England stormed the fort in Italy

England his journey began in euro 2024 with a suffered a victory over Italy in Naples. Despite playing the last few minutes with fewer players due to Luke Shaw being sent off, ‘Pross’ has shown that so far they are a better team than ‘Azzurra’especially thanks to his ‘punch’ and a Harry Kane of record.

The English ‘killer’ deserves a special mention, with his goal against Italy, the 54th of his career, became England’s all-time top scorer by definitely surpassing Wayne Rooney (53).

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Italy: Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo, Toloi, Acerbi, Spinazzola; Barella (Cristante, 62′), Jorginho (Tonali, 69′), Verratti (Scamacca, 88′); Berardi (Politano, 62′), Pellegrini (Gnonto, 69′) and Mateo Retegui
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England: Pickford; Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw; Phillips, Rice, Bellingham (Gallagher, 85′); Saka (James, 85′), Grealish (Foden, 69′; Trippier, 81′) and Harry Kane
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The objectives: 0-1, Rice (13′); 0-2, Harry Kane (pen) (44′); 1-2, Matteo Retegui (56′)

TheReferee: Srdjan Jovanovic (SRB). He sent off Luke Shaw (m.80) for a double warning and showed yellow cards to Declan Rice, Kyle Walker and Harry Maguire, from England, and Jorginho, from Italy.

Incidents: against on the first day of Group C of the Euro 2024 qualifying phase played at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium in Naples.

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The set of Gareth Southgate put success on track with a solid primer time where it is superior to Italy. The match started with verve the box of Roberto Mancinibut gradually imposed the power of England.

If we also add the ‘Azzurra’ defense facilities, the 0-2 look on the scoreboard at the break was not surprising. First is Declan Rice the one who took advantage of a poorly defended corner from the Italians to open the can and appeared before the break Harry Kane to expand rents from the point of punishment after the maximum penalty of VAR by the hands of DiLorenzo.

Italy did not know how to hurt England and could have been worse, since then Jack Grealish he had the luxury of missing a goal called on an empty goal.

Italy is closing the gap

Something changed at halftime as the game turned in Italy’s favor. England he wanted to think and allowed the reaction of ‘Azzurra’. Retegui, making his debut with the transalpine team, took advantage of a great assist from Pellegrini to close the gap.

There was time left to find an equalizer and England seemed determined to make life difficult without their player due to Shaw’s double booking. But Italy did not know how to seize the moment and ended up with a first defeat against England at home since 1961.