Milan and Roma are going to face off on Thursday the 6th of January at 6:30 pm in the 20th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Milano at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. The appointed referee is Daniele Chiffi.
Milan is in the 2nd place in the standings with 42 points. It comes from a 2-4 win against Empoli in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 13 times, draw 3 times, and lost 3 times.
Roma is in the 6th place in the league with 32 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Sampdoria in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 10 times, drawn twice, and lost 7 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Milan
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (19 times).
Stefano Pioli is expected to play against Roma with the following players: M. Maignan, T. Hernández, A. Romagnoli, F. Tomori, T. Bakayoko, S. Tonali, A. Saelemaekers, B. Abdelkader Diaz, J. Messias and O. Giroud.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Milan would be 26.70.
There are doubts about the presence of D. Calabria.
Stefano Pioli will probably not be able to employ R. Conceição Leão and Z. Ibrahimović because of injury.
A. Plizzari, A. Tătărușanu, F. Ballo Touré, S. Thorup Kjær, I. Bennacer, F. Kessié, P. Pellegri and A. Rebić will definitely miss the match.
Roma
Roma has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 57.89%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (11 times), 3-1-4-2 (5 times), 3-5-2 (2 times) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho is expected to play against Milan with the following players: R. dos Santos Patrício, C. Smalling, R. Ibañez da Silva, G. Mancini, M. Viña Susperreguy, B. Cristante, H. Mkhitaryan, J. Veretout, R. Karsdorp and N. Zaniolo.
In case that this will be the line-up, the average age of Roma would be 28.10.
There are doubts about the presence of K. Bakumo-Abraham.
José Mario Felix dos Santos Mourinho will probably not be able to employ L. Pellegrini and S. El Shaarawy because of injury.
D. Cerantola Fuzato, L. Spinazzola, E. Darboe, A. Diawara, B. Mayoral Moya and B. Reynolds will definitely miss the match.