Former Inter man Domenico Morfeo remains frozen out of the squad as he looks for a new club.
Inter (probable): Julio Cesar; Maicon, Cordoba, Materazzi, Maxwell; Zanetti, Cambiasso, Chivu, Jimenez; Cruz, Ibrahimovic
Parma (probable): Bucci; Coly, Couto, Paci, Castellini; Reginaldo, Morrone, Cigarini, Pisanu; Gasbarroni, Corradi
Прогноз : Интер больше 1.5 1.35 , Пенальти Да
Ювентус - Сапмтдория : 2-1
Antonio Nocerino is suspended for the hosts and Giorgio Chiellini is expected to be out for a month with a knee injury, but Ranieri has few other worries. Alessandro Del Piero and Vincenzo Iaquinta are vying for a striking spot and both made compelling cases against Empoli in the Coppa Italia. Defender Nicola Legrottaglie has been suffering from the ‘flu’, but he hopes to feature. Jorge Andrade, Mauro Camoranesi and Jonathan Zebina remain long-term absentees.
The visitors bring a strong squad to the Stadio Olimpico. Nigerian striker Ikechukwu Kalu and veteran hitman Vincenzo Montella are injured. Andrea Caracciolo is likely to start on the bench after recent fitness worries.
Juventus (probable): Buffon; Salihamidzic, Legrottaglie, Grygera, Molinaro; Marchionni, Zanetti, Tiago, Nedved; Trezeguet, Del Piero
Sampdoria (probable): Castellazzi; Campagnaro, Gastaldello, Lucchini; Maggio, Sammarco, Palombo, Volpi, Franceschini; Bellucci, Cassano
Прогноз : Самптдория (+1.5)
Ливорно - Эмполи 1-1
Emanuele Filippini is suspended, so his brother Antonio should step in. Nico Pulzetti has recovered from an injury and could start. The attacking duo will be formed by Spanish hit-man Diego Tristan and former Empoli star Ciccio Tavano.
Claudio Marchisio, injured, and Guillermo Giacomazzi, suspended, will miss this tie for Empoli. Malesani should confirm last week’s 4-3-2-1 formation. Luca Antonini will be preferred to Vittorio Tosto on the left. Sebastian Giovinco and Ighli Vannucchi will play just behind lone striker Luca Saudati.
Livorno (probable): Amelia; Grandoni, Knezevic, Galante; Balleri, Pulzetti, De Vezze, A.Filippini, Pasquale; Tavano, Tristan
Empoli (probable): Balli; Raggi, Pratali, Marzoratti, Antonini; Buscè, Moro, Marianini; Vannucchi, Giovinco; Saudati
Прогноз : ничья , х2 , обе забьют , Эмполи забьет 1.48
Наполи - Лацио 1-1
Napoli boss Edy Reja cannot count on Uruguayan bomber Marcelo Zalayeta, who has to serve his last week of a ban. Walter Gargano will be out for the same reason. The defensive trio will be formed by Andrea Cupi, Paolo Cannavaro and Maurizio Domizzi. Manuele Blasi could return in midfield, after missing the San Siro game, alongside Marek Hamsik and Mauricio Bogliacino. In attack Roberto Sosa will be once again preferred to Emanuele Calaiò. Rossi will have to cope with several absences. Star man Tommaso Rocchi got injured against Genoa and won’t be able to recover for this tie. Gaby Mudingayi, Fabio Firmani, Stephen Makinwa and Mourad Meghni are also on the injury list. Guglielmo Stendardo will make his return in defence after renewing his contract with the club. Talented youngster Lorenzo De Silvestri will cover the right side. Stefano Mauri will be the Trequartista behind Igli Tare and Goran Pandev.
Napoli (probable): Iezzo; Cupi, Cannavaro, Domizzi; Garics, Bogliacino, Blasi, Hamsik, Savini; Lavezzi, Sosa
Lazio (probable): Ballotta; De Silvestri, Cribari, Stendardo, Zauri; Behrami, Ledesma, Mutarelli; Mauri; Pandev, Tare
Прогноз : Лацио забьет (Таре) , обе забьют , тотал больше 2.0 1.6
Палермо - Сиена 2-1
Daniele Galloppa will be suspended for this tie, so Lucas Jarolim steps in to the three-man midfield behind the trident of Tomas Locatelli, Massimo Maccarone and Mario Frick.
