Italy’s Under-21 side has called in Crotone defender Riccardo Marchizza for a friendly against Belgium after Sebastiano Luperto and Giuseppe Pezzella pulled out.
The game kicks off at the Dacia Arena in Udine on Thursday at 17.30 UK time (16.30 GMT).
It will be followed by another test with Tunisia at the Stadio Romeo Menti in Vicenza on Monday at 17.30 UK time (16.30 GMT).
Coach Gigi Di Biagio has lost both Napoli defender Luperto and Udinese left-back Pezzella.
Italy’s Under-21 side has called in Crotone defender Riccardo Marchizza for a friendly against Belgium after Sebastiano Luperto and Giuseppe Pezzella pulled out.
The game kicks off at the Dacia Arena in Udine on Thursday at 17.30 UK time (16.30 GMT).
It will be followed by another test with Tunisia at the Stadio Romeo Menti in Vicenza on Monday at 17.30 UK time (16.30 GMT).
Coach Gigi Di Biagio has lost both Napoli defender Luperto and Udinese left-back Pezzella.
He replaced them with Bologna’s Arturo Calabresi and today added Crotone’s Marchizza to the squad.
Italy U21 squad
Goalkeepers: Emil Audero (Sampdoria), Lorenzo Montipò (Benevento), Simone Scuffet (Udinese);
Defenders: Claud Adjapong (Sassuolo), Alessandro Bastoni (Parma), Arturo Calabresi (Bologna), Davide Calabria (Milan), Gianluca Mancini (Atalanta), Riccardo Marchizza (Crotone), Luca Pellegrini (Roma), (Udinese), Filippo Romagna (Cagliari);
Midfielders: Gaetano Castrovilli (Cremonese), Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo); Rolando Mandragora (Udinese), Alessandro Murgia (Lazio), Matteo Pessina (Atalanta), Luca Valzania (Atalanta), Nicolò Zaniolo (Roma);
Forwards: Federico Bonazzoli (Padova), Simone Edera (Torino), Andrea Favilli (Genoa), Moise Kean (Juventus), Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna), Vittorio Parigini (Torino), Luca Vido (Perugia).