Italy look for World Cup form against Ukraine

Roberto Donadoni's team drew at home to Lithuania and lost away to France in their opening two Group B qualifiers and now face opponents they beat on their way to success in Germany in July.

Italy beat Ukraine 3-0 in their quarter-final in Hamburg and striker Luca Toni, who scored twice in that game, believes the Azzurri still have the same desire for success.

"The first two games didn't go well and now we really need to get three points - we have to go out there and win at all costs," said Toni.

"We won the World Cup and it is impossible to imagine us not being there at the European Championships. We still have the hunger to win," he added.

Although Donadoni, who replaced World Cup winning coach Marcello Lippi who stood down following the triumph in Berlin, is still without Francesco Totti he has 18 of the World Cup squad available for tomorrow's match at the Olympic stadium.

Totti has taken a break from the national side while he attempts to get back to full fitness but Alessandro Del Piero, playing in Serie B with Juventus, returns along with Toni.

The pair could start in attack while in defence an injury to left-back Fabio Grosso means that Barcelona's Gianluca Zambrotta is likely to switch flanks to left-back.

Italy currently lie sixth out of seven teams with one point from two matches, five points behind joint leaders France and Scotland.

Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko, known well to the Italians after his seven seasons with Milan, is suffering from a high temperature and could miss the match.

Coach Oleg Blokhin also has to contend with injuries to Sergei Rebrov and Ruslan Rotan of Dynamo Kiev.

Blokhin believes his side can do better than they managed at the World Cup though. "Although Italy are strong we can take them on," he said.

"Our 3-0 defeat at the World Cup does not reflect our relative strengths," the Ukraine coach remarked.