Roberto Mancini warns Italy ‘don’t have world class players, so we have to build a team that can play well together’ as they take on France in the Nations League.

It kicks off at the Stade de France in Paris at 19.45 UK time (20.45 CEST).

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There couldn’t have been a bigger difference between the performances in the opening two matches under returning coach Roberto Mancini.

They were jeered off the pitch in a 2-0 home defeat to Belgium, then lit up for a 4-1 victory in Turkiye, putting them back in contention for Group A.

“When you don’t have world class players, you have to build a team that can play well together, and this is what we want to do,” Mancini told RAI Sport.

“What we did in EURO 2020 and in those four years together should give us hope, because we were more or less in the same situation as we are now when I arrived, even if we had more experience in the squad.

“We’ve got to build and that also means going through a few painful setbacks.”