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Morning: First up - w quick round up of some of the stuff on site you may have missed.
Here's Sid Lowe on Andrés Iniesta:
Opponents look for him, surrounding him. Team-mates look to him, too. Vicente del Bosque has an almost allergic aversion to singling out players or elevating anyone above the others. So it means something when he says, as he did before Spain's second game: "Hopefully Andrés can be decisive – as he always is."
While here's tactics guru Michael Cox on the Pirlo conundrum, and how Spain and Italy might approach the final:
Whereas both England and Germany appeared surprised at Andrea Pirlo's influence, Spain recognised his threat. "In Pirlo," Xavi said before the tournament, "Italy have a genius with the ball."
Here's Richard Williams on a final to go down in history:
This is the tournament that defies you to look away. If 20 million people tuning in to watch the drama of England playing Italy in a quarter-final seems remarkable, the figure of 12m Britons switching on for Italy's semi-final with Germany on Thursday night is astounding, particularly with Rafael Nadal on the other channel.
Finally, read Marcus Christenson on how Antonio Cassano has battled back from fearing death to playing in the Euro 2012 final:
He did not want to listen to the team doctor, who kept urging him to go to hospital. "We argued for half an hour," Cassano recalled later, "before I agreed to visit the hospital. And that is when I started to have trouble speaking and thought about seeing my son again."
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