Watching Full Time Match, please visit: http://yogyakarta.kemenag.go.id/index.php?a=artikel&id;=13808 Four years and nine days ago, at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, Cesc Fabregas whistled a penalty past Gianluigi Buffon's lugs, and Spain started to believe. The spot kick put Spain into the semi finals of Euro 2008, securing victory over bogey side Italy in a major tournament for the first time since their first-ever meeting, at the 1920 Olympics. The rest is recent history, with Spain going on to win Euro 2008, then following it up by scooping the World Cup. Still no striker for Spain, they simply don't care what you think, and as reigning world and European champions, you can hardly blame them: Casillas, Arbeloa, Pique, Sergio Ramos, Jordi Alba, Xavi, Busquets, Alonso, Silva, Fabregas, Iniesta. Subs: Valdes, Albiol, Javi Martinez, Juanfran, Pedro, Torres, Negredo, Mata, Llorente, Santi Cazorla, Jesus Navas, Reina. Italy replace Federico Balzaretti with Ignazio Abate: Buffon, Abate, Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini, Pirlo, Marchisio, Montolivo, De Rossi, Balotelli, Cassano. Subs: Sirigu, Maggio, Ogbonna, Thiago Motta, Balzaretti, Di Natale, Giaccherini, Borini, Giovinco, Diamanti, Nocerino, De Sanctis. 46 min: Di Natale's first touch is to whumph a header just over the bar from 10 yards, Abate finding him with a superb cross. That was a decent chance. 47 min: Fabregas drags a shot inches wide left from the edge of the D. Buffon may not have got to that were it on target, he was leaning the other way. 48 min: Wow, this is some start to the half. Fabregas twists and turns down the right, reaching the byline and selling Balzaretti a couple of dummies. He nearly finds Silva at the near post, and then after a scramble is close to beating Buffon. But the ball's hacked clear. 49 min: Silva tries to hook the ball past Bonucci in the Italian area. The ball hits the defender's hand, but there's no intention, and the referee's having none of it. You've seen them given, but equally that would have been harsh, the players were so close together. We move on without incident. Italy are living dangerously here. 51 min: This is high-octane stuff. Montolivo slips the ball down the inside-left channel for Di Natale, who hammers a shot goalwards from 12 yards. Casillas parries spectacularly. The ball falls back at Di Natale's feet. He looks for Balotelli's head in the middle, but his chip inside is plucked from the sky by the keeper. Great play all round. "If this performance is anything to go by then Spain are the street-hustlers of the football world," suggests David Wall. "They've lulled all of us dupes into thinking they're dull and running out of ideas then as soon as we agree to play hunt-the-queen they happily relieve us of the contents of our wallets." 54 min: Spain are threatening a third. Iniesta lifts a clever pass down the middle, splitting the Italian defence in half, but the through ball hits Fabregas on the back, and the chance is gone. So unlucky. 56 min: Now it's Pirlo's turn to lift a clever pass down the middle, but his scoop for Di Natale is a wee bit too strong. Spain go up the other end, and after a few passes, Iniesta attempts to bust open Italy's offside trap with a backheel. He's not far away from finding Silva, either. That would have been preposterously good. 57 min: Italy make their third change, Motta coming on for Montolivo. 58 min: A free kick for Italy down the right. Pirlo lifts it to the far post, but Casillas palms clear. Balotelli picks up the ball and launches it towards the top right, but his effort flies over. "As far as I can see this game is just a series of intricate passes, punctuated by the odd goal and amazing bursts of skill," moans Ian Bahrami. "Yawn. When's the Premier League start again?" 59 min: The opening scorer Silva is hooked for Pedro. He's not particularly happy about it, but off he must trot. "I called my Dad at half time," begins Tom Young. "In discussing Spain's dominance of international football he managed to compare Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas et al to Steve 'Interesting' Davis in the 1980s: 'No one else ever got a look in.' I could not detect any irony through the phone line." 61 min: Well, if this wasn't already over, it pretty much looks like it now. Motta zips after a ball only for his hamstring to ping. He's carted off, straight down the tunnel. After four minutes! I do hope he warmed up properly. Italy have used all their subs, remember. This is now 10 versus 11. 64 min: Balotelli wins a free kick for Italy down the left. Pirlo swings the ball to the far post for Bonucci but, under pressure from Busquets, he can't get his head to the high ball. Italy's only slim, slim chance is from set pieces, you'd have thought. Well, they'll have to be better than that. 67 min: The game's gone a bit flat, as you might expect. Spain must surely think this game is won, while Italy have got the funk on. They look totally deflated, though in fairness Spain's domina

