I didn't watch their match yesterday and maybe that's why I don't feel so pessimistic about the Azzurri chances in the knock outs. Judging solely from the matches I watched against Spain and Croatia, it remains a fact that for good ~60 minutes Italy outplayed Croatia the way Spain couldn't do it even for 6 minutes, while against Spain for a huge part of the match Italy was an equal to the EC and WC winner, scored a goal, created another 100% chance and in certain parts of the match even won the midfield battle and controlled the game. The only problem I noticed was a fitness related one.