{"id":2663,"date":"2014-06-10T17:25:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T10:25:35","slug":"england-will-be-better-against-italy-roy-hodgson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/england-will-be-better-against-italy-roy-hodgson\/","title":{"rendered":"England will be better against Italy – Roy Hodgson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Hodgson says that England will deal with the threat posed by Andrea Pirlo and Italy by playing better than they did during their Euro 2012 meeting.<\/p>\n

In the quarter-finals of the European Championships two years ago, the Azzurri defeated the Three Lions on penalties after a 120 minutes that may have ended goalless, but was dominated in possession by Italy and their main midfield man.<\/p>\n

Ahead of this Saturday\u2019s Group D opener in the 2014 World Cup, the reunion between the sides presents England and their Coach with an opportunity to improve upon that previous showing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow are we going to stop Pirlo? What we\u2019re going to do first of all is we\u2019re going to play better against Italy this time than we did in Euro 2012,\u201d Hodgson has promised media this week from England\u2019s training camp in Rio de Janeiro…<\/p>\n

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South Africa Today Sport – Football News – England – Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roy Hodgson says that England will deal with the threat posed by Andrea Pirlo and Italy by playing better than they did during their Euro 2012 meeting. In the quarter-finals of the European Championships two years ago, the Azzurri defeated the Three Lions on penalties after a 120 minutes that may have ended goalless, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,84],"tags":[227,853,119,686,685,860,855,1267,371,859,704,705,30,854,861,694,114,120,80,188,858,857,856,1270],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-world-cup","tag-2014-world-cup","tag-andrea-pirlo","tag-azzurri","tag-england-football","tag-england-news","tag-england-training-camp","tag-european-championships","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-group-d","tag-italy","tag-italy-football","tag-news","tag-quarter-finals","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-roy-hodgson","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-the-azzurri","tag-the-three-lions","tag-three-lions","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}