Arthur Cabral is favourite to start over Luka Jovic in the Fiorentina attack against Istanbul Basaksehir tonight.

It kicks off at 20.00 UK time and is the first-ever meeting between these two sides.

The Tuscans have won just two games across all competitions this season and drew their first group stage game against RFS Riga last week.

Dodo, Nikola Milenkovic, Szymon Zurkowski, Gaetano Castrovilli, Marco Benassi, Nico Gonzalez and Riccardo Sottil are injured.

Cabral is expected to start over Jovic in attack with Youssef  Maleh replacing Antonin Barak in midfield. Pierluigi Gollini to start in goal.

Italiano said yesterday that Basaksehir are favourite and that Fiorentina must be quick in solving their problems in attack, although he refused to only put the blame on his strikers.

Fiorentina have won six games from six against Turkish clubs across all European competitions, but the last one was in 1984 with Fenerbache.

Probable line-ups

Basaksehir (4-3-3): Sengezer; Sahiner, Duarte, Touba, Lima; Ozcan, Biglia, Aleksic; Traoré, Okaka, Gurler. 

Fiorentina (4-3-3): Gollini; Venuti, Quarta, Igor, Biraghi; Bonaventura, Amrabat, Maleh; Kouame, Cabral, Ikone.

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