Salernitana and Inter will face off on Friday the 17th of December at 8:45 pm in the 18th week of the Serie A. The match will be played in Salerno at the Stadio Arechi.

Salernitana sits in the 20th position in the standings with 8 points. It comes from a 4-0 loss against Fiorentina in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won twice, drawn twice, and lost 13 times.​​

Inter is in the 1st place in the table with 40 points. It comes from a 4-0 win against Cagliari in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 12 times, draw 4 times, and lost once.​​

Inter won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 16th of October against Lazio and the score was 3-1.

Line-ups predictions​

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

Salernitana​

Salernitana has mostly adopted the 4-3-1-2 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 41.18%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (7 times), 3-4-1-2 (3 times), 4-4-1-1 (2 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 5-3-2 (once), 4-3-3 (once) and 5-4-1 (once).

Stefano Colantuono is expected to play against Inter with the following players: V. Belec, R. Gagliolo, N. Gyömbér, L. Bogdan, L. Ranieri, S. Sy, L. Coulibaly, G. Kastanos, J. Chukwuma Obi, W. Kechrida and F. Ribéry.

Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Salernitana would be 27.45.

R. Aya, S. Strandberg, L. Capezzi, M. Coulibaly, M. Ruggeri, N. Zortea and C. Gondo will definitely miss the match.

Inter​

Inter has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up most used during the season (14 times or 82.35%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (14 times) and 3-5-1-1 (3 times).

Simone Inzaghi is expected to play against Salernitana with the following players: S. Handanovič, S. de Vrij, M. Škriniar, A. Bastoni, I. Perišić, M. Brozović, H. Çalhanoğlu, D. Dumfries, L. Martínez and E. Džeko.

Presuming that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Inter would be 28.60.

M. Darmian, C. Dannemann Eriksen and C. Correa will definitely miss the match.