Pelle Scores (For Italy)
Graziano Pelle has ended his scoring drought at last, only trouble is its for Italy against England in Turin.
Whilst the nation switched on expecting the latest golden boy Harry Kane to be netting the first goal, it was a man who couldn't seem to buy a goal of late who took that honour scoring with a header on the half hour mark.
The Saints man should really have doubled his total shortly after the break when he fired wide following as mix up in the England defence.
But it is good news for Saints fans, Pellet really needed a goal and the pressure to get one in a Saints shirt was clearly weighing heavily on him in the past few games, now that pressure is off him and hopefully having scored for his country he will return to Premier League action raring to go and keen to recapture his goal scoring form up until the turn of the year.
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