The Euro 2020 football tournament brings together the best teams on the continent. It is taking place a year later than planned because of the pandemic. Here's a round-up of what you need to know.

The tournament kicked off on Friday with Turkey against one of the favorites for the competition, Italy, in the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

Efforts from Ciro Immobile and Lorenzo Insigne, plus an own goal, saw Roberto Mancini's Italy side record an impressive 3-0 win, which means they have now played 28 matches without being beaten.

After all the lockdowns and lack of supporters at matches, it was an emotional night in the Italian capital with 16,000 fans allowed in the Stadio Olimpico.

- England manager Gareth Southgate has said that the team's players will continue to take the knee before matches despite boos by some fans at recent friendlies. Games in the Premier League, where players have taken the knee since the killing of George Floyd in the U.S. last year, have mostly been played without fans because of COVID-19.

- Southgate also wrote a lengthy open letter in which he said that those people who attack players on social media because of the color of their skin are "on the losing side - it's clear to me that we are heading for a much more tolerant and understanding society, and I know our lads will be a big part of that."

- Ukraine's football association said it had reached a compromise with UEFA over the kit featuring a map and slogans that annoyed Russia. A UEFA spokesperson told AFP that Ukraine had agreed to cover up the slogan with a smaller map of the country. "They will cover it up, and this will be checked by a (UEFA) delegate before each match," the spokesperson said.

- There have already been some positive COVID-19 tests ahead of the tournament, with Scotland, Spain, and Sweden among countries where players have had to self-isolate. The organisers, UEFA, have said that matches "will go ahead as scheduled as long as the team has at least 13 players available (including at least one goalkeeper)."

· Budapest aims to use 100 percent of the Puskas Arena's capacity, but with strict entry requirements for spectators.

· Saint Petersburg and Baku have confirmed capacities of 50 percent.

· Amsterdam, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Rome, and Seville will be using between 25 and 45 percent of the stadium capacity.

· London has confirmed a minimum capacity of 25 percent for the first three group matches and the first phase of the knockouts.

· Munich aims to host a minimum of 14,500 spectators, which is equal to 22 percent of the stadium capacity.

There are three matches taking place on Saturday: 

13:00 GMT - Wales vs Switzerland

16:00 GMT - Denmark vs Finland

19:00 GMT - Belgium vs Russia

Achille, a cat from the State Hermitage Museum in Moscow, is being brought back to predict results of matches during Euro 2020, with a Belgian win over Russia on Saturday evening the first prediction. We will bring you updates on how accurate the feline's feelings turn out to be.

Achille, who has had a long history of predicting results for big matches, is not the first animal to become well-known for its psychic abilities. One of the best known was Paul the Octopus, who correctly predicted a string of results in the 2010 World Cup.

In both of these 'psychic' animals' cases, the predictions work by putting the teams' flags by helpings of food and seeing which one they went to first.