Ciro Immobile is passes a fitness test to start for Lazio with Felipe Caicedo against Franck Ribery’s Fiorentina, with a surprise in defence.
It kicks off at 14.00 GMT, you can follow all the build-up and action as it happens from today’s 10 Serie A games on the LIVEBLOG.
Ciro Immobile is passes a fitness test to start for Lazio with Felipe Caicedo against Franck Ribery’s Fiorentina, with a surprise in defence.
It kicks off at 14.00 GMT, you can follow all the build-up and action as it happens from today’s 10 Serie A games on the LIVEBLOG.
Last season’s Capocannoniere Immobile has a recurring tendon inflammation and had been in doubt to the last minute, but passed a fitness test this morning and is in the starting XI.
With Joaquin Correa, Mohamed Fares, Senad Lulic and suspended Lucas Leiva out of action, Caicedo is the only real option to partner Immobile, sending Andreas Pereira to the bench.
There is another change, as Thomas Strakosha returns in goal after several weeks of Pepe Reina taking the gloves.
Fiorentina have turned a corner under Cesare Prandelli, as they are unbeaten in four, including the 3-0 triumph away to 10-man Juventus.
Patrick Cutrone is the only absentee, and is on the exit list for January anyway, as Dusan Vlahovic is now the stable first choice alongside Franck Ribery.
Cristiano Biraghi returns from his ban with Lorenzo Venuti on the other flank, but the big surprise is Argentina international Lucas Martinez Quarta finally getting a start.
Lazio: Strakosha; Luiz Felipe, Hoedt, Acerbi; Lazzari, S Milinkovic-Savic, Escalante, Luis Alberto, Marusic; Immobile, Caicedo
Fiorentina: Dragowski; Quarta, Pezzella, Igor; Venuti, Bonaventura, Amrabat, Castrovilli, Biraghi; Vlahovic, Ribery
Ref: Abisso