England and Italy played their first matches in the World Cup, with Italy emerging victorious after a Mario Balotelli header. The match ended 2-1 to Italy, despite a strong England performance.

“We all need time to digest what happened on the field,” England coach Roy Hodgson said. “My gut feeling is that we did very good things. There were some very good individual performances.”

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