Watching Full Time Match, please visit: http://yogyakarta.kemenag.go.id/index.php?a=artikel&id;=13808 Four years and nine days ago, at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, Cesc Fabregas whistled a penalty past Gianluigi Buffon's lugs, and Spain started to believe. The spot kick put Spain into the semi finals of Euro 2008, securing victory over bogey side Italy in a major tournament for the first time since their first-ever meeting, at the 1920 Olympics. The rest is recent history, with Spain going on to win Euro 2008, then following it up by scooping the World Cup. Kick off: 7.45pm BST, 9.45pm EEST (local time in Kyiv). Still no striker for Spain, they simply don't care what you think, and as reigning world and European champions, you can hardly blame them: Casillas, Arbeloa, Pique, Sergio Ramos, Jordi Alba, Xavi, Busquets, Alonso, Silva, Fabregas, Iniesta. Subs: Valdes, Albiol, Javi Martinez, Juanfran, Pedro, Torres, Negredo, Mata, Llorente, Santi Cazorla, Jesus Navas, Reina. Italy replace Federico Balzaretti with Ignazio Abate: Buffon, Abate, Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini, Pirlo, Marchisio, Montolivo, De Rossi, Balotelli, Cassano. Subs: Sirigu, Maggio, Ogbonna, Thiago Motta, Balzaretti, Di Natale, Giaccherini, Borini, Giovinco, Diamanti, Nocerino, De Sanctis. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one... kick off! Spain get the ball rolling. 13 seconds: Spain still have the ball. They're killing this game! 14 seconds: Spain go expansive, and lose the ball. Maybe they've had a point. 2 min: Italy diddle around down the left. Cassano causes some bother on the corner of the box, the ball breaking into the centre. Pirlo latches onto it, and has a dig, but it's hopeless, miles wide right and high. Still, Italy will be happy to have seen the ball early on, and spent a bit of time in the Spanish half. 4 min: Italy saw more of the ball for the first three minutes, but Spain finally get a chance to stroke it around. Silva dances down the inside-right channel, and so nearly finds Alonso on the edge of the D. Italy crowd the ball back towards Buffon, Chiellini eventually hacking away. A fairly open start, this. "Has there ever been a player with such a contrasting record of success at international and club level but in the opposite direction from that you'd normally find?" wonders David Wall of young Cesc Fabregas. "He's poison for whichever club he plays for, going pot-less for years at Arsenal and then 'co-incidentally' turning up at Barcelona at the very moment their invincibility cracks. If Wenger had known about his deal with the devil he'd surely have packed him off much sooner than he did, though it might have been more difficult to find willing takers." 5 min: Chiellini strokes a long ball down the inside-left channel. It's the sort of rake that did for Germany a couple of times. Balotelli is after it, and appears to have the jump on Ramos, but the Spanish defender gets his head to it and clears. Balotelli goes down under the challenge, and he doesn't appear to have enjoyed the journey to terra firma too much. No huge drama, though. 6 min: A free kick to Spain, 35 yards out. Sergio Ramos looks for the top left corner, and just about finds the top left corner of the stand behind. 7 min: Spain look in the mood, especially Sergio Ramos. Jordi Alba skedaddles down the left and loops a cross into the centre, forcing Bonucci to knock the ball behind for a corner on the right. The ball's swung in, Ramos meeting it with a powerful, Carrollesque header. It's over the bar, though. That good start by Italy already seems a long time ago, though remember they were second best to Germany in the opening exchanges of the semi, and look what happened there. 9 min: The Spanish fans are shouting "ole!" a lot as their team flick it around with insouciant glee. Xavi has a dig from distance, though he should have fed the ball out right to Arbeloa, who was in acres. The shot's blocked easily. 11 min: Xavi, having warmed up, sends a rising shot from the edge of the area fizzing inches over the crossbar. That's a wonderful effort, and a beautiful sliderule pass from Fabregas that set him up, too. Spain may not have selected a striker, but they've not been shy on shooting so far. "Can you - or someone in the pod later tonight - explain why there are SO many empty seats in the stadium for a European Championship Final?" asks Owen Cameron. "It just seems bizarre this could happen with (literally) millions around Ukraine and the rest of Europe who would've loved to be inside the stadium." No idea. And it is a shame, yes. It's just like watching Euro 96. 14 min: GOAL!!! AND THIS HAD BEEN COMING!!! Spain 1-0 Italy. Absolute brilliance by Fabregas, who after a period of tasty tiki-taka chases after a pass rolled down the inside-right channel. He reaches the byline under pressure from Chiellini, and whips a high ball back into the centre, where Silva, level with the right-hand post, pings an instant header into t

