Italy ring the changes for their Euro 2020 qualifier with Liechtenstein, starting Moise Kean, Fabio Quagliarella, Stefano Sensi and Leonardo Spinazzola.

It kicks off at the Stadio Tardini at 19.45 GMT.

You can follow the build-up and action as it happens and give your views on the LIVEBLOG.

Roberto Mancini had to deal with more injuries after Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Finland, which had Nicolò Barella and Moise Kean on target.

Italy ring the changes for their Euro 2020 qualifier with Liechtenstein, starting Moise Kean, Fabio Quagliarella, Stefano Sensi and Leonardo Spinazzola.

It kicks off at the Stadio Tardini at 19.45 GMT.

You can follow the build-up and action as it happens and give your views on the LIVEBLOG.

Roberto Mancini had to deal with more injuries after Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Finland, which had Nicolò Barella and Moise Kean on target.

After losing Lorenzo Insigne, Federico Chiesa and Alessandro Florenzi, they also parted with Cristiano Piccini and Stephan El Shaarawy.

Ciro Immobile is dropped after firing blanks in his last 10 caps, so 36-year-old Sampdoria hitman Quagliarella is given his first competitive Italy start since a 3-2 World Cup qualifier against Cyprus on October 14, 2009. Remarkably, that too was played at the Stadio Tardini in Parma.

His last start was in a 1-1 friendly against Switzerland in June 2010, where he scored the equaliser.

The current Serie A Capocannoniere is partnered by Juventus talent Kean and Inter winger Matteo Politano, while Sassuolo’s Stefano Sensi steps in for Barella.

Juventus left-back Spinazzola gets the nod, with Atalanta defender Gianluca Mancini surprisingly picked on the right to replace injured Florenzi and Piccini for his senior Italy debut.

Leonardo Bonucci reunites with former Milan teammate Alessio Romagnoli, as Giorgio Chiellini is rested, with Salvatore Sirigu in goal.

Liechtenstein lost their opener 2-0 at home to Greece, so the last point they earned in a Euro or World Cup qualifier was the 1-1 home draw with Moldova in June 2015.

Their most recent victory in a qualifier was also against Moldova, 1-0 away in November 2014.

However, Liechtenstein had a decent Nations League campaign in League D, managing one win over Gibraltar, a 2-2 draw with Armenia and four defeats.

They failed to score only once in that tournament, netting seven in the other five games.

Their captain Michele Polverino is the son of immigrants from the Naples area, while there is a familiar name on the bench.

That’s because Noah Frick is the 17-year-old son of former Hellas Verona striker Mario Frick.

Curiously, Mario Frick was teammates with Igor Zaniolo – the father of Nicolò – at Serie B side Ternana in 2002-03.

Italy: Sirigu; Mancini, Bonucci, Romagnoli, Spinazzola; Sensi, Jorginho, Verratti; Politano, Quagliarella, Kean

Italy bench: Cragno, Donnarumma, Izzo, Cristante, Biraghi, Pavoletti, Bernardeschi, Grifo, Immobile, Barella, Lasagna, Zaniolo

Liechtenstein: B Buchel; S Wolfinger, Kaufmann, Hoffer, Goppel; Wieser; Sele, Polverino, Wieser, Kuhne; Hasler, Salanovic

Liechtenstein bench: Hobi, A Majer, Brandle, Malin, Ospelt, M Buchel, Meier, Yildiz, Eberle, Gubser, Frick, Rechsteiner

Ref: Levnikov (RUS)

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