Harry Kane helped England beat Italy (AP)
England got here from behind to beat Italy 3-1 thanks to two targets from Harry Kane and e book their place within the Euro 2024 finals.
Harry Kane scored a brace as a Jude Bellingham-inspired England got here from behind to beat holders Italy 3-1 and march into the Euro 2024 finals in a Group C qualifier at Wembley on Tuesday.
The guests shocked the house crowd when Gianluca Scamacca swept in a cross from Giovanni di Lorenzo in opposition to the run of play within the fifteenth minute for his first objective with the nationwide crew.
England, who misplaced the Euro 2020 last to Italy on penalties on the similar stadium in 2021, equalised within the thirty second when Bellingham, the excellent participant of the night, surged into the world and was introduced down by a late Di Lorenzo deal with.
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The penalty was given an extended VAR verify earlier than captain Kane calmly stepped up and slotted dwelling, sending Gianluigi Donnarumma diving the flawed means.
Marcus Rashford made it 2-1 in model within the 57th, firing a blistering shot into the underside nook after Real Madrid ahead Bellingham set him up.
Kane then scored his second of the evening within the 77th, pushing off defenders to rating as supervisor Gareth Southgate punched the air in delight along with his aspect qualifying unbeaten, with two video games to spare and 16 factors from six video games.
The targets took Kane’s tally at Wembley to 24, another than 1966 World Cup winner Bobby Charlton and making him England’s all-time prime scorer on the stadium.
“Qualifying is never easy. Sometimes we are just expected to go to the big tournaments but we have seen in the past it is not as easy as it looks,” Kane informed Channel Four tv.
“We went 1-0 behind and stayed calm. We knew we could get the winner and we have done it.”
It was the primary time since 1949 that England had gained consecutive video games in opposition to Italy, who misplaced 2-1 in Naples in March.
The defeat left Luciano Spalletti’s Italy third within the group, on 10 factors and dealing with a battle with second-positioned Ukraine, who’ve performed another, for the opposite direct qualifying slot from the group.
“We played a good game but gave away things that you cannot afford to concede to England because they will punish you immediately,” mentioned the Italian.
England, needing solely a draw to punch their ticket for the finals in Germany, began with a very modified lineup from the second-string aspect that beat Australia 1-0 in a pleasant at Wembley on Friday.
The distinction was fast, with slick passing and Bellingham a driving drive, whereas Italy remained harmful on the break.
Southgate handed Kalvin Phillips his first England begin since March, in a midfield trio with Bellingham and Declan Rice, regardless of the Manchester City participant’s lack of sport time at membership stage.
Jordan Henderson, the beginning captain on Friday, got here on as a late substitute for Phillips with Bellingham additionally changed by Jack Grealish with 5 minutes remaining.
A second’s silence was held earlier than the match after a suspected Islamist gunman shot useless two Swedish soccer followers forward of a qualifier with Belgium in Brussels on Monday.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
