We recover – or it would be more correct to write we complete, since the match will resume from minute 16 – the challenge that last Dec. 1 was interrupted after a good quarter of an hour due to the illness suffered by purple midfielder Bove. By a strange twist of fate, the continuation of Fiorentina-Inter will be staged a few days before the return match, which will obviously be played on opposite fields and thus at San Siro.
This is a particularly important match from a Scudetto perspective, since in the event of a victory over the Gigliati, Inter would join Antonio Conte’s Napoli at the top of the standings, erasing the current 3-point gap. Last Sunday, the Nerazzurri squandered an opportunity to move closer to the partenopei by not going beyond a draw in the derby with AC Milan (1-1), reeled back in mid-recovery by a goal from defender de Vrij. It was a match that seemed almost bewitched for the Italian champions: in addition to hitting woodpeckers, Simone Inzaghi’s team had as many as three goals cancelled out and avoided in extremis what would have been their third defeat in a row to their cousins. Fiorentina, on the other hand, returned to winning two consecutive matches after almost two months: the success with Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico (1-2) was followed by that with Genoa (2-1), although Raffaele Palladino’s men practically stopped playing once they scored the second goal (both Kean and Gudmundsson scored) and risked being remounted by the redblues, who were dominant in the second half. The Viola thus preserved sixth place: beating Inter would find themselves paired with Lazio in fourth.
Fiorentina-Inter: the latest lineup news
Fiorentina, as well as Inter, will not be able to field players who arrived in January: the rules, in this case, speak clearly. Quite a problem for the Viola, whose squad was revolutionized in the last market window: the various Zaniolo, Folorunsho, Fagioli, Ndour and Pablò Marì will not be there, and Palladino, as he reiterated in the press conference, will only be able to call up 14 players from the first team, in addition to calling up someone from the Primavera. Okay Comuzzo – the disqualification will be triggered from next weekend, thus not valid for this match – while the purple coach will hardly be able to enlist the convalescent Cataldi and Colpani. Adli is not there either: the midfield is to be reinvented.
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The Prediction
Inter have always prevailed in their last three previous meetings with the Viola – including the Coppa Italia final two years ago – by a combined score of 7-1. Nerazzurri inspired particularly at the “Franchi,” where they haven’t even lost since a pyrotechnic 5-4 back in 2017: in light of the formation problems of Palladino’s team, which won’t be able to use its new signings and will have only 14 players at its disposal, this trend is likely to continue, with Inter likely to make its 3 crucial points in the Scudetto race its own.
The probable lineups of Fiorentina-Inter
FIORENTINA (4-2-3-1): De Gea; Dodo, Comuzzo, Ranieri, Parisi; Richardson, Mandragora; Gudmundsson, Beltran, Gosens; Kean.
INTER (3-5-2): Sommer; Bisseck, Acerbi, Bastoni; Dumfries, Barella, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Carlos Augusto; Lautaro Martinez, Thuram.
