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STORYLINE: Sergio Parisse insists that Italy are more focussed on performance than results, ahead of Six Nations clash with England.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Sergio Parisse, Italian captain (Q: Do you go into this game thinking that you can beat England?)

"Well at the moment, we are not in the position to expect to win this match. We don't think, or it is not our focus, to win the match. Obviously the focus for us is to play our rugby because we are really disappointed about last week (the loss to Ireland) and when I say I want to enjoy (the match) it's to enjoy not just defending but to enjoy the rugby and I think we have shown in the past that we can play well, even against England. So after their result, it's going to be the consequence. After the eighty minutes two years ago we played really well at Twickenham. We put England under pressure and were really close in the score until the end so tomorrow's match is another match. Every single match has it's own story so for us it's going to be important to come back and play our game and start playing rugby because we didn't do that job last week against Ireland.

SOUNDBITE: (English) Sergio Parisse, Italian captain (Q: England are high on confidence following their win over Wales. How important is it for you to start well on Saturday?)

"From experience, when you get a good win against a great team and the week after you play at home against a team probably not the strongest of the Championship, it's important to stay focussed from the mental point of view, to play a good match. So that is the English problem, not mine and my teams. For us, it's going to be important but we don't have the pressure of the result here at Twickenham. We have definitely the pressure for ourselves, to show our rugby because it was definitely disappointing our last game against Ireland."