Serie A Round 12 Preview and Expected Lineups

There’s no time to rest in Serie A! Less than 48 hours ago, Milan were pulling off a hard-earned draw with Parma in Round 11 Sunday night match, but the Italian top-flight is about to kick-off another match-day already as the two Inzaghi brothers will face each other in an intriguing Benevento – Lazio match-up tonight.

On Wednesday, Juventus will receive Atalanta while second and third-placed Inter and Lazio will battle for the runner-up spot in the table. Meanwhile, Milan will travel to Genoa in an attempt to retain their solitary lead, while Roma will receive Torino on Thursday night to close the Round.

With so much on the menu, we did out best to put together the probable starting lineups for all the 20 sides involved in Serie A match-day 12. Here’s what you can expect to see:

Atalanta

Probable Starting XI (3-4-2-1): Gollini; Toloi, Romero, Djimsiti; Hateboer, de Roon, Freuler, Gosens; Pessina, Malinovskyi; Zapata

Unavailable: Miranchuk, Caldara, Pasalic

Benevento

Probable Starting XI (4-3-2-1):  Montipò; Letizia, Glik, Tuia, Barba; Hetemaj, Schiattarella, Improta; Ionita, Caprari; Lapadula

Unavailable: Caldirola, Maggio, Moncini

Bologna

Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): Da Costa; De Silvestri, Tomiyasu, Danilo, Denswil; Medel, Dominguez; Vignato, Soriano, Barrow; Palacio

Unavailable: Santander, Orsolini, Skorupski, Skov Olsen, Sansone, Hickey, Mbaye, Schouten

Cagliari

Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1):  Cragno; Zappa, Walukiewicz, Klavan, Lykogiannis; Rog, Marin; Nandez, Joao Pedro, Sottil; Simeone

Unavailable: Luvumbo, Ciocci, Godin, Pereiro, Ounas, Tripaldelli

Crotone

Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Cordaz; Cuomo, Marrone, Luperto; Pereiro, Molina, Petriccione, Eduardo, Reca; Messias, Simy

Unavailable: Cigarini, Benali, Rispoli

Banned: Magallan

Fiorentina

Probable Starting XI (4-4-1-1):  Dragowski; Caceres, Milenkovic, Pezzella, Barreca; Callejon, Amrabat, Pulgar, Castrovilli; Ribery; Vlahovic

Unavailable: Biraghi

Genoa

Probable Starting XI (4-4-2):  Paleari; Goldaniga, Bani, Masiello, Lu. Pellegrini; Lerager, Badelj, Rovella, Sturaro, Shomurodov, Scamacca

Unavailable: Cassata, Zappacosta, Biraschi, Marchetti, Zapata, Parigini

Inter

Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2):  Handanovic; D’Ambrosio, De Vrij, Bastoni; Darmian, Gagliardini, Brozovic, Young; Barella; Lukaku, Lautaro Martinez

Unavailable: Vecino, Nainggolan, Pinamonti, Sanchez, Vidal

Juventus

Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2):  Szczesny; Danilo, Bonucci, De Ligt; Cuadrado, Arthur, Bentancur, Alex Sandro; McKennie; Morata, Cristiano Ronaldo

Unavailable: Chiellini, Demiral

Lazio

Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Reina; Luiz Felipe, Hoedt, Radu; Lazzari, Milinkovic-Savic, Escalante, Luis Alberto, Marusic; Correa, Immobile

Unavailable: Lulic, Muriqi, Acerbi, Fares, Lucas Leiva

Banned: Akpa Akpro

Milan

Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): G. Donnarumma; Calabria, Kalulu, Romagnoli, Hernandez; Kessié, Tonali; Saelemaekers, Calhanoglu, Rafael Leao; Rebic

Unavailable: Ibrahimovic, Kjaer, Bennacer, Gabbia

Napoli

Probable starting XI (4-2-3-1): Ospina; Di Lorenzo, Manolas, Koulibaly, Mario Rui; Bakayoko, Fabian Ruiz; Lozano, Zielinski, Insigne; Mertens

Unavailable: Osimhen, Hysaj, Rrahmani

Parma

Probable Starting XI (4-3-2-1): Sepe; Iacoponi, Osorio, Bruno Alves, Gagliolo; Scozzarella, Hernani, Kurtic; Karamoh, Gervinho; Inglese

Unavailable: Mihaila, Laurini, Grassi, Kucka

Roma

Probable Starting XI (3-4-2-1): Pau Lopez; Ibanez, Smalling, Kumbulla; Karsdorp, Veretour, Lo. Pellegrini, Spinazzola; Mkhitaryan, Pedro; Dzeko

Unavailable: Zaniolo, Pastore, Mancini, Santon

Banned: Cristante

Sampdoria

Probable Starting XI (4-4-2):  Audero; Ferrari, Yoshida, Tonelli, Augello; Candreva, Askildsen, Ekdal, Jankto; Ramirez, Quagliarella

Unavailable: Keita, Prelec, Bereszynski

Banned: Thorsby

Sassuolo

Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): Consigli; Toljan, Marlon, Ferrari, Rogerio; Locatelli, Lopez; Berardi, Djuricic, Boga; Raspadori

Unavailable: Caputo, Romagna, Ricci, Defrel

Banned: Haraslin

Spezia

Probable Starting XI (4-3-3): Provedel; Ferrer, Terzi, Erlic, Bastoni; Bartolomei, Ricci, Maggiore; Farias, Nzola, Gyasi

Unavailable: Zoet, Verde, Dell’Orco, Galabinov, Leo Sena, Mattiello

Torino

Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2): Sirigu; Izzo, Lyanco, Rodriguez; Singo, Meité, Rincon, Linetty, Murru; Bonazzoli, Belotti

Unavailable: Millico

Udinese

Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Musso; Becao, Bonifazi, Samir; Stryger-Larsen, De Paul, Arslan, Pereyra, Zeegelaar; Pussetto, Deulofeu

Unavailable: Forestieri, Okaka, Jajalo, Nuytinck

Banned: Arslan

Verona

Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2): Silvestri; Dawidowicz, Magnani, Lovato; Faraoni, Barak, Veloso, Dimarco; Tameze; Zaccagni, Favilli

Unavailable: Vieira, Benassi, Kalinic, Cetin