Exciting night catching Netherlands against Italy (10)

I believe the answer is:

enlivening

'exciting' is the definition.
(enlivening is a kind of exciting)

'night catching netherlands against italy' is the wordplay.
'night' becomes 'evening' (I've seen this before).
'catching' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'netherlands' becomes 'nl'.
'against' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'italy' becomes 'i'.
'nl'+'i'='nli'
'evening' going around 'nli' is 'ENLIVENING'.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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