England will officially get their Euro 2024 campaign underway this week as they seek a first win in Italy in over 60 years.

The Three Lions suffered an agonising penalty shootout defeat to the Azzurri in the final of the last Euros on home soil in 2021.

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Gareth Southgate was hoping to take his side one step further at the World Cup, before a humbling quarter-final exit to runners up France.

England’s first match since Qatar will arguably be their toughest in their qualifying group as they face defending champions Italy.

Roberto Mancini’s men failed to capitalise on their Euro triumph by missing out on the World Cup but haven’t lost to England since 2012.

Italy vs England: How to watch on TV

This Euro 2024 Group C opener will kick-off at 7:45pm UK time on Thursday, March 23.

It is being shown on Channel 4 from 7pm.

It will be shown free-to-air and you can also live stream it for free on All 4.

Channel 4 will also have the rights to screen England’s second game against Ukraine at Wembley this weekend.

Italy vs England: How to listen on the radio

Full coverage from the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples will be live on talkSPORT, with our pre-match build-up starting at 7pm.

Adrian Durham will be your host with Jim Proudfoot and Stuart Pearce providing commentary.

talkSPORT.com will also have a live blog of the action too.

To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream.

u can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.

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Italy vs England: Team news

Italy squad

• Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain), Wladimiro Falcone (Lecce), Alex Meret (Napoli), Ivan Provedel (Lazio)
• Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Alessandro Buongiorno (Torino), Matteo Darmian (Inter), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Alessio Romagnoli (Lazio), Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta), Leonardo Spinazzola (Roma), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta)
• Midfielders: Nicolo Barella (Inter), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Davide Frattesi (Sassuolo), Jorginho (Arsenal), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Matteo Pessina (Monza), Sandro Tonali (Milan), Marco Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain)
• Forwards: Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Chiesa (Juventus), Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds), Vincenzo Grifo (Freiburg), Simone Pafundi (Udinese), Matteo Politano (Napoli), Mateo Retegui (Club Atletico Tigre), Gianluca Scamacca (West Ham)

England squad

• Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford (Everton), Fraser Forster (Tottenham), Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal)
• Defenders: Ben Chilwell (Chelsea), Eric Dier (Tottenham), Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace), Reece James (Chelsea), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Newcastle), Kyle Walker (Manchester City)
• Midfielders: Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund), Conor Gallagher (Chelsea), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), James Maddison (Leicester City), Kalvin Phillips (Manchester City), Declan Rice (West Ham)
• Forwards: Phil Foden (Manchester City), Jack Grealish (Manchester City), Harry Kane (Tottenham),  Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Ivan Toney (Brentford)

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Italy vs England: What has been said?

Southgate told talkSPORT he considered his future as England boss as media criticism could have started affecting the players.

When asked how hard that decision was to continue in charge, he said: “Not so difficult, my bigger concerns were before Qatar really, leading into the tournament.

“We’d had a difficult summer, we’d had a lot of criticism leading from the Euro final, my worry wasn’t the criticism because that’s part and parcel of the job, but my worry was that we could have been at a point where it started to affect the performance of the team.

“I’ve seen scenarios where because people are so desperate for the manager to be out they’d almost be fairly happy for the team to lose so he goes, so that bothered me ahead of Qatar.

“Would I need to say ‘we’re going to move on here’ and it’s time for somebody else so we had a free hit ahead of the tournament?”