Serie A matchday 20 begins on Friday with Bologna hosting Spezia and Salernitana visiting Lecce at the Stadio Via del Mare. Check out the probable line-ups.
We begin at 17.30 GMT at the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara in Bologna.
Thiago Motta meets his former club but is still without Kevin Bonifazi, Nicola Sansone, Lorenzo De Silvestri, Gary Medel and Bologna’s best scorer Marko Arnautovic.
The Rossoblu are unbeaten in five Serie A games against Spezia and have scored 11 goals in the process.
Spezia are also without their best scorer, Mbala Nzola, who has netted 53% of the Aquilotti’s goals this term, nine out of 17. Other key players are out: Jerone Zoet, Simone Bastoni, Szymon Żurkowski and Albin Ekdal.
Emil Holm is not fully fit so Salvador Ferrer could replace him on the right.
Probable line-ups
Bologna (4-1-4-1): Skorupski; Posch, Soumaoro, Lucumi, Lykogiannis; Schouten; Orsolini, Ferguson, Moro, Soriano; Zirkzee.
Spezia (3-5-2): Dragowski; Amian, Caldara, Nikolaou; Ferrer, Bourabia, Ampadu, Agudelo, Reca; Gyasi, Verde.
Lecce host Salernitana at 19.45 GMT.
Kastriot Dermaku and Marin Pongracic are out of action for the Giallorossi.
Federico Di Francesco is not fully fit so Lameck Banda will likely start in the attacking trident which should also see Assan Ceesay get the nod over Lorenzo Colombo.
New Salernitana signing William Troost-Ekong is ready to start, but Federico Fazio, Norbert Gyomber, Giulio Maggiore and Pasquale Mazzocchi are still on the treatment table.
Guillermo Ochoa expected to start even if Luigi Sepe has recovered and is available.
Probable line-ups
Lecce (4-3-3): Falcone; Gendrey, Baschirotto, Umtiti, Pezzella; Blin, Hjulmand, Gonzalez; Strefezza, Ceesay, Banda.
Salernitana (4-4-2): Ochoa; Daniliuc, T.Ekong, Pirola, Bradaric; Candreva, Coulibaly, Nicolussi Caviglia, Vilhena; Piatek, Dia.