Italy vs England Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Italy

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Italy will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 2-0 International Friendlies loss in their previous game against Austria.

Xaver Schlager (6') and David Alaba (35') scored for Austria.

Roberto Mancini's Italy have scored 8 times in their prior six outings. The number of goals that have been scored against them in those games stands at 8.

England

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Since a losing effort in their last game against France in WC action, England and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, England managed 57% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for England was Harry Kane (54'). On the other side, France had 8 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Aurélien Tchouaméni (17') and Olivier Giroud (78') scored for France.

In as many as 5 of the previous 6 games involving England, three or more goals have been struck. The overall average goals scored per game in that spell is 3.83, with the number of goals averaged by England equalling 2.67. However, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern might be replicated in this next match.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes going back to 14/06/2014 shows that Italy have won 2 of these and England 0, with the number of drawn results standing at 4.

10 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 6 of them from Azzurri and 4 coming from The Three Lions. That’s an average goals per game of 1.67.

The previous league encounter between the two was Nations League match day 5 on 23/09/2022 and the score finished Italy 1-0 England.

In that match, Italy managed 44% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Giacomo Raspadori (68').

England had 14 shots on goal with 4 on target.

The referee was Jesús Gil Manzano.

ℹ️ Team News: Italy

The Italy manager Roberto Mancini does not have any fitness concerns at all before this game owing to a completely injury-free group ready to go.

In our view, Azzurri will possibly use a 4-3-3 system this time, utilising Gianluigi Donnarumma, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Francesco Acerbi, Alessio Romagnoli, Leonardo Spinazzola, Nicolo Barella, Marco Verratti, Jorginho, Domenico Berardi, Mateo Retegui and Vincenzo Grifo.

📋 Team News: England

Owing to a completely healthy squad available to choose from, the England manager Gareth Southgate doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all before this clash.

We’re of the thinking that The Three Lions seem most likely to make use of a 4-1-4-1 lineup by sending out Jordan Pickford, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Jordan Henderson, Jude Bellingham, Jack Grealish and Harry Kane.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that England and Italy could end up without much reward for their efforts here.

It’s looking like it could well end up as a draw. We’re therefore expecting a tight encounter with a 0-0 score at the end of this game.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 01:11 19/03/2023