LONDON -- That's the thing about tournament football. You can deserve to be in the final for what you've shown throughout the tournament. And you can not to deserve to be in the final based on being dominated by your opponent in the semifinal.
Yes, both things can be true.
"We've never played a team this good, who made us suffer so much," defender Leonardo Bonucci said after Italy's 4-2 penalty shootout win. "They dominated us; they're an exceptional team, with a superb manager."
It's not so much that Italy were outplayed by Spain for long stretches in Tuesday night's semifinal at Wembley -- they were -- it's the fact that we saw so little of what made them the standout team of Euro 2020 thus far.