It was even indeed. I won't look at the stats because they can easily give a wrong story. Spain had more possession, more shots on/off target and corners, but that says nothing because so did Germany against Italy and we know that a 3:0 win for Italy would have been fair. But just by watching that Italy-Spain match it was clear that both teams had parts of the match when they controlled the play and created chances. Italy had Balotelli's chance, Di Natale's chance after Seba's cross, while Spain also had 1 on 1's with Torres. The match could have gone anywhere, but 1:1 was a really fair result. Italy deserved to win all the other matches, including the ones they failed to win against Croatia and England, but against Spain it was a fair draw. That's why I previously said that Spain is the team that created the most problems to Italy so far in the tournament. And it's nothing strange. They are afterall the holding EC and WC champs. But the fact that Italy matched them and even forced the Spanish stars to complain about the pitch and other trivial things, gives Italy a strong hope for the final.