It is a special game for Romanian Paul Constantin Codrea, who wore the Palermo jersey in 2005-06, although he failed to net in his 12 top flight appearances for the club. Leandro Grimi and Enrico Chiesa remain injury doubts after missing the Inter clash. This will be only the fourth edition of this fixture in Serie A and there has never been a draw between the teams, Siena winning 3-1 in January 2006 and losing the other two visits.
Palermo (probable): Fontana; Zaccardo, Biava, Barzagli, Capuano; Guana, Migliaccio, Simplicio; Cavani, Miccoli, Amauri
Siena (probable): Manninger; Bertotto, Portanova, Loria, De Ceglie; Vergassola, Codrea, Jarolim; Locatelli; Frick, Maccarone
Прогноз : тотал матча больше 2.0 1.47 , Палермо победа 1.65 , Палермо больше 1.5 , удаление Да
Реджина - Кальяри 1-1
Relegation six-pointers don’t come much more desperate than this, as the two teams most likely to sink into Serie B this summer go head to head.
The Amaranto have at least improved since replacing Coach Massimo Ficcadenti with the fiery Renzo Ulivieri. Although he was sent off for dissent last week for the third time since taking over in early November, the veteran boss has not been given another touchline ban.
The big news is that Ulivieri and the club have talked over the row with Nicola Amoruso, welcoming the star striker back to the fold. He is set to be partnered by January signing Christian Stuani, who dubs himself the Uruguayan Pippo Inzaghi, but midfielder Emil Hallfredsson is struggling with a muscular problem.
While Reggina are boosted by their 1-1 draw away to fellow strugglers Empoli, confidence at Cagliari has hit rock bottom. It’s a bad sign when your third Coach of the campaign makes his debut and you lose 1-0 on home turf to an Udinese side that played with 10 men for an hour. What’s worse, it could have been a wider margin of defeat and cards in that game see Daniele Conti and striker Joaquin Larrivey suspended for this encounter.
January signings Marco Storari and ex-Rimini forward Jeda made disappointing debuts, but boss Davide Ballardini is set to stick with them in his starting XI. Alessandro Matri leads the line with support from Jeda and Pasquale Foggia in a Christmas Tree formation, with Michele Fini taking central midfield duties in Conti’s absence. With five straight defeats, two goals scored and 14 conceded, even a draw would feel like a victory for sorry Cagliari right now.
Cagliari have never won a Serie A game in Calabria, grabbing just one point from a total of four trips down south and that was a 1-1 scoreline back in 1999. Although the Sardinians have scored in every visit, they have now lost three on the trot here and are expected to make it four.
Keep an eye on: Nicola Amoruso (Reggina) – Now that his contract dispute with the club is sorted out, the hitman is ready to return and pick up where he left off. Amoruso has scored five Serie A goals this season, more than a third of his team’s total.
Reggina (probable): Campagnolo; Lanzaro, Valdez, Aronica; Vigiani, Cascione, Cozza, Barreto, Modesto; Amoruso, Stuani
Cagliari (probable): Storari; Ferri, Lopez, Bianco, Agostini; Biondini, Fini, Parola; Foggia, Jeda; Matri
Прогноз : обе забьют , тотал матча больше 1.5 , Кальяри (+1) , удаление Да
Рома - Катания 3-1
Roma will be looking to keep their Scudetto challenge going when they welcome Catania to the Stadio Olimpico. The Giallorossi are currently seven points behind leaders Inter after narrowly overcoming Atalanta on Sunday afternoon courtesy of goals by Francesco Totti and Amantino Mancini. The former is Roma’s top scorer this term with 10 goals, after finishing the previous campaign as the top marksman in Europe. And he will fancy his chances of getting on the scoresheet again this weekend against a Catania side who may have shored up at the back, but are still without a clean sheet away from home this season. The Sicilian minnows also have bad memories from their last trip to the Eternal City, as they were humbled 7-0 after finishing the match with nine men. Christian Panucci netted a brace in that game, but the Italy international will not be adding to this campaign’s goal tally though as he is suspended. Cicinho is the man to benefit from the ex-Real Madrid defender’s collection of yellow cards. Another player absent through suspension is Max Tonetto, so there is a change on the other flank too. Marco Cassetti fills the void having just served a ban of his own. Catania boss Silvio Baldini will be hoping that his players can raise their game for a clash with another of Serie A’s top sides in the same manner as they did against Juventus, having seen his boys come within minutes of beating the Bianconeri. Only an Alessandro Del Piero penalty denied them after Gionatha Spinesi’s fine volley had given them an early lead. There were plenty of positives to take from that game – and it is reflected in Baldini’s team selection. The former Palermo boss is forced into one change due to Lorenzo Stovini’s suspension, so Andrea Sottil fills his boots. But there is no room for Marco Biagianti, the man who conceded the spot-kick against Juve, as top scorer Jorge Martinez returns to the starting XI. The Uruguayan ace is expected to take his place in a trident attack which means that Giuseppe Colucci will drop back into the midfield. David Baiocco and Gennaro Sardo are both available again after missing the game with Juventus through suspension, but they will have to be content with a place on the bench. Aside from the aforementioned 7-0 drubbing, the only other recent meeting between the sides also took place last season. Francesco Tavano scored a rare goal for Roma – one of just two he netted in the League for the Olimpico outfit – in a 2-0 win in Sicily, with Mirko Vucinic also on scoresheet.
