38 mins: Florenzi handy cross, Pelle cannot put the melon on it.
35 mins: Pelle booked for tugging back Jagielka.
33 mins: A delay for an injury to Eder, clash of heads with Jones. He's okay. Both okay.
31 mins: Gibbs booked for a clear foul on the breaking Valdifiori. Just watching a TV replay of a magnificent bit of holding from Chiellini on Kane, like a man trying to help someone out of a wetsuit.
30 mins: Walcott has a chance to run onto the ball, but the formidable Chiellini and Bonucci are not letting him play.
GOAL! Pella of Southampton has turned the ball in, delicately. Rampaging down the left from Chiellini, who has gone past Phil Jones like he wasn't there. Stands it up in the area, and Pella applies the finish with a cute little header. Bit humiliating to be skinned like that by an elderly centre half ITALY 1 ENGLAND 0 (Pella 29)
28 mins: Nice ball into Pella but Phil Jags makes a top class saving tackle. Nice stat: If Wayne Rooney scores he will be first England player since Tommy Lawton in 1939 to score in 6 consecutive internationals
26 mins: Superb pass from Rooney, Walcott brings it down but Ranocchia throws himself in the way before Ickle Theo Waltrousers can do much, shot-wise.
25 mins: Bonucci longs pass. Soriano chests the ball down, and has cleverly opened it up, but the ref incorrectly gives handball.
21 mins: Good little spell form England, ball into the box again, Henderson has a weak effort and calls, very optimistically, for a handball. Nae chance.
20 mins: Ball into the box, Harry Kane does brilliantly to create a chance with his head for Delph, who cannot get his body in the right position, and it's half cleared to Rooney. Shrek strikes it at goal, it takes a deflection and hits the crossbar! Unlucky, Wayne.
19 mins: Pelle having a good game, he's involved in most things. At the other end, Kane and Walcott haven't had a lot to work with.
16 mins: Damian's got the run on Clyne down the left, he's racing clear, and he slides it across to an onrushing team-mate. Well tackled Phil Jones! A goal-saving intervention. Jagielka gets up above Chiellini at the corner.
14 mins: But now Rooney's given it away. Ball hit long for Eder, who wins the aerial challenge with Smalling. Clyne has little choice but to foul him. The freekick is awful, though.
13 mins: Delph, and Gibbs exchanging passes, Rooney has come deep to link things up. England holding onto the ball well.
12 mins: Not a classic so far. Clive T's in good form though. He's just described Buffon's sluggishness to clear as "a senior moment." Kane was lurking.
10 mins: Parolo with a vicious, dipping shot that Hart does well to tip over. Hart punches the corner clear. Someone in the crowd was shining a laser pen in his eyes as he came for it. Lovely.
9 mins: Pelle gets onto a cross but Phil Jags has done enough to put him off.
8 mins: Nice bit of approach play form England, Henderson and Rooney involved, but they cannot find time/space for a shot.
4 mins: Pelle threads it through a very narrow tight defence but cannot find Eder. He had Florenzi overlapping, had he spied the lad.
3 mins: Pelle sprays it out to the pacy right wing back Florenzi, but Gibbs is his equal in a race and tidies up well.
1 mins: It'll be Italy to kick off. Chiellini gets an early foul in on Kane. Clive Tyldesley gets an early "welcome to Italy" gag away. Too good to miss, although Kane kind of ran into the defender really. It wans't a good old fashioned reducer or anything.
19.42 Those teams again.
Italy: Buffon, Bonucci, Ranocchia, Chiellini, Darmian, Soriano, Valdifiori, Parolo, Florenzi, Eder, Pelle. Subs: Sirigu, Abate, Antonelli, Candreva, Zaza, Immobile, Verratti, Cerci, Barzagli, Gabbiadini, Vazquez, Moretti, Santon, Marchetti.
England: Hart, Clyne, Smalling, Jagielka, Gibbs, Jones, Delph, Walcott, Rooney, Henderson, Kane. Subs: Butland, Cahill, Walker, Carrick, Townsend, Mason, Bertrand, Barkley, Green.
