Empoli will do battle with visiting rivals AC Milan at Stadio Carlo Castellani in the Serie A game on Saturday, and we have the latest player updates plus predicted line ups available.
Empoli will be wanting a better result here following a 4-1 Serie A defeat in their last game at the hands of Juventus. It seems likely that Azzurri should go for a 3-4-2-1 formation in the match, utilising Devis Vásquez, Saba Goglichidze, Luca Marianucci, Mattia De Sciglio, E. Quartsin Gyasi, Liam Henderson, Liberato Cacace, Giuseppe Pezzella, Sebastiano Esposito, Alberto Grassi and Lorenzo Colombo.
Nicolas Haas, Jacopo Fazzini, Tino Anjorin, Ardian Ismajli, Mattia Viti, Tyronne Ebuehi, Ola Solbakken, Saba Sazonov and Pietro Pellegri won’t be playing for Empoli boss Roberto D'Aversa.
How Empoli could look to take on AC Milan
AC Milan go into this meeting after a 3-1 Coppa Italia win versus Roma in their most recent game. There’s a good chance that i Rossoneri seem most likely to play in a 4-3-3 system by sending out Mike Maignan, Kyle Walker, Fikayo Tomori, Strahinja Pavlovic, Theo Hernandez, Yunus Musah, Tijjani Reijnders, Youssouf Fofana, Christian Pulisic, Santiago Giménez and Rafael Leão.
Milan boss Sérgio Conceição has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Warren Bondo (unknown injury), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (muscular problems), Emerson Royal (Calf injury) and Alessandro Florenzi (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be making appearances.
Predicted AC Milan team
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