Italy coach Luciano Spalletti admits he plans to "experiment" during their US tour.

The Azzurri will face Venezuela and Ecuador over the next week.

"In football nowadays there is this tendency to favour players or teams who are capable of interpreting different systems within the same match, so we need to do something modern too," former Napoli coach Spalletti said.

“Before we didn't have much time, so we focused only on one system. Even when we lost, I would say we had to stay in there, nothing changes, because we had to get one thing fully in focus. Now that we have this space of two friendly matches, we need to go and try something different and make a few experiments.

“Everything has an influence. We will pay attention to the training sessions and matches of teams, we will see what happens in these two friendlies, we'll go and see someone new as well, because there is always the chance to get in there.

“In fact, as this is Italy and we need to keep getting stronger and fresher, clearly we will experiment and then see what the results are."