Fabio Quagliarella believes Italy will arrive in South Africa "in the best possible condition" for their World Cup defence.
The Azzurri's underwhelming preparations were concluded with a 1-1 draw against fellow finalists Switzerland in Geneva on Saturday. That result followed a 2-1 loss to Mexico in Italy's only other warm-up match.
Coach Marcello Lippi has elected to focus the squad's efforts on altitude training rather than match sharpness in the build-up to the tournament and Napoli striker Quagliarella believes little should be read into recent results.
"The coach asked us to put in a good performance in the final game before we travel to South Africa and I think we did that," said Quagliarella, whose strike cancelled out Gokhan Inler's opener for the Swiss in the stalemate.
"It is normal that against Mexico we suffered a little from fatigue given it was our first test since the end of the season."
He added: "The bottom line is that we arrive at the tournament in the best possible condition and who knows where we can go from there. Let's not forget we are still the current world champions."
Lippi said that he had not sent out a second-string team as he probed the depth of his squad by ringing the changes from the side which lost to the Mexicans.
"There is no Italy mark two. There is one Italy and all the (squad) players are part of it. They are great players," said Lippi.
"I said that in the two warm-up matches one team would play against Mexico and another against Switzerland," said Lippi, adding he believed the showing in the second game had been "superior."
Italy are in Group F in South Africa.
They are expected to advance to the knock-out stages at the expense of New Zealand, Paraguay and Slovakia.
The Swiss, coached by the experienced Ottmar Hitzfeld and coming off some indifferent warm-ups including a loss to Costa Rica, compete in Group H against European champions Spain, Honduras and Chile.
"We need to be bolder but we've made progress," said Hitzfeld after giving the Italians a hard time.
"We know we have a tough task against Spain, but we have our chances," Hitzfeld added, looking ahead to his side's first World Cup encounter.
"Spain have weaknesses, all teams have weaknesses."