Hellas Verona vs Inter Milan - prediction, team news, lineups

Aiming to support the unit connected Serie A's apical two, Inter Milan volition sojourn Hellas Verona astatine Stadio Bentegodi connected Sunday.

While Inter are flying precocious aft defeating Fiorentina successful midweek, Hellas person yet to triumph a league crippled this season.

Match preview

Beaten by Napoli successful past week's feisty clash of rubric contenders, Inter bounced consecutive backmost with a 3-0 triumph connected Wednesday evening.

After seeing a seven-game success streak ended successful Naples, the Nerazzurri took implicit an hr to interruption done against Fiorentina, but Hakan Calhanoglu struck doubly either broadside of Petar Sucic scoring his archetypal Serie A goal. 

Victory took Inter up to third spot successful the table, with 18 points from 9 matches, aft metropolis rivals AC Milan slipped up erstwhile again.

Cristian Chivu's men are perched conscionable down some Roma and existent leaders Napoli, truthful they volition privation to support momentum by winning again this weekend.

While they person already suffered 2 losses connected their travels, lone triumph volition bash successful Verona - peculiarly arsenic Hellas are Inter's favourite opponents.

They person beaten Sunday's hosts much times (42) than anyone other successful Serie A, aft winning some games without conceding past play - including a 5-0 stroll astatine the Bentegodi.

When the sides astir precocious met, backmost successful May, Inter triumphed 1-0 astatine San Siro, and Verona person lone won 1 league crippled since.

The Gialloblu's sole occurrence this word came successful a mid-August Coppa Italia necktie - connected penalties, against Audace Cerignola - truthful they are enduring thing of a crisis.

After fumbling a precious 2-0 pb to gully with Cagliari past weekend, Paolo Zanetti's broadside were good beaten by Como connected Wednesday, leaving them wrong the Serie A driblet zone. 

With lone 5 points and 5 goals connected the board, Hellas person made a miserable commencement to Zanetti's 2nd play successful charge, and a agelong scrap for endurance lies ahead.

Though they person really suffered conscionable 1 nonaccomplishment from 4 location fixtures, yet ending a 10-match winless tally astatine the Bentegodi volition beryllium a precise gangly task against Inter.

Hellas Verona Serie A form:

D L L D D L

Hellas Verona signifier (all competitions):

L L L D D L

Inter Milan Serie A form:

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Inter Milan signifier (all competitions):

W W W W L W

Team News

After different midweek lucifer - and up of location games against Kairat and Lazio earlier the adjacent planetary interruption - Inter brag Chivu could marque respective changes connected Sunday.

Francesco Acerbi was rested connected Wednesday evening, truthful the Nerazzurri's antiaircraft stone should instrumentality to the starting XI; Ange-Yoan Bonny mightiness besides beryllium recalled.

The second volition vie with Francesco Pio Esposito to spouse Lautaro Martinez - who has antecedently scored six goals against Verona - arsenic Marcus Thuram has lone conscionable returned to training.

Inter skipper Martinez is usually his team's main marksman, but set-piece and mid-range specializer Calhanoglu has been their astir prolific subordinate truthful far, already registering 5 league goals. 

Meanwhile, Suat Serdar and Gift Orban are the lone men to people much than erstwhile for Verona this season, some uncovering the nett doubly successful Serie A. 

Orban often joins Brazilian guardant Giovane up front, but it has not been a peculiarly productive pairing frankincense far.

Not lone is Serdar's beingness successful immoderate uncertainty owed to a muscular issue, but the hosts are besides missing respective squad members: Grigoris Kastanos, Unai Nunez, Daniel Oyegoke, Moatasem Al-Musrati and Tomas Suslov each diagnostic connected a agelong lack list.

Hellas Verona imaginable starting lineup:

Montipo; Bella-Kotchap, Nelsson, Valentini; Belghali, Serdar, Gagliardini, Bernede, Frese; Giovane, Orban

AC Milan imaginable starting lineup:

Sommer; Akanji, Acerbi, Bastoni; Dumfries, Barella, Calhanoglu, Sucic, Augusto; Bonny, Martinez

We say: Hellas Verona 0-2 Inter Milan 

Inter whitethorn person mislaid 5 of their past 12 top-flight distant games, but they are not apt to gaffe up successful Verona.

The hosts' winless tally against the Nerazzurri is acceptable to scope 29 Serie A matches, and their drought successful this season's league run volition spell on.

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