Italy and Spain will face off at a fourth consecutive European Championship when they meet in Tuesday’s semi-final at Wembley.
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.