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
19.40 Great shame not to see the boy Pirlo. Who everyone be liking.
19.39 And above is the probable Italian set-up.
19.38 So that's the line-up for England.
19.35 ITV on! No Emmerdale updates tonight. Ian Wright "Theo Walcott can learn the savvy to play up top." And we're off and running.
"I feel sorry for the lad, being shoved in there," says Glenn Hoddle of Phil Jones. Jeez, it's not so bad, is it?
Here's Roy Hodgson: "I am excited to see if Kane and Walcott can perform as well as they hope. The Italians attitude will be the same as ours. We'll qualify, they'll qualify, but this is about seeing players. We get so few opportunities these days."
19.30 Harry Kane has his work cut out tonight, says Henry Winter
The 45th episode of Harry Kane’s enchanted season brings the most demanding examination of the striker’s strength, touch, stamina, resilience and intelligence.
In the shadow of the Alps, Kane runs into robust, experienced centre-halves of the quality of Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini, warriors protecting their own Juventus back-yard. Facing opponents of great obduracy, Kane’s full England debut is a friendly in name only.
If he can muscle or manoeuvre his way through, Kane then comes up against Gianluigi Buffon, a goalkeeper intimidating enough when singing the Italian national anthem, let alone one on one. Buffon, making his 147th appearance, is ready.
“I think Kane really is the form player at this moment in time in British football and as goalkeepers, and also as a team, we have watched some footage of him," the Juventus legend said.
19.20 Few facts about the teams...
Harry Kane is one of five alterations to Friday's Euro 2016 qualifying win against Lithuania, with Theo Walcott brought in for his first international match in just over 18 months.
Wayne Rooney captains the side at Juventus Stadium, where Joe Hart becomes the youngest goalkeeper to rack up 50 caps for the Three Lions.
Gianluigi Buffon captains tthe hosts while. Mirko Valdifiori makes his debut and Southampton striker Graziano Pelle leads the line.
19.15 Here are the Italians who will line up against a rather narrow looking England side. I mean, it's nice to be optimistic, but the fact that England's central midfield will be staffed by an okay-ish centre half isn't exactly delightful.
Italia: Buffon; Ranocchia, Bonucci, Chiellini; Darmian, Parolo, Florenzi, Valdifiori, Soriano; Pelle, Eder.
19.10 It would appear that Wayne Rooney will play at the top of a midfield diamond with Phil Jones at the base of it. Well, England's Andrea Pirlo will have to wait for another day. Hard lines, Michael Carrick.
19.05 England's record against Italy is, erm, modest. As in not good. Rob Bagchi has the ins and outs of the rivalry, if that's what we're calling it. Italy vs England, top 10 matches - by Rob Bagchi
18.55 Quite the claim from Mark Ogden here, in Michael Carrick should have been England's Andrea Pirlo - but it is not too late, but he makes an excellent argument.
An injury to Andrea Pirlo will ensure that England are denied a glimpse into their future, and a look at what might have been in the past, when Roy Hodgson’s team face Italy in Turin on Tuesday night.
Pirlo, the 35-year-old Juventus midfielder, will miss the friendly due to the calf problem that has sidelined him for the past month but, having backtracked on plans to retire from international football following the World Cup, the man who tormented England in Kiev and Manaus during Euro 2012 and Brazil 2014 would have been a central figure had he been fit to play.
Throughout both of his decisive contributions in Kiev and Manaus, Pirlo’s ability to dictate play from a defensive midfield position and his mastery of distribution, with both short and long passes, saw him heralded as the mythical figure which England simply do not possess.
Where Italy move the ball around with comfortable ease with Pirlo at the hub, England’s hurried approach and inability to tone down their high-intensity attacking blueprint sees them fail every time.
But the return of Michael Carrick to the international stage gives England and Hodgson the opportunity to prove that they do, after all, possess the technical ability to go from also-rans to contenders.
