The last of the quarter finals sees Italy, who scraped through to the Euro 2008 quarter-finals with just three goals, all of them arising from set-piece manoeuvres, take on Spain - the team who started so well in destroying Russia - but who perhaps haven’t looked quite so convincing ever since…

OK - so the ‘Red Fury’ rested a number of players in the 3rd game against tournament losers Greece and still maaged to snatch a last minute win, but one imagines that the World Champions are made of sterner stuff than they have displayed thus far, and it’s time fo pre-tournament hero Luca Toni to score isn’t it…? Surely..? Maybe..?

For you see, taking a look back at the statistics, it becomes clear that there is a curious sense of déjà vu after he suffered a similar fate in World Cup 2006. Then, as the table below (provided by the CPI) shows, he had scored more than 30 goals for Fiorentina, (the first man to break through that barrier in Serie A since the 1950s), yet failed to score in the group stages for the eventual World Champions. His two goals in WC2006 did come in the quarter-finals, however, so perhaps he will finally make his mark against Spain on Sunday evening.

Only time will tell - but my money is on Toni finally bagging one!