In a Euro 2020 semi-final on Tuesday, Italy defeated Spain by 4-2 on penalties and reached the final. As they had played a 1-1 draw in the normal time at Wembley, the match was decided by penalty shootouts.

Federico Chiesa had given Italy the lead with a fabulous finish an hour into a match. Spain's Alvaro Morata Martin, who was dropped from the starting line-up there, came off the bench to equalise with 10 minutes of normal time left.

Spain had beaten Italy on penalties at Euro 2008, but this time, the misses from Dani Olmo and then Morata made Spain give up the advantage they had been handed when Manuel Locatelli failed with the first kick in the shoot-out.

Italy had missed Leonardo Spinazzola, their outstanding left-back as he suffered a torn Achilles tendon against Belgium in the quarter-finals.

Spain coach Luis Enrique had dropped Morata to select Mikel Oyarzabal to start on their right flank up front.

The match was watched by a crowd of almost 58 thousand audience.

Italy holds dream of winning a first European Championship title since 1968. Now unbeaten in 33 games, they are to wait for Sunday's final to face either England or Denmark, who meet in Wednesday's second semi-final.