England coach Gareth Southgate insists his players are “streetwise" enough to cope with Italy in the Euro 2020 final.

Italy boss Roberto Mancini has built a formidable team on a 33 game unbeaten run, full of experience and full of winners who know what it takes to get over the line.

Southgate said: “I think the players have learned a lot over the last three or four years, we talked to them about that, we used to talk to the Under-21s about that - it was one of the biggest areas we had to improve upon.

“Now we have an immense challenge against a top opponent I was hearing last night have been to 12 semi-finals, ten finals, Italy's record is phenomenal. So we've got a huge task ahead of us but one that we'll take on with relish.

“I'm really pleased with the way we responded to what was the first major setback in the tournament. We weren't behind for too long, teams that have won in the past have been able to do that.

“We still can be better at it because the first five minutes of that second half of extra-time against Denmark, we had the man advantage and didn't really keep the ball well enough. There was opportunities to keep the ball far better than we did.

“But we'd worked it out and the players had worked it out, they did that really well and we have got the technicians to be able to do it.

“We weren't perfect against Denmark, I think we deserved the win on the amount of chances we created and some of the attacking play but I guess it was never going to be perfect with so much at stake."