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According to The Times, Spain has not beaten Italy at football for 88 years! :eek:

Tomorrow evening I'll be in the pub watching Spain beat Italy for the first time since 1920. Mind you, I'll be drinking good German beer as I watch.
 
According to The Times, Spain has not beaten Italy at football for 88 years! :eek:

quite right too, Italy are good at football and Spain are good at posing and embarrassing themselves
 
I strongly suspect Italy will win of course. Spain will dominate most of the game, but get frustrated, and Italy will nick it at the end or win on penalties.

as stated, Spain excel at posing, Italy are good at football :)
 
Desperately hoping Spain can see this one through, they have always been plaqued with an inability to connect as a team and now they have a little confidence, helped in a great way by hammering Russia, we can hopefully see them as cup winners.
 
Really looking forward to this - will be the first match that I'm going to watch every minute of. An evenly matched game, but I fancy Spain to nick it; would be good as a half-Spaniard to actually feel some involvement in the tournament, even if I am a shameless Johnny-come-lately.

:)
 
According to The Times, Spain has not beaten Italy at football for 88 years! :eek:
This is not true. Spain beat Italy 1-0 earlier this year.

Spain have only played Italy 5 times in the World Cup and European Championships but have failed to win any of the games. The results have been:

1994 World Cup QF 2-1
1988 European Championship group game 1-0
1980 European Championship group game 0-0
1934 World Cup QF 1-1 then 1-0 in the replay

They have played each other a further 22 times and Spain have won 8 times and Italy 6.

Most of these are friendlies. The only victory for Spain in an official tournament was in their first encounter at the 1920 Olympic games consolation tournament.
 
This is not true. Spain beat Italy 1-0 earlier this year.

Spain have only played Italy 5 times in the World Cup and European Championships but have failed to win any of the games. The results have been:

1994 World Cup QF 2-1
1988 European Championship group game 1-0
1980 European Championship group game 0-0
1934 World Cup QF 1-1 then 1-0 in the replay

They have played each other a further 22 times and Spain have won 8 times and Italy 6.

Most of these are friendlies. The only victory for Spain in an official tournament was in their first encounter at the 1920 Olympic games consolation tournament.

Spain should have won in the 1994 World Cup QF - Salinas had a majestic chance to win it, but the Italians jammed it in the last minute.

:rolleyes:
 
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