Jordan Henderson has tasted defeat against Italy in each of the last three years -- a run the England midfielder is confident will not be extended in Turin this week.
The Three Lions line up at the Juventus Stadium on Tuesday evening for a mouth-watering friendly which offers the chance to make amends for last summer's World Cup defeat in Brazil.
Roy Hodgson's men never recovered from that 2-1 defeat in Manaus, extending Henderson's own frustrating run against the Azzurri.
The 24-year-old came on as the Three Lions went out on penalties to Italy at the quarter-final juncture of Euro 2012 and was then captain of the Young Lions side who fell to defeat to them in the Under-21 European Championships.
Henderson is confident this time will be different, though, and that the defeats of Kiev, Tel Aviv and Manaus will not be added to.
"Obviously we played them in the World Cup which was a disappointing result in the end," he said. "It was a great experience for me to play in the game, my first game in the World Cup.
"Obviously it's disappointing that we didn't get anything out of the game, which I felt in the second half we deserved. But hopefully this time around it will be different.
"With the Under-21s we got beat 1-0, we lost on penalties in the Euros and then there was the World Cup, so hopefully that can all change next week.
"Next week will be a similar challenge in terms of tactics, but we'll have own tactics going there and if we apply them as best we can we'll have a really good chance of winning the game."
Henderson is wary of the threat posed by the Azzurri, highlighting in-form Marco Verratti as the danger man in a squad in which the sole British-based representative is Southampton's Graziano Pelle.
The main name overlooked by Antonio Conte for this squad is Henderson's Liverpool team-mate, Mario Balotelli -- the man whose goal saw off England in Manaus.
"Mario is very talented so I'm sure he is very disappointed not to be in the squad, but Italy have a lot of good players as well," Henderson said. "I'm sure he will continue to work hard and try to do the best he can for Liverpool in terms of contributing and scoring goals -- and I'm sure if he does that he'll get back in the Italy team."
Henderson is a prime example of how reputations can be rebuilt, having gone from outcast to Steven Gerrard's heir apparent at Liverpool.
Roy Hodgson says that rise has been "quite meteoric" and backed him to become an "exceptional" player for England if he can begin to add goals to his game, like he has started to at Anfield.
"We have to take more responsibility in midfield in that sense," he said. "We can't always rely on the strikers to score the goals. You have to chip in now and then and we have to take responsibility for that.
"At the same time I'm not going to get caught up on that, I just want to do what is best for the team and if I'm contributing to that, that's the main thing and most important thing is winning games."
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers can take a lot of the credit for his rise, as can those within the Football Association.
Henderson stepped back to the Under-21s side after making his senior debut for England -- a move which benefited him and, he believes, would do the same for the current squad at this summer's European Championships.
"I wanted to go and play tournament football for my country at whatever level it was and gained a lot of experience doing that," he said.
"It wasn't all good as I had two Under-21 tournaments and we didn't do that well in either, we could have done a lot better with the team we had -- but I learnt a lot from playing in those games.
"I would tell any of those young lads to go out there and play in tournament football for their country at any level."