Football World Cup 2014: How the world tweeted #ENG versus #ITA

New Delhi: Italian experience overcame England's youthful exuberance in an intriguing clash of styles at the World Cup on Saturday. Claudio Marchisio fired Italy ahead after 35 minutes when England were wrong-footed by an Andrea Pirlo dummy, but Daniel Sturridge levelled within three minutes after Wayne Rooney picked him out with a perfect left-wing cross. Mario Balotelli scored with a second-half header on Saturday to give Italy a 2-1 win over England at the World Cup.

While the match was on, the world was also simultaneously tweeting, vigorously. According to Twitter, there were more than 7.2 million tweets about the game during the live telecast.

Twitter highlights from the match:

The peak tweet moments during the match:

The Twitter conversation related to the match touched nearly every country across the globe.

Tweets mentioning England or Italy during the game

The most-mentioned players on Twitter during the match

The most retweeted tweets during the match