The football fans had the chance to watch an awesome match in Manaus with Claudio Marchisio opening the score at 35′ whereas England responded scoring at 37′ with Daniel Sturridge.

Mario Balotelli later on gave the lead to his team scoring at 50’. Italy played very well and prevented many times English players from scoring.

The match ended 2-1 and Italy took the precious three points in the first game of the fourth group.