Overview
- Norway enter San Siro atop Group I with seven wins from seven, 33 goals scored and a +29 goal difference.
- Erling Haaland has 14 qualifying goals and says he feels a great responsibility to take Norway back to the World Cup.
- Starting lineups were confirmed, with Haaland and Alexander Sørloth leading Norway's attack and Gianluigi Donnarumma in goal for Italy under Gennaro Gattuso.
- Italy’s lone group defeat was a 3-0 loss in Oslo, and they kept faint hopes alive with two late goals to beat Moldova 2-0 on Thursday.
- Norway are on the cusp of a first World Cup since 1998, a target Haaland links to his father’s 1994 tournament appearance in the United States.