineup that the decisive strike came. Albania U21 could not find an equaliser, and Italy U21 held the single-goal advantage through to the final whistle to take a 1-0 result.

With no standings or bracket at stake, the result carries weight primarily as a measure of squad depth and second-half cohesion. Italy U21 made ten substitutions across the match, using the occasion to give minutes to a wide range of players, and the fact that the only goal came from that heavily rotated second-half group suggests the depth of the pool held up under genuine match conditions. For a side preparing for competitive fixtures ahead, winning while managing minutes across so many players is a more useful outcome than the scoreline alone conveys. Albania U21, for their part, did not find a way through against a changed Italian defence.