EURO on this day: 5 June

Italy 0-0 USSR (Italy win on silver toss)
1968 semi-finals, Naples

Knocked out of a 1966 FIFA World Cup by a Soviet Union, Italy found a same opponents restraint their trail to a final of a 1968 UEFA European Championship – this time they were postulated a felicitous approach through.

In a compare played in bad continue throughout, chances were predictably few and distant between, both teams display steely counterclaim via notwithstanding being strike by injuries. The teams had to be separated, however, and it was Italy who marched on to a showpiece after their captain, Giacinto Facchetti, called rightly in a dreaded silver toss. “I went adult with a Russian captain,” pronounced Facchetti. “We went down to a sauce bedrooms together. The arbitrate pulled out an aged silver and we called tails.”

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Other EURO fixtures on 5 June
1968 semi-finals: Yugoslavia 1-0 England

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