The brutal reality is that England are international football’s equivalent of Ricky Hatton – too strong for weak opponents and able to land blows on the best, but ultimately, lacking the sophistication to win when it matters most against the elite.
Carrick can change that if he is allowed to grow into the role that Pirlo has made his own with the Italians.
18.50 The big talk is that, as we suspected, Harry Kane starts up front.
18.45 Evening all. We're all dealing with an unfamiliar sensation at the moment - a mood of some positivity and even affection towards the England team. We are living in strange times.
Here are the brave men and true who will be representing the nation tonight.
England: 1 Hart 2 Clyne 3 Gibbs 4 Henderson 5 Smalling 6 Jagielka 7 Walcott 8 Jones 9 Kane 10 Rooney (c) 11 Delph
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Alan Tyers will be here in the liveblogging hotseat from around 6.45pm. In the meantime here's what Wayne Rooney, the England captain, has been saying about you know who...
Rooney, just like the rest of the country, has been gripped by the excitement surrounding Harry Kane and the England captain cannot wait to link up with the striker against Italy.
Roy Hodgson confirmed Kane would make his full England debut in tonight's friendly at the Juventus Stadium.
In reality, the decision was a no-brainer for the England manager. After starting the season as third-choice striker for Tottenham, the 21-year-old's stock has risen rapidly and he is now among the front runners for player of the year after scoring 29 goals for the north London club.
The hype surrounding the forward rocketed even further on Friday when he scored his first international goal just 79 seconds after stepping off the bench in the 4-0 win over Lithuania.
And Rooney is licking his lips at the prospect of playing with the Spurs forward in Turin.
"I'm as excited as everyone in the country (about Kane)," Rooney said .
"He's had an unbelievable season. Going into the season there were questions whether he would start for Tottenham.
"He was starting the Europa League games, but not the league games. But he gave his manager no option but to play him and he's not looked back, scoring goals every week.
"It's exciting for this group of players to train with him. After getting his goal on Friday, I bet he can't wait to get out on the pitch and try and get another goal.
"It's great for English football to have someone scoring so regularly in the Premier League and getting a goal on debut at international level. It's an exciting time for him and all of us."
It was telling that Rooney said the one England player he would have loved to have lined up alongside more than any other was Alan Shearer - the very man Kane is being compared to right now.
How exactly Kane fits into Hodgson's starting XI will not be revealed until Tuesday night, but there was a suggestion on the eve of the game that the two might not link up as a traditional front two.
Hodgson has always maintained he sees Kane as nothing but a traditional number nine, so there is little chance the player would be shunted out wide or in the number 10 role.
Rooney could end up playing there, just behind the Spurs striker in either a 4-2-3-1 formation or a 4-4-2 diamond, with Theo Walcott involved somewhere along the front line too.
"I haven't said Wayne Rooney is playing up front," Hodgson said.
"Harry Kane is playing, so is Wayne. But I don't want to be pinned down to two front players with Harry Kane and Wayne Rooney.
"We might do something a bit different."
However England line up, the spotlight will be on Kane and Rooney knows it.
For that reason, the England captain will warn Kane the Italian defence will be out to get him.
Rooney had a hard time against Giorgio Chiellini during England's World Cup defeat to Italy in Manaus last summer and tonight the Juventus defender will be accompanied by Andrea Ranocchia and Leonardo Bonucci.
The Azzurri have conceded just four goals since the World Cup and Rooney knows Kane will face possibly his toughest test yet.
"With Italian defenders, especially the clever defenders, they'll do anything to try and stop you," Rooney added.
"I think Italy's a passionate country. They love their football, they are probably the closest in Europe to South American teams.
"They're tough to play against, well-organised, they make it as difficult as they can for us. Italy are the best in Europe at doing that.
"You need to be aware of that and not get frustrated. At the minute what Harry is doing he needs to continue doing.
"He's taking the ball, he's a handful for defenders, he's running at the defenders and getting shots off at goal.
"That's all he has to do. I'm sure if he does that the way he has been, he'll be fine."
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