Five classic Italy v Spain clashes ahead of Euro 2020 semi-final 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.