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When #ESP met #ITA at EURO 2012, it was a famous win for a brilliant Spain team!
What s in store at #EURO2020 semi-final when these two powerhouses meet again?
Recently Spain have had the upper hand, losing just one of their last eight matches. Italy, however, are on a 13-match winning streak and their defence has not been breached more than once in any of their last 35 games, since a 3-1 defeat by France in a friendly on 1 June 2018, their second match under Mancini.
So as the two heavyweights prepare to meet again, this time in the Euro 2020 semi-final, here’s a look at five of the best past encounters between the nations:
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Five classic Italy v Spain clashes ahead of Euro 2020 semi-final
Ahead of that game AFP Sports looks at five of the best past encounters between the nations:
– Tassotti’s elbow on Luis Enrique –
1994 World Cup quarter-final: Italy 2 Spain 1
The first meeting of the teams at a World Cup came in 1934, when hosts Italy won 1-0 in a quarter-final replay on the way to lifting the trophy.
Sixty years later they met at the World Cup in the United States, again at the quarter-final stage. At the time Spain were seen as the great underachievers in international football but they fancied their chances against Arrigo Sacchi’s Italy in Foxborough, Massachusetts.