Roma (probable): Doni; Cicinho, Juan, Mexes, Cassetti; Pizarro, De Rossi; Taddei, Perrotta, Mancini; Totti
Catania (probable): Polito; Silvestri, Terlizzi, Sottil, Vargas; Edusei, Izco, Colucci; Mascara, Spinesi, Martinez
Прогноз : Рома больше 1.5 1.4 , тотал матча больше 2.5 1.65 , Кальяри забьет 1.75
Удинезе - Милан 1-2 1-1
The spotlight will be on Alexandre Pato once again when Milan take on Udinese at the Stadio Friuli. The young Brazilian sensation marked his competitive debut for the Rossoneri with a goal against Napoli in a 5-2 victory which was their first at San Siro since last April. It still wasn’t enough to push them out of the bottom half of the table, although Carlo Ancelotti’s men do have three games in hand on most of the rest of Serie A so it seems only a matter of time before they start climbing the ladder. And the Diavolo will fancy their chances of leaving Friuli with the three points as their away form has been impressive this season. However, if Milan’s Brazilian trident of Kaka, Pato and Ronaldo aren’t firing then breaking through the Zebrette’s rear guard could prove tough, given that Andrea Pirlo is sitting out a one-match suspension. The man to replace calcio’s equivalent of a quarter-back is Gennaro Gattuso, who has plenty of heart but is hardly the man to unlock a defence with a slide-rule pass. That is expected to be the only change to the starting XI which tore Napoli to pieces.
Udinese boss Pasquale Marino has worked wonders since arriving last summer from Catania, pushing the Friuli boys up into contention for a Champions League spot. Despite usually operating with a three-pronged attack, it is actually defence which has been their strong point this term. A solid backline was certainly needed against bottom side Cagliari at the weekend, seeing as the Friuliani had to play with 10 men for an hour after Diaz Felipe’s dismissal. Despite that, Fabio Quagliarella’s seventh goal of the campaign was enough to secure the victory.
Felipe, as you probably guessed, is now suspended so he will be unable to take on the side who have been linked with a move for him in the past – his indiscipline certainly isn’t doing him any favours, as he now has seven yellow cards and two dismissals to his name this term. Andrea Coda benefits from this and will make his 10th appearance of the season. Gokhan Inler, who had previously missed just one game, also sits out a ban so that hands Finnish ace Roman Eremenko an opportunity to stake his claim for a first-team place.
History doesn’t bode too well for Udinese in this fixture though. Milan’s last two trips to the Stadio Friuli have seen them emerge victorious on both occasions, with an aggregate score of 7-0! Add in a 5-1 home win for the Rossoneri in 2005 and the fact that the Zebrette have gone five years without a victory in front of their own fans against Milan and it doesn’t make good reading for Marino and Co. The neutrals, however, can take heart from this statistic – there has been only one goalless draw between the sides since the turn of the century.
Keep an eye on: Alexandre Pato (Milan) – Who else was it going to be? The kid is mustard and is looking more than capable of living up to the hype, so expect more fireworks this weekend.
Udinese (probable): Handanovic; Zapata, Coda, Lukovic; Mesto, D'Agostino, Eremenko, Dossena; Pepe, Di Natale, Quagliarella
Milan (probable): Dida; Bonera, Nesta, Kaladze, Maldini; Seedorf, Gattuso, Ambrosini; Kaka; Pato, Ronaldo
Прогноз : тотал матча больше 2.0 1.47 , Удинезе забьет 1.45
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