Milan must beat their Stadio Bentegodi ghosts and Hellas Verona to restore Serie A leadership, but make changes with Alexis Saelemaekers and Rade Krunic coming in against Giovanni Simeone.

It kicks off at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT).

You can follow all the build-up and action as it happens on the LIVEBLOG.

Serie A Liveblog: Verona-Milan, Salernitana-Cagliari

Inter already came back from 2-0 down to beat Empoli 4-2, so only a win here will allow Milan to retain their two-point lead at the top of the table.

The Stadio Bentegodi fixture has become known as Milan’s ‘Fatal Verona’ after they lost the Scudetto with shock defeats here in both 1973 and 1990.

Simon Kjaer is the only remaining absentee, although Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Ante Rebic and Alessandro Florenzi are not fit to start.

Olivier Giroud and Rafael Leao continue to lead the way, but Junior Messias, Ismael Bennacer and Brahim Diaz drop to the bench, replaced by Alexis Saelemaekers, Rade Krunic and Franck Kessie.

Verona have motivation too, as they want to set a new all-time club record for Serie A points in a single season.

Pawel Dawidowicz is still out of action, but their strength is upfront with Antonin Barak and Gianluca Caprari supporting Cholito Simeone.

Hellas had been 2-0 up at San Siro within 24 minutes when they met in October, before Milan turned it around to win 3-2.

Verona: Montipò; Ceccherini, Günter, Casale; Faraoni, Tameze, Ilic, Lazovic; Barak, Caprari; Simeone

Milan: Maignan; Calabria, Kalulu, Tomori, Theo Hernandez; Tonali, Kessie; Saelemaekers, Krunic, Leao; Giroud

2 thought on “Serie A line-ups: Verona vs. Milan”
  1. Pioli taking a lot of risks with these changes. I approve of benching Diaz but leaving Bennacer out and introducing Krunic and Saelemaekers to the starting line-up after many weeks is a bold move to say the least.

    We gotta trust the man, but if this backfires he’s gonna be put to the cross for it.

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