Inter’s only centre-forward option is Keita Balde Diao against his former club, as Lazio have Ciro Immobile to break into fifth place with a game in hand.
It kicks off at San Siro at 19.30 UK time, you can follow all the build-up and action as it happens on the LIVEBLOG.
Inter’s only centre-forward option is Keita Balde Diao against his former club, as Lazio have Ciro Immobile to break into fifth place with a game in hand.
It kicks off at San Siro at 19.30 UK time, you can follow all the build-up and action as it happens on the LIVEBLOG.
Last season, this was a head-to-head for Champions League football and it’s not entirely dissimilar now, as a victory would put Lazio in joint fifth place with a game in hand.
They have a fixture against Udinese to be played on April 17, which was rescheduled due to rugby and Europa League fixtures.
Inter can create a cushion from Milan in fourth place with a positive result, but Coach Luciano Spalletti has practically no strikers available for this game.
Lautaro Martinez returned from international duty with an injury, while Mauro Icardi is again dropped even though he returned to training this week.
The reasons are not clear, but reported to be because Icardi refused to apologise to his teammates for the events that saw him stripped of the captaincy.
Stefan de Vrij is also injured and won’t face his former club, but ex-Lazio man Keita is the only available striker.
It seems to be a 4-2-3-1 formation with Matteo Politano, Borja Valero and Ivan Perisic fanning out behind Keita, as Radja Nainggolan is not yet fit to start.
Lazio have their own fair share of problems too, as Stefan Radu, Patric, Jordan Lukaku and Pedro Neto are carrying injuries.
Lucas Leiva shakes off his problem to start, with Romulo picked ahead of Adam Marusic on the right flank.
Joaquin Correa gets the nod rather than Felipe Caicedo to partner Immobile.
Lazio drew 1-1 at San Siro in extra time back in January, knocking Inter out in a penalty shoot-out.
Immobile scored that day, cancelled out by a last-gasp Icardi penalty, but the Lazio striker has never found the net against Inter in Serie A wearing a Biancocelesti jersey.
Inter have now won four of their last five Serie A games with Lazio, drawing the other.
Inter: Handanovic; D’Ambrosio, Skriniar, Miranda, Asamoah; Brozovic, Vecino; Politano, Borja Valero, Perisic; Keita
Inter bench: Padelli, Gagliardini, Ranocchia, Nainggolan, Joao Mario, Cedric Soares, Dalbert, Colidio, Candreva
Lazio: Strakosha; Luiz Felipe, Acerbi, Bastos; Romulo, Milinkovic-Savic, Leiva, Luis Alberto, Lulic; Correa, Immobile
Lazio bench: Guerrieri, Proto, Berisha, Wallace, Durmisi, Parolo, Caicedo, Badelj, Radu, Cataldi, Jordao, Marusic