The game against the Ukraine was Italy's final warm-up match
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Italy stretched their unbeaten run to 18 matches with a 0-0 draw against fellow World Cup finalists Ukraine.
The worry for Italy was the lack of inspiration, which they had shown in wins over the Netherlands and Germany in friendly matches earlier this year.
Ukraine, who will be making their World Cup debut, limited themselves to defence for most of the match.
But Ukraine almost snatched a late winner when Andriy Voronin missed with only keeper Gianluigi Buffon to beat.
Italy: Buffon, Oddo, Nesta (Barzagli 61), Cannavaro (Materazzi 75), Grosso, Camoranesi (Barone 68), De Rossi, Pirlo (Perrotta 58), Gilardino, Del Piero (Totti 58), Toni (Inzaghi 58).
Subs Not Used: Peruzzi, Amelia, Zaccardo, Iaquinta, Gattuso, De Sanctis, Bonera, Marchionni.
Booked: Totti.
Ukraine: Shovkovskiy, Yezerskiy, Rusol, Vashchuk, Nesmachniy, Tymoschuk (Shelayev 88), Gusin (Sviderskiy 90), Rotan (Nazarenko 73), Kalinichenko (Byelik 55), Vorobey, Voronin.
Subs Not Used: Shust, Shevchenko, Rebrov, Gusev.
Booked: Vashchuk, Tymoschuk.
Att: 9,000
Ref: Markus Nobs (Switzerland).
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