Sassuolo and Lazio will face off on Saturday the 21st of October at 8:45 pm in the 9th week of the Serie A. The match will take place in Reggio nell’Emilia at the MAPEI Stadium – Città del Tricolore.

Sassuolo sits in the 12th position in the standings with 10 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Lecce in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 3 times, drawn once, and lost 4 times.​​

Lazio occupies the 13th position in the standings with 10 points. It comes from a 3-2 win against Atalanta in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won 3 times, drawn once, and lost 4 times.​​

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Sassuolo​

Sassuolo has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (6 times or 75.00%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (6 times) and 4-3-3 (2 times).

Alessio Dionisi is expected to play against Lazio with the following players: Andrea Consigli, Matías Viña, Ruan, Martin Erlić, Marcus Pedersen, Daniel Boloca, Uroš Račić, Armand Laurienté, Nedim Bajrami, Domenico Berardi and Andrea Pinamonti.

In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Sassuolo would be 26.00.

Alessio Dionisi will probably not be able to employ Jeremy Toljan, Mattia Viti and Agustín Álvarez because of injury.

Matheus Henrique will definitely miss the match.

Lazio​

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (8 times).

Maurizio Sarri is expected to play against Sassuolo with the following players: Ivan Provedel, Elseid Hysaj, Alessio Romagnoli, Nicolò Casale, Adam Marušić, Mattéo Guendouzi, Nicolò Rovella, Luis Alberto, Felipe Anderson and Valentin Castellanos.

In case that the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Lazio would be 27.40.

There are doubts about the presence of Mattia Zaccagni.

Maurizio Sarri will probably not be able to employ Ciro Immobile because of injury.