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Hello and welcome to England vs Italy , thread . Sorry Who's Kissing Camera's.
God save our gracious Queen
Long live our noble Queen
God save the Queen
Send her victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the Queen
Route to this stage
Italy
Italy 1-1 Spain
Italy 1-1 Croatia
Italy 2-0 Ireland
Finished Second in Group C
England
England 1-1 France
England 3-2 Sweden
England 1-0 Ukraine
Finished first in Group D
What they've said
Steven Gerrard
Since I made my England debut I've dreamed of doing well in these major tournaments and up to now that hasn't happened."
"There is another chance to do it and because of the hurt and the pain I've been through before I'm hoping it is going to be different this time. I'm going to give it everything I've got to try and make a difference."
"When you get to this stage of a major tournament you can see what is in sight and you start to dream, so to lose any quarter-final match hurts very much"
Sir Bobby Charlton
"If England beat Italy then England will win it. "
"This is the big game. I think we can win it. Why not? We have good players."
"If they beat Italy then we will start getting excited. I get a little feeling that if we can get past Italy, who are the toughest and the most physical then I think we have an opportunity."
Cesare Prandelli
"There's no difference to us who we play,"
"We have already played Spain who are reigning world and European champions. If we play well we can take on anyone."
Team News
The big news with Italy is that key defender Giorgio Chiellini will miss the match, with Leonardo Bonucci taking his place . England have no new problem.
Line Ups
England: Hart, Johnson, Terry, Lescott, Cole, Milner (Theo), Gerrard, Parker (Henderson) Young, Rooney, Welbeck (Carroll) .Subs: Green, Kelly, Walcott, Henderson, Carroll, Baines, Jones, Jagielka, Downing, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Defoe, Butland.
Italy: Buffon, Abate (Maggio) Barzagli, Bonucci, Balzaretti, Pirlo, Marchisio, De Rossi (Nocerino), Montolivo, Balotelli, Cassano (Diamente). Subs: Sirigu, Maggio, Chiellini, Ogbonna, Thiago Motta, Di Natale, Giaccherini, Borini, Giovinco, Diamanti, Nocerino, De Sanctis.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLS
Bookings
Barzagli
Penalties
1-0 Balotelli
1-1 Gerrard
1-1 Montolivo misses
1-2 Rooney
2-2 Pirlo
2-2 Young misses
3-2 Nacho
3-2 Cole misses
4-2 Diamente
Stats
Head-to-head
The 22 previous meetings have produced nine wins for Italy, seven for England and six draws.
The Azzurri have the edge in recent history - they have lost just once against the Three Lions in 35 years (W6, D2, L1). Their only loss in that time was a 2-0 reverse at Le Tournoi in Nantes in 1997, when Ian Wright and Paul Scholes got the goals.
Italy won the two previous meetings at major tournaments; Marco Tardelli got the only goal in Turin to give the hosts victory in a group game at the European Championship in 1980. And Italy beat England 2-1 in the third-place play-off at the 1990 World Cup, with goals from Roberto Baggio and Toto Schillachi. David Platt got England's reply in Bari.
Italy won the last meeting, at Elland Road in March 2002. Robbie Fowler put England ahead before Vincenzo Montella netted twice. Gianluigi Buffon is the only survivor from that game.
England
The Three Lions did not register a single shot on target in the opening 45 minutes against Ukraine - the last time that happened to England in a European Championship game was in the 1-0 loss to Italy in 1980.
England had the best chance conversion rate (21.7%) in the group stages of Euro 2012.
Just two of the last six winners of the European Championship have finished top of their group - Spain (2008) and Germany (1996).
England and Greece were the only teams who failed to catch an opponent offside in the group stage.
England have won one of their six previous penalty shoot-outs at major tournaments - beating Spain in the quarter-finals of Euro 1996 after a 0-0 draw.
Wayne Rooney has 29 international goals and needs one more to go joint-fifth on England's list of top scorers, level with Sir Tom Finney, Nat Lofthouse and Alan Shearer. Only Michael Owen (40), Jimmy Greaves (44), Gary Lineker (48) and Sir Bobby Charlton (49) have scored more.
Italy
In the last 24 years, Italy have lost only two knock-out games at European Championships or World Cups, excluding penalty shoot-outs. They were beaten 2-1 in the Euro 2000 final against France, and 2-1 by South Korea in the last 16 of the 2002 World Cup.
They have lost only two of nine quarter-finals - and both of those were shoot-out defeats (to France at the 1998 World Cup and Spain at Euro 2008).
The Azzurri had the best defensive record in Euro 2012 qualifying, conceding just twice.
Andrea Pirlo made 2,778 successful passes for Juventus this season - the highest tally of any player in one of the top European leagues.
They have lost five of seven penalty shoot-outs at major tournaments, and two of three at European Championships; they beat the Dutch in the semi-finals of Euro 2000, but lost to Spain in the quarter-finals four years ago and to Czechoslovakia in a third-place play-off in 1980.
Location:
Olympic Stadium Kiev
KO
7:45
Links
BBC
http://www.firstrowsports.eu/
http://www.sportlemon.tv/c-1.html
http://www.tvcatchup.com
http://www.vipbox.tv/sports/football.html
Rules
1. Be patriotic
2. Be
3. Guess how many penalties we'll miss in the shoot out
4. Predict when Mario will either do something incredible whether it be stupid or magic
5.
6. Get mad at Lawro
7. Hodgson is a good manager
8. Discuss Club issues
COME ON ENGLAND
Good Euro QFs for us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl0oQgAX-6k
Bad Euro QFs
Euro 2004
Predos
England: Chelsea FC, Wincolgooner, Raptor
Italy: Robin V
Penalties - 7, Fabtastic, Who's Kissing Cameras?
User Bookings
Glasgow
Chronic
Michael Scarn
Resurection is nigh
Sideshow
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