Watching Full Time Match, please visit: http://yogyakarta.kemenag.go.id/index.php?a=artikel&id;=13808 Four years and nine days ago, at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, Cesc Fabregas whistled a penalty past Gianluigi Buffon's lugs, and Spain started to believe. The spot kick put Spain into the semi finals of Euro 2008, securing victory over bogey side Italy in a major tournament for the first time since their first-ever meeting, at the 1920 Olympics. The rest is recent history, with Spain going on to win Euro 2008, then following it up by scooping the World Cup. Still no striker for Spain, they simply don't care what you think, and as reigning world and European champions, you can hardly blame them: Casillas, Arbeloa, Pique, Sergio Ramos, Jordi Alba, Xavi, Busquets, Alonso, Silva, Fabregas, Iniesta. Subs: Valdes, Albiol, Javi Martinez, Juanfran, Pedro, Torres, Negredo, Mata, Llorente, Santi Cazorla, Jesus Navas, Reina. Italy replace Federico Balzaretti with Ignazio Abate: Buffon, Abate, Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini, Pirlo, Marchisio, Montolivo, De Rossi, Balotelli, Cassano. Subs: Sirigu, Maggio, Ogbonna, Thiago Motta, Balzaretti, Di Natale, Giaccherini, Borini, Giovinco, Diamanti, Nocerino, De Sanctis. 46 min: Di Natale's first touch is to whumph a header just over the bar from 10 yards, Abate finding him with a superb cross. That was a decent chance. 47 min: Fabregas drags a shot inches wide left from the edge of the D. Buffon may not have got to that were it on target, he was leaning the other way. 48 min: Wow, this is some start to the half. Fabregas twists and turns down the right, reaching the byline and selling Balzaretti a couple of dummies. He nearly finds Silva at the near post, and then after a scramble is close to beating Buffon. But the ball's hacked clear. 49 min: Silva tries to hook the ball past Bonucci in the Italian area. The ball hits the defender's hand, but there's no intention, and the referee's having none of it. You've seen them given, but equally that would have been harsh, the players were so close together. We move on without incident. Italy are living dangerously here. 51 min: This is high-octane stuff. Montolivo slips the ball down the inside-left channel for Di Natale, who hammers a shot goalwards from 12 yards. Casillas parries spectacularly. The ball falls back at Di Natale's feet. He looks for Balotelli's head in the middle, but his chip inside is plucked from the sky by the keeper. Great play all round. "If this performance is anything to go by then Spain are the street-hustlers of the football world," suggests David Wall. "They've lulled all of us dupes into thinking they're dull and running out of ideas then as soon as we agree to play hunt-the-queen they happily relieve us of the contents of our wallets." 54 min: Spain are threatening a third. Iniesta lifts a clever pass down the middle, splitting the Italian defence in half, but the through ball hits Fabregas on the back, and the chance is gone. So unlucky. 56 min: Now it's Pirlo's turn to lift a clever pass down the middle, but his scoop for Di Natale is a wee bit too strong. Spain go up the other end, and after a few passes, Iniesta attempts to bust open Italy's offside trap with a backheel. He's not far away from finding Silva, either. That would have been preposterously good. 57 min: Italy make their third change, Motta coming on for Montolivo. 58 min: A free kick for Italy down the right. Pirlo lifts it to the far post, but Casillas palms clear. Balotelli picks up the ball and launches it towards the top right, but his effort flies over. "As far as I can see this game is just a series of intricate passes, punctuated by the odd goal and amazing bursts of skill," moans Ian Bahrami. "Yawn. When's the Premier League start again?" 59 min: The opening scorer Silva is hooked for Pedro. He's not particularly happy about it, but off he must trot. "I called my Dad at half time," begins Tom Young. "In discussing Spain's dominance of international football he managed to compare Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas et al to Steve 'Interesting' Davis in the 1980s: 'No one else ever got a look in.' I could not detect any irony through the phone line." 61 min: Well, if this wasn't already over, it pretty much looks like it now. Motta zips after a ball only for his hamstring to ping. He's carted off, straight down the tunnel. After four minutes! I do hope he warmed up properly. Italy have used all their subs, remember. This is now 10 versus 11. 64 min: Balotelli wins a free kick for Italy down the left. Pirlo swings the ball to the far post for Bonucci but, under pressure from Busquets, he can't get his head to the high ball. Italy's only slim, slim chance is from set pieces, you'd have thought. Well, they'll have to be better than that. 67 min: The game's gone a bit flat, as you might expect. Spain must surely think this game is won, while Italy have got the funk on. They look totally deflated, though in fairness Spain's domina

