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GARETH: WE MUST BEAT BIG GUNS

ENGLAND must keep beating the big guns to win Euro 2024.

That’s the message of Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate, who wants his side to show how good they are against Italy at Wembley.

England would all but seal their place at next summer’s finals with victory over Italy on Tuesday due to their superior goal difference.

Southgate said: “We know these are the games that we’ve got to keep delivering to really have belief going into next summer. We’ve had some good nights over motivation involved with this game – we’re trying to qualify for the European Championship,” the 53-year-old replied. “We don’t need any more motivation than that.”

England ripped Italy apart in Naples in March during a first-half display full of attacking intent.

But the 10-man Three Lions were forced to weather a significant storm after the interval as they battled their way to a the last few years. We hadn’t won in Spain for 50-odd years, we hadn’t won in Italy since whenever [1961].

“We said, after the World Cup, that we had to start winning those ‘Italy are games, especially revitalised under away from home.” Spalletti – it will

Southgate refuted be a great game’ claims that England will be using their agonising Euro 2020 penalty shoot-out final defeat to the Azzurri as motivation to inflict more misery on their opponents.

“I think there’s enough hard-earned 2-1 victory, following Luke Shaw’s late red card.

Southgate added: “That was a step forward. We did have to show resilience.

“We played really, really well in the first half of that game and then we had to sustain pressure, conceding a goal and going down to 10.

“There were good traits as there were last month as well. We’ll have to show all of that again because, as I’ve said, Italy are revitalised under Luciano Spalletti – it will be a great game.”