England Starting Lineup vs Italy

England is set to play against Italy in an International friendly match.

Wayne Rooney – England

In the last six meetings between the sides, Italy have won five games while England have managed just one victory. The last meeting between these sides was in World Cup group stage match and Italy won by 2-1. Claudio Marchisio’s opener was levelled by Daniel Sturrdige but Mario Balotelli beat Joe Hart to score the winner in the 50th minute of the match.

Danny Welbeck, James Milner, Raheem Sterling and Leighton Baines have all returned to their clbs with slight knocks and Hodgson will make few changes from the previous match. Harry Kane is tipped to make is first senior start while Ryan Mason is also hoping for his first senior cap. England manager Roy Hodgson has limited choices.

Starting XI:

Joe Hart
Kyle Walker – Chris Smalling – Pil Jagiela – Kieran Gibbs
Fabian Delph – Michael Carrick – Jordan Henderson
Ross Barkley
Wayne Rooney – Harry Kane