England manager Gareth Southgate admits England risked big against Italy, but wasn’t convinced by VAR on the equalising penalty.

Federico Chiesa had his foot trodden on by James Tarkowski as he ran into a group of players in the box, a spot-kick awarded via VAR and converted by Lorenzo Insigne.

England manager Gareth Southgate admits England risked big against Italy, but wasn’t convinced by VAR on the equalising penalty.

Federico Chiesa had his foot trodden on by James Tarkowski as he ran into a group of players in the box, a spot-kick awarded via VAR and converted by Lorenzo Insigne.

“I'm glad it's not the World Cup just yet. I think the ruling for VAR is 'clear and obvious' and it's not. It's one you can debate all day,” Southgate told ITV of the penalty incident.

“It looks like James Tarkowski stands on him, but it's during the running process and he's going down anyway.

“I think the referee had a good view already. I don't think with incidents like that VAR will clear things up. An obvious handball and stuff like that then maybe… but we have to get on with it.”

Yet Ciro Immobile could’ve had a hat-trick with three big misses in the opening 17 minutes at Wembley.

“In the first five minutes we were very sloppy and gave the ball away in our penalty area but then we settled down and created more chances.

“Raheem Sterling, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Jesse Lingard did well running from midfield and Jamie Vardy scored a really good goal.”

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