Watching Full Time Match, please visit: http://yogyakarta.kemenag.go.id/index.php?a=artikel&id;=13808 Four years and nine days ago, at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, Cesc Fabregas whistled a penalty past Gianluigi Buffon's lugs, and Spain started to believe. The spot kick put Spain into the semi finals of Euro 2008, securing victory over bogey side Italy in a major tournament for the first time since their first-ever meeting, at the 1920 Olympics. The rest is recent history, with Spain going on to win Euro 2008, then following it up by scooping the World Cup. Kick off: 7.45pm BST, 9.45pm EEST (local time in Kyiv). Still no striker for Spain, they simply don't care what you think, and as reigning world and European champions, you can hardly blame them: Casillas, Arbeloa, Pique, Sergio Ramos, Jordi Alba, Xavi, Busquets, Alonso, Silva, Fabregas, Iniesta. Subs: Valdes, Albiol, Javi Martinez, Juanfran, Pedro, Torres, Negredo, Mata, Llorente, Santi Cazorla, Jesus Navas, Reina. Italy replace Federico Balzaretti with Ignazio Abate: Buffon, Abate, Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini, Pirlo, Marchisio, Montolivo, De Rossi, Balotelli, Cassano. Subs: Sirigu, Maggio, Ogbonna, Thiago Motta, Balzaretti, Di Natale, Giaccherini, Borini, Giovinco, Diamanti, Nocerino, De Sanctis. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one... kick off! Spain get the ball rolling. 13 seconds: Spain still have the ball. They're killing this game! 14 seconds: Spain go expansive, and lose the ball. Maybe they've had a point. 2 min: Italy diddle around down the left. Cassano causes some bother on the corner of the box, the ball breaking into the centre. Pirlo latches onto it, and has a dig, but it's hopeless, miles wide right and high. Still, Italy will be happy to have seen the ball early on, and spent a bit of time in the Spanish half. 4 min: Italy saw more of the ball for the first three minutes, but Spain finally get a chance to stroke it around. Silva dances down the inside-right channel, and so nearly finds Alonso on the edge of the D. Italy crowd the ball back towards Buffon, Chiellini eventually hacking away. A fairly open start, this. "Has there ever been a player with such a contrasting record of success at international and club level but in the opposite direction from that you'd normally find?" wonders David Wall of young Cesc Fabregas. "He's poison for whichever club he plays for, going pot-less for years at Arsenal and then 'co-incidentally' turning up at Barcelona at the very moment their invincibility cracks. If Wenger had known about his deal with the devil he'd surely have packed him off much sooner than he did, though it might have been more difficult to find willing takers." 5 min: Chiellini strokes a long ball down the inside-left channel. It's the sort of rake that did for Germany a couple of times. Balotelli is after it, and appears to have the jump on Ramos, but the Spanish defender gets his head to it and clears. Balotelli goes down under the challenge, and he doesn't appear to have enjoyed the journey to terra firma too much. No huge drama, though. 6 min: A free kick to Spain, 35 yards out. Sergio Ramos looks for the top left corner, and just about finds the top left corner of the stand behind. 7 min: Spain look in the mood, especially Sergio Ramos. Jordi Alba skedaddles down the left and loops a cross into the centre, forcing Bonucci to knock the ball behind for a corner on the right. The ball's swung in, Ramos meeting it with a powerful, Carrollesque header. It's over the bar, though. That good start by Italy already seems a long time ago, though remember they were second best to Germany in the opening exchanges of the semi, and look what happened there. 9 min: The Spanish fans are shouting "ole!" a lot as their team flick it around with insouciant glee. Xavi has a dig from distance, though he should have fed the ball out right to Arbeloa, who was in acres. The shot's blocked easily. 11 min: Xavi, having warmed up, sends a rising shot from the edge of the area fizzing inches over the crossbar. That's a wonderful effort, and a beautiful sliderule pass from Fabregas that set him up, too. Spain may not have selected a striker, but they've not been shy on shooting so far. "Can you - or someone in the pod later tonight - explain why there are SO many empty seats in the stadium for a European Championship Final?" asks Owen Cameron. "It just seems bizarre this could happen with (literally) millions around Ukraine and the rest of Europe who would've loved to be inside the stadium." No idea. And it is a shame, yes. It's just like watching Euro 96. 14 min: GOAL!!! AND THIS HAD BEEN COMING!!! Spain 1-0 Italy. Absolute brilliance by Fabregas, who after a period of tasty tiki-taka chases after a pass rolled down the inside-right channel. He reaches the byline under pressure from Chiellini, and whips a high ball back into the centre, where Silva, level with the right-hand post, pings an instant header into t