Key occasions
81 min: Millie Turner is on for England for her first England sport, changing A;ex Greenwood. Guilia Dragoni, an adolescent, and Cristiani Girelli, the veteran, change Lisa Boattin and Michele Cambiaghi
80 min: Rachel Daly: a objective machine, and but so underrated. Maybe as a result of she will be able to play left-back, too.
Aim! England 5-1 Italy (Daly, 79)
James is penalised for successful the ball when it was her opponent who was doing the shoving. However Italy make a large number of the free-kick and the back-pass to Giuliani after James’ urgent finds Daly, who isn’t going to go this one up. She speeds alongside, checks and slots.
77 min: England resume their excessive press with these more energizing legs from their subs. Hemp chasing again, nonetheless looking for that objective.
75 min: The skies darkening in southern Spain, 80km from Marbella, bear in mind. Beautiful drive, beautiful a part of the world. Although the gamers are beneath blankets on the subs bench.
72 min: Peter Oh will get in contact: “The title Bonfantini feels like a mashup of the U2 entrance man and the FIFA boss. [Grabs mic and drops to one knee.] ‘One world, one sport, one life, you bought to do what you must.’”
Some modifications:
For England: Rachel Daly approaching for Chloe Kelly, and as ever in search of a objective.
For Italy: Aurora Galli and Lucia Di Guglielmo changed by Annamaria Serturini and Emma Severini.
71 min: Virtually instantly, Cambiaghi – once more, full of life – zaps a shot broad.
70 min: Two subs linking for that objective; an indication of the attacking depth Sarina Wiegman can name upon.
Aim! England 4-1 Italy (Toone, 69)
Greenwood’s ball out left to James, who gallops to the byline and Toone, making the late run within the fashion of the departed Grace Clinton, hits residence with a first-time objective.
68 min: A looped ball for Hemp – nonetheless looking for her treble – is volleyed clear.
66 min: Lucy Bronze goes on the assault, loses the ball, and that leaves house in behind and Alex Greenwood reads the hazard properly to shepherd out Cambiaghi.
65 min: England modifications: Georgia Stanway and Grace Clinton are changed by Jess Park and Ella Toone. Clinton will all the time bear in mind Marbella and Algeciras, it’s been a heady few days for her.
64 min: England spring into assault, Lauren James the ball service, and she or he unleashes a shot, a fierce one which Giuliani saves properly.
63 min: Cambiaghi once more shut – however not on the top of a high-quality supply. This spell has not dispelled the concerns the Austria sport threw up when it got here to set items.
62 min: Italy actually have stepped it up and their bench are actually getting behind their workforce. One other nook.
60 min: One other Italian nook. They’ve regarded higher since their modifications. This time Cambiaghi is once more the goal although she’s slightly additional away this time round.
58 min: England weren’t in full command there, and Cambiaghi had house and time to go in. Ella Toone is approaching, by the way in which.
57 min: An assault from Italy after the ball is misplaced on the left flank requires Wubben-Moy and Lauren James to clear the hazard. There’s a nook conceded, although. The primary. A second quickly comes.
54 min: One other penalty-box melee, and Stanway has a shot blocked.
53 min: A few Italian modifications have been made, as they try and stem the movement. The scoreline suggests they’re on this sport; the patterns of play recommend not.
Valentina Bergamaschi on and off comes Cecilia Salvai. Michela Catena additionally goes off, with Agnese Bonfantini in.
50 min: Kelly will get the ball in house and smashes in a pearler, and Clinton makes one other run, and simply fails to get there. That’s very incisive play.
49 min: Similar to the primary half, all England, on a regular basis, simply want to remain awake on the again.
47 min: England start once more on the entrance foot. And Hemp stumbles within the Italy field although there might be no penalty.
46 min: We go once more: Jess Carter and Lauren James change Niamh Charles and Alessia Russo.
This objective was slightly simple for Italy.
Right here’s that particular second for Lotte Wubben-Moy.
Half-time: England 3-1 Italy
An inauspicious finish to a half that England had so dominated, proper from the second minute and that Wubben-Moy header, a preferred objective, little doubt. Lauren Hemp has offered the innovative and Grace Clinton the drive. Maybe the defending may have work, although key gamers are lacking there, in equity.
Aim! England 3-1 Italy (Cambiaghi, 45+3)
England loses the ball in midfield, and Italy break at velocity, with Niamh Charles gradual to shut down Cambiaghi after a neat go from Cantore. There’s that lack of focus, the glass jaw.
45+2 min: Chloe Kelly, off the best, cuts in and shoots off the left. She’s hit the ball tougher in her time.
45 min: There are three minutes added on of what’s been complete Lioness dominance however wait a second, simply as Cantore thought she had an opportunity out comes Mary Earps to quell any hazard. That’s the main target required when your workforce is dominating.
43 min: Extra Grace Clinton to the fore. If nothing else, this has been fairly the store window for her.
42 min: England’s forwards have been particularly good down the left. Beth Mead missed down the best? Maybe some second-half minutes to come back.
41 min: Wubben-Moy and Walsh hyperlink on the again. Theirs has been a watching temporary past loping up for the corners. That units up an assault that sees Clinton, who has been glorious, to power a save from Russo and Hemp. Giuliani has had an honest sport; she’s been the only Italian of any word.
39 min: Clinton, on one more of these bursts, is hacked down. What a formidable introduction she’s had. It units up an opportunity for Greenwood to fireplace in a shot that Giuliani permits to zip broad.
