Fiorentina and Milan will take on on Saturday the 4th of March at 8:45 pm in the 25th week of the Serie A. The match will be played in Firenze at the Stadio Comunale Gino Bozzi. The chosen referee is Marco Di Bello.
Fiorentina is in the 12th place in the league with 28 points. It comes from a 0-3 win against Hellas Verona in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 7 times, draw 7 times, and lost 10 times.
Milan occupies the 4th place in the standings with 47 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against Atalanta in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 14 times, draw 5 times, and lost 5 times.
Milan won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 5th of February against Inter and the score was 1-0.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Fiorentina
Fiorentina has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (15 times or 62.50%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (15 times), 4-2-3-1 (8 times) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Vincenzo Italiano is expected to play against Milan with the following players: Pietro Terracciano, Cristiano Biraghi, Nikola Milenković, Igor Júlio, Dodô, Sofyan Amrabat, Rolando Mandragora, Giacomo Bonaventura, Riccardo Saponara, Nicolás González and Arthur.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Fiorentina would be 28.09.
Aleksa Terzić will definitely miss the match.
Milan
Milan has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (18 times or 75.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (18 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 3-5-2 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once) and 4-3-2-1 (once).
Stefano Pioli is expected to play against Fiorentina with the following players: Mike Maignan, Fikayo Tomori, Pierre Kalulu Kyatengwa, Malick Thiaw, Theo Hernández, Sandro Tonali, Tommaso Pobega, Junior Messias, Alexis Saelemaekers, Ante Rebić and Olivier Giroud.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Milan would be 26.82.
Stefano Pioli will probably not be able to employ Davide Calabria, Alessandro Florenzi and Ismaël Bennacer because of injury.
Brahim Díaz will definitely miss the match.
Stefano Pioli will not be able to have the presence of Rade Krunić and Rafael Leão who are both suspended.