Palermo Coach Beppe Iachini knows Inter forwards Eder and Mauro Icardi very well. “I wish them the best… from Monday.”

The two teams face off tonight at 19.45 GMT, click here for a match preview.

“I am very fond of them, as I trained them at feel like to a certain extent I helped raise them,” Iachini told La Gazzetta dello Sport and Sky Sport Italia.

Palermo Coach Beppe Iachini knows Inter forwards Eder and Mauro Icardi very well. “I wish them the best… from Monday.”

The two teams face off tonight at 19.45 GMT, click here for a match preview.

“I am very fond of them, as I trained them at feel like to a certain extent I helped raise them,” Iachini told La Gazzetta dello Sport and Sky Sport Italia.

He was the Coach of Sampdoria in 2011-12 when Icardi and Eder played as a pair, but after a gap the strikers reunited at San Siro in January.

“I wish them all the best… obviously from Monday onwards. They are a good strike partnership, complementary, but of course Inter have far more than just these two.

“It’s a difficult game for Palermo, but we’ve got to give it our best. We want a positive result.”

Icardi was surprisingly given the captain’s armband at Inter despite his tender age.

“Along with the qualities of a hitman, which he always had, Mauro also possessed a strong character. I’d call him balanced more than cold. He has full belief in his abilities and is self-confident without becoming arrogant. I always considered that to be a virtue.

“Eder is a forward who knows where the goal is, but he also works very hard for the centre-forward and to help the rest of his teammates.”

Achraf Lazaar and Edoardo Goldaniga are the only injury absentees.

Palermo squad for Inter: Alastra, Posavec, Sorrentino; Andelkovic, Cionek, Gonzalez, Morganella, Pezzella, Rispoli, Struna, Vitiello; Brugman, Chochev, Cristante, Hiljemark, Jajalo, Maresca, Quaison; Balogh, Bentivegna, Djurdjevic, Gilardino, Vazquez

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