If Italy are losing players to injury going into Friday’s crunch World Cup qualifier, then Switzerland are not faring any better, as Cedric Itten replaced Steven Zuber in the squad.
The showdown between the joint group leaders is on Friday evening at the Stadio Olimpico.
The Azzurri lost Ciro Immobile today, replacing him with Gianluca Scamacca due to a calf injury, after already seeing Lorenzo Pellegrini and Nicolò Zaniolo abandon the training ground at Coverciano.
Switzerland are not faring much better going into the showdown, because they too have a huge absentee list.
Granit Xhaka, Haris Seferovic, Nico Elvedi, Breel Embolo, Gregor Kobel, Zesiger, Christian Fassnacht and today Zuber have all pulled out.
Zuber left the camp today, replaced by Cedric Itten of Greuther Furth.
After the Italy match, Switzerland conclude the group phase by facing Bulgaria.
Switzerland squad: Kohn, Omlin, Sommer; Akanji, Comert, Imeri, Garcia, Mbabu, Rodriguez, Schär, Widmer; Aebischer, Frei, Freuler, Gavranovic, Okafor, Okoh; Shaqiri, Sow, Steffen, Vargas, Zakaria, Zeqiri