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Italy are the defending champions since they won the previous Euro tournament, but they need to be more lethal if they want to win this tournament and dream of World Cup qualifiers in a couple of years.

England are favorites to qualify, along with Italy they are the only favorites in Group C, but if they don’t take advantage of this game things could get complicated to qualify.

Italy confirmedlineup

This will be the first game for the Italians in 2023, they closed 2022 with a 0-2 defeat against Austria in what was the last friendly of the year.

In the current squad that will play against England the top scorers are Barella and their captain Bonucci with eight goals each.

This is the likely Italy’s lineup for this game: Gianluigi Donnarumma; Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Francesco Acerbi, Rafael Toloi, Leonardo Spinazzola; Nicolo Barella, Marco Verratti, Jorginho; Domenico Berardi, Mateo Retegui, Lorenzo Pellegrini.

England confirmedlineup

England performed well during the recent 2022 World Cup in Qatar, they reached the Quarter-finals and lost to France 1-2. After this game against the Italians, England plays Ukraine in London.

Harry Kane is England’s squad captain with 80 caps and 53 goals, most of the players are the same ones that played in Qatar with a couple of new callups like Ivan Toney and James Maddison.

This is England’s lineup for this game: Jordan Pickford; Kyle Walker, John Stones, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw; Kalvin Phillips, Declan Rice, Jude Bellingham; Bukayo Saka, Harry Kane, Jack Grealish.

In the list of the 20 most valuable rookies only three are playing in England and only two in Spain, while the other players on the list play in France, Germany and Italy and most of them are valued at less than $20m.

Talented young players usually come from the youth academies where they are currently playing, although not all cases are like that, some of them come from other youth academies from different parts of the world.

The 20 most valuable rookie players in Europe:

The list of the most valuable young players in Europe was built by CIES Football Observatory, they include in the list only players under 23 years old who recently debuted with big teams in Europe.

1. Josko Gvardiol – RB Leipzig ($104.7m)
2. Dominik Szoboszlai – RB Leipzig ($65.6m)
3. Pablo Gavi – Barcelona ($63.7m)
4. Nuno Mendes – PSG ($57.6m)
5. Marc Guehi – Crystal Palace ($54.3m)
6. Piero Hincapie – Bayer Leverkusen ($46.3m)
7. Jesper Lindstrom – Eintracht Frankfurt ($41m)
8. Odilon Kossounou – Bayer Leverkusen ($39.6m)
9. Kamaldeen Sulemana – Stade Rennais ($36.7m)
10. Myron Boadu – Monaco ($32.4m)
11. Davide Frattesi – Sassuolo ($30m)
12. Nico Gonzalez – Barcelona ($28.4m)
13. Arthur Theatre – Bologna ($28.04m)
14. Valentino Livramento – Southampton ($25.8m)
15. Ricardo Pepi – FC Augsburg ($25m)
16. Michael Olise – Crystal Palace ($24.39m)
17. Castello Lukeba – Lyon ($23.3m)
18. Albert Sambi Lokonga – Arsenal ($22.3m)
19. Gianluca Busio – Venezia ($21.5m)
20. Patrick Wimmer – Arminia Bielefeld ($20.8m)

Some players on the list such as Nuno Mendes, Ricardo Pepi, Valentino Livramento and Arthur Theater are perfect for their teams to sell them in a couple of seasons and with that money look for other young talents. The number one on the list, Josko Gvardiol, is the jewel of RB Leipzig as Haaland once was.