According to the latest reports, England took on visiting Italy at Wembley Stadium in the 8th round of Group C of the Euro qualifiers.

England is currently ranked 4th in the FIFA World Ranking, and after failing to make it to the last eight in last year's World Cup in Qatar, England quickly regrouped and won 4 victories and 1 draw in the European qualifiers, scoring 16 goals and conceding only 2, and leading the Group C with a 3-point advantage. Many stars in the team also maintained good form after the start of the new season, Kane, Bellingham and Rice quickly became the core players, Walker, Grealish and young rookies such as Saka and Foden, who are in the prime of their careers, are still occupying an important tactical position.

However, England's generals have been in the news a lot more off the field than on it recently, and all of it is negative. Sancho because of the conflict with Manchester United manager Teng Haq has gradually faded out of the national team vision, Henderson and Maguire two veterans also because of the transfer and transfer is not subject to the outside world's questions, and even to the national team manager Gareth Southgate have to personally down to the field to communicate and coordinate. The instability of the military heart feedback to the field is the fluctuation of the results, since September, England first in the neutral site of the Ukraine was forced to draw, back to Wembley and only 1-0 victory over Australia, the team's performance is not convincing, and even make the industry suspect that in the imminent success of the line of sight, the team up and down the moment of whether the mood of relaxation.

Italy is currently ranked 9th in the FIFA World Rankings. With 3 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss, 10 goals scored and 4 goals conceded, Italy is now second in the group, 3 points less than England at the top of the table, and with one less game to play, they have the advantage of goal difference over Ukraine to take the initiative to get out of the group.

Italy is currently off the field trouble is not less than England, due to the involvement of improper behavior, Tonali and other international players have announced the withdrawal of the current Italian national team training camp, the future will be how to dispose of the present is also not yet known. However, it seems that Italy has not been affected by the scandal, they in the last round of the group stage at home to 4-0 smash weak Malta, over thirty years old Bonaventura scored his first goal on behalf of the blue army. Italian soccer has a tradition of being able to muster unrivaled fighting spirit from within whenever there is a lot of pressure from the outside - something that has already been proven twice, in 1982 and 2006.

After Spalletti took over the team, Italy's holistic approach paid off, stabilizing with two consecutive victories over Ukraine and Malta in the two rounds of the European qualifiers. If they beat England on the road in this campaign, they are very hopeful to go out of the line as the top. It should be noted that Italy's recent away win rate is relatively average, with only 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses in their last 5 away games.

Italy has always been England's bitter rival, and before beating Italy away in the European qualifiers in March this year, England had not been able to beat Italy for nearly a decade, and the latest and most painful scar is definitely the loss of the last European Cup final. This game, both teams have enough intention to fight, but the gap in strength is still relatively obvious, if not accidentally, England when you can take the game, in the European preliminaries double kill Italy at the same time to lay the foundation for the top of the group out of the line.