Riled-up Lazio face a tricky trip to Papu Gomez’s Atalanta and must do without suspended top scorer Ciro Immobile.

It kicks off at 19.45 GMT, follow the build-up and action as it happens on the LIVEBLOG.

These two sides were the surprise outfits in Serie A last season and continued their exploits this term, topping their Europa League groups.

Riled-up Lazio face a tricky trip to Papu Gomez’s Atalanta and must do without suspended top scorer Ciro Immobile.

It kicks off at 19.45 GMT, follow the build-up and action as it happens on the LIVEBLOG.

These two sides were the surprise outfits in Serie A last season and continued their exploits this term, topping their Europa League groups.

Atalanta have midfielder Maarten De Roon suspended, while Josip Ilicic, Bryan Cristante and Leonardo Spinazzola support the front two of Andrea Petagna and Alejandro ‘Papu’ Gomez.

Lazio are still reeling after Monday’s controversial home defeat to Torino, which saw Coach Simone Inzaghi and club staff imply referees had it in for them.

VAR was used to send off Immobile, which is why he is suspended this evening, but not to view the penalty incident moments earlier.

With their top scorer banned, the Aquile rely on Felipe Caicedo to lead the attack with Luis Alberto and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic.

Luis Nani and Davide Di Gennaro are injured, but Felipe Anderson made his comeback midweek in the Coppa Italia against Cittadella and could be given a run-out in Bergamo.

Lazio have won their last three meetings with Atalanta, home and away, and last season this fixture was a spectacular 4-3 thriller.

Atalanta: Berisha; Masiello, Caldara, Palomino; Hateboer, Cristante, Freuler, Spinazzola; Ilicic; Petagna, Gomez

Atalanta bench: Gollini, Rossi, Castagne, Gosens, Mancini, Toloi, Haas, Kurtic, Schmidt, Orsolini, Vido, Cornelius

Lazio: Strakosha; Bastos, De Vrij, Radu; Marusic, Parolo, Leiva, Milinkovic-Savic, Lulic; Luis Alberto; Caicedo

Lazio bench: Guerrieri, Vargic, Wallace, Luiz Felipe, Mauricio, Patric, Basta, Murgia, Lukaku, Jordao, Neto, Felipe Anderson, Palombi

Ref: Irrati

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