Our three England Under 19 players return to action in the European Championships today, as they face Italy in the second group game.

Having gone down to the Czech Republic on Monday, Brian Eastick's side needs a win to get back on track, before facing Greece on Sunday in the final group match.

Chelsea left-back Ryan Bertrand, a regular in the Under 19s, believes the side has what it takes to beat the Italians, but understands the level of performance will need to be raised.

'The Italians should be a similar sort of size and shape to the Czech Republic, but probably with more quality so we're going to have to raise our game,' he said.

'If we play our football and concentrate on our performance, then I think we can beat most teams out here.'

'No-one is ever going to go through after the result in their first game,' he added.

'So whether we got a result or not on Monday, I think the most important thing is that we do go into the other two games thinking positively and that we can go through.

'Hopefully we can get two wins now.'

Joined in the squad by team-mates Scott Sinclair and Jack Cork, who is captaining the side, Bertrand has explained that the group are mixing well after an evening of team-building.

'We had a little bowling leisure activity together last night and that really brought the team together,' Bertrand said.

'And everyone looked lively in training today, so hopefully we can go into the Italy game really positively and get three points.'

There is a 7pm UK time kick-off.