Happy New Year to all you calcio fanatics! The Serie A has taken a short break to allow players and staff to re-charge their batteries a bit but in case you were missing some action, have no fear! The top-Italian flight is about to make up for its 10-day absence with three rounds in one week!
Round 15 of the campionato kicks off tomorrow at 12.30 PM (Italy time, of course!) as Inter receive a ramping-up Crotone side and ends the same night with Udinese testing Andrea Pirlo’s Juventus’ consistency at the Allianz Stadium.
In between, table-leader Milan will travel to Benevento to break the curse that never saw them winning against the Giallorossi. The mid-afternoon menu also offers an intriguing Atalanta-Sassuolo match-up, a classic Roma-Sampdoria battle and the Derby dell’Appennino between Fiorentina and Bologna.
With such a match program in mind, let’s dive into the expected lineups for all the 20 Serie A clubs for Round 15:
Atalanta
Probable Starting XI (3-4-2-1): Gollini; Djimsiti, Romero, Palomino; Hateboer, de Roon, Freuler, Gosens; Pessina; Zapata, Ilicic
Unavailable: Caldara, Pasalic
Benevento
Probable Starting XI (4-3-2-1): Montipò; Letizia, Glik, Tuia, Barba; Hetemaj, Schiattarella, Improta; Ionita, Caprari; Lapadula
Unavailable: Caldirola, Iago Falque
Bologna
Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): Ravaglia; Tomiyasu, Danilo, Medel, Dijks; Schouten, Dominguez; Vignato, Soriano, Barrow; Palacio
Unavailable: Santander, Skorupski, Sansone, Mbaye
Cagliari
Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): Cragno; Zappa, Ceppitelli, Walukiewicz, Lykogiannis; Marin, Oliva; Nandez, Joao Pedro, Sottil; Simeone
Unavailable: Luvumbo, Ciocci, Faragò, Rog, Godin
Crotone
Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Cordaz; Magallan, Golemic, Luperto; Pereira, Molina, Zanellato, Vulic, Reca; Messias, Riviére
Unavailable: Cigarini, Benali
Fiorentina
Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Dragowski; Caceres, Milenkovic, Pezzella; Barreca; Venuti, Amrabat, Pulgar, Castrovilli, Barreca; Ribery; Vlahovic
Unavailable: Cutrone
Banned: Biraghi
Genoa
Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Perin; Masiello, Radovanovic, Criscito; Ghiglione, Lerager, Badelj, Behrami, Czyborra; Destro, Shomurodov
Unavailable: Cassata, Biraschi, Marchetti, Parigini, Lu. Pellegrini, Sturato, Pandev
Inter
Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Handanovic; Skriniar, De Vrij, Bastoni; Hakimi, Barella, Vidal, Brozovic, Young; Lukaku, Lautaro Martinez
Unavailable: Vecino, Pinamonti
Juventus
Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2): Szczesny; Danilo, Bonucci, De Ligt; Chiesa, McKennie, Bentancur, Alex Sandro; Ramsey; Morata, Cristiano Ronaldo
Banned: Cuadrado, Rabiot
Lazio
Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Reina; Patric, Acerbi, Radu; Lazzari, Milinkovic-Savic, Escalante, Luis Alberto, Marusic; Caicedo, Immobile
Unavailable: Lulic, Fares, Parolo, Correa, Luiz Felipe
Milan
Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): G. Donnarumma; Calabria, Kjaer, Romagnoli, Diogo Dalot; Kessié, Tonali; Brahim Diaz, Calhanoglu, Rebic; Rafael Leao
Unavailable: Ibrahimovic, Gabbia, Bennacer, Saelemaekers, Castillejo
Banned: Hernandez
Napoli
Probable starting XI (4-3-3): Ospina; Di Lorenzo, Manolas, Maksimovic, Mario Rui; Fabian Ruiz, Bakayoko, Lozano; Zielinski, Insigne, Petagna
Unavailable: Osimhen, Mertens, Koulibaly, Malcuit
Parma
Probable Starting XI (4-3-1-2): Sepe; Busi, Osorio, Bruno Alves, Gagliolo; Kucka, Cyprien, Kurtic; Brunetta; Inglese, Karamoh
Unavailable: Grassi, Nicolussi Caviglia, Pezzella, Laurini, Gervinho, Hernani
Roma
Probable Starting XI (3-4-2-1): Pau Lopez; Mancini, Smalling, Ibanez; Karsdorp, Veretout, Villar, Bruno Peres; Mkhitaryan, Lo. Pellegrini; Dzeko
Unavailable: Zaniolo, Mirante, Spinazzola, Pedro, Calafiori, Pastore
Sampdoria
Probable Starting XI (4-4-2): Audero; Thorsby, Yoshida, Tonelli, Augello; Candreva, Ekdal, Silva, Jankto; Verre, Quagliarella
Unavailable: Prelec, Gabbiadini, A. Ferrari
Banned: Keita
Sassuolo
Probable Starting XI (4-2-3-1): Consigli; Toljan, Chiriches, Ferrari, Kyriakopoulos; Locatelli, Obiang; Berardi, Djuricic, Boga; Caputo
Unavailable: Romagna, Ricci, Rogerio
Spezia
Probable Starting XI (4-3-3): Provedel; Vignali, Chabot, Ismajli, Bastoni; Estevez, Agoumé, Pobega; Farias, Nzola, Gyasi
Unavailable: Zoet, Verde, Dell’Orco, Galabinov, Leo Sena, Mattiello, Ricci, Acampora, Ferrer
Torino
Probable Starting XI (3-4-1-2): Sirigu; Izzo, Lyanco, Bremer; Singo, Linetty, Rincòn, Rodriguez; Lukic; Belotti, Verdi
Unavailable: Millico, Ansaldi
Udinese
Probable Starting XI (3-5-2): Musso; Di Maio, Bonifazi, Samir; Stryger-Larsen, De Paul, Walace, Pereyra, Zeegelaar; Pussetto, Lasagna
Unavailable: Okaka, Jajalo, Nuytinck
Banned: Becao
Verona
Probable Starting XI (3-4-2-1): Silvestri; Dawidowicz, Magnani, Ceccherini; Faraoni, Barak, Veloso, Dimarco; Tameze, Zaccagni; Salcedo
Unavailable: Vieira, Benassi, Favilli, Di Carmine
