Fiorentina field a very attacking line-up for their opening Europa League trip to PAOK Salonika.

It kicks off at 20.05 UK time (19.05 GMT), follow all the action from today’s four matches involving Italian sides on the LIVEBLOG.

The Viola reached the Round of 32 last season and will be determined to do better, but begin with a difficult visit to Greece.

Fiorentina field a very attacking line-up for their opening Europa League trip to PAOK Salonika.

It kicks off at 20.05 UK time (19.05 GMT), follow all the action from today’s four matches involving Italian sides on the LIVEBLOG.

The Viola reached the Round of 32 last season and will be determined to do better, but begin with a difficult visit to Greece.

There are no injury concerns for Paulo Sousa, who gives Khouma Babacar his first start of the season along with late signings Carlos Salcedo and Maxi Olivera.

PAOK also have a full squad to choose from and hand the centre-forward role to Stefanos Athanasiadis.

These sides met twice before in the 2014-15 Europa League group phase, earning a 1-1 draw in Florence and 1-0 Italian victory in Salonika.

They are in Group J along with Slovan Liberec and Qarabag, who drew 2-2 earlier this evening.

PAOK: Glykos; Matos, Varela, Tzavellas, Leovac; Cimirot, Canas, Pelkas; Campos, Athanasiadis, Rodrigues

PAOK bench: Thiam, Crespo, Biseswar, Brkic, Mystakidis, Shakhov, Kitsiou

Fiorentina: Tatarusanu; Tomovic, Gonzalo Rodriguez, Astori; Salcedo, Badelj, Borja Valero, Ilicic, Maxi Olivera; Babacar, Kalinic

Fiorentina bench: Lezzerini, De Maio, Sanchez, Zarate, Bernardeschi, Tello, Cristoforo

Ref: Vincic (SLO)

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