TOP HEADLINES:

• Italy take on Spain at Wembley Stadium in London on Tuesday evening. The capacity for the match has been increased to 60,000, but it is not clear how many of those will be supporters of the two sides because COVID-19 quarantine rules mean attendance (without breaking the rules) is effectively restricted to people already in the UK.

• Spain coach Luis Enrique hopes the stadium will be filled by supporters of the teams – there are hundreds of thousands of people from Spain and Italy who live in the UK.

• "It is a strange situation. I hope that tomorrow there are Spanish and Italians, more than English fans, but they are things we cannot control ... I am not going to waste any energy on it. We wish it was different but we accept it," Enrique said.

• Italy's coach Roberto Mancini was also unhappy about the situation with traveling fans: "It is pretty unfair if I'm perfectly honest, very unfair indeed," the former Manchester City manager said.

• The UK has soaring rates of COVID-19 infection – much higher those in Spain, Italy and Denmark – and although the government has decided it wants to remove all restrictions, that will not happen until July 19, just over a week after the final match is played at Wembley.

• Meanwhile, excitement in England mounts ahead of their first European Championship semi-final since 1996 – which was also at Wembley, but ended in defeat on penalties to Germany. England play Denmark on Wednesday evening and expect to have the vast majority of support in the stadium.

• Denmark, meanwhile, hope to continue to surprise pundits by getting through to the final carried by a wave of emotion and support since the shocking moment star player Christian Eriksen suffered a heart attack on the pitch in their first match. He has recovered and sent his teammates messages of thanks, and support.

• The Danish football association fans page said the quarantine rules on traveling fans were "hard to understand" and "we are extremely sad ... the Danish fans have been a cornerstone in the success at the Euros."

• It added that 6,000 of 60,000 tickets for the semi-final against England were available to Danish supporters in the UK, with 4,800 sold by Monday evening. "Do you know a Dane in England or Scotland? They have to carry the torch from the best supporters in the world... they have to go BERSERK!!," the Danish football association's head of commercial Ronnie Hansen said in a tweet.

• England center back Harry Maguire was upbeat about England's chances and said "we are in a much better place than we were" when they lost the world cup semi-final to Croatia in 2018. See the picture below for evidence of the sorts of things players have to do to keep the media entertained ahead of such a big match

TUESDAY'S FIXTURE - SEMI-FINAL:

Spain vs Italy, Wembley Stadium, London: 7 p.m. GMT

Italy are the form team in world football, bouncing back from failing to make the 2018 World Cup finals by putting together an unbeaten streak of 32 matches.

They have made fairly smooth progress to the last four, compared with Spain which, despite having a talented side and often dominating possession, needed extra time to see off Croatia, before squeaking through on penalties against Switzerland in the quarter-final.

Italy will be without defender Leonardo Spinazzola, who misses the match after rupturing his achilles tendon in the quarter final win over Belgium. The Roma player has had surgery and is now set to be sidelined for around six months.

Spain have injury problems too and just over 24 hours before kick-off it was confirmed Pablo Sarabia, who has started the last three games, was ruled out with an abductor injury that forced him off against Switzerland on Friday.

The match is also the fourth successive European championships where the two nations have clashed in knockout matches.

In Euro 2008 Spain won on penalties in the quarter-finals in Vienna on their way to winning the trophy.

In Euro 2012 Spain, which by then were also World Cup winners, met Italy in the final in Kyiv, winning easily 4-0.

In Euro 2016 Italy gained some revenge for those two defeats by beating Spain 2-0 in the last 16. Italy went on to lose on penalties to Germany in the quarter-final.

FIXTURES TO COME:

England vs Denmark, Wednesday 7 July, 7 p.m. GMT

Euro 2020 Final: Sunday 11 July, 7 p.m. GMT