"You again!" declared the front-page of La Gazzetta dello Sport. "Haven't we seen each other before?" Their target: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, ahead of Friday afternoon's game between Italy and Sweden in Toulouse. The two are very well acquainted indeed. When the draw for Euro 2016 was made in last December, this was the fixture Italy were most looking forward to in the group stages: a reunion with Ibra.
They say you never forget the first time and how could they in this particular case? Poignantly it came at Euro 2004. "I have never forgotten what happened in Porto," then-Italy manager Giovanni Trapattoni recalled.