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Spain reached their third consecutive major tournament final after overcoming neighbours Portugal 4-2 on penalties in the first UEFA EURO 2012 semi-final in Donetsk on Wednesday. After the matched finished 0-0 following extra time at Donbass Arena, Cesc Fabregas swept home the winning spot-kick to put Spain into the final. Xabi Alonso and Joao Moutinho both saw their opening penalties saved, but Portugal blinked first when Zenit St Petersburg centre-back Bruno Alves hit his side's fourth penalty against the crossbar. Fabregas stepped up and, just as he had done in the penalty shoot-out win over Italy in the EURO 2008 quarter-finals, the Barcelona man held his nerve, steering the ball into the bottom-left corner to send Portugal home. "We are so happy to have reached another final. I don't know if that has ever been done in history," Fabregas told Spanish television channel Telecinco, his voice cracking with emotion. "They told me I was going to take the second kick, but I said: 'No, I want to take the fifth one. "I had a premonition, an intuition that things were going to come off and that life had reserved something for me as nice as this."