For the fourth straight European Championship, the two powerhouses are meeting in the knockout round — this time at London’s Wembley Stadium with a spot in the final on the line. The countries have claimed four European titles and five World Cup crowns between them. Tuesday’s match is being contested in front of around 58,000 spectators, the biggest crowd of this tournament.
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Spain and Italy go to extra time tied 1-1
Spain will play extra time for the third consecutive match, the first team in European Championship history to do so, according to ESPN.
La Roja previously stretched a 3-3 draw with Croatia into a 5-3 extra time victory in the round of 16. It went to penalty kicks in the quarterfinal round against Switzerland, winning 3-1 after a 1-1 draw.
Italy won its first five Euro 2020 games in regulation.
Morata draws Spain level, 1-1
Dani Olmo facilitated a beautiful combination play with substitute Álvaro Morata, first receiving the ball from the forward before piercing the Italian backline with a pass back to Morata into the area. Morata netted the equalizer in the 80th minute for his third goal of the competition, leveling the score.
Spain makes substitutions as it chases Italian lead
Minutes after Italy’s go-ahead goal, both sides began to insert fresh legs.
Spain’s Álvaro Morata replaced Ferran Torres, and Italy’s Ciro Immobile departed for Domenico Berardi in the 62nd minute.
In the 70th minute, Rodri and Gerard Moreno rotated into Spain’s lineup in place of Koke and Mikel Oyarzabal. Italy substituted Rafael Tolói (for Emerson) and Matteo Pessina (for Marco Verratti) shortly after.
Federico Chiesa gives Italy 1-0 lead
Italy has punished opponents throughout the tournament, turning defensive takeaways into quick-strike attacks. In the 60th minute, an Italian counterattack left Federico Chiesa with space in the Spanish area and he maneuvered his shot past Unai Simon into the back corner to put Italy ahead.
Spain, Italy tied 0-0 at halftime
Spain and Italy are tied 0-0 at halftime of their Euro 2020 semifinal.
Italy keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma saved the day’s first major threat from Dani Olmo, whose initial shot was blocked by Leonardo Bonucci before his second-chance effort was repelled by the Italian goalkeeper in the 25th minute.
Shots have been limited during a fast-paced half, with Spain accounting for the majority (five to one). Spain has the game’s lone shot on goal, while La Roja has had better than 60 percent of possession and has completed more than twice as many passes as Italy, according to ESPN.
Spain controlling possession in the early going
Spain survived an early Italian scare compliments of an offside call in the opening minutes. La Roja has since controlled the ball, enjoying better than 70 percent of possession, according to ESPN, much to the delight of the Spanish partisans in the crowd.
Both semifinals as well as Sunday’s final will be opened to more than 60,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in London. The crowds, the largest of this tournament, are arriving even as new cases of coronavirus infections are soaring in Britain.
Emerson replaces the injured Spinazzola for Italy
Chelsea defender Emerson replaces left back Leonardo Spinazzola in Italy’s lone lineup change from its quarterfinal win over Belgium. Spinazzola ruptured his Achilles’ tendon in the quarterfinal.
The remaining starting lineup, which includes team assist leaders Marco Verratti and Nicolò Barella, remains intact.
Spain makes three lineup changes after Switzerland win
Spanish manager Luis Enrique rotated Mikel Oyarzabal and Dani Olmo into his starting front line against Italy, replacing Álvaro Morata and Pablo Sarabia, who started against Switzerland. Central defender Eric García will start in place of Pau Torres.
Morata, Sarabia and Ferran Torres are the team’s leading scorers (two goals each) in Euro 2020 entering Tuesday’s match. Oyarzabal netted the game-winning penalty kick to defeat Switzerland in the quarterfinal.
UEFA invites Christian Eriksen, paramedics to Euro final
UEFA invited Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen and the paramedics who helped save his life to attend the Euro 2020 final at London’s Wembley Stadium on Sunday.
Eriksen suffered cardiac arrest during Denmark’s opening group stage match against Finland before paramedics resuscitated him on the field. He was taken to a hospital and has since been released after undergoing a procedure in which an implantable cardioverter defibrillator — what his doctor called a heart starter ——was placed in his heart. UEFA said Eriksen, his partner and six medics were invited, according to Reuters, although it isn’t clear if he will attend.
One of the paramedics, Peder Ersgaard, told the Dutch magazine Fagbladet FOA that he anticipated UEFA would send the paramedics a thank-you note or a T-shirt after it requested his email and address. Instead, he received an invitation to attend the game. “I’m excited, like a child on Christmas Eve,” he said, according to Reuters.
Denmark has a chance to play in that final if it defeats England on Wednesday.
Spain vies for return to European Championship final
Spain needed penalties to advance past Switzerland in the quarterfinals despite plenty of opportunities in a 1-1 draw. Sergio Busquets missed the opening shot during the penalties, but the Swiss failed to convert their final three attempts, clearing Spain’s passage to the semifinals against favored Italy.
Spain’s path has been rockier than that of its opponent. After surrendering a pair of late goals to Croatia in the round of 16, Spain scored twice in extra time to finish off a wild 5-3 win.
La Roja drew with Sweden (0-0) and Poland (1-1) in its first two group stages games, then hammered Slovakia, 5-0, in the third.
The team is looking for its first major final since winning the 2012 European Championship. That capped a four-year span in which Spain also won the 2008 European title and the 2010 World Cup.
Italy looks to continue impressive form against Spain
Italy, the tournament’s only team with five wins in five matches, has arguably been the most impressive side in this European Championship.
It triumphed over Belgium, 2-1, in the quarterfinal round, extending its recent run of form and further narrowing the window of opportunity for the Belgians’ so-called golden generation. The Azzurri previously outlasted Austria in extra time in the round of 16 after defeating Turkey, Switzerland and Wales by a combined 7-0 margin in the group stage.
Italy suffered a 4-0 defeat to Spain in Kyiv in 2012 when the two powerhouses last played in a European Championship final.
Italy will play Tuesday’s semifinal without left back Leonardo Spinazzola, who ruptured his Achilles tendon against Belgium.
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