Fiorentina again drop Borja Valero with Khouma Babacar and Juan Cuadrado hoping to break down Filip Djordjevic’s Lazio.
Fiorentina again drop Borja Valero with Khouma Babacar and Juan Cuadrado hoping to break down Filip Djordjevic’s Lazio.
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This is seen as a head-to-head for European qualification and both teams are finding their feet after difficult starts to the season.
The Viola are now unbeaten in five and destroyed Inter 3-0 before the break for international duty, despite still missing Mario Gomez, Marko Marin and Giuseppe Rossi.
Micah Richards and Joaquin return from injury lay-offs for a spot on the bench, as Babacar again partners Cuadrado with Mati Fernandez in the trequartista role.
This means Borja Valero, once the beating heart of the Fiorentina side, is dropped for the second match running.
Lazio also received a confidence boost with two consecutive victories over Palermo and Sassuolo, in which Serbian striker Djordjevic scored four goals.
He is again preferred to Miroslav Klose, while Lucas Biglia has shaken off an injury, but Keita Balde Diao, Dusan Basta and Santiago Gentiletti are sidelined.
Lorik Cana also sits out a ban in defence.
There were concerns that the abandoned Euro 2016 qualifier between Serbia and Albania this week would cause tension, as this match has several players who were in Belgrade for that game.
They include Lazio teammates Djordjevic, Cana, Etrit Berisha and Fiorentina’s Nenad Tomovic, but all have assured there is no bad blood from that clash.
Fiorentina: Neto, Tomovic, Savic, Rodriguez, Alonso, Aquilani, Pizarro, Kurtic, Fernandez, Cuadrado, Babacar
Fiorentina bench: Tatarusanu, Richards, Hegazi, Basanta, Pasqual, Badelj, Borja Valero, Brillante, Vargas, Ilicic, Joaquin, Bernardeschi
Lazio: Marchetti, Cavanda, De Vrij, Ciani, Radu, Parolo, Biglia, Mauri, Candreva, Djordjevic, Lulic
Lazio bench: Berisha, Strakosha, Novaretti, Konko, Peririnha, Braafield, Gonzalez, Onazi, Ledesma, Ederson, Felipe Anderson, Klose