With the second half underway, England needed to find a way to swing the momentum they had before the break back to their side.
They chose possession, and for a while, it made sense.
They were ahead, Italy needed to chase, and every minute spent moving possession around was another minute taken off the clock, and that meant that they couldn't be suddenly caught off too if they did everything well.
But for the first few minutes, though, England struggled to make that plan work.
Italy pushed higher and higher than they had done all game.
Barella stepped forward, almost encroaching the space Rice had settled in while Leo moved across whenever the ball went wide, cutting off the next pass before it was played.
The English midfield kept finding themselves forced backwards, then sideways, then backwards again, and the crowd responded every time Italy won it.
It was looking like the start of a shutdown, but then Kane started dropping.
