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 this week.

The Three Lions line up at the Juventus Stadium tomorrow 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. 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 U-21s we got beaten 1-0, we lost on penalties in the Euros and then there was the World Cup, so hopefully that can all change.”

Henderson is wary of the threat posed by the Azzurri squad in which the sole British-based representative is Southampton’s Graziano Pelle.

The main name overlooked by Italy coach Antonio Conte 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.