Three Lions in Nations League action as World Cup preparations continue, Ivan Toney eyes debut in Milan – kick-off time, team news, how to follow

England will ramp up their preparations for this winter’s World Cup with two Nations League ties this weekend.

Gareth Southgate’s Three Lions will face Italy and Germany throughout this worldwide break, their remaining video games before the showpiece tournament gets up and running in mid-November.

First up, England are in Milan to face Roberto Mancini’s Gli Azzurri, the workforce gained beat them within the remaining of Euro 2020.

Southgate’s men could properly have revenge on their minds however in addition they want a win following their poor Nations League marketing campaign to this point.

England are backside of Group A3 and didn’t win any of their opening 4 ties again in June.

The Three Lions misplaced 4-0 to Hungary final outing and should hit again with the World Cup quick approaching.

Italy v England: talkSPORT protection

This Nations League Group A3 tie will happen on Friday, September 23.

It’s going down on the San Siro in Milan and can kick-off at 7:45pm UK time.

talkSPORT’s protection will begin at 7pm with Adrian Durham whereas commentary will come from Jim Proudfoot and former England defender Stuart Pearce.

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Italy v England: What has been mentioned?

England boss Southgate: “It is a larger than regular squad and a part of the rationale is that we’re very near a World Cup and we really feel, though our outcomes have been disappointing in the summertime, we’ve got picked on the premise of kind and functionality over a protracted interval.

“There have been sure gamers we needed to maintain concerned this time, however that mentioned, it doesn’t imply that that is the top for among the others who aren’t concerned.

“Marcus Rashford, for instance, has proven some encouraging indicators just lately. He’s a participant we all know properly so if he can carry out at a excessive stage within the subsequent few weeks, he in fact will likely be into consideration.

“We now have quite a lot of gamers together with Ben Chilwell, Luke Shaw, Harry Maguire and Kalvin Phillips who are usually not taking part in quite a lot of minutes with their membership.

“It isn’t very best, however we really feel they’ve been, and will be, necessary gamers for us. It isn’t an ideal state of affairs however there’s nonetheless quite a lot of soccer to be performed earlier than Qatar.

“Reflecting on the final couple of months, clearly as a global manger you don’t have any video games to shortly put the frustration behind you.

“We now have had a protracted interval to mirror however now we’re actually wanting ahead to 2 high-quality matches that will likely be an important take a look at for us and an important a part of our preparation for the World Cup.

“It’s only eight weeks till we will likely be naming our squad for Qatar so each minute counts.”

Italy v England: Match info

• England have solely scored as soon as of their final 4 video games (D2 L2), having scored 20 of their earlier 4 (W4). After dropping 4-0 to Hungary final outing, the Three Lions haven’t shipped 4+ objectives in consecutive video games since Might/June 1954, dropping 7-1 to Hungary and drawing 4-4 with Belgium.
• Italy have conceded 13 objectives of their final seven matches, conceding 5 objectives of their final sport towards Germany for the primary time since 1957 towards Yugoslavia. The Italians had solely conceded 15 objectives of their earlier 40 video games earlier than the newest seven.
• England have solely misplaced two of their final 26 matches, each towards Hungary in June 2022 (W18 D6). The Three Lions are winless in 4 matches, nonetheless (D2 L2), final having an extended winless run in June 2014 (5) with a kind of video games a 2-1 defeat to Italy on the World Cup.
• Italy have gained two of their final 9 video games (D4 L3), dropping 5-2 to Germany in June of their final match. They haven’t misplaced consecutive video games since June 2014 within the World Cup group phases towards Costa Rica and Uruguay.
• England have gained none of their final 5 away matches towards Italy (D2 L3), scoring just one objective, an Andros Townsend strike in a 1-1 attract March 2015. Their final away win over the Italians was in Might 1961 in a pleasant, a 3-2 victory with objectives from Gerry Hitchens (two) and Jimmy Greaves.
• Italy and England have drawn every of their final 4 conferences, two in friendlies (March 2015 and March 2018), one within the Euros remaining (July 2021, Italy gained on pens) and as soon as within the UEFA Nations League (June 2022).
• New Leeds United signing Wilfried Gnonto turned Italy’s youngest ever scorer of their defeat at Germany, aged simply 18 years and 222 days. Solely six gamers have scored greater than as soon as for the Italian nationwide workforce as a youngster and just one this century, with Moise Kean scoring twice in March 2019 aged 19, whereas two gamers have scored for Italy vs England whereas taking part in for an English membership (Gianfranco Zola in 1997 as a Chelsea participant and Graziano Pellè in 2015 whereas taking part in for Southampton).
• Harry Kane has performed in all 16 of England’s matches within the UEFA Nations League, scoring two objectives and recording three assists – solely Moldova’s Oleg Reabciuk has performed extra video games within the competitors (18), whereas no England participant has registered extra objective involvements than the Three Lions skipper (5).

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