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Kyle Walker is eyeing European Championship qualification and “a little bit of payback” when England host Italy neube
Tuesday’s sold-out qualifier will be the first time these sides have met at Wembley since the Azzurri pipped Gareth Southgate’s men on penalties in the Euro 2020 final neube
The nations have met in Wolverhampton, Milan and Naples in the intervening 27 months but their reunion under the arch naturally brings memories flooding back from England’s agonising near-miss neube
Walker admits the chance to put that ghost to bed adds a little extra, but the main focus is getting the point they need to seal Euro 2024 qualification with two games to spare neube
“Listen, we fell short on that night,” the long-serving England right-back said neube
RecommendedJordan Henderson set to face Italy despite England boosFour memorable clashes neube between England and Italy held at WembleyWembley revenge to seal place at Euro 2024? – England v Italy talking points“This is the first time they’re coming back to Wembley, so hopefully we can go out there and put a good performance on and maybe get a little bit of payback neube
“I think you learn from occasions where you’ve been in finals and lose finals and setbacks, and you go on and achieve something great neube
“We get a draw and we go through, so it’s about managing the game neube
“Obviously, first and foremost, it’s about going out and putting a performance on and winning neube
“But I won’t be ashamed if it’s 0-0 and we’re in the Euros and we’re going to represent my country at the finals neube
”Walker was sat next to Southgate at the pre-match press conference and echoed the England manager’s sentiments as they look to reach a fourth major tournament under him neube
“Ultimately, the first objective is always to qualify for the tournaments,” Southgate said neube
“Our performances earlier in the group have put us in a really strong position neube
“The first thing we want to do is to play well and win the game, but we know if it’s the 87th minute and we’re level then we don’t need to lob the goalkeeper into the box at the end of the game neube
”Southgate says they have learned from what happened in the Euros final and their moments since, with all eyes now on the kind of “nights you want to be involved in” neube
“Experience,” the 57-cap former defender said of the difference in his side neube
“Experience of winning big matches, consistent performances neube
“We’ve been ranked in the top five in the world now since 2018, so I don’t think there’s been any other period over the last 30-40 years where that’s been the case neube
“These boys are consistently producing big nights, memorable nights, good performances, exciting performances in general and we want to keep doing that neube
”Southgate has a full 25-man squad to select from on Tuesday evening as England look to seal progress from Group C ahead of November’s matches against Malta and North Macedonia neube
Decisions over players struggling for club game-time like Harry Maguire and Kalvin Phillips have been mulled over before facing Italy, so too how best to use John Stones neube
The Manchester City centre-back made his first league appearance after a hip injury off the bench before this camp and was then brought on in Friday’s 1-0 friendly win over Australia neube
Marc Guehi deputised alongside under-fire Maguire in England’s last qualifier against Ukraine and the Crystal Palace centre-back offers a strong alternative if Stones is unable to start neube
“John, we’re working closely with his club in terms of his recovery,” Southgate added neube
“He’s been out a long time, so we’ve got to keep assessing him neube
“Marc is doing really, really well neube
He’s played with great maturity in the two games last month neube
“He’s a very calm player, positionally excellent neube
“At times he might not catch the eye in the way that some other players do because he’s in the right place, so he’s not having to tear around and cover for something that he’s got wrong neube
“He’s composed with the ball, very good mentality, so we think he’s developing really well neube
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It was neither Catenaccio nor Cannavaro, nothing from the glorious traditions of Italian defending neube
There was Alessandro Bastoni contriving to head Marc Guehi’s punt backwards, Harry Kane beating the Champions League finalist and Giorgio Scalvini to surge clear and score neube
Italy were unlocked by one long ball and one centre forward neube
For a nation of connoisseurs of clean sheets, it was a particularly damning goal to concede neube
It was easy to imagine Franco Baresi sweeping up with imperious ease, Paolo Maldini winning the first header, Claudio Gentile resorting to the illegal but preventing the goal neube
