azzurri proven nothing... at best they only drew with spain while brazil and bayern demolished spain/barca with a 4 men defense, big difference.
You havent taken my advice to stop talking about tactics i see. Let me school your noobish brain.
Between 2007 and 2012, every national team that faced spain, had their asses handed back to them, beeing violently raped. Their new style blazed away any opponent it faced, with ease. Apart from 1.
Euro 2008
after 2006, the azzurri had a creative and finishing problem.The defence and organisation were still good. They had difficulties in the groupstage, but when they entered the knockout, they did what they do best of any team : lock down the opponent.
For the entire game, italy played a defensive zonal pressure game, with quick counters over the wing. This very effectively countered the creative issues they had, and made most of their massive defence, and pacy counters
A young chiellini, guided by panucci, and gattuso had massive games. Grosso in his typical excellent NT games and zambro, completely locked spain down. During the game, italy had the better chances and when camo came on, he missed the best chance of the game.
Spain ? they raped each team, and were very lucky to go trough undeserved against italy on penaltys. then they continued to rape everything, and won the euroz.
WC 2010
Horribly italy there, the end of a generation. cannavaro, gattuso, zambrotta, all rubbish, no creative players, no strikers. not in the game.
This marked a very precious point in history. The end of excellent italian defender, as the last two, cannavaro and zambrotta were past it, and nesta had quit internationally allready.
Spain on the other hand, started with a loss, and easely domminated every other team to grab the cup. again, nothing do do against spain
euro 2012
Comming of the massive juventus unbeated scudetto, came a new italy based on a juventus core.
This juventus core, had been playing a 3man backline, with wingbacks. reason beeing quite simply that there werent great italian defenders in 1v1 situations anymore, so this was adopted by conte instead.
Prandelli adopted conte's formation, blessed with juventus players. For the first time in 4 years, suddenly a team actually put up a fight with spain. in fact spain was lucky to grab a draw at the end.
Against england and germany, due to the lack of a powerfull cdm, a 4-4-2 was used instead to offset their formations. Whilst the formation looks diffrent on paper, the principle is the same. fullbacks pushing up to crowd the midfield, and force into duals, whilst taking maximum advantage of the high quality italian long balls.
2013
Learning from the mistakes, and now seeing beyond doubt the massive succes of the 3-5-2 formation, the azzurri used the 3-5-2 again in the confederations cup. despite playing pretty bad in the first two games, when they came against spain, once again, they were better, and were very unlucky to go out on penalties.
A much fresher brazilian NT, copyd the tactic of the italians of crowding the midfield and cutting passing and running lines, and completely killed the spanish off.
The brazilian Coach later admitted, he copy'd his tactic entirely on what italy had proven the world. Sure, it wasent the same formation, but the way Marcelo and Hulk were positionning, it actually was pretty much a 3-5-2.
So yeah, the azzurri has proven quite alot. They showed the world how to kill spain, but lacked the raw talent for it. Brazil has the talent, took the lesson, and did it.