After the mid-week European Cups blast that saw most Italian sides promoted to the knock-out stages, Serie A match-day 11 could be rightfully defined as a transition one – with no “big games” coming up at least on paper.
The menu features a Sassuolo – Benevento appetizer kicking off tonight at 8.45 PM CET, followed by an interesting relegation tie-breaker between Crotone and Spezia the following day. It also includes away games for Inter (Sunday at 12.30 PM at Cagliari) and Juventus (Sunday at 6.00 PM at Genoa) while top-placed Milan will close the program at 8.45 PM as they welcome Parma.
Napoli will face Sampdoria on Sunday at 6.00 PM still without their signature striker Victor Osimhen.
Let’s take a look at who else is missing and who the 20 Serie A teams are expected to lineup in the upcoming Round 11:
Atalanta
Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2): Gollini; Toloi, Romero, Djimsiti; Hateboer, de Roon, Freuler, Gosens; Gomez; Ilicic, Zapata
Unavailable: Miranchuk, Caldara, Pasalic
Benevento
Probable Starting XI (4-3-2-1): Montipò; Letizia, Glik, Tuia, Barba; Hetemaj, Ionita, Improta; R. Insigne, Caprari; Lapadula
Unavailable: Iago Falque, Viola, Caldirola, Maggio, Moncini
Bologna
Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): Da Costa; De Silvestri, Tomiyasu, Danilo, Hickey; Schouten, Svanberg; Sansone, Soriano, Barrow; Palacio
Unavailable: Dijks, Santander, Orsolini, Skorupski
Cagliari
Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): Cragno; Faragò, Walukiewicz, Carboni, Lykogiannis; Rog, Marin; Zappa, Joao Pedro, Sottil; Pavoletti
Unavailable: Nandez, Luvumbo, Ciocci, Godin, Pereiro, Ounas
Crotone
Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Cordaz; Magallan, Marrone, Luperto; Pereiro, Molina, Benali, Vulic, Reca; Messias, Simy
Unavailable: Cigarini
Banned: Petriccione
Fiorentina
Probable Starting XI (4-4-1-1): Dragowski; Caceres, Milenkovic, Pezzella, Biraghi; Callejon, Amrabat, Pulgar, Bonaventura; Ribery; Vlahovic
Unavailable: Castrovilli
Genoa
Probable Starting XI (4-4-2): Paleari; Ghiglione, Goldaniga, Bani, Masiello; Lerager, Badelj, Sturaro, Pellegrini; Shomurodov, Scamacca
Unavailable: Criscito, Melegoni, Cassata, Zappacosta, Biraschi, Marchetti, Perin, Zapata
Inter
Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2): Handanovic; D’Ambrosio, De Vrij, Bastoni; Hakimi, Gagliardini, Brozovic, Perisic; Barella; Lukaku, Sanchez
Unavailable: Vecino, Nainggolan, Pinamonti
Juventus
Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2): Szczesny; Danilo, Bonucci, Alex Sandro; Chiesa, McKennie, Bentancur, Cuadrado; Kulusevski; Dybala, Cristiano Ronaldo
Unavailable: Chiellini, Buffon, Demiral
Banned: Morata, Pinsoglio
Lazio
Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Strakosha; Luiz Felipe, Acerbi, Radu; Lazzari, Milinkovic-Savic, Lucas Leiva, Luis Alberto, Fares; Correa, Immobile
Unavailable: Lulic, Patric
Milan
Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): G. Donnarumma; Calabria, Gabbia, Romagnoli, Hernandez; Kessié, Tonali; Saelemaekers, Calhanoglu, Brahim Diaz; Rebic
Unavailable: Ibrahimovic, Kjaer, Bennacer
Napoli
Probable starting XI (4-2-3-1): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Manolas, Koulibaly, Mario Rui; Demme, Fabian Ruiz; Lozano, Mertens, Insigne; Petagna
Unavailable: Osimhen, Hysaj, Rrahmani
Parma
Probable Starting XI (4-3-2-1): Sepe; Busi, Osorio, Bruno Alves, Iacoponi; Scozzarella, Hernani, Kurtic; Karamoh, Gervinho; Cornelius
Unavailable: Mihaila, Laurini, Pezzella, Cyprien, Sohm, Grassi, Kucka
Roma
Probable Starting XI (3-4-2-1): Mirante; Ibanez, Smalling, Kumbulla; Karsdorp, Veretour, Villar, Spinazzola; Mkhitaryan, Pellegrini; Dzeko
Unavailable: Zaniolo, Pastore, Mancini
Banned: Pedro
Sampdoria
Probable Starting XI (4-4-2): Audero; Ferrari, Yoshida, Colley, Augello; Candreva, Thorsby, Ekdal, Askildsen; Ramirez, Quagliarella
Unavailable: Keita, Gabbiadini, Bereszynski
Sassuolo
Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): Consigli; Muldur, Marlon, Ferrari, Rogerio; Locatelli, Lopez; Berardi, Djuricic, Boga; Raspadori
Unavailable: Caputo, Romagna, Ricci, Defrel, Chiriches
Spezia
Probable Starting XI (4-3-3): Provedel; Ferrer, Terzi, Chabot, Bastoni; Estevez, Ricci, Maggiore; Farias, Nzola, Gyasi
Unavailable: Zoet, Ramos, Dell’Orco, Galabinov, Leo Sena, Mattiello, Agoume
Torino
Probable Starting XI (4-3-1-2): Sirigu; Singo, Bremer, Lyanco, Rodriguez; Meité, Rincon, Linetty; Lukic; Zaza, Belotti
Unavailable: Baselli, Millico, Murru, Verdi, Ansaldi, Ujkani
Udinese
Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Musso; Becao, Nuytinck, Samir; Stryger-Larsen, De Paul, Walace, Pereyra, Zeegelaar; Pussetto, Forestieri
Unavailable: Lasagna, Nestorovski, Mandragora, De Maio, Okaka, Ouwejan, Jajalo
Banned: Arslan
Verona
Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2): Silvestri; Dawidowicz, Lovato, Dimatco; Faraoni, Tameze, Veloso, Lazovic; Barak; Zaccagni, Di Carmine
Unavailable: Gunter, Vieira, Benassi, Kalinic, Cetin
Banned: Ceccherini
