PARIS (AP) History will be stacked against Germany when it plays Italy in the European Championship quarterfinals in Bordeaux on Saturday night.
In eight previous games against Italy at major tournaments, Germany has never won.
Here, at a glance, the history of that amazing record:
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ITALY 2, GERMANY 1
Euro 2012, semifinal; June 28, 2012, in Warsaw.
Mario Balotelli's peak for Italy, with two first-half goals that rendered irrelevant Mesut Ozil's injury-time penalty. But the effort of breaking Germany's world-record run of victories in 15 consecutive competitive games exhausted Italy for what, just three days later, became the most one-sided final in European Championship history, with Spain scoring four against Italy without reply.