England plays Italy on Saturday in the group stage of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The match begins at 6:00 p.m. ET. Watch the live stream or listen to the radio broadcast via the links provided below.
Unlike the 2010 World Cup squad for Italy, the 2014 squad features healthy veterans Andrea Pirlo, who was ruled out for South Africa with an injury, and Gianluigi Buffon, who made it through only the first half of the opener before exiting with an injury.
The result was Italy not making it out of the first round.
"We had so much bad luck at the last World Cup, losing our two most important players to injury," Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini told FIFA.com. "It really had a negative impact on our campaign. But now that we've got them fit and firing again, we're hoping to go much further, even though we're in a tough group. ...
"Pirlo and Buffon are our most important players. They've got character and they make the whole team play, so we need to take good care of them."
England, meanwhile, could be a sleeper team with its young squad. While not many predict England to advance from the group stage, England defenseman Leighton Baines believes they've had great preparation and could surprise the world.
"For the time I've been involved with England, this is as good a group as there's been," Baines told FIFA.com. "There's a real good spirit throughout the camp and part of that is probably down to the preparation we've been doing. We've been working hard but have obviously been spending a few weeks together that has enabled us to get that kind of club feel to the international set-up."
Watch the live stream HERE, HERE and HERE, or listen to the radio broadcast HERE.
Projected Lineups:
England: Joe Hart; Leighton Baines, Phil Jagielka, Gary Cahill, Glen Johnson; Jordan Henderson, Steven Gerrard; Danny Welbeck, Wayne Rooney, Adam Lallana; Daniel Sturridge.
Italy: Gianluigi Buffon; Giorgio Chiellini, Gabriel Paletta, Andrea Barzagli Matteo Darmian; Andrea Pirlo, Daniele De Rossi, Marco Verratti; Claudio Marchisio, Antonio Candreva; Mario Balotelli.
*Lineups via SB Nation.
