Monza and Milan will clash on Sunday the 18th of February at 8:45 pm in the 25th week of the Serie A. The match will be staged in Monza at the U-Power Stadium. The chosen referee is Andrea Colombo.
Monza occupies the 12th position in the table with 30 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Hellas Verona in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 7 times, draw 9 times, and lost 8 times.
Milan sits in the 3rd place in the league with 52 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Napoli in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 16 times, draw 4 times, and lost 4 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Monza
Monza has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up during the season (19 times or 79.17%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (19 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 3-4-3 (2 times) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Raffaele Palladino is expected to play against Milan with the following players: Michele Di Gregorio, Armando Izzo, Andrea Carboni, Pablo Marí, Alessio Zerbin, Matteo Pessina, Roberto Gagliardini, Samuele Birindelli, Andrea Colpani, Dany Mota and Lorenzo Colombo.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Monza would be 26.64.
Raffaele Palladino will probably not be able to employ Danilo D’Ambrosio because of injury.
Alessandro Sorrentino, Stefano Gori, A. Mazza, P. Saio, Gianluca Caprari, Patrick Ciurria, Valentín Carboni and Samuele Vignato will definitely miss the match.
Raffaele Palladino will not be able to have the presence of Papu Gómez and E. Colferai who are both suspended.
Milan
Milan has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (13 times or 54.17%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (13 times), 4-2-3-1 (9 times), 4-4-2 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Stefano Pioli is expected to play against Monza with the following players: Mike Maignan, Theo Hernández, Matteo Gabbia, Malick Thiaw, Alessandro Florenzi, Ismael Bennacer, Yacine Adli, Rafael Leão, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Noah Okafor and Luka Jović.
Suppose that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Milan would be 26.55.
Stefano Pioli will probably not be able to employ Samuel Chukwueze, E. Legati and Tijjani Reijnders because of injury.
Davide Calabria, Mattia Caldara, Pierre Kalulu, Tommaso Pobega, Fikayo Tomori and D. Vilá Rosselló will definitely miss the match.
Stefano Pioli will not be able to have the presence of Filippo Terracciano who is suspended.