England 0 – 5 Italy

Half-time 0-3
The team are now tired and this is causing a lack of concentration in defence. Our restricted man to man did not happen, in the first 10 minutes Italy scored 3 goals this was due to a lot of space given to them in the front of the goal. After our time out we corrected this issue and the team started to defend better giving us a few counter attacks.
Second half the team were more consistent and everyone played giving me time to rest players for next game.

Michael Ableson comments after the game:
The team was very tired after 2 hard games against Switzerland and Germany. Lack of concentration showed on the first half. After the team talk in the changing room the second half was more positive against a very physical team. We are now looking forward to playing Holland although it will be a hard game we are confident that we can beat them.