Check out the probable line-ups for the three Serie A games scheduled for the afternoon: Sampdoria–Lazio, Empoli–Verona and Udinese–Fiorentina.
They all kick off at 17.30 UK time.
Sampdoria are the only team without goals scored so far this season. They won just one of the last 21 meetings with Lazio.
Lazio won five of the last six away games at Samp, scoring at least two goals in each game.
Probable line-ups
Sampdoria (4-1-4-1): Audero; Bereszynski, Ferrari, Colley, Augello; Vieira; Leris, Rincon, Sabiri, Djuricic; Caputo.
Lazio (4-3-3): Provedel; Lazzari, Patric, Romagnoli, Marusic; Milinkovic-Savic, Marcos Antonio, Luis Alberto; Anderson, Immobile, Zaccagni.
Empoli-Verona
Four wins each and two draws in the only 10 Serie A meetings between these two teams.
Empoli are unbeaten at home against Verona, they’ve conceded only one goal against the Gialloblu.
This has been one of the worst starts in Verona’s history (one point in three games). In the three-point era, they’ve always collected at least three points in the opening four matches except for 1994-95.
Probable line-ups
Empoli (4-3-1-2): Vicario; Ebuehi, Ismajli, Luperto, Parisi; Haas, Marin, Bandinelli; Baldanzi; Lammers, Satriano.
Verona (3-5-2): Montipò; Coppola, Gunter, Dawidowicz; Terracciano, Tameze, Hongla, Ilic, Lazovic; Lasagna, Henry.
Udinese-Fiorentina
Meeting between the Sottils. Udinese boss Andrea and Fiorentina winger Riccardo, father and son.
The Bianconeri kept a clean sheet in three of the last five home games against Fiorentina, as many as in the previous 27 meetings.
Fiorentina picked up 0-0 draws in the last two Serie A games, haven’t collected three successive goalless stalemates since 1980 when they reached their record (four).
Probable line-ups
Udinese (3-5-2): Silvestri; Becao, Nuytinck, Masina; Pereyra, Makengo, Arslan, Lovric, Udogie; Deulofeu, Beto.
Fiorentina (4-3-3): Gollini; Venuti, Quarta, Igor, Terzic; Barak, Mandragora, Maleh; Kouame, Cabral, Sottil.