Match No. 506 - Wednesday, 17th November 1976, 2:30pm
"Predicatably enough Italy scored after 36 minutes...Causio attempted to go through the English defence...which was halted abruptly by a combined lunge from McFarland and Cherry...Causio tapped the free kick to his left and Antognioni ran in for a shot which hit Keegan and was deflected past Clemence." Giancarlo Antognoni, 37'36:06 - "Benetti feed the ball out to Causio on the left and there seemed no immediate danger until Causio beat Clement with a lamb-like leap as the ball arrived...Benetti had run into space for the return pass, and as his centre came over Bettega launched himself full length to give Clemence no chance at all with his header." Roberto Bettega, 78'77:13
- 1
- Dino ZoffDino Zoff.
Born 28th Feb 1942, Mariano del Friuli.
- 2
- Antonello CuccuredduAntonello Cuccureddu.
Born 4th Oct 1949, Alghero.
81:39 Deliberate trip on Keegan.
- 3
- Marco TardelliMarco Tardelli.
Born 24th Sep 1954, Capanne di Careggine.
- 4
- Romeo BenettiRomeo Benetti.
Born 20th Oct 1945, Albaredo d'Adige.
- 5
- Claudio GentileClaudio Gentile.
Born 27th Sep 1953, Tripoli, Libya.
- 6
- Giacinto FacchettiGiacinto Facchetti.
Born 18th Jul 1942, Treviglio.
(c)
- 7
- Franco CausioFranco Causio.
Born 1st Feb 1949, Lecce.
- 8
- Fabio CapelloFabio Capello.
Born 18th Jun 1946, San Canzian d'Isonzo.
- 9
- Francesco GrazianiFrancesco Graziani.
Born 16th Dec 1952, Subiaco.
- 10
- Giancarlo AntognoniGiancarlo Antognoni.
Born 1st Apr 1954, Marsciano.
- 11
- Roberto BettegaRoberto Bettega.
Born 27th Dec 1950, Turin.
- 1
- Ray ClemenceLiverpool, 24th of 61 caps
28 years, 3 months, 12 days
Goalkeeper
- 2
- Dave ClementQPR, 4th of 5 caps
28 years, 9 months, 15 days
Right Back 
'8180:44
- 3
- Mick MillsIpswich, 10th of 42 caps
27 years, 10 months, 13 days
Left Back
- 4
- Brian GreenhoffMan Utd, 5th of 18 caps
23 years, 6 months, 19 days
Centre Back
- 5
- Roy McFarlandDerby, 28th of 28 caps
28 years, 7 months, 12 days
Centre Back
- 6
- Emlyn HughesLiverpool, 41st of 62 caps
29 years, 2 months, 20 days
Centre Back
- 7
- Kevin KeeganLiverpool, 26th of 63 caps
25 years, 9 months, 3 days
Midfield (c)4th captaincy
- 8
- Mick ChannonSouthampton, 38th of 46 caps
27 years, 11 month, 19 days
Centre Forward 90:52 Off the ball kick at Tardelli.
- 9
- Stan BowlesQPR, 4th of 5 caps
27 years, 10 months, 24 days
Centre Forward
- 10
- Trevor CherryLeeds, 6th of 27 caps
28 years, 8 months, 23 days
Midfield
- 11
- Trevor BrookingWest Ham, 15th of 47 caps
28 years, 1 month, 15 days
Midfield
- 12
- Kevin BeattieIpswich, 7th of 9 caps
22 years, 10 months, 30 days
Right Back 
'8180:44
Notes
- Clement InjuryOn 80 minutes Dave Clement twists his angle as he jumps to try and stop the ball going out of play. He is replaced by Beattie.
- Player MilestoneRoy McFarland's Last Cap
Sources
- England - The Quest for the World Cup - A Complete Record by Clive Leatherdale (Two Heads Publishing 1994)
- England: The Complete Post-War Record by Mike Payne (Breedon Books Publishing Company 1993)
- YouTube
- The Guardian "Italy cast off the chains", Thursday, 18th November 1976, page 18.
Managers
England Don Revie
Italy F Bernardini & Enzo Bearzot
Referee
Israel Abraham Klein
ELO Ratings
- Down 2 places, losing -24 ranking points to 1960 points England - 7th - 2
- Italy - 5th
World Cup 1978 Q
(Group 2)
- Italy
- 10
- +14
- 1
- 0
- 5
- 6
- England
- 10
- +11
- 1
- 0
- 5
- 6
- Finland
- 4
- -5
- 4
- 0
- 2
- 6
- Luxembourg
- 0
- -20
- 6
- 0
- 0
- 6