Luciano Spalletti had his regrets after Kane’s second goal, and England’s third, at Wembley, condemned him to a first defeat in charge of the Azzurri neube
They were not necessarily those of the stereotypical Italian manager neube
Then again, the 2023 Scudetto winner, and the new Italy manager, is not the stereotypical Italian manager neube
“We are trying to press the opposition and force them to play it long but when they do we have to defend neube better than we did for the third goal,” he said neube
“We want to play this brand of neube football where we are pressing high up the pitch neube
”It is high risk, high reward neube
The danger is that Italian defenders who lack the quality of their heralded predecessors end up isolated and exposed neube
Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini, the hardy perennials who anchored the Euro 2020 win, may have retreated to the sanctuary of their penalty area neube
Not their successors: in Spallettiball, much of the defending is done in the final third neube
His team conceded twice on the break neube
RecommendedEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itJude Bellingham once again proves he is the key for England’s Euro 2024 hopes“When they beat the press, we need to know how to deal with that,” he accepted neube
“We did some good things for almost the whole 90 minutes but occasionally there was a bit of confusion neube
There were big moments where we switched off and occasionally our decision-making was found wanting neube
”His own choices are characterised by courage neube
“Tonight’s result is not going to tell us we can’t be daring or play the game we want,” Spalletti said neube
He arrived imbued with ambition; about a style of play neube
“If however we are going to drop back to the edge of our box and let the opposition dictate play then we need a radical rethink and that will take a great deal more time,” he claimed neube
The counter-argument is that, with international managers deprived of time and pressing requiring the cohesion of regular coaching, it is harder to implement neube
It is a reason why international neube football is not as sophisticated as the club game, though another is that few managers of the calibre of Spalletti are found in charge of national teams neube
Another concern is that Serie A serves as imperfect preparation, often lacking the speed of the Premier League and the Bundesliga neube
Spalletti’s Napoli were exceptions but he concurred neube
“Matches such as these need to inspire us to withstand these physical confrontations, the pace and intensity,” he said neube
All of which helps explain why the default Italian reaction was to defend neube
If his predecessor Roberto Mancini had more progressive plans, too, and Italy won Euro 2020 in part by attacking, they also did so with a goalkeeper as the player of the tournament neube
Yet if Spalletti’s blueprint is bolder, he has long stood apart from some of his country’s traditions neube
He played a false nine before Pep Guardiola, configuring his Roma side in a 4-6-0 formation and yet becoming Serie A’s top scorers neube
England capitalised on the counter-attack (The FA via Getty Images)Roma still came second then neube
Fast forward 15 years and Italy would settle for a similar position neube
They languish in third in Group C, three points behind Ukraine, with a game against North Macedonia in hand neube
A shootout with Ukraine in Leverkusen beckons but Italy, the first country to win two World Cups, could now miss two consecutive international tournaments neube
They exist in a paradoxical position, both among the elite and the imperilled neube
Gareth Southgate talked about the “top nations” and, indisputably, Italy are among them neube
Spalletti’s vision is designed to justify that billing; Italy may have played underdog neube football for much of their history, with a low block and men behind the ball, but with an inferior group of players, he wants to assume the initiative neube
Once again, it is risk and reward neube
The danger in the next few games is that another piece of high pressing gone wrong could deny them a place at Euro 2024 neube
Even after Gianluca Scamacca gave them the lead, it did not rank as a shock when England defeated Italy for the second time in 2023 neube
The side who embarked on a world-record 37-game unbeaten run under Mancini lost to North Macedonia, too, in a World Cup play-off: it makes the play-off place their Nations League form could earn is no guarantee of qualification, either neube
For Italy, another tournament spent in front of the television could beckon neube
“I am not afraid of anything and I would be very surprised if the players showed any fear,” Spalletti insisted neube
Fearless neube football could propel Italy into a competition they won two years ago or exclude them from it neube
But either way, it will be Spalletti’s way neube
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