Kiev Olympic Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine. The biggest day comes on, Euro 2012 Championship finals. Spain & Italy, the FIFA world champions Spain & four times winner Italy. Thousand of viewers in stadium & millions of fan waiting in TV screen to watch finals show in Euro 2012. 50 - 50 chance for both two teams to win this game, after 90 mint in play Spain win 4 - 0!!
Spain became the first European team to ever win three back-to-back international tournaments as they defended the European Championship with a comfortable 4-0 win over Italy thanks to goals from David Silva, Jordi Alba, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata in Kiev.
In the opening rounds of a major tournament, Spain taunts and bleeds its opponents. Just to make it more fun, they may occasionally lose to Switzerland (the only team that has beaten Spain at this level in four years).
The first two tercios are dull. Like the bullfight, that’s because there’s no doubt about how things are going to end. Spain dithered their way through five games here. They could have lost to either Italy or Croatia in the opening round. Either result would have sent them home. They left it to a penalty lottery with Portugal in the semis. But this team, now astride the world of international football as no other side in history has ever been, refuses to go for the throat before there’s a trophy at stake. They save the muerte for the final.
Unfortunately for Italy, the last replacement, Motta was only on the field for four minutes before he pulled a hamstring and had to be stretchered off. It was dreadful luck for the Azzurri, who now knew their task was a hopeless one.
All that was left was to stave off humiliation. Even that was beyond them as substitutes Torres and Mata struck in the final minutes. Italy didn't deserve that. Their first competitive defeat to Spain - penalties excepted - since the 1920 Olympics.
Spain, record breakers twice over, now unbeaten in this competition for 29 games, a run that stretches back to June 2